Daikitsu

Daikitsu

(Deity)

Titles

Lady of Foxes

Adjective

Daikitsun

Realm

Nirvana

Alignment

Neutral

Areas of Concern

Agriculture
craftsmanship
kitsune
rice

Worshipers

Kitsune

Edicts

Ensure the health of crops and vegetation, perfect a craft or trade, leave offerings for foxes, celebrate the turning of the seasons

Anathema

Mistreat your tools, pass a beggar without giving alms, discriminate against sex workers or the lower class, commit murder or torture, harm an innocent

Follower Alignments (1E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (1E)

Animal, Artifice, Community, Plant, Weather

Subdomains (1E)

Construct, Family, Fur, Growth, Home, Industry, Seasons

Follower Alignments (2E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (2E)

Change, creation, family, nature

Favored Weapon

Flail

Symbol

Nine-tailed fox

Images of Daikitsu

Source: Dragon Empires Gazetteer, pg(s). 59 (1E)
Tian Xia World Guide, pg(s). 25 (2E)

The goddess Daikitsu (pronounced dye-kee-tsoo) is a common object of veneration given that she has the everyday subjects of rice, agriculture, and craftsmanship under her divine purview, all subjects of broad interest in Tian Xia. She despises war and shuns anyone who wields any tool sharper than a kama.

Appearance

Daikitsu is depicted as a beautiful kitsune woman with snow-white fur and nine tails, but her capricious shapeshifting nature inspires beliefs that she could be anything associated with kindness and artistry anywhere at any time.

Religious symbol

Daikitsu's religious symbol is that of a nine-tailed fox inside of a nonagon.

Relationships

Nalinivati, the patron goddess of nagas and the snake-like humanoids known as the nagaji, and Daikitsu share concerns and have long been platonic friends despite the naga deity's prickliness. In Tian Xia the two deities are celebrated together in a vernal fertility festival, and the two have been romantically linked although both deny any such claim. Daikitsu's shrines are often decorated with gifts from Nalinivati's followers and vice versa.

Church of Daikitsu

Daikitsu is widely venerated across Tian Xia as the goddess of rice and agriculture, which ensures that many seek her favour. Farmers seek her blessing to ensure fertile fields and good harvests, smiths and craftsmen worship her aspect as a patron of artifice, and families pray to her for safety.

Worshippers

While worshipped across Tian Xia, Daikitsu's largest centres of worship are within the Forest of Spirits, where many kitsune reside; the samurai nation of Minkai; and Songbai, which was once the breadbasket of the former empire of Lung Wa. Daikitsu's faithful receive an undecorated cotton garment upon reaching maturity that they embroider for the rest of their lives, an act that honors Daikitsu's sowing of the first rows of rice across the continent.

Daikitsu is also worshipped as the patron of the kitsune people and has many followers amongst them.

References

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