Andraste - The Raven Goddess

Name: Andraste - The Warrior Goddess, Goddess of Victory, Ravens and Battles. Also Goddess of Love
Sex: Female
Species: Goddess/Deity
Height: 5'11 / 22 in tall (39 in wingspan)
Weight: 140lbs / 5lbs
Age: Unknown
Age in appearance: Early 20's currently.
Hair Color: Black / Silver White
Eye Color: Black / Blue
Skin Color: Tanned
Personality: ( As detailed as you want )
Weakness: Magic inhibitors, nets, hunters
Profession: Goddess
Weapons: None yet, but will regain a staff later.
Armor: None currently
Items: None currently
Skills:

Oratory - An excellent public speaker, motivator, or anchorman. Depending on the situation can apply to either Reasoning or Psyche.

Resist Domination - The person has an unusually strong mind, and is more able to resist mind magic attacks. +1 psyche to defense against these attacks.

Leadership - Expert at leading groups of people into situations. Can in certain situations apply a +1CS to others in a skill he or she has for a limited time.

Tracker - Able to find footprints of people or creatures in some areas and lead them towards who they are trying to find. +1 CS to Intuition.


Communion With Nature - The animals and creatures of the forest consider you to be one with them, and you are naturally aware of everything around you in the forest. +1 to Intuition rolls in the forest, and +1 to reasoning to trying to calm an angry animal.


Description and/or Picture:


Stats:

These stats are her current abilities due to spending so long without worshippers, she has almost become mortal.

Human / Raven

Fighting: Good / Feeble
Agility: Good / Feeble
Strength: Typical / Feeble
Endurance: Excellent / Feeble

Reasoning: Remarkable / Remarkable
Intuition: Incredible / Incredible
Psyche: Good / Feeble


Flying Speed: Good (raven only, peak 50mph)

Hit Points: 46 / 8
Stamina Points: 63
Mana: 80

Spells / Special Abilities:

Special Ability:

Shapeshift:
Description: The user can shapeshift her appearance, to change cosmetic looks. She can make herself either a Maiden, Mother or Crone. So, altering the appearance of her age from 20, 40 and 60 years approx in age. She can also change hair colour and eye colour, due to her unique nature of Light and Dark.

Shapeshift Animal: Raven
Description: User can change themselves into a normal raven at will.

Dual Natured:
Description: Andraste has both a Light and a Dark side to her nature, this is due to her being a dual deity. She is a deity of war, battles and ravens, as well as a moon-mother goddess figure of fertility and love.

Communication with Animals
Cost: 5MP
Uses: Reasoning/Psyche ( whichever is higher )
Description: Allows you to speak to forest creatures such as deer, foxes, wolves and more for one hour. Once you learn your first fourth circle spell, cost becomes none and a roll is only required when something is resisting it.


Nature's Touch
Cost: 2MP
Uses: Psyche ( Only if there is something in the area attempting to block this spell )
Description: Reaches into the heart of a dying tree or plant, giving it energy to help it heal and repair itself.


Whisper In the Woods
Cost: 2MP
Uses: None
Description: Allows the caster to send a verbal message to a person or area in the same forest as them. At circle three this is any forest on the same world. At circle six, this is any forest on the same plane. ( Limbo and Hell, for example, would not be reachable from Fantasy Island )

Spells she knows, but due to current weaknesses cannot currently cast:

Companion to Animals
Cost: 10MP
Uses: Psyche
Description: Can turn any hostile animal into an ally, convincing it that the caster is one with the forest and will not harm them. This spell will only work on non-sentient animals and is broken only when the animal is harmed or if the spell is released.

Woodland Gaze
Cost: 10MP
Uses: Psyche ( See Below )
Requirement: Whisper In The Woods
Description: Allows the caster to 'see' through the trees and plants of the same forest they are in, though they will see as a tree sees. This means more shapes, emotions and noises, from fixed points. At circle 4 this spell requires half MP. At circle 5 this spell is further reduced to no MP and no roll.
Special Considerations:
1. This spell only needs a green to roll unless there is someone else viewing through the same tree, or if the tree is 'sentient' ( such as a treant ), in which case a yellow is needed.

Nature's Aura
Cost: 10MP
Uses: Psyche ( Only if there is something in the area attempting to block this spell )
Prerequisite: Nature's Touch
Description: Reaches into the hearts of nearby dying trees and plants, giving energy to all plants within 10 feet of the caster to help them heal and repair themselves.

Telepathy Advanced

Biography:
Andraste is a celtic goddess from long ago, who was primarily worshipped by the Iceni tribe of Britain. She is a warrior goddess, the goddess of victory, of ravens and of battles, similar in many ways to the Irish war goddess Morrigan. Her name is thought to mean "the invincible one" or "she who has not fallen". It was told that her presence was evoked on the eve of battle to curry favour. As a Goddess of divination, she was also called upon to divine the outcome of battles and war when the tribe needed. She was was venerated in woodland groves throughout Southern Britain and there is told of a sacred grove dedicated to Andraste somewhere in Epping Forest. In her Light form, her symbol is a Hare. In her Dark form, it is a Raven.

Andraste was also worshipped by the Druids, Guennaen being one of her head Priestesses. She helped to keep their groves safe, and protected the druids from harm. Though her dark side was once pulled from her light, causing her to nearly perish from the trauma. She was feared by many forest protectors, for her darker aspect was a fearsome and formiddable warrior. She was even sought out by the Warrior Queen Boudicca of the Iceni tribe, to help her win battles for her tribe. To that effect, many worshippers strayed from her path, once the Iceni were defeated. They believed that Andraste was too dark to be a deity of their pantheon. As her worship diminished, she found herself struggling for survival. Eventually her form grew so weak, it became near mortal. She expended all her powers trying to keep the Druids groves healthy and free from pollutants. Exhausted and lacking energy, she has become stuck in her raven form, remembering the days of her divinity.