Vestama

The Elder Hag Vestama is also known as the Hag Queen or Queen of Hags.

She is not a popular patron, as many fear her and her clergy, which is entirely female. These are usually the throwaways of society: disfigured prostitutes, wives caught in adultery, or pregnant teenagers disowned by their parents. Priestesses are renowned for their ability to foster hatred and turn friend against friend, but are not above simply killing someone in cold blood if it betters suits their purpose. Her priestesses are also known to swap young babies for hideous monstrous creatures birthed from their own womb.

The priesthood itself has no canon or book of scripture, or temples; instead, they favor small shrines of simple piled stones. Some of these piles have cat's-eye gemstones on top or a painted representation of one, from which (it is rumored) Vestama, herself, may peer and curse defilers of the shrine.

Earning and Losing Piety
You increase your piety score to Vestama when you expand the god’s influence in the world in a concrete way through acts such as these:


 * Expose hypocrisy (real or imagined) in others.
 * Make other creatures miserable
 * Demand bribes to spare creatures from your torment.

Your piety score to Kiara decreases if you diminish their influence in the world, contradict their ideals, or threaten the integrity of destiny through acts such as these:


 * Allow others to slight you without retaliation.
 * Seek the approval of society.
 * Forgive those who have wronged you.