Need a deity to fit a 'crime'


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I'm adapting the 2e AD&D module I6 to a pathfinder home game. Here's my query: what deity would have heard the lovers wish as she jumped from the tower and been responsible for the vampire dude becoming the first vampire after he was killed by archers?

Tweaks:
The maiden's family died in a tragic accident when she was a child; she was the only survivor, and she was taken in by the bachelor pre-vampire
(the poor child had no where else to go)
He grooms her, she falls for him, she gets pregnant
The pre-vampire will use a sham wedding with the maiden in order to gain status by marriage. The fortune tellers confirm that she's pregnant with his son, so he will have a guaranteed heir and permanent claim to her holdings once she gives birth. He of course cares not for her.

She finds out he murdered her whole family just to gain access to her, and that he goaded her into intimacy to force pregnancy and therefore marriage. She finds out he intends for her to die during childbirth.

Recognizing that she's trapped by a vile and treacherous dude, she throws herself off the balcony to deprive him of her holdings and an heir. If only she had the power to prevent him from ever loving again, from ever producing an heir, to force him to suffer in his wickedness and spilled blood every day...

What deity would have best heard her 'prayer' ?

Liberty's Edge

I'd vote for Calistria, goddess of lust, trickery, and revenge. With subdomains of curse and memory!


Count Ranalc understands betrayal and loss. Calistria does revenge. Alternately a bunch of evil deities are all about the cursing.


Mestama and Gyronna are all about helping wronged women do horrible things to men.

Scarab Sages

Of those mentioned so far, Calistria doesn't sound like a bad choice.

There is the Demon Lord Zura to consider; She may not be appropriate at all on the grounds that SHE is supposed to be "The First Vampire", but if nothing else, you could compare/contrast Her origin myth.

As an Evil mother goddess and creator of monsters, Lamashtu might work for this very well!

Camazotz might be another fun alternative - maybe you could further spin it into giving your setting's vampires some kind of distinctive Mesoamerican twist!


Naderi?

Given that she's been growing strangely close to Urgathoa...


I went with Camazotz. Thank you all for the education!! Lots of happy research. There is much much more plot that I've developed, but for this arc I'm trying to have this vampire ultimately sought out by the good guys party who hope to recruit it - to _ally_ with it - because they need him as a show of strength AGAINST a demon invasion of the planet (a battle in the ongoing Blood War between Devils & Devils)

It seems wise to just completely ignore/avoid Zura - the other "first" vampire story-wise, since she caused her condition herself and is an ascendant mortal. Their origins are diametric (trickery/deception vs. madness).

Calistria and Count Ranalc are both Chaotic Neutral, whereas I feel that spawning the uber vampire and unleashing their spawn is equally choatic and evil.

I do need the 'god' to be a bit more powerful than a quasi-diety to have been powerful enough to have unleashed the near-permanent blight of vampiricism upon an entire planet. That would also exclude the typical Demon Lord who resides on only one layer.

I really like that Camazotz is obscure - no one else cared to listen to her final thoughts. The pending blood sacrifice powering the curse is actually the sacrifice of the innocent fetus, which was just enough to draw his attention. Further, Camazotz justifies why a vampire would have a bat & wolf motif.

Lastly, Camazotz wins over Zura because of the trickery/deception over madness.

Thank you all!
- Joe

Scarab Sages

I'm happy I could help!

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