Avandra

Avandra, also known as the Changebringer, is one of the Prime Deities. She is the goddess of freedom, trade, travel and adventure. She encourages her followers to venture into the unknown. Her nature leads to few temples dedicated to her in the centers of civilization, but they can be found near well traveled roads. Her worshipers include merchants, free spirits and adventurers.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Avandra appears as a matronly woman whose form shifts and changes, her skin cycles through many different colours and her hair shifts length and colour often, sometimes appearing as a field of stars and other times as long brown hair that flows into a road running behind her.

### **Personality**

Avandra enjoys the winds of change and exhorts her faithful to follow where they blow. For Avandra, change represents ever-renewing opportunities. Each moment is a chance to alter the course, either personally or on a grander scale. and to take things in a better direction than in the past.

While Sehanine advocates that people follow their hearts without constraint, but Avandra stands as the symbol of true freedom. She commands the domain not to protect the selfish feelings of individuals but to defend the sovereign right of all people to take control of their destinies. Avandra hopes that others use their freedom to do the right thing. and she stands against tyranny of any kind. Her followers keep alive flames of hope in oppressive societies, serving as the seeds of rebellion or peaceful reform.

Chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness—whatever you call it, luck is a powerful and unpredictable force. Avandra takes this powerful force in hand as a weapon against drab destiny and dark fatalism. For her followers, luck provides excitement and opportunity even in the face of terrible odds.

Avandra is a Chaotic Good deity whose holy day is New Dawn, the first day of the new year, a chance for all peoples to commit to change in their lives.

### **Tenants**

* Luck favors the bold. Your fate is your own to grasp, and to do so is to have the Changebringer behind you.
* Change is inevitable. The righteous can ensure that such change is for the better.
* Rise against tyranny. Fight for the freedom of yourself and others when you can, and inspire others to fight when you cannot.

## **Biography**

### **Pre-Campaign History**

Avandra created the world of Exandria alongside the other gods and, like them, she created peoples and races to inhabit it. Avandra's personal creations were the Doppelgangers, and their more intelligent and civilised cousin race, the Changelings.

Melora and Sehanine created the halflings together, giving the race a love of nature and the gift of stealth. When their interest waned, Melora and Sehanine stopped looking after the race and halflings made their own way in the world. Avandra admired their resourcefulness and adopted them, favoring them with good fortune.

During the Calamity, Avandra stood with the other Prime Deities against the Betrayer Gods, particularly standing in opposition to the actions and powers of Bane, the Strife Emperor. Though she herself rarely fought directly, instead Avandra guided her followers to undermine his tyranny, either entering his strongholds and sabotaging them, or inciting rebellions within his territories.

It was Avandra who convinced her fellow Prime Deities to make a truce with Lolth and Zehir for the defeat and chaining of Tharizdun at the end of the Calamity.

### **Council of Echoes**

Avandra's influence was first encountered by Hindsight when they travelled to the Gladberry farm and found that the family living there, who had all been disciples of Avandra, had been slaughtered by the Council of Echoes in order to secure the artifact the family had protected; Avandra's Lucky Coin.

When Roland and Rosalind Songsteel took control over the Dragon's Hoard Casino from The Myriad in Kymal, they renamed it to the Avandra's Luck Casino in thanks to the Goddess whom had granted them luck in successfully taking the casino over.

Avandra was encountered by Hindsight when they arrived to Elysium following Riza Whispercreek's successful release of Tharizdun. There she took a liking to Pseuda, who stood in close alignment to her own principles and granted him her blessing for using Avandra's Lucky Coin in the upcoming battle with Tharizdun. She then joined her fellow gods in a ritual to empower Hindsight for battle with Tharizdun.

## **Followers**

* Roland Songsteel
* Rosalind Songsteel
* Zinnia Starguard
* Astrid Gladberry
* Rupert Gladberry
* Annie Gladberry
* Elpizo de Damali
* Irril Manais
* Thairen Sarnus
* Shearer Dravarol
* Karayna
* Portia