Jezelda

Jezelda

(Deity)

Titles

Mistress of the Hungry Moon,
Lord of Werewolves,
Demon Lord of The Moon and Werewolves

Adjective

Jezeldan

Realm

Moonbog, Abyss

Alignment

Chaotic evil

Areas of Concern

Desolation
The Moon
Werewolves

Worshipers

Debased rural folk, lunatics, werewolves

Follower Alignments (1E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (1E)

Animal, Chaos, Evil, Trickery

Subdomains (1E)

Deception, Demon, Fur, Moon

Favored Weapon

Scimitar

Symbol

Full moon above moor

Sacred Animal

Wolf

Sacred Colors

Black, silver

Images of Jezelda

Source: Lords of Chaos, pg(s). 17

Jezelda (pronounced jeh-ZEL-dah) is the shape-shifting demon lord of werewolves and mistress of the moon.

Appearance

Jezelda, like the werewolf, can assume three forms. The first is a human form, that of a beautiful, pale Varisian women with long, flowing ebony hair. The second is that of an enormous, slavering wolf with huge fangs dripping saliva and horrible yellow eyes. Jezelda's third and favourite form is a horrible hybrid of the two, half wolf and half woman; in this form she looks starved and skinny, hungry for fresh meat.

History

Jezelda plays an important role in the history of Golarion, because she is believed by many to be the first lycanthrope who spread the curse to all who now suffer from it. If this is true then she has blighted the people of the world, but her cultists do not boast of this and instead remain silent on rumours of their patroness' origins.

A century ago, a lycanthropic cult of Jezelda turned the Remembrance Moon festival, originally celebrated in Lastwall and Ustalav to honour the fallen in the crusade against Tar-Baphon, into a night of stalking and hunting a target chosen by the cult for the year before. Knowledge of this tradition was exposed when the cult chose to target a paladin who ended up defeating the werewolves and leading a crusade that wiped out the cult.

Home

Jezelda dwells in the Abyssal realm known as the Moonbog, a terrifying land of moors and bogs under a constant, ever-present moon. Jezelda's minions stock the Moonbog with humanoid inhabitants from throughout the Universe for their mistress, lycanthropes, and her antipaladins to hunt.

Cult and worshipers

Jezelda is worshiped almost exclusively by werewolves, for she sees all other humanoids as just prey, although occasionally lunatics or deranged rural folk prey to her as well. Her worship is most prevalent in areas with large werewolf populations. Her faith is particularly strong in the Darkmoon Vale of northern Andoran and the haunted forests of Ustalav, especially the county of Lozeri. Within the dark Shudderwood in Ustalav, a tribe of werewolves called the Jezeldans worship Jezelda.

Her followers do not build temples to the demon lord and prefer to worship her in forest glades, remote farmhouses, or among ancient standing stones. They conduct their rituals at nighttime to offer their prayers to the moon. On nights when there is a new moon, Jezeldans sacrifice intelligent creatures, preferably of their own race or parent race, by tearing out their throats with claws and teeth and feasting upon their still-convulsing bodies.

Jezelda and her cultists despise non-werewolf werecreatures, and she charges her cultists with hunting and killing them. Werecreatures with more benevolent outlooks are considered an abomination by Jezeldans and are therefore a particularly favoured sacrifice.