Sidereus

The Star-Weaver

The Lord of Luck, the Celestial King, Calamitas, the Star-Weaver, the Font of Fortune, Brightest Luck, Praenuntius, the Mad Pilgrim, Furtumentum, the Symphony, Chaos, Doom-Speaker, the Hand Unseen and more, Sidereus is an unreliable and uncertain God, attributed with both providence and calamity, with blessings and curses, with random chance, free will and with predestined fate.   Sidereus is attributed with broadly expanding the lattice of Lucerna’s plans by way of His ability to see far into the past and future and act accordingly, and is widely known to have rejected Her original plans for His own reasons and though He has kept His own counsel, does at least partially accept it. The two sometimes work to repair, expand or alter Lucerna’s ongoing designs, sometimes they are at odds, and Sidereus works against Her. Though His motives are not understood, He is never regarded as a trickster, but is sometimes not represented as a wholly sane individual.  

Moirai Servants

A small but potent number of angels serve Sidereus in His Court of Stars but they, known as the Moirai, carry the full weight of His authority when they choose to act.   Clotho the Spinner of Destiny, who helps to shape a destiny for a mortal to aspire to.   Lachesis the Weaver of Fate, who helps to guide the threads of mortals through life.   Atropos the End of Ways, who helps to usher fallen mortals to their final rest.   Chosen Ananke the Ordained, who intervenes on behalf of her lord or her sisters.   Tyche, Daughter of Providence, who helps to entwine the threads of a community.

Divine Domains

Siderus bears the divine spheres of Fate and of Fortune, making him a God that is both beloved and feared by mankind, and both respected and dismissed by other Divines. The duality, or at least uncertainty, of Sidereus awards Him and His an inexorable role in society, if not a clearly defined one.   Awarded patronage of wanderers, gamblers, the insane, travelling merchants and seers, Sidereus cannot be relied upon to support His faithful consistently, though He is reputed to have already foreseen their greatest need, and planned against it, be His solution to deliver a windfall to see a man through hard times, or to bring him ruin as a vehicle for self discovery. Many men and women pray to Him hoping to realise some wonderful purpose, or to fall under His aegis, or at least, to avert significant dangers that may chance waylay them.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

The Seal of Ikthyon is the icon of Sidereus, representative of the network of paths guided by chance, and of the idea that the course of fate, while difficult to plot, is a grand pattern, planned by greater forces. The mark of Ikthyon is used as a mark of providence, used by the faithful to deliver particularly good or bad news, to make announcements, or to bless prophecy. Frequently etched into amulets, or writ in yellow or gold, the Ikython is given as a good luck charm, and is thought to keep its bearer safe from the worst of luck.   Quicksilver is the metal of Sidereus, though His colour is gold and His jewel is aquamarine. Migratory starlings are His birds, and both the butterfly and cicada are His animals, which he shares with Aevitas. Additionally, the fantastic Kirin, a golden, one-horned hoofed beast of omen, is said to herald moments of great fortune, or untold calamity.

Tenets of Faith

  • Fortune favours the prepared.
  • Chance is fickle, don't take it personally.
  • Be open to the possibilities.
  • Any wicked arrow can be turned aside, but disaster comes for all.
Divine Classification
God
Children

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