Shaila

Shaila

Shaila is a spirit of family and fertility. She is covered in blue/purple fur and has many tails. She can be seen as male or female at times, sometimes both. She is soft spoken and kindly. She favors mortals, seeing them all as her children to be protected. In female form, she is always pregnant. She loathes undeath, seeing it as perversion to the natural cycle of life, reproduction, and proper death. She is brother of Kendrac, whom she sees as a wonderful guardian and loves fiercely and respects.

Basic Pact

• Bid: I bid you to keep your people safe.
• Offer: Allow me into you, and I will warm you. I will protect your child as my own, for it will be.
• Purpose: You will serve me, but my needs are simple and kind. Oppose my lost kin and his foul undeath, shelter the young and those who take on the mantle of parent. Open your heart to family and be fruitful.
• Gift: Shaila gifts with jewelry, each a unique representation of her favor with that mortal child. It has no effect save to serve as a sort of wedding ring, marking the spiritual wedding that has occurred.
• Mark: Those pacted with Shaila tend to look very fertile. Females are wide of hip and chest, while males carry subtle scents that put those around them at ease. Those under her sway find becoming angry more difficult, as the world seems worthy of loving, even at its worst.

Benefits

• Those who forge a pact with Shaila become better caretakers immediately. Those they attempt to heal of long term physical or mental problems find it easier to relax. Feelings of vulnerability and shame melt under the warm care of a Shaila dedicant. Females who are tied to her have an easy time becoming a mother, both in conception and in delivery, reporting little to no pain, only a building satisfaction that reaches peak as their progeny emerges to the world.
• A Shaila dedicant that is present during labor may spend a hero point to ease a given complication, reducing its effect. For four hero points, the mother is treated as if she were a dedicant herself, insuring a smooth and satisfying delivery.
• If presented an orphan of a year of age or younger, a Shaila dedicant may wash away the memories of their parents, taking their place. This only functions if the parents are truly dead, and if the dedicant vows to accept the responsibility of the child. Such claimed children will never doubt the validity of their adopted parent, even faced with proof to the otherwise, and the trauma of their loss is banished entirely. Children older than this must seek out a Shaila dedicant, and must willingly choose to take them as a parent, which the Shaila dedicant must then accept.
  • Even the dedicant will forget the truth of things, and will know their claimed children as their own.