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Gods of Ithia Expanded: Margo the Twin Lady.

Margo: Goddess of Duality, Contradiction, and Linked Fates.  

Known across the plane as Margo, The Twin Lady, The Twist of Fate, The Broken Mirror, The Inner Demon, The Baleful Reflection, The Balance, Mirror of Fates, and the Lady of Selves.  

Margo is a member of the Fated Crowns, The Gods of the Mind, The Seers, and The Gods of Wisdom. 

Holy Books: The Book of Crowns. 

Margo is the Goddess of Inner Selves, she is the good in evil, the evil in good, the angel and demon upon the shoulder. She is to peer inward upon yourself. She is the daughter of Mealis and Zatolen.  

Her Symbol is The Merging – A cracked mirror with a broken mask half white and half black; shards having been mixed into the opposing sides.   

Margo when active on Ithia, is represented by the Broken Mask two stars that seem to combine in pure white and black lights swirling to grey in the middle.  

Margo’s divine plane is a palace made of checkerboard patterns. It’s made of the brightest polished marble and smooth ebony wood. Shadow reaches towards light here, and light twists oddly from flickering lights. The air is heavy with incense and perfumes, and large cracks run beneath the throne of Margo. Vapors rise and those who inhale them can see what might, could, or shall be.  

Margo doesn’t maintain any divine relics. 

Margo is beauty and terror in equal measure, her body perfectly symmetrical shaped like an hourglass, one hand tipped with talons. Her body splits down the middle one side deepest ebony and the other arsenic bleached white. Freckles of the opposing side populate the other. When one side smiles the other frowns, and her face hidden beneath hair that alternates in diagonal stripes from black to blonde. Though even covered, one can feel the mismatched eyes watching. Blood red and sky-blue burn through feral beasts, meager man, petty king, and vainglorious god seeing their fates like one might read a picture book. She has seen your death, your falls, your despairs, your darkest moments, and sharpest shards. Her gaze melts lead and freezes the blood in your veins. 

Margo is fierce, occasionally shy, prone to bursts of passion, and cold stagnation. She is cursed by her duality her personality a twisting of her own fates. The only truth that is consistent is that Margo bows to no King nor God. She finds solace in isolation afraid of the terrors of her power to bind and intermingle the fates of beast, man, and gods. She grants her mortal servants the power to divide themselves into two bodies one their believed vices and the other their virtues still of one mind but often difficult to control, they can see fates and connect others to them. They are one of the few remaining seers lift on the mortal plane.  

Margo is worshiped by the introspective. She is the patron Goddess of the nation state of Margo who were bound to her service when they were merely a city-state. Temples to Margo are almost exclusively found in Margo lands but other cultures maintain her images of her in household shrines. She accepts sacrifices of more cerebral qualities besides physical matter and wishes those who worship her to look inside themselves and burn away the pain and cancer of their souls to become ever better.

Margo’s Values.   

Pillars (Virtues)- Acceptance, Self, Compromise, and Fate. 

Columns (Vices)- Denial, Other, Conflict, and Freedom. 

Margo does not maintain any divine orders. 

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