Zale. Goddess of Romance, Marriage, Wedding, Salt Water, Oceans, Seas, Storms, Hurricanes, and Ships.  

Known across the plane as Zale, The Lost Lover, The Tide Bringer, The Rose of the Sea, The Lady of Salt and Sorrow, The Lady Scorned, The Voyager, The Seaglass, The Stormbringer, The Drowning Depth, The Sunkissed Siren, and the Lady of Bound Fates. 

Zale is the Leader of the Gods of the Sea and is a member of the Ladies of Life, The Fated Crowns, The Gods of Travel, The Gods of Ruin, and The Muses.  

Holy Books: The Book of Crowns.  

Zale is the ruler of sea, ocean, and any body of salt water. She is considered one of the more powerful goddesses and few deities wish to risk her wrath. She has relationships with many of her fellow Gods and Goddesses and has quite a few divine and demi-god children. She lost her mortal lover to the machinations of Vexia Katar.  

Her Symbol is The Love and Lost – A heart-shaped ship at full mast.    

When active on Ithia, Zale’s Celestial Body is the Aquamarine a large gemstone body floating in the sky, its position appears differently for each viewer and only to those traveling over bodies of water directing people towards their destination. It’s dangerous to follow the Aquamarine as sometimes it leads towards things of the heart rather than current goals or needs. 

Zale’s Divine realm is a city of flotsam ruined ships dragged beneath the waves by one of her sons. It is a place of loss, salt, and love where those Zale has chosen to save from drowning deaths dwell in her eternal ball on the shifting sea. The inside of the ships is sanded, stained, and decorated in beautiful tapestries, sprawling carpets, and hearts shaped frames of Zale’s children and lovers. She sits upon a throne of pearls, barnacle covered bones and poured silver from sunken Markorathi treasure ships. A second larger throne is lowered into a pit for her main mate Haltheris.  

Zale does not maintain nor need any divine artifacts. 

Zale is beauty, the beauty of every first love, the glance of some distant beauty that forms your first crush, the small acts that show such tender care and love. She embodies the beauty of a marriage that lasts a lifetime with all the ups and downs of life. She appears to each viewer as the most adorably perfect crush. Statues portray her as a young beautiful maiden in golden braids and eyes that hold the entirety of the ocean. Her face is always half concealed by storm clouds.  

Zale is a relatively passive God on the mortal coil. She is in mourning but when roused her wrath and temper is outright terrifying. Few Gods are willing to try her as she can drown continents and wipe out their petty playthings on a whim. She grants her divine servants the power to foresee lovers, sooth emotions, and enter dreams. They can command storms, calm or enrage seas, hasten ships, walk on water, and breath underwater.   

Zale is worshipped by young maids, sailors, fishermen, merchants, and all those seeking love or guidance on voyages. She is worshipped in grand temples made from decommissioned ships which are often used as their roofs or at least shaped like various ships. She accepts sacrifices of incense, chocolate, flowers, and jewelry.  

Zale’s values.       

Pillars (Virtues)- Love, Peace, and Eternity. 

Columns (Vices) – Lust, Conflict, and Flings. 

Zale doesn’t maintain any former holy orders.