Tymora

Overview

Tymora is the bright-faced goddess of fortune, and is friendly, graceful and kind. Her dominance over narrow escapes and lucky discoveries makes her the patron of choice for adventurers, who worship her in the hopes of prolonging their survival and finding fantastic treasures. Tymora is fickle and playful, but never vengeful or malicious. She likes a good joke, and has been known to play practical jokes on the more straight-laced deities. She is reputed to have had short-lived romances with many deities, but these have ended amicably on both sides after a short time. She likes merriment and festive occasions, and is rumored to have been spotted at numerous gambling houses on various holidays, laughing and having a good time.

Description

Tymora favors various forms, but currently prefers to appear as a tall, thin, graceful woman with long, flowing platinum blond hair, a kind and regal face, and eyes like blue-black stars. Her voice is musical and never rises or becomes harsh.

Holy symbol

Tymora's symbols include a face-up coin; a sliver coin featuring Tymora's face surrounded with shamrocks; or a shining, featureless disk of silver.

Favored weapon

Tymora arms herself by shedding a single silver tear, which forms a silver-bladed longsword, known as Silver Tear, which has all the abilities of a luck blade. Tymora also carries numerous spinning coins which she can throw as if they were shuriken. Her priesthood have selected the shuriken as their favored weapon.

Realm

World Tree cosmology

In the World Tree cosmology of Realmspace, Tymora resides within her realm, known as the Quarter of the Great Wheel, which forms part of the outer planar realm known as Brightwater, which she shares with her fellow deities, Lliira, Sharess, Sune, and Waukeen. Brightwater is a well-settled realm devoted to joy, good fortune and beauty, and is filled with quaint cottages and elegant manors. The Quarter of the Great Wheel abounds with gambling, racing, games of chance, and tests of luck. The streets are broad and well kept, the buildings are grand and elegant, and the inhabitants are bold - and sometimes reckless.

Great Wheel cosmology

In the Great Wheel cosmology, Tymora resides within her realm, known as Brightwater, which is located on Arvandor (also known as Olympus), the first layer of the Olympian Glades of Arborea. Brightwater is a realm of excitement, where almost any diversion imaginable can be found, and which she shares with Sune, goddess of beauty and passion, and Lliira, goddess of joyful dance and festivals.

Worship

Priests of Tymora favor gaiety and spontaneity, believing that those who enjoy the greatest fortune are those who take the greatest risks. Typically, those who favor Tyora tend to be the most daring, and include adventurers and gamblers, who make up the bulk of their ranks. Tymora has worshipers among all walks of life: the dashing young noble, the risk-taking merchant, the daydreaming field hand, and the scheming ne'er-do-well.

In Spelljammer

Tymora is a member of the Faerûnian pantheon and as such is considered native to Realmspace. Priests of Tymora are able to travel throughout Realmspace without limitation. However, within the phlogiston they cannot receive any new spells, and if they enter another crystal sphere, they lose access to all mid-to-high level spells, unless there is a deity with the same portfolio within the sphere, who will then grant spells on Tymora's behalf, allowing her priests to access all their spells.

History

Originally there was only one goddess of luck, named Tyche. However, when her paramour, Lathander, started a war amongst the gods, known as the Dawn Cataclysm, she kissed the Morninglord with misfortune and wandered off to explore the world. Unfortunately, she became corrupted by the influence of Moander, a god of corruption and decay. When Tyche returned home, she was welcomed by Lathander, who wished to regain her affections, Azuth, who had come to mediate the dispute between the two, and her good friend Selûne. Selûne wept great tears as she saw the corruption destroying her friend from within, and before Tyche could discern her intent, she lashed out with a bolt of purifying light. Tyche's rotten core split down the middle, creating two lesser deities of luck: Tymora, Tyche's Fair-Haired Daughter, who inherited all that was good and pure of her predecessor; and Beshaba, the Maid of Misfortune, who was full of dark malice and capricious ill-will. As the two deities emerged, they immediately fell upon each other in hate, and could only be separated by the combined efforts of all three deities.