Selket

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Selket
(Deity)

Titles
Mistress of the Beautiful House
Alignment
Areas of Concern
Edicts
Avenge the wronged, protect the dead and vulnerable, use poison and suffocation, heal others
Anathema
Poison someone you did not intend to, harm a creature as punishment for a different creature'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
Scorpion
Sacred Colors
Black, red
Source: Empty Graves, pg(s). 73 (1E)
Divine Mysteries Web Supplement, pg(s). 6 (2E)
The religious symbol, sacred animal, and sacred color for this deity are listed exclusively in the Divine Mysteries Web Supplement. Alignment details sourced from Lost Omens Gods & Magic 124–125.

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