¶ EORA: GODDESS OF LOVE
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| WORSHIPPERS: Mothers, Artists, Married Couples CONSIDERED SINS: Sadism, Abandonment, Ruining Beauty ALIGNMENT: Divine Pantheon GRANTED BOON: Ability to judge the hunger, thirst, and needs of others. |
Eora, also known as The Masked One, is the goddess of love, family, and art. She is the backbone of The Ten, holding them together despite the constant bickering and infighting.
Eora takes the appearance of a humen circulatory system. She has two hearts, one at the center of her chest and one where her head would otherwise be. She takes deep displeasure in her appearance, opting to mask and cover herself when possible. Her most devoted followers have adopted the design of her mask as their own. She is often depicted caressing a large, bloody paintbrush as if it were an infant.
¶ Domain
Eora presides over bonds, marriage, vanity, and parenthood. She maintains the standards of ‘proper’ love, care, and marriage- a drastic change from Psydon's definitions of ‘one man, one woman,’ to include same-gender couples. It is to her that worried mothers or lost children pray, in order to find their way back to what they've lost.
¶ History
Eora was Necra's second-to last creation, her counterpart being Xylix themself. At some point, Eora attempted to woo Pestra and was rejected mercilessly.
As a purely divine being, much of her other history is speculative.
¶ Controversies
Eora and her following are notorious for their naivete, impulsiveness, and obsession with vanity and appearances.
Her approach and failed seduction attempt towards Pestra, while a subject of great criticism itself, resulted in an event known by her followers as ‘The Grand Insult,’ wherein Eora's appearance was attacked viciously. The specifics are highly debated. After this incident, and within about the past 1000 years, Eora's followers have reported mild aversion to homosexual couples- though she still allows their bonds through marriage. This perspective is considered hypocritical and petty by her critics, who accuse her stance as being rooted only in her own sourness rather than true belief. Devout followers, however, argue that as the one who maintains such traditions, it is her decision.
Eorans and Pestrans often find themselves at end with one another, a feud grown from their patrons' lover's quarrel turned hate-filled debacle. Where their domains of family and medicine overlap, such as childbirth, the air is often ripe with tension between acolytes.
Eora granted kindness to Graggar, the third mortal to ascend. She believed it within her ability to mold a new god to become one of the divine, to ease his woes and turn him to a path of light. Graggar accepted her gift, a sliver of her heart, and tainted it- spreading the fragment of divinity across the land to create an entire new species of monsters; goblinkind included. Thus, depending on context, Eora's kindness may be known as either a compliment and and insult.
¶ Iconography
Eora's divine symbol is an engraved heart. She is associated with paintbrushes, woven yarn, and her one-winged mask.
 Eora's Mask, an example |
 The amulet |
¶ Fan Art Gallery
