The Beast Mistress

Original art by Jensen Couch.

- Grandmother's Herald

- Lust

- Evil

### Symbol

Hooded, horned and featureless face wearing a maangtika with three encrusted red gems.

### Church Attributes

- Might +5- Reaction +8

- Durability +7

- Connections +3

- Miracles +5

- Loyalty +10

## (Affiliations)

### Associated Entities

- Lamashtu (Grandmother)

*The Beast Mistress fashions herself as somewhat of a servant of her grandmother Lamashtu's certain aspects, primarily focusing on her role as a fertility goddess. She gained her divine spark through service to her patron, as well as through her own efforts.*

## History

The Beast Mistress began her life as Trish (or Trishna), a fiendish human born to an unknown daughter of Lamashtu (all records of the mother's name are stricken and in the goddess' tradition, she remains unnamed), in another world. After the stagnation of her own world, she moved to the realm of Etera, aided by her grandmother's servants. After two years of rigorous service to Lamashtu, she was gradually given full demonhood and with her growing powers, gained the divine spark.

## Home

As a newly ascended goddess, the Beast Mistress mostly resides in the material plane for the time being. Her primary domain however, is her demiplane, Shangri-La, slowly growing alongside her influence.

## Appearance

The Beast Mistress, depending on a particular congregation, is either depicted as a faceless, horned humanoid, or as a bestial figure, eerily reminiscent of her grandmother Lamashtu. In her more bestial form, she is depicted as a four armed, winged humanoid with a horned, hyena-like head. More humanoid races prefer her more human-looking form, while the more wild races prefer her bestial form.

## Relationships

### **Friends**

The Beast Mistress has yet to have formed any alliances with deific beings.

### **Enemies**

As a newly risen deity, Trish has yet to have made any deific enemies.

## Church of Trish

The Beast Mistress' church lacks an overarching, centralized hierarchy, with worshipers often forming small, independent covens or cults. Given the decentralized nature of her clergy, her faith is spread across different locations; the highest congregations however, are in places most in touch with the wilderness.
As a core tenet, the Beast Mistress' church is highly matriarchal, viewing women in a far more favorable light than men, as well as only allowing women to lead other faithful in any capacity. Despite the limitations, membership of men is not discriminated.

### **Worshipers**

Trish's devout, as per her teachings, seek out hedonism in all forms, while rejecting the advances of technology, as well as pursuing to blur (and eventually, eliminate) the lines separating the wilds from the cities of mortals.
The Beast Mistress has a particular popularity with certain druidic sects, given their closeness to the wilds, as well as debauched nobles, due to the rather hedonistic nature of her worship. A noticeable bulk of her followers are what most would consider 'wild' races, such as gnolls and minotaurs.

### **Clergy**

The Beast Mistress' priesthood is exclusively comprised of women, with men not being allowed to serve in any leadership capacity. Her priestesses often wear a cloak of black feathers and a jackal or hyena like mask and nothing more, as ceremonious garb.

### **Temples and Shrines**

The Beast Mistress' worship is most often carried out in rural locales or places untouched by civilization's advance; her temples can be as stationary or mobile as her faithful.

### **Unholy Texts**

As of yet, the Beast Mistress' faith has no official, written canon; all practices and doctrine are passed on as oral tradition.

### **Holidays**

As a relatively new religion, Trish's clergy has very few holidays to celebrate. The chief holiday is 13th Lamashan, Trish's birthday from when she was a mortal; on this day, her worshipers engage in widespread revelry and excess of hedonism in celebration of their goddess.

### **Sacred Animals**

The Beast Mistress favors abnormally large hyenas and jackals, as well as wolves as her favored animals, often requiring their use during religious rites.

## Teachings

Above all, the Beast Mistress values the expression of lust, seeing chastity as a particularly grievous sin. Her followers are taught to use discretion in their endeavors, should it potentially cause harm to the church; violators are often severely punished (and very rarely killed) if found out by other devout.

The Beast Mistress fashions herself as somewhat of a fertility goddess; to her and her followers, expectant mothers have a special place within the faith, being dutifully cherished and protected. A deciding factor in establishing (the very limited and loose) hierarchy within her church, is the number of progeny a particular priestess possesses.

In addition, the goddess preaches for rejection of civilization as a barrier against the wilderness, with her worshipers being encouraged to embrace it and perform their religious duties within. The Beast Mistress despises industrialization in all its forms, always calling for a return to a more natural and less invasive state.

## Obedience

Engage in a tryst with the sincere intent of procreation with your partner, all the while praising the Beast Mistress and seeking her blessing, or engage in intimate acts with yourself while re-affirming your servitude to her. Gain a +4 profane bonus on Diplomacy and Handle Animal checks.

## Boons

1. **Trishna's Charm (Sp):** *charm person* 3/day, *unnatural lust* 2/day, or *suggestion* 1/day
2. **Mistress' Form (Su):** You can shape your flesh into seductive forms. You gain the change shape universal monster ability, usable once per day as a standard action, allowing you to take the shape of any Small or Medium humanoid. Your natural form becomes beautiful and appealing, and you gain horns, a pointed tail, and small, feathered wings. While in your natural form, you gain a tiefling’s darkvision and fiendish resistance racial traits as well as the prehensile tail and vestigial wings alternate racial traits. If you’re already a tiefling, you gain a +2 bonus to Charisma instead of these additional tiefling traits. In any form, you gain a +4 bonus on Bluff checks to deceive or lie.
3. **Mother's Caress (Su):** Like with a succubus, engaging in intimacy with you can be deadly. When you engage in an act of passion (such as a kiss) with another creature, you bestow one negative level upon that creature. You must grapple an unwilling creature to use this ability on them. Such an act of passion also has the effect of a *suggestion* spell asking the victim to accept another act of passion. The DC of this suggestion, as well as the DC to remove any negative levels bestowed this way, is equal to 10 + half your Hit Dice + your Charisma modifier. You can initially activate this ability only once per day, but once you do so to target a specific creature, you can affect that creature with this ability at will.

## Divine Gift

Trish grants the service of a demon to aid in a specific task (which can last no longer than 9 nights). The type of demon is generally one whose CR is equal to the character’s level (or in the case of an NPC, the character’s CR).
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