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Name: Vioad, The Speech Weaver.

Appearance: Vioad resembles a fairly small, bald humanoid female with opal skin and five red eyes. She has a second pair of arms where her legs should be, and primarily moves around through the use of two pairs of clear, insect-like wings that grow from her back, which give off a soft buzzing sound as they beat. She dresses mostly in loose, silken garments.

Domains: Language, Translation

Personality: Vioad is generally a rather friendly goddess, although her hyperactive nature can be a little off-putting. She tends to talk to speak very quickly, and gives off the general impression of being rather flustered when removed from her main topic of interest: mortal speech. Other topics seldom hold her interest for too long and, while she would not dream of trying to impose herself too much, she inevitably starts getting fidgety if she feels she is being kept away from her work and hobby.

Relationships: Vioad is a god of linguists and especially translators, of which there is a fair deal of demand throughout the realms. Teraste alone contains dozens of active languages and hundreds of dialects, while Wybirne is not far behind. Even amongst races with much strict language habits, such as the Ixith, language barriers will inevitably arise, and as such she tends to have a few prayers thrown her way by anyone looking to conduct business of negotiations between different cultures. She is also one of the few deities to be worshipped by Dragons, thanks to her involvement in the creation of Low Draconic - a dragon language that could be spoken fairly easily by non-dragon races, which quickly became the lingua franca throughout much of Teraste during the time of the Dragon Imperium. Although its usage has declined in the centuries following the empire's collapse, it still remains a reasonably common tongue in the mortal realm - although it is practically extinct in the other planes.

Gods, who speak the divine All-Tongue innately, have much less use for her, although those deities dealing with writing, books and the word based arts can expect to have her drop-in on them - frequently unannounced - whenever she needs their help, wants there input, or has something she wants to tell them. Although these visits are not always entirely welcome - Jidzi Al'Betta, who tends to receive the brunt of them views Vioad in much the same way she used to view sudden downpours back when she was mortal - few bear her much ill-will. Irilvis and Sarasa have often found her fairly useful.
Her status as one of the founding members of The Lords of Light has gone some way to ensuring her generally positive reputation, although it has proven a bit of a barrier in her attempts to enlist some of the Demon Gods to assist in her (largely futile) efforts at establishing some sort of grammatical understanding of the demonic tongue, Pandemonian. Nor has it done much to curb Lithus' resentment of her inability to correct the connotations of her domain.

Parents: Ardiasd and Cadorilum

Sanctum: The Silken Tower, a spire in the astral plane, within which she can usually be found buzzing around. Almost all rooms are covered with various scrolls, books and tapestries in a variety of languages. The tower also has extensive cellars, within which she keeps codices of various extinct mortal tongues, on the off-chance they will be needed at some future date.



Up next: Dallakar, along with the long-delayed description of demons.

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I apologize for the bit with elemental magic--I knew seasonal magic took its place, but I hadn't understood that elemental magic was gone entirely.

No worries, it's a fairly small note on one of the earlier pages. Quite easy to overlook.

I didn't exactly forget her insomuch as I forgot what she was the goddess of--I thought she had dominion over words. That said, considering that Smalin's seven daughters are supposed to be paragons of art, I do think a deity of prose belongs there... and the muse-equivalents already cross over onto a number of different domains. By the time Latha and Lathu are born, their older sisters had already created and mastered every form of art. We have a number of gods who also rule over a facet of art, though--Jagyn sculpts, Ix'Killas builds architecture, Irilvis gardens, and if we're calling love an art then Mualth has the Art of War.

Overlap isn't really a problem, I just thought it was a bit amusing.


And now, because it isn't on this page yet:

Spoiler: The List of Unwritten Deities

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• Orilus
  - 5 Domains
  - Deceased
  - Parent of Doskrates; involved in creation of Malladar; was Thuxdatog's host.
  - Primordial Pentreon
  
  
• Ellims
  - Abdicated divinity
  - 5 domains
  - Primordial Pentreon
  - Sponsored Yitus
  - Parent of Myfe (with Tomenatras)
  
  
• Eth
  - 5 domains
  - mother of Maglor (with Elith'yern)
  
  
• Ix
  - 5 Domains
  - Primordial Pentreon
  - Head of the Divine Royalty
  
  
• Saliol
  - 4 or more domains
  - Parent of Laeyrd (with Recisoldex) and Asio (with Sarasa)
  
  
• Papilsi
  - 4 or more domains
  - Parent of Federatisto (with Fisylaka), Mualth (with Maglor)
  - Deceased, killed by Maglor
  
  
• Fisylaka
  - 4 or more domains
  - Parent of Federatisto (with Papilsi)
  
  
• Ulumie
  - 4 or more domains
  - Parent of Ardiasd (with Maglor)
  
  
• Eithiana
  - 4 domains
  - Parent of Yuyevris (with Thyxlaog) and Thasara (with Federatisto)
  
  
• Ix'Naranth
  - 4 domains
  - Parent of Ix'Killas and Ix'Belfia (with Ix'Teshal)
  - Member of the Divine Royalty
  
  
• Xedat
  - 4 domains
  - Parent of Unabri (with Cadorilum)
  
  
• Cadorilum
  - 4 domains
  - Parent of Unabri (with Xedat) and Vioad (with Ardiasd)
  
  
• Miuar
  - 3 or more domains
  - Parent of Recisoldex (with Yuyevris)
  
  
• Etrioc
  - 3 or more domains
  - Fought at battle of Fallen Stars (against Cassabiel)
  - Father of Amulird and Aanulyynn (both with Vakparellna)
  
  
• Ix'Belfia
  - 3 domains
  - Parent of Ix'Obynxis and Ix'Jilan (with Ix'Killas) and Eridel (with Kiarare)
  - Member of the Divine Royalty
  
  
• Liluar
  - 3 domains
  - Mother of Nilunea, Dallakar and Venilach (with Vestryxis)
  - Daughter of Azmoros
  - Demon God
  
  
• Icnoyotl
  - 3 or more domains
  - Parent of Mazatl (with Necali and Tezcacoatl)
  
  
• Necali
  - 3 or more domains
  - Parent of Mazatl (with Icnoyotl and Tezcacoatl)
  
  
• Altiox
  - 3 or more Domains
  - Parent of Niyloh (with Unabri)
  
  
• Itotia
  - 3 or more domains
  - Parent of Tezcacoatl (with Ixtli and Coyotl)
  
  
• Coyotl
  - 3 or more domains
  - Parent of Tezcacoatl (with Itotia and Ixtli)
  
  
• Eztli
  - 2 or more domains
  - parent of Coaxoch
  
  
• Yolotli
  - 2 or more domains
  - parent of Coaxoch
  
  
• Grix'nil
  - 2 or more domains
  - Parent of Pernalicus (with Niyloh)
  
  
• Venilach
  - 1 domain
  - Brother of Nilunea and Dallakar; son of Liluar and Vestryxis
  - Demon God
  
  
• Esu, The Lord of Secrets
  - 1 domain
  - Child of Ordog
  
  
• Djavulen, Maiden of the Dark
  - 1 Domain
  - Child of Ordog
  
  
• Ibliisku, Lord of Lies
  -1 domain
  -Child of Ordog
  
  
• Byrahn
  - 1 domain (beginnings)
  - Child of Miae
  - Lover of Ix'Belfia
  
  
• Oleadaf
  - Any domains
  - Sponsored Yitus
  
  
• Myzyl
  - Any Domains
  - Matron of Harpies
  
  
• Valeth
  - Fewer than 5 domains
  - Deceased
  - God of Flowers