Daeva
The goddess of illusions and trickery
Age:
Since Daeva is a goddess, she like the other deities are immortal with their age only being a educated estimate. Unlike the other deities, due to her magic Daeva show's no sign of aging. Daeva is estimated to be one of the oldest deities in Elysium and is most likely thousands of years old at the minimum.
Gender and sexuality:
Since Daeva mainly takes on illusionary persona's when she is with mortal, both her gender and sexuality can fluctuate between anything. In her "normal" appearance she is believed to be a bisexual female..
Personality
As stated earlier, Daeva usually is in a multitude of different persona's while among mortal's. Because of this, her personalty can be completely different in mere moments. It is believed that her actual personality used to be chaotic and thrived on making humaity suffer for her own entertainment. Although now, Daeva is much more quiet and tends to be overly pessimistic about humanity and herself.
Backstory and History
Daeva is commonly believed to be one of the first Goddesses born in Elysium. Since she is one of the older deities she got to meet the other god's and goddesses. Unlike her attitude to the other deities currently, Daeva actually enjoyed talking with the other deities. During this time the goddess begun to act like a bit of a trickster by occasionally doing practical jokes on the other deities earning her the second part in her title as the goddess of illusions and trickery. While her tricks were mild inconveniences at best, watching the other more renown deities have to put up with her twisted idea of fun was the first time the goddess got to experience something she truly deemed as "fun"
During the era after the war against dragons, Daeva continued to further her magical prowess. After Daeva was able to learn basic and more advanced poly-morphing she begun to view mortals as nothing but toys for her and the deities. This behaviour continued for a while and is the reason why most of the other deities either dislike or hate Daeva. Despite the negative reputation she got for being more of a monster than a goddess, Daeva continued to mess with mortals in increasingly life damaging ways. Daeva's mistreatment for mortals once got so bad she would commonly ruin average mortals lives by warping them into grotesque monsters simply to watch other mortals cower in fear at her new creation.
Daeva's... mistreatment of mortals caused the other deities to have a strong hatred for her. While Daeva has begun to treat mortals better, due to her past most mortals still view her as a monster. While Daeva is unaware on how the other deities feel about her, she assumes that they all hate her as much as during the war of dragons. Because of her fear of being disliked by the other deities, Daeva lives most of her life in isolation while she is in her actual form.
Daeva's reasoning for treating Mortal's so poorly was because her magic inately required it to work. While in recent years, Daeva has begun to feel like both her and her magic were a mistake that only have caused mortals and the deities needless amounts of suffering. Other deities still believe that Daeva is a scheming trickster that tries to make humanity suffer, in reality she has become a lot more solemn about her magic viewing it more as a curse than anything else. While she still acts like she enjoys tricking, around the other deities and her champion and other close mortals she begins to open up and reveal she views her magic as a curse to mortal life.
Daeva unlike most other Deities, now spends the majority of her time resting in densely populated city's such as Helios or Nijaen. Daeva constantly comes up with new persona's to better fit in with the general population. Although most time's Daeva end's up re using names she used in the past, no one has been able to link any of her persona's to her actual identity. The most common one is a travelling merchant named Catherine Irendale who sells illusion based magic to aspiring adventurers.
While she doesn't want to admit it, Daeva wants to achieve somewhat of a balance between being feared by mortals and at least acquaintances with the other deities. While they still view her as a member of the pantheon, Daeva herself feels if she were to return to Elyisium the other deities would have her executed.
Champions:
Daeva's champions aren't chosen in the traditional trial through combat, rather Daeva left a cursed pendant in Helios. The Pendant is shaped like a lotus, and if forged from Dragonsteel. While it may not be as flashy as modern pendants, it's magical aura and rare materials make it seem like an old adventurers pendant.
Once someone has the misfortune of putting on Daeva's pendant, their soul becomes trapped within the emerald on the lotus. After putting on the Pendant Daeva is able to communicate to her champion through telepathy. If this new champion attempts to take off the pendant it begins to torture their soul until it is left alone. Daeva also has the ability to use the soul sucking power of the pendant remotely however, historically speaking she has only done so whenever her current champion disobeys her orders or really infuriates her.
Powers and Abilities:
Being the goddess of illusions and trickery Daeva tends to focus mainly on Illusions but her complete arsenal of spells looks like. -Mass illusions the scope of a village or maybe a small city OR creating a single, hyper-accurate illusion of anything that is less than massive in size. -Can create objects up to 5 meters in height, animals up to 3 meters -Fast travel through mirrors -Can change/create reflections -Can change the appearance of herself and others -Can change herself and others into animals -Can mimic voices -Can animate inanimate objects -Can speak to her champ through the amulet. Daeva also owns an ornamental dagger that can change it’s shape into any weapon and develops its physical attributes.