Lupta

A goddess first introduced in the article Little Horrors in Quoth the Raven Issue 31. Lupta is almost exclusively worshipped in the domain of Madego. She is a goddess of fertility and the earth, as well as magic and healing.

Dogma

Lupta's faith is short on dogma. Her faithful believe that her motivations are essentially unknowable, but she brings life to the earth, turning barren wasteland into verdant acres. She nourishes the living without distinction, and likewise accepts the deceased into the earth's embrace without distinction.

Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Cleric alignments

Chaotic Evil, Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral

Portfolio

Fertility, the earth, dance, healing, farming, magic, the afterlife, the spirits.

Symbol

A stylized woman, brown, asleep on her side within an angel-shaped outline, green.

Spell domains

Earth, Healing, Magic, Plant, Repose

Favoured weapon

Scythe

Background

Lupta was - or possibly still is - a table-dancer from Souragne. During the Grand Conjunction of 740 BC, Lupta sought solace in hooch whiskey and a pipe of opium, only to fall through a tear in the Demiplane's planar fabric - right into Madego's G'Henna province.

While still under the influence, Lupta started to dance when a Chi-Folken named Vurik tried to exorcize her using a set of spirit-drums - and came under the influence of the Chi-Folken's guardian spirits. As a channel for their power and the focus of the Night of Music, Lupta was key in the great ritual that stabilized the domain of Madego and turned G'Henna province into the new breadbox of the Core provinces. In the wake of the Night of Music, Lupta seemed to meld into the earth, leaving a woman-shaped hill within an angelic outline.

While Lupta's true fate is uncertain - she might still be mortal and present in Souragne, G'Henna or the Shadow Rift; she might have been transformed into a being like the Maiden of the Swamp; or she might be trapped in the Mists - the Chi-Folken wholeheartedly believe she is a goddess who came to them in their hour of greatest need and worked with the spirits to save them. While those of G'Henna province believe her to be Zhakata the Provider and the Four Tower Nations call her the fifth manifestation of Ezra, and she is seen as a spirit rather than a goddess in Souragne, Valachan and Verbrek, she is nigh-universally adored.