Gyronna
Gyronna is a goddess of society’s female castoffs and undesirables: adulterous wives, suspected witches, aging prostitutes, and others whom society tosses away. Though she’s all but unheard of outside the River Kingdoms, the Riverfolk walk carefully around her clergy, fearing their ability to poison minds with resentment and hate, turn friends against one another, and make enemies out of allies.
She carries a nickname as The Angry Hag - she is a cruel and vengeful goddess whose influence thrives on betrayal and spite.
Edicts
Expose hypocrisy (real or imagined) in others, make other creatures miserable, demand bribes to spare creatures from your torments
Anathema
Allow others to slight you without retaliation, seek the approval of society, forgive those who have wronged you
Stag Lords Fort
Long before it became a stronghold for bandits, the Stag Lord’s Fort was a temple dedicated to Gyronna, the Angry Hag. Hidden deep within the Greenbelt’s untamed wilderness, the temple served as a place of dark worship, where monks and zealots offered their devotion to the goddess of betrayal, spite, and revenge. Here, they carried out rituals steeped in malice, invoking Gyronna’s blessings to sow discord and ruin in the surrounding lands.
But as time passed, the monks faltered in their devotion. Whether out of fear, doubt, or selfish ambition, they strayed from the path Gyronna had set for them. Perhaps they sought to temper her wrathful nature or dreamed of escaping her cruel grasp. Whatever the reason, their betrayal did not go unnoticed.
Gyronna’s vengeance was swift and absolute. Angered by their disloyalty, she cursed the temple and all who dwelled within. The monks were condemned to undeath, their twisted souls bound to the land they had forsaken. Buried beneath the fort, their bodies became restless guardians, rising from the earth to defend the desecrated temple whenever her wrath was stirred. Their cursed existence served as a grim reminder of the cost of betraying the Angry Hag.
Though the temple fell into ruin and was later repurposed by mortals unaware of its dark history, Gyronna’s curse remained. The land itself seemed to bear her malice, and the souls of the cursed monks lay dormant, waiting to rise at her will. This haunted legacy is a chilling testament to the power of Gyronna’s spite and the doom that befalls those who betray her.
- 21 Pharast 4710 On 21st Pharast, the party planned the assault on the Stag Lord’s Fort, which culminated in the Stag Lord’s bloody demise, marking the end of his brutal reign over the Greenbelt.
Yet, as the dust settled and the echoes of battle faded, the fort’s dark history began to surface. The party encountered this lingering wrath firsthand during a ritual to appease the undead of Nettle’s Crossing. In a symbolic act of retribution, they sought to cast the severed hand of the Stag Lord into the Sellen River. But as the hand neared the water, the earth around them stirred. Zombies—animated by Gyronna’s curse—clawed their way from the ground, their twisted forms a chilling reminder of the goddess’s ire. Though the party fought valiantly and destroyed the abominations, the battle underscored the fort’s haunted past.