Bellona

Bellona is a cold, calculating deity who encourages her worshippers to do whatever is reasonable to increase their personal wealth. A number of merchants who find her son, Minos, to be too moralistic pray instead to Bellona. Though dispassionate, Bellona is accepted in many regions that otherwise prohibit worship of the descendants of Dagon. Her clergy is small, even in regions where worship of Bellona is popular. Applicants to her clergy must prove their ability to amass wealth and be able to prove this ability throughout their careers. The followers of Bellona often find themselves in opposition to those who worship her sister, Britomaris, Goddess of Thievery, and the rivalry between the two gods is the subject of more than one apocryphal story.

Followers of Bellona do not actively oppose the clergy of Clementia, Goddess of Mercy, but Clementia's followers often place themselves in direct opposition to the desires of the followers of Bellona.

Bellona the Collector

Goddess of Wealth

Descriptive Info

Gender: Female

Avatar: The Golden Maiden, Varuna

Consort(s): None (though she did lie with Pavor)

Allies: Kratos, God of War; Megarea, God of Jealousy; Mormo, God of Deception (brother); Pavor, God of Travel (lover); Pothos, God of Vice; and Vitulus, God of Cities.

Foes: Britomaris, Goddess of Thievery (brother); Clementia, Goddess of Mercy; Enosigaois, God of Earth; Majestas, Goddess of Law; Minos, God of Commerce (son); Stheno, God of Decay.

Spiritual Info

Rank: Major

Nature: Intermediate

Ethos: Agathocacological

Major Influence: Wealth

Minor Influence(s): Mercantilism, Gold

Spheres: Earth, Creation, Luck, Mercantilism

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