Straasha, Water King Lord

.🌊 Straasha, the Water King

Lord of the Tides, Purifier of the Deep
Greater Deity of Oceans, Rivers, Storms, and Water Elementals
Alignment: Neutral
Worshipped By: Sailors, riverfolk, fishermen, water-mages, and elementalist clerics

📜 Lore & Origin

Straasha (STRAH-shaaa) is the ancient Water King, one of the first elemental sovereigns to emerge from the raw chaos of creation. He rules over rivers, lakes, rains, and the upper seas, and all water elementals trace their being to his breath. He is revered as a father of currents, a god whose moods rise with the tide—sometimes still as a moonlit bay, sometimes howling in rage as a typhoon.

Unlike most elemental lords, Straasha takes an active role in the moral balance of the world, opposing the foul corruption of Pyaray, the Chaos god of the abyss and sunken dead. He considers Pyaray’s black fleets and undead mariners an abomination—unnatural rot in what should be a source of life and renewal.

🌊 Depiction

Straasha appears as a towering figure of roiling water, sometimes humanoid, sometimes fluidly shifting between wave-crested serpent and armored sea king. His crown is coral and stormcloud, his voice the crash of surf. In murals and icons, he is shown as a wave bearing a trident, or an old mariner with kelp-beard and eyes like whirlpools.

His dual nature—gentle, life-giving waters and raging storm-lord—is deeply honored and feared by sailors.

🛕 Worship & Doctrine

• Temples: Always built beside water, often with submerged sanctuaries or tide-fed altars. Many are shaped like beacons, storm towers, or open-air pools.

• Clergy Titles: Tidemasters, Wavecallers, Keepers of the Deep Oath

• Holy Days:

  • First Flood – Vernal equinox, celebrating snowmelt and river renewal

  • The Drowning Moon – A rite of passage and remembrance held at sea

• Holy Symbol: A cresting wave, often stylized as a blue spiral or tidal arc

• Sacred Animal: Dolphin (grace), Shark (wrath), Sea eagle (vision)

⚖️ Tenets of the Faithful

Followers of Straasha must:

• Bless all new voyages and pour an offering into water before setting sail

• Cleanse desecrated or polluted water, wherever possible

• Oppose Pyaray's undead, sunken cults, and abyssal corruption

• Respect the sea’s mood—do not sail against omens, and never take water’s patience for granted

• Honor the drowned, never stealing from a grave at sea

🔮 Special Spell Access (Elemental Crossovers)

Clerics of Straasha may prepare the following water-based arcane spells as divine blessings.

These spells must be cast near natural water or with a sacred vial of ocean water as focus. During storms, casting these spells gains +1 to spell checks or saving throw DCs.

✨ Holy Garb of the Wavecallers

“To wear the water is to bear the truth—it yields to nothing, and carries all.”
— Tidemaster’s Catechism

Straasha’s clergy wear ocean-blue robes embroidered with foam-white spirals and kelp-green sashes. Many include coral or pearl-inlaid charms, or shell-shaped tokens that hold sea-blessed water.

🧥 Stages of Sacred Garb

1. Raiment of the Tidepool (25 gp)

• Appearance: Simple blue robe with sea-shell clasps and wave-stitched trim

• Focus Use: Required for 1st-level spells

“Even a drop is part of the tide.”

2. Saltmantle (85 gp)

• Appearance: Cloak of deep blue and green hues, salt-stiffened and hooded

• Focus Use: Required for 2nd-level spells and higher

• Optional Effect: Grants water resistance for 1 round when first submerged

“The sea does not drown those who carry its mark.”

3. Crown of Stormfoam (375 gp)

• Appearance: Circlet made of polished driftwood, set with pearls and coral

• Focus Use: Required for 3rd-level spells and higher

• Optional Effect: During a storm, +1 to turning rolls against undead

“Call thunder not with pride, but purpose.”

⛓️ Rules for Divine Focus in Straasha’s Faith

• Spellcasting Restriction: Clerics must bear consecrated water-born garb, or a token from the sea (e.g., pearl, vial, scale).

• Defilement or Loss: Foci must be cast into the sea during a full moon and replaced by offerings blessed by a Wavecaller.

• Turn Undead: Turn attempts glow with mist and brine, and often cause undead to retreat as if dragged by invisible tides.

Marks of Servitude

• 1st: Skin feels slightly damp at all times.

• 2nd: Hair waves as if underwater even in still air.

• 3rd: Eyes shift in hue like the ocean—grey, green, or blue.

• 4th: A ripple of tidewater appears beneath the feet while casting.

• 5th: A translucent cresting wave aura appears over shoulders during divine invocations.