Keragyxin

### Symbol

A blue-colored dragon in flight, styled into the strokes of a tribal tattoo to merely suggest the shape of a dragon

## Game Rules (d20)

### Domains

Air, Charm, Dragon, Liberation, Luck, Travel

## Summary/Background

The goddess Keragyxin champions freedom of body, mind, and soul for all life, draconic and otherwise. Followers of Keragyxin take few permanent titles and responsibilities upon themselves, but they are always in search of truth and freedom in their travels. They are also ardent warriors and diplomats, committed to fighting oppression whenever and wherever they see it, preferring non-violent solutions but not shirking from battle. Of all the draconic deities, Keragyxin has a number of non-Dragonfolk faithful second only to Naruyxz, her most bitter and hated rival.

## Unique Worshiper Options (d20)

Divine Blessing feats are a special category of powerful feats that reflect the unique abilities granted by deities in pursuit of their portfolios and agendas.  Only a divine spellcaster or a character with a Paladin or Antipaladin Aura can take a Divine Blessing feat, and they must worship the indicated deity and remain in good standing with their faith in order to use the feat’s benefits. Once a character has obtained a Divine Blessing feat with one deity, they cannot gain a Divine Blessing from any other deity without converting to the new faith. A character who converts to another religion must retrain the feat as normal and does not typically get to replace it otherwise.

### Blessing of Keragyxin

Tyranny stands no chance with your goddess’s might at your side.

**Prerequisites:** Ability to channel positive energy; worshiper of Keragyxin

**Benefit:** When you use your Channel Energy ability, all living creatures in the area of effect (whether or not they are healed by the channeled energy) receive a new saving throw against any mind-affecting, paralysis, or entanglement effects afflicting them.  Creatures gain a bonus on this save equal to the number of dice rolled to heal.  If you use Channel Energy to harm undead, all undead creatures in the area of effect must make a Fortitude save with a penalty equal to the number of dice rolled to heal.  Undead who fail this Fortitude save behave as though confused for 1 round, but this is not treated as a confusion or mind-affecting effect for the purposes of resistances or immunities.

### Faithful Charge of Keragyxin

You get a rush from bringing the fight to tyrants and despots.

**Prerequisites:** Divine spellcaster or Paladin Aura; worshiper of Keragyxin

**Benefit:** When you use the charge action, you can move up to three times your speed and up to half of your movement is treated as flight, allowing you to potentially clear astonishing jump distances or heights and charge creatures that might otherwise be out of reach.  You gain a bonus on Acrobatics checks to avoid attacks of opportunity equal to your level, and each attack of opportunity you avoid during this charge grants you a cumulative +1 Morale bonus to attack rolls and AC until the start of your next turn.

## Deity Description

Keragyxin, despite her great natural size and power, is a lighthearted, mirthful, playful, and mischievous goddess who delights in performing random acts of kindness and preferring to humiliate tyrants and the power-hungry rather than destroying them outright. Unlike many deities, Keragyxin genuinely loves to mingle with mortals, often taking the form of a spectacularly blue and statuesque Stormfrost Darugon woman or a Half-Dragon variation of that form, but she is capable of other shapes and forms when it suits her whimsy. In her natural from, Keragyxin appears as a Colossal Storm Dragon, but she prefers to avoid her natural form among mortals unless she wants to make a point or is protecting them.

Keragyxin herself is insatiably curious and more forthright than even most of the Many Divines would prefer to be, and she rarely hesitates to point out that deities are not all-powerful or all-knowing. When interacting with mortals, Keragyxin periodically refers to strange events, cultures, and trivia from other worlds and even other universes, and enjoys spreading knowledge of simple pleasures, art, and music from places other deities would prefer mortals not know about. However, she also recognizes that too much honesty can also be detrimental, and agrees to keep the Pantheon's most dangerous secrets hidden for the greater good. Still, she believes a bit of rebelliousness is a good thing and enjoys sticking her tongue out at rules where she can. However, Keragyxin has one principle she holds above all others - not to dictate how others are to live. This principle stays her hand from interfering with many of the worst horrors experienced by mortals, and it causes her no end of sadness to know that she has the power to stop them but doing so would mean imposing her will upon others - and she loathes the idea of following her fellow deities who have made that very same decision to their corruption, fall from grace, and rebirth as monsters and cold-hearted overlords.

