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I'm currently in the process of creating an azata-blooded aasimar Cleric in service to Ashava for my first campaign in the world of Golarion. I've only got access to LO: Gods and Magic and the Ashava article on the wiki, so I was wondering if more knowledgeable people here could provide me with supplementary info that would help me to RP a Cleric of this demigod better.
I'm mainly concerned with these questions: What practices and ministries do Ashava Clerics engage in, besides the eradication of will-o'-wisps? What races and cultures, besides Varisian humans, tend to be inclined to her mystery cult? As a deific azata, what particular expression of freedom and wonder does she embody (like lyrakiens representing free travel)? And how does Ashava handle non-ghost undead?
Thanks to any who respond :)
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I looked her up in Chronicle of the Righteous, and there's honestly not much more to her than is on the wiki. Empyreal Lords seem to have scattered cults. As I understand, if the Capital G Gods are like the Olympians, worshipped with formal temples, Empyreal Lords are the equivalent of Nike or Nemesis of Eileithyia or Priapus or Eros - they have more specific purviews and are more accessible than the more distant gods, but don't have formal cults and don't have the same depth of mythology to them.
Based on what I'm reading, Ashava is a kindly guide who pushes lost souls back on the path, whether they be wandering travellers or ghosts who never found their way to the River of Souls. She is also a dancer, and in order to gain her blessing from the 1e Obedience you dance alone in the moonlight. None of that strikes me as needing a formal cult with priests and bishops, but a far more informal thing with people drawn to her cause without ranks or titles, a free spirit trying to help other spirits be free, making shrines in the places where the dead gather or where travellers get lost. In short, a Cleric but not a priest, which matches her Chaotic Good alignment - don't get bogged down in dogma, do what's right. I doubt she draws much of a distinction between lesser ghosts and corporeal undead as long as they're lost and looking to find peace (with violence if needed).
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Ashava's connection to wisps coupled with Nhimbaloth's connection to wisps, but also the Lantern King having a connection to them, and Pharasma being directly opposed to Nhimbaloth... That intersection of the four is something I would LOVE to see explored.
Ashava's connection to wisps coupled with Nhimbaloth's connection to wisps, but also the Lantern King having a connection to them, and Pharasma being directly opposed to Nhimbaloth... That intersection of the four is something I would LOVE to see explored.
It could also be a very, very strange Pantheon.
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Ashava's connection to wisps coupled with Nhimbaloth's connection to wisps, but also the Lantern King having a connection to them, and Pharasma being directly opposed to Nhimbaloth... That intersection of the four is something I would LOVE to see explored.It could also be a very, very strange Pantheon.
Call it The Wisp'ered Ones. >_>
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Given most of their relations or opposition to wisps, which lead travellers astray, you could even called them The Path Finders. :P