Lyssivane

Domain: Fortune, luck, trickery, chance

Status: Silenced, c. 1620

The most ironic loss. Lyssivane’s faith had no temples, no hierarchy, no scripture. It was practiced through gambles, pranks, and whispered thanks after a close call. When the diaspora scattered the Folk, the informal tradition simply dissolved. Nobody was responsible for maintaining it because nobody was ever officially responsible for anything Lyssivane touched. His last cleric (if there was a last one) probably did not even know they were the last.

Nytheris absorbed the trickery aspects, but the transformation was telling: trickery became secrecy, a darker and more patient shade of the same impulse.

The Folk are, as a culture, notably risk-averse and superstitious. Some attribute this to five centuries of hiding. Others say it is what a civilization looks like when fortune itself has no voice.