Falayna

Falayna

(Deity)

Titles

Warrior's Ring

Realm

Half-Empty Palace, Illumis, Heaven

Alignment

Lawful good

Areas of Concern

Femininity
Martial training
Rings

Worshipers

Brides, jewelers, squires, warriors

Edicts

Wear or make beautiful things, train for combat, recover and return lost mementos

Anathema

Disrupt or destroy romantic unions, enforce a dress code, cower from fights

Follower Alignments (1E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (1E)

Good, Law, Liberation, Strength

Subdomains (1E)

Archon, Freedom, Resolve, Revolution

Follower Alignments (2E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (2E)

Creation, freedom, might, wealth

Favored Weapon

Longsword

Symbol

Sword held aloft

Sacred Animal

Cat

Sacred Colors

Silver, white

Images of Falayna

Source: Chronicle of the Righteous, pg(s). 12 (1E)
Knights of Lastwall, pg(s). 54 (2E)

Falayna is a powerful archon empyreal lord and patron of femininity and martial training, believing them to be complementary instead of exclusive.

History

Millennia ago, Falayna's portfolio only encompassed femininity, and she was the lover of another empyreal lord, whose name has been lost, who was master of strength of arms. After he fell in battle against followers of Moloch, Falayna's recovery of her lover's sword led her from being an empyreal lord solely focused on femininity towards her role as paragon of martial training.

Home

Falayna spends much of her time training her followers in the Half-Empty Palace on Illumis, the fifth tier of Heaven.

Appearance

Falayna can take many forms: most often, that of a beautiful, fair-skinned woman with glossy brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a silver breastplate under silk robes and numerous rings of all colours on her fingers; she is never seen without her sword Betrothal.

Cults

Falayna is worshipped by warriors, jewellers, and squires in training. Her worshippers are of any gender, with a majority of women, and include brides and girls on the cusp of adulthood.

She has gained a large following among the Knights of Lastwall, due both to her patronage of female warriors and also because many of the knights lost their partners in Tar-Baphon's destruction of Lastwall and find common cause with the goddess.

On Golarion

Falayna has a following among the Mishyrians of the Padishah Empire of Kelesh. Mishyrians came to worship Falayna after they split off from their Beshzen compatriots, who began worshiping Moloch after their cities were destroyed by a Spawn of Rovagug.

There is a temple dedicated to Falayna in the town of Khoka on Qadira's eastern border.

References

Paizo published an article on Falayna in Knights of Lastwall 54.

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