Thurena - Mistress of the Silent

Background

Thurena was an Old Goddess of loneliness, internal decay, and the invisible, sickening radiance of cursed stone. Among all the deities of ancient Nokadran, she was the most tragic. Thurena did not wish harm upon the living; in fact, her defining quirk was a desperate, childlike yearning for companionship and warmth. However, the glowing magic stone embedded in her chest emitted an invisible, lethal aura that caused the marrow, blood, and flesh of any living thing near her to slowly rot and wither away. Because no mortal or god could approach her without perishing in agony, she was condemned to absolute solitude, wandering barren wastes where even insects and grass turned to ash under her bare feet. Mortals did not build temples for her, instead erecting lead-lined warning stones around dead zones to keep travellers away from her weeping presence. Shortly before the Ascension Wars began, when ancient factions started plundering deep earth deposits for magic stones, the dead zones went cold and silent. Thurena vanished without a trace, leaving scholars to wonder if she hid herself away in the deepest dark of the world or was consumed for the stone in her chest.

She is depicted as a small, fragile girl who looks harmless, lonely, and easy to approach, with arms slightly outstretched as if asking for an embrace. However, her porcelain-like skin is split with deep, jagged cracks across her limbs and torso, revealing a blinding, pale-blue glowing stone wedged directly in the centre of her chest. Her symbol is a cracked circle containing a jagged, radiant shard at its heart, surrounded by three wilted leaves.

Domains: Death, Grave, and Twilight
Alignment: Neutral