Selket

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Selket
(Deity)

Titles
Mistress of the Beautiful House
Alignment
Areas of Concern
Embalming, Healing, Scorpions
Edicts
Avenge the wronged, protect the dead and vulnerable, suffocate or use poison, heal others
Anathema
Unintentionally poison someone, harm someone for another's crime, desecrate a corpse
Follower Alignments (1E)
Domains (1E)
Chaos, Good, Healing, Protection, Repose
Subdomains (1E)
Ancestors, Azata, Defense, Purity, Restoration, Souls
Follower Alignments (2E)
Domains (2E)
Healing, magic, nature, protection
Favored Weapon
Symbol
Red scorpion
Sacred Animal
Source: Empty Graves, pg(s). 73 (1E)
Gods & Magic, pg(s). 124–125 (2E)

Selket is a member of the pantheon1 often worshiped in Ancient Osirion. She is depicted as a woman wearing a scorpion with its tail raised on her head, or sometimes as a black scorpion with a woman's head.2

References

  1. The deities Ra, Horus, Anubis, Osiris, Ma'at, Isis, and Thoth stopped answering prayers in 4724 AR after events described in War of Immortals. The ramifications of this change in this context might not yet be defined in a canon source. See Meta:Osirian pantheon.
  2. Robert G. McCreary. “Gods of Ancient Osirion” in Empty Graves, 73. Paizo Inc., 2014