Overview
Talona is the goddess of poison and disease in the pantheon. Where the Lady of Poison walked, death and disaster followed, and she was blamed for all manner of ailments, ranging from common sicknesses and devastating diseases to brackish wells and failing crops, Worship of the Mother of All Plagues waxed and waned in an unending cycle; the Mistress of Disease would unleash waves of death-bringing blights, after which came mass entreaties for respite before that cycle's great plagues went into remission, her power slowly declined, and spurred by feelings of vulnerability. she began the cycle anew.
Description
Talona appears as a gaunt, 10‑foot (3‑meter) human female with long, unkempt hair and reaching, elongated fingers. Her depictions in religious texts portrayed her as a withered crone with a scarred, tattooed face. The bodies of her avatars seemed like they had been beautiful and voluptuous at one point, but their frames and charms had been ravaged by the march of time, horrific diseases, and starvation. Even so, Talona's dancing movements were said to be alluring, and her lips were nonetheless inviting and gentle.
Talona is also sometimes depicted as a beautiful and innocent woman.
Personality
Talona was a strange goddess in terms of personality. She had been compared by sages to a greedy and petulant child, switching between the juvenile desire for attention at any cost to the aloofness of a discarded paramour. Curiously for a deity so closely tied to death, she had no personal taste for violence.