Lakshmi, Goddess of Luck

Lakshmi

Titles	Goddess of Luck
Pantheon	The Old Gods
Role in Pantheon	One of the Nine Old Gods
Divine Domain	Luck, both good and bad
Alignment	Neutral
Status	Active, but distant
Power	Old God

Lakshmi is the Goddess of Luck - one of the Nine Old Gods (the Brahman) who ruled in the days of the old Empire and lingered, diminished, after its Collapse. Hers is the domain of fortune in both its faces, the good and the bad alike.

Divine Domain

Lakshmi governs luck, both good and bad - not as twin forces to be sorted into blessing and curse, but as a single turning wheel. Her teaching holds that nothing is ever truly a mistake, only an opportunity for growth, and that the weight of a life lies not in the fortune dealt to it but in the choices made in answer. To her faithful, even bad luck is a gift waiting to be turned.

Worshippers & Cults

Like the other Old Gods, Lakshmi is worshipped only by a small and quiet number - the “monks of old,” who commune with their distant gods through meditation rather than speech, and who gather in monasteries governed by intricate hierarchies and guarded by the seven holy warriors called avatars. Lakshmi’s monasteries take in the broken and the unlucky; there the wretched are taught the weight of their choices, and a martial discipline that turns bad luck into a weapon - failure and misfortune folded back into strength. It was such a monastery, and such a brother of her order, that pulled a half-dead goblin out of the gutter and gave her a reason to live.

History

When the old Empire fell in the Collapse, the Old Gods were judged by the present pantheons to be no threat to the world, and were permitted to keep their few followers. Lakshmi, like her kin, keeps her distance from mortals still.

Related Myths

Relationships

One of the Nine Old Gods of the Hindu Pantheon, alongside Indra, Agni, Kali, Rudra, Surya, Ushas, Varuna, and Vishnu.

Deities

Gods Of Thelemar

Main Pantheons of Thelemar

The Greek Pantheon	Zeus Poseidon Hades Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Demeter Dionysus Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Pan Eleos Nemesis Dike Hecate
The Norse Pantheon	Odin Thor Loki Idun Frigga Hel Heimdall Forseti Týr Sif Freya Frey Ullr Aegir Bragi Balder Brokkr & Eitri Jörð Skadi
The Egyptian Pantheon	Ra Shu Tefnut Geb Nut Osiris Isis Set Nephthys Thoth Anubis Horus Konshu Bastet
The One God	The One God
The Old Gods	Indra Agni Kali Rudra Lakshmi Surya Ushas Varuna Vishnu

Secondary Pantheons of Thelemar

The Titans	Cronus Hyperion Oceanus Coeus Iapetus Phoebe Mnemosyne Theia Theia Atlas Prometheus Themis
The Giant Pantheon	Gaia Thrym Surtr Grendel Neringa Atlas Daidarabotchi
The Dragon Pantheon	Temeria Fazen Lonwan

The Mictlān Pantheon

Mictlān	Temeria Kroni Maricha Rangda Chronozon Lucifer Tamamo Mara Asmodeus

The Lost Pantheon

Tuath Dé (Celtic)	The Daghdha Arawn Belenus Brigantia Diancecht Dunatis Goibhniu Lugh Manannan mac Lir Math Mathonwy Morrigan Nuada Oghma Silvanus

The Seelie Court

The Lord of Spiders	The Lord of Spiders Deity-Yenosh
The Aarakocra Pantheon	Gagana The Storm Trio Ziz Phoenix
The Tabaxi Pantheon	KITTY Seeker Quest Soul Clime Roam Capricious Gloom Allure Luck
The Round Table	King Arthur Merlin Sir Lancelot Sir Gawain Sir Percival Sir Galahad Sir Bedivere Sir Tristan Sir Bors

Other Deities

Beings	Baba Yaga Magna Um Fearheart Nimue Morgan le Fay Deity-Mephistopheles Deity-Qotal
Outsiders / Invaders	Cirein-cròin Vecna Poetry Yagar
Lesser Deities	Yeenoghu Lolth Deity-Gruumsh Ioun Deity-Ragarra Deity-Vecna Deity-Yeenoghu Deity-Zehir
Ascended Dragons	Ko-Arto Gazu-Shirak Koru-Homura Ri-Omori Sunda-Kori
Fates	The Moirai The Norns Maʽat & Isfet
Elemental Deities	Imix Yan-C-Bin Olhydra Ogrémoch
Nahatul	Witsil Tezcat Quetzalcoatl Xipe Totec

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