Amageala

## Powers

Amageala is the goddess of deceit, and a child of the Elder God of Madness. Amageala can grant many boons and inflict many curses, depending on what is asked of her, in addition to being a master of phantasmal magic and its deeper uses. She is also totally and completely immune to any methods of detecting deception, as well as any methods of forcing truths.

One of her most potent blessings is a spell only she can grant, a bardic song that can twist and spin a creature’s psyche beyond any hope of repair. This melody, called the Song of Broken Minds, may make its victims stagnant vegetables, cackling madmen, blithering fools, or any number of other indications of total mental collapse, and it can only be used with the aid of a deity, specifically one of greater or similar power to Amageala herself.

## Personality/Appearance

Amageala is soft spoken, highly-intelligent, and highly manipulative goddess. She is quick to help those who ask for her but she will make them pay a great price for her help, usually asking them for something that will make her more powerful. She usually takes the form of a snake-folk.

## Relations

Amageala is the creation, any by extension the daughter, of the Elder God of Madness. On some level, she may consider Everlife, known today as Polaris, a sibling.

## History

### Origin

Amageala was created by the Elder God of Madness.

### The Song of Broken Minds

In the ancient kingdom of Malovazen, which has long since fallen to time, there was once a king and two daughters. King Aaru was a fair and peaceful king, but suddenly fell ill in his prime. As was tradition, he declared that his position would be passed to Dova, his elder daughter. The younger daughter, Philomela, became jealous almost immediately, and conspired to take the throne for herself. Dova ascended to queendom, and Philomela tried many different schemes to implicate, remove, or assassinate her. Her efforts were eventually discovered, and she was banished from the country.

Stripped of noble birth and influence, Philomela wandered Temporis as a peasant. She still desired her sister’s place as queen of Malovazen, and prayed for help to any god who would hear her selfish request. Amageala, goddess of deceit, answered her pleas, and asked what Philomela was willing to give up in order to take her sister’s place as queen. She answered that she would give anything. Philomena would, by her oath with Amageala, give up her ability to ever speak a truthful word again and must offer daily prayers exclusively to her. She agreed, and together Philomela and Amageala conducted a ritual.

This ritual created a melody, based on Philomela’s magically deceitful speech, that would destroy the mind of whoever heard it. This power granted to her, Philomela sought audience with the queen to “ask forgiveness”, destroyed the minds of her sister and her court, and “fled” to the guards outside the throne room “for help”. With no heirs to Dova, Philomela became the new queen of Malovazen. The people knew that she was responsible for Dova’s madness, but couldn’t prove anything without risking the same fate.

Sadly, though her rule was as long as it was chaotic, Queen Philomela was struck down when she sang the Song of Broken Minds to a rebellious knight and a blessing from Lusaris, the goddess of serenity, reflected the spell’s effects back onto her.

### A Vague Deal (10,015 A.B.)

Chant’folne Sforza, in the days before her time as a Binturian and long before her ascension to the Seat of Power of the Sym’fadè Confederacy, prayed to Vague for a way to get out of her arranged marriage without killing her fiance. To fulfill this prayer, Vague sought counsel with a being who could grant that boon: Amageala, the goddess of deceit. Amageala offered to grant Chant’folne one use of the Song of Broken Minds, a spell-like song that irreparably rends the mind of those who hear it, but demanded that Chant’folne become her servant in exchange. Vague, already intending to make Chant’folne her own servant, declined. An unlikely ally intervened in the dispute on Vague’s side: Amageala’s father, the God of Madness. Madness insisted that Amageala help Vague, and so she granted Vague the power to give Chant’folne the spell.

### The New Madame Dictator (10,019 A.B.)

Shortly after forcefully she dethroned her mother as Madame Dictator, Amageala appeared to Chant’folne Sforza. Though she originally took the appearance of Vague, she quickly dropped the facade and revealed her true self. She explained that she had granted her the power of the Song of Broken Minds, a power she intends to grant her once more. She bestowed unto Chant’folne the Eye of Philomela, an artifact that grants her access to the Song among other abilities a dictator might find useful, and said she reminds her of another ruler from long ago. She vanished shortly after, promising to keep an eye on her work in the future.

### Current Residence

Amageala currently resides somewhere on the Material Plane.

## Further Information

* Chant’folne Sforza
* Madness
* Polaris
* Vague