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Eleos Goddess of Mercy

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Eleos, Goddess of Mercy

Eleos, called Alausos and the Lady of the Dawn, is the goddess of mercy in the Greek Pantheon - one of the three faces of the triple goddess of justice, alongside Dike (law) and Nemesis (retribution). Worshippers hold that the three together embody Justice entire, and that to live rightly one must never forget that justice wears three faces: sometimes the law must condemn, sometimes vengeance serves a higher purpose, and sometimes the only true answer is mercy.

Divine Domain

Eleos governs mercy and compassion - not as weakness, but as the hardest and highest of justice’s faces. Her clergy teach that mercy must be earned through understanding, and that even the worst sinner may be worth saving if they can come to see the monster in their own mirror and resolve never to remain it.

Symbol

Her symbol is a falling tear. Her blessing is said to come as a warm, salt rain out of a clear sky, and her favoured are sometimes gifted a teardrop of glass that nothing can scratch or mar.

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Worshippers & Cults

The clergy of Eleos walk paths of mercy, seeking out the suffering - on farms, in slums, in prisons - and tending them without reckoning of worth. The most devoted live as the humblest of peasants, holding that humility teaches compassion. Among them was the half-orc priestess Crisinya, who kept a remote mountain monastery and there led a cursed and broken man back toward the light.

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Relationships

With Dike and Nemesis, one of the three faces of the triple goddess of justice.

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