### Relations with the Many Divines

Other deities among the Many Divines have relations with Keragyxin ranging from impish and conspiratorially playful to strained but cordial. Keragyxin gets along famously with Osae, but her husband Litheryn generally grimaces at her presence. Pendaryion in particular chafes at Keragyxin's informality and needling of traditions and codes, but he grudgingly respects that at least her heart is in the right place even if they disagree strongly about *how* to do good. The Seven Saints, despite their lawful nature, appreciate Keragyxin's guidance and her emphasis on the power of freedom and choice, but gently disagree with her carefree disregard for oaths and restrictions.

### Relations with the Gray Faiths

Among the Gray Faiths, Toio is Keragyxin's only true friend, as their appreciation for change and shenanigans is similar to her own, but Toio's propensity towards thoughtless acts that indirectly harm others sometimes strains their relationship. Keragyxin greatly dislikes Tempest's destructiveness in particular, and isn't entirely sure what to make of Morpheus, as she appreciates the inspiration he brings mortals but worries about the seeming madness he brings with it. Chronis often spars with Keragyxin for meddling and snooping around in the past and future and revealing secrets he would prefer remain hidden. The fact Keragyxin takes pleasure in annoying Chronis only irritates him further. Keragyxin has a reasonably cordial relationship with Seliir but doesn't particularly care for her company, and she obeyed Setosh but otherwise tried to avoid him. The Soulkeeper is wary of Keragyxin and dislikes her propensity to wantonly resurrect dead mortals but grudgingly weighs her actions against Naruyxz and the Scarlet Queen and allows her a *small* degree of latitude in interfering with his domain.

### Relations with the Dark Pantheon

Keragyxin despises and adamantly opposes the entirety of the Dark Pantheon, but reserves a particular hatred for Asmodeus, Azmedriel, and, above all, Naruyxz. Asmodeus and Azmedriel stand in opposition to everything Keragyxin values, and rob mortals of free choice through tyranny, slavery, and blinding them to alternatives against such oppression, but Naruyxz denies mortals their very souls. The insidious nature of Naruyxzian temptation to escape death relies on the consent of the desperate and the dying, not deception and trickery or coercion, and that very same consent twists and corrupts their souls as the last "free choice" of their mortal life. Because such a choice is technically made freely, when the resulting undead abomination is destroyed, that last living decision taints all that preceded it with their actions that follow, and the mangled soul that arrives at the Soulkeeper's Realm is judged accordingly. Keragyxin agonizes over the dilemma Naruyxz thus creates for her - do nothing to save mortals in that predicament, or become a tyrant herself.

### Relations with Other Pantheons

Typically, Keragyxin is wary of the god-like creatures of the Fey Courts, as they can be cruel and oppressive just as easily as they can be benevolent and nurturing. Though she withholds pre-judgment of these entities until she knows more about them and their proclivities, she does not hesitate to express ire towards representatives of the Shadow Court and Golden Court. She is usually more willing to give the benefit of the doubt to Fey of the Court of Flowers and Lunar Court.

Like the rest of the Many Divines, Keragyxin greatly distrusts the entities worshiped by followers of the Old Ways, not so much because they are different but because their ways remind her more of demons than angels. The sacrifices offered to them, the pacts they forge with mortals, and the way they twist the world in Fey-like ways disturb Keragyxin and she understands why the Many Divines oppose them, as Setosh did before the Church's ascendancy, even if she is not actively hostile towards them.

Against the Demonic Pantheon, Keragyxin offers no quarter but will extend mercy to the rare demon who seeks to change their nature and parlays with her. Keragyxin is not easily fooled, however, and any demon who thinks to trick her is far more likely to be cut down than not. For those seeking genuine change, however, Keragyxin makes for a powerful and watchful partner in such a daunting task.