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Gods of Ithia Expanded: Basky the Mousy.

Basky. Goddess of Vermin, Rodents, Insects, and Plagues.  

Known across the plane as Basky, The Queen of Rats, The Mousey, The Plague Rat, The Lady of Swarms, The Lady of Flies, The Rat Pack, The Rabid Rodent, The Locust, and The Grim.  

Basky is a member of the Fated Crown, Gods of the Wild, Gods of the Dead, Gods of the Wild, The Dart Frog Crew, and the Gods of Ruin.  

Holy Books: The Book of Crowns. 

Basky is the master of all things considered vermin including insects and rodents. She is one of the few gods born across the sects of the Gods being born of Dreous and Zale.   

Her Symbol is the Plague Idol – A skull crossed with a patina covered copper caduceus and a bone with rotting flesh clinging to it.   

Basky when active on Ithia; is represented by the Haze an aura of sky lights that taint the sky green. 

Basky’s divine plane is a large place of full of debris. Her refuse from the other godly planes are often dumped and one can find traces of all the other Gods lingering. Piles of broken statues, rotting wood, and forsaken furniture and cutlery make it a perfect den for her verminous pack.  

Basky does not maintain any divine artifacts. 

Basky is a short, scrawny woman roughly humanoid. Her face and mouth extend forward a bit almost snout like, she has big mousey ears, rodent-like feet, large teeth, a long rat tail, scraggily hair and big wide eyes.  

Basky is full of nervous energy with a touch of magpie tendency and general kleptomania. She is sky and skittish around strangers and prone to play dead when startled preferring flight to fight but when cornered or greatly upset she can become a vicious tooth tipped projectile. She grants her divine servants the power to command swarms of locust, flies, and mosquitos, summon and command various rodents, inflict and cure plagues, and channel magical magnified powers of various rodents.  

Basky is worshipped by alchemists and by those in dirty professions that involve regular interaction with vermin and plague carriers. She is worshipped in small temples where heavy incense is burned at small kneeling shrines. Sacrifices of caught rodents and semi-precious things found forsaken are her favorites.   

Basky’s Values.   

Pillars (Virtues)- Cities, Vermin, and Plagues. 

Columns (Vices)- Country, Felines, and Sanitation. 

Basky does not maintain any holy orders. 

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