Belaquir, the Azure Valkyrie
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Belaquir, the Azure Valkyrie

Goddess of Protection
Deity

Alignment: Lawful Good

Symbol: A blue shield with the hilt of a sword showing above it.

Portfolio: Protection, Children, Innocents, Redemption

Titles: Azure Valkyrie, Sapphire Shield, Dragon Speaker

Edicts: Protect children and any innocent person, instill good virtues in children, seek and allow redemption and forgiveness.

Anathema: Harm those who are not involved in battle, mistreat children physically or mentally, be cruel.

Follower Alignments: LG, NG, CG

Devotee Benefits

Divine Ability: Constitution or Wisdom

Divine Font: heal

Divine Sanctification: must choose holy

Divine Skill: Diplomacy

Favored Weapon: Longsword

Domains: Confidence, Family, Healing, Protection, Wyrmkin

Alternate Domains: Duty, Repose

Cleric Spells: 1st - Shattering Gem; 2nd - Dancing Shield; 3rd - Martyr's Intervention; 4th - Airlift; 5th - Shadow Siphon; 6th - Collective Transposition; 7th - Planar Seal; 8th - All is One, One is All; 9th - Bilocation

Church of Belaquir

Worshipers

Belaquir is worshipped mostly by "non-combatants". While she also protects people involved in fights, battles and wars, her priorities are the innocent, the people caught in the crossfire of wars, villagers being raided and attacked by monsters or other factions. A lot of warriors, adventurers, combatants pray for Belaquir to protect their families and friends. In general, almost all people, everywhere, can pray to Belaquir and feel protected. People who abandoned lives of crime also pray to her for guidance on how to properly redeem themselves, to the world and to themselves. Most people who want to ask for forgiveness from a specific person they can't reach pray to Belaquir, either so that she can forgive them in their place if they are dead, or that she can bridge the distance gap.

Clergy

The priesthood of Belaquir is mainly clerics, champions and fighters, but otherwise the division is almost even between other types of combatants. Some priests work as healers and medics, but most are soldiers, warriors, people who made their job to protect others. Most priests of Belaquir dress in armor, normally white or gold, adorned with blue details, the symbol of the blue wyvern crossing etched somewhere in it. Those who don't use armor normally use blue robes with gold and white adorns, the blue wyvern crossing also visible somewhere in it.

Temples & Shrines

Write about the cities that have shrines to Belaquir in their jury system.

Where can you find temples and shrines to this entity, as well as what do their temples normally also serve as.

Holy texts

Belaquir has two main holy books: One about redemption and one about protection? A book about protection sounds strange, maybe just redemption.

Holidays

When are the holidays, what is normally done at that time.

Favored animals

Gods are often associated with certain animals, either because they possess a quality favored by the god, or because the god's faithful feel a special kinship to them. Belaquir favored animals include mountain bluebirds, bluejays, blue monitor lizard, blue racer and blue diatryma.

Providence

Realm

Servants

History

Her story was originally told not by her, but by the Empress. That is because, once Belaquir died, she piqued the Empress' interests: A teen warrior, cast away from her village for being "cursed" for being able to talk to dragons, that even when everyone kept throwing rocks at her for trying to help, she kept coming back, stronger every time, protecting the village until the day she died.

Ever since the Third Era started, the Protection and Innocent domains have been under the protection of the Empress, the Onyx General and Marduk. When Belaquir's soul reached the Empress, they decided to give her divinity in the form of these two domains. Through her actions since then, she gained power over Redemption and Children, since children are considered the most innocent in any battles. However, because she was given divinity by three other deities, not risen by herself, many people believe she is but a puppet to them.

Relationships

Title
Goddess of Protection

Type
Deity

Race
Deity

Gender
Female

Pronouns
She/Her