Choices Meant for Gods

Character Portrait from Choices Meant for Gods

The Lesser Goddess Katherine Fair

Character name: Katherine

Status: lesser goddess

How Kora knows character: just legends

Defining characteristic: self-sacrificing

Katherine in a nutshell: Because we started this series of character portraits with a goddess, why not just continue with one? I never got to meet the legendary Katherine Fair, but, oh, how I wish I could have! She’s an absolute legend in Mahriket. No one realized she had grown tired of her existence, or so the story goes. She had a beautiful, grown daughter and a gaggle of admirers hanging off her skirts everywhere she went, but beauty and popularity don’t buy happiness. She had grown weary with centuries of immortality, and she sought a grand cause to support in her final moments of life. She looked around and saw The Southlands at war. (This is the southeast region of the continent of Onweald in fantasy author Sandy Lender’s novel.) So, a little more than 500 years ago, not long before I was born, she appeared to the warriors, and became their champion. All of them.

She took her own life. But, you see, when a god or lesser god commits this act, such power is released in the release of his or her geasa that tremendous things can happen. In Katherine’s case, she separated the warring factions of The Southlands (the Lenors and Lorens) and split the earth with a quake that separated the very land itself. Thus the war ended. Countless lives were saved.

This event takes place more than 500 years before the story of Choices Meant for Gods, but it’s relevant because the Lorens and Lenors will play a role in the war my dear Chariss must wage.

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