Lady Luck

The Doggess Goddess

The Goddess of Good Luck. A somewhat unpredictable, lackadaisical deity, Lady Luck is notoriously difficult to predict or summon, but rather has her own whims and even favourites. She adores the ‘amusing’ antics of the mortal world, often watching in, but not always lending a hand. She loves to see how things play out. In recent years she has been called upon more frequently than others, due to the negative spiral the world has delved into, but whether or not she responds is, as ever, up to luck.

## Appearance

A green canine goddess with the hind legs of a horse, bedecked with good luck related items such as her lucky charm bracelets, gold horseshoes and four leaf clover sprouting hair; supposedly the number is related to her happiness.

## Personality

Go big or go home! She's larger than life in every way, loves games, is capricious and fun loving. Despite her generally positive reputations and interpretations, however, as the Goddess of finality and inevitability there is a more austere, foreboding aspect to her that only those who truly study her seem to grasp. No matter how unlikely or unfair it might seem, once she has made a decision that eventually *will* play out, regardless of who you are or how you plead and strive to change it. She has a strong dislike of ‘party poopers’, and an odd love/hate of theatrics. Some plays seem to displease her greatly, while others are her favourite. As a result, many actors are highly superstitious. Supposedly she has a great love of music, as some musicals seem to do extremely well in the land of Einquell.

## Notable Abilities

Unusually for a deity, while there has always been a faithful following of Clerics for the goddess, it is well known that it is impossible to become a Paladin or a Warlock of her. This is quite simply because she is not a person who can be 'asked'. Lady Luck is, in some ways, the most fickle of all the fate related gods, and how/whether she responds to prayer is a very unreliable art, often with consequences that the wisher did not anticipate. Consequently while many make offerings, pray or bear talismans that seem to please her, it has never been known for there to be someone who could 'strike a bargain' with her for an exchange of power. Her whims are too etherial; seemingly driven by either long strings of circumstance and coincidence, or too spontaneous to be predicted. While Miss Fortune practically specialises in deals, and the Wishing Star celebrates the efforts of those who seek her favour, Lady Luck (while popular due to the 'reward' aspect of her abilities) and her powers are impossible to predict or negotiate with. Clerics of her order understand this, and celebrate the fluid and rather chaotic manner of their goddess, with many festivals and parties centred around dance, games and songs (often improvised) held in her honour.

## Region

Einquell. Depictions vary by region. Gisnep has a more positive/saccharine view of her than other places. Ghibli, the Independent Isles and Tezukanada have a more balanced view, having held onto the old religions more strongly. Legend has it there is a hidden temple in her name somewhere in the world, but its location remains unknown.

## Symbology

Clover (especially four leafed or higher), horseshoes, the number seven, the number twenty, hamsa, crossed fingers, ladybirds, the cornucopia, gold, green.

## Hymn

‘*Fate’s Design*’- a lost melody. Rumours tell that only the most devoted of clerics appear to know this tune and its lyrics nowadays.

## Followers

#### Other Followers

* Deltasong Danger: a Divine Soul Sorcerer (his mother, a devout cleric, received the blessing of the Goddess and passed it down to her son)

## Allies

* Miss Fortune
* The Wishing Star

## Trivia

There are many rituals that are associated with summoning luck or pleasing her Ladyship, such as knocking on wood, or exclaiming ‘break a leg!’ before a show, in the supposition that- having predicted that fate- Lalu will not be so dull as to make that foretelling occur. In Gisnep most of her lore has been watered down to simply ‘the good luck goddess’ aspect, but in other regions there is a stronger understanding of the aspect of inevitability, and even a form of otherworldly apathy, in that the fate that has been woven for you cannot be fought against. This also manifests in the idea that if you manage to insult or lose her favour you will rarely (or never) experience good fortune again; some people will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid walking under ladders or breaking mirrors to avoid such a gruesome fate.