Name/Titles: Anavid, Mistress of the Glorious Fallen, The Raven
Gender (if applicable): Female
Patronage: Heroes, Courage,, Battles
Parentage: Daughter of Nanaeios (It’s complicated)
Pantheon/Affiliation: Deity
Appearance: She flies over the battlefields of mortals seeking those most worthy of her taking their soul to a place of great honor. She can also sometimes be viewed perching upon Lathunis’ shoulder.
Centres of Worship/Places of Power:Battlefields, particularly those where the heroic are slain in the face of overwhelming odds, or where great courage is displayed in the face of death. The tombs of fallen heroes are often engraved with a image of a raven representing Anavid and these sites function as places of worship. There are also much larger shrines built to Anavid where great battles took place and heroic soldiers gave their lives. Even besieged cities have put shrines upon their walls where soldiers defended with their lives. People go to pay patronage at these places as well usually laying daggers, arrows and shields at the base of the shrine, all of which promptly disappear once placed
The Isle of Avanid, which resides in Lake Miphas. This island is where all fallen soldiers she takes from battles and brings them to this paradise where they practice fighting every day with each other and night retire to large bonfires where they drink and wench to their hearts content. This Island is impossible to find except by Avanid and any else who try to find it will crash into the water becoming trapped until Avanid releases them
Servants, Prominent Followers and Worship Base: Warriors, heroes, fallen champions. Any who look to battle as a way of life and seek fame and honor in death she will bring to her embrace to hold and keep safe, taking them to the Isle of Avanid which is on Lake Miphas
Carrion eaters are her most loyal subjects, and she is able to see through their eyes as they do. They help her keep track of the bravest in battles and pick out those who are performing a great act of bravery on the battlefield.
Psychology: (WIP)
History: (WIP) Nanaeios changed genders in order to lay with Messra, another woman, who figured out she was sleeping with the goddess and threatened to tell. To protect her secret and avoid the wrath of Aroesus, who had a bit of a thing about women laying with other women, Nanaeios changed Messra into a raven so she couldn't talk, just squawk. Unbeknowst to Nanaeios, Messra was pregnant. When the raven formerly known as Messra laid an egg, she made sure to sit on it until this one hatched a brand new demigoddess who was sent to Krona to confront her other mother. The vengeance, however, did not quite work out, as Lathunis instead took the young Anavid under her wing, so to speak as a friend and confidante.
Avanid arrived at Krona to request a punishment upon her mother, Nanaeios, for turning her mother, Messra, into a raven. However, before she could reach Aroesus she was intercepted by Lathunis who dissuaded her from attempting vengeance and invited the young goddess to stay with her on Krona. Lathunis kept Avanid close, instructing her on the ways of the Gods and Krona. Aroesus, after a time, noticed Avanid’s affinity for battlefields and ravens and saw an opportunity to entrust her with a special duty – transporting the spirits of the courageous fallen to her island domain on Lake Miphas, an army of the bravest kept out of the great cycle of life and death and rebirth and held in reserve should he need it some day.
Relationships: (WIP)