Raven queen religion
Religion Raven Queen
- Paths: Dark
- Patron of: dark-elf, necromancer
Raven Queen -- goddess of winter, cold fate, and grim death magic. Legend has it she was born in another world as a mortal sorceress, taken in by evil gods as their companion and apprentice. Trained in drawing power from the souls of the dead, the future Queen managed to raise a rebellion against an evil deity and cast it down, though she lost her body in the process. The other gods of the pantheon feared her and prevented her from becoming mistress of the dead. But before long the Raven Queen expanded her influence. She gained dominion over fate by defeating the spider goddess Lloth, and dominion over cold, seized from the winter god of her former pantheon.
She came to the Dreamland at the height of her power and might and became the patron of necromancy and dark elves. Her cult's followers depict the Queen as a black sorceress with a raven's head.
The Queen's sign (a feather) is especially active in the winter months.
- Paths: Darkness
- Gifts: the Raven Queen's mark opens a fight with her cold fate: it slows your foe and reaches for its heart with the Hand of Undead, harder in winter, and later in the fight it may curse, slow or drain life again. While worn, the mark guards against cold and dark energy and adds health, spell defense, mana, mana regeneration and spell level. Necromancers wearing her sign raise stronger zombies and skeletons that hit harder, resist magic better, serve much longer and always obey, the shadow from summon shadow resists magic better and lasts longer, and all three rituals recover faster
- Restrictions: only evil
- Sacrifices: the Raven Queen loves magical items enchanted with spells of curses or necromancy. Will rejoice at the corpse of a non-evil creature.
Necromancers who follow the Raven Queen's cult often lurk in the darkness of the Underdark.