Beltana the cursed By ChaosKarn Watch

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My long-running character in a triology in the game Pathfinder. She started out as a travelling healer, and ended up lending her divine powers of war and healing to a group of adventurers.



After years of adventure the group reached Osirion in search for more gold and glory. They got caught up in events where a prophet was foretold to reassemble the mask of the god of magic, creation and destruction, giving her godlike powers. Beltana started having visions which led her to believe that she was supposed to be the chosen one, and sought to stop this false prophet. Not being sworn to a single deity, nor very trusting of the gods to begin with, Beltana had no intentions of using the mask, and was more inclined to destroy it lest it fell into wrong hands.



The missing part of the mask was the Eye of destruction, which Beltana carried with her for some time. It did leave her left arm fused with the plate armor she had been wearing at the time, and left arcane scars across the upper left part of her body. Later, in the final battle against the false prophet, she fell - a swift claw-strike rent her throat, killing her in seconds. The group managed to stop the events and bring Beltana back, but she had at this point been cursed by the gods, and lost her divine spark.



Years later, after a long period of retraining, she returned to the adventuring life with new martial prowess. This was going to be the last adventure, as the group fought against the second coming of an ancient red dragon, and the sinister plot behind it. Beltana martyred herself for the group, with only a slight chance of coming back through a black soulstone. In the end the plan worked, and her soul did find its way into the soulstone, albeit a year later than what the group had expected. The person carrying the stone however did not tell anyone about Beltana returning, and instead decided to try and sacrifice her soul to Lamashtu in hopes of becoming a demon.

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Published : Jul 1, 2017