Evadne the Pagan

Evadne Ščiyin, later known as Saint Evadne the Pagan, was a Vistu fortune teller who lived around the 600s TE, in the Dvoryac river basin in the southwestern Danderillon. She became patron saint of fortune telling and divination.
== Story ==
In the early 610s, the Archon (pope) of the Euluskan church came to visit the burgeoning city of Felonil, and tour the countryside. Here, the Archon met Evadne, a fortune teller who followed a religion and culture that the Euluska at the time considered ‘pagan’ and ‘backcountry’. Nonetheless, Evadne begged to be permitted to speak, and urged the Archon she was in danger. Evadne performed a reading and ascertained that the shadow of a black hand hung over the red string of fate of the Archon’s life. 
Evadne warned her that her life was about to be cut short. The archon initially dismissed it, but remembered the seer’s words some days later when travelling toward Jarren’s Well. In the retinue of the Archon was a man with a charred and burned right hand, who was secretly plotting the ruin of the Archon to elevate his own family’s political status. Heeding Evadne’s words, the Archon had the man interrogated, and he revealed he had set up a bandit ambush only ten miles ahead of where the Archon’s caravan had halted. 
== Sainthood ==
For this great service, Evadne was inducted as a Saint after her death, being one of the few pagan or non-Euluskan saints to have done so - she is never attested to have converted to Euluskan religious tradition during her lifetime!
Evadne’s worshippers carried diving implements - tarot, crystals, palmistry, evil eyes, etc. Her feast day was Vowa 16th, the day that the Archon’s retinue halted to stop the plot.
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