Desnae

Desnae (Pronounced Dez-Neh) is the Cardinal Goddess of Chance, and one of the original Ten Gods of the Djorig pantheon. She is claimed to both be the cause of one's successes as well as one's failure, though neither can be farther from the truth.

Desnae, as with the other Core Gods, is detached at the best of times. She bears little concern for the fickle specs of energy that her sister Bhalla brings into the universe, nor does she care for Akaene's Grand Plan. Though called the Goddess of Chance, it would be more accurate to call her the Goddess of Chaos. She comes into conflict with her sister Akaene more often than any of the other Cardinal Gods, constantly tampering with the strands of fateto the annoyance of the Weaver.

Desnae is often depicted as a female figure composed of wind and shadow, spectating one moment and gone the next. She focuses her time on introducing erratic elements into existence, partially to test its stability but mostly for her own enjoyment.

War of Divinity
At the Dawn of the Age of Divinity, before the creation of the Prime-Material Plane and when Primordials roamed free, from the aether of the Astral Sea came ten entities. These self-fashioned Gods came into conflict with the Elder Primordials, and sought to bring order to the universe around them. Leading them was Akaene, the Firstborn. The battles of the newborn Gods and the Primordials were devastating, ripping portions of the Astral Sea open. However, the disorder of the Primordials proved to be their downfall. The siblings were able to isolate and defeat each of the elder beings, as while together the Primordials were indominable, alone they were only a difficult foe. In the final battles, the Cardinal Gods failed to destroy Primordas, the mightiest of the Primordials, and were only able to separate portions of Its essence. They used what remained of Its power to create a new realm, aiming to forever seal away their greatest foe.

The Cardinal Gods started to debate how they would divide their newly conquered realm, but their squabbles started cracking the very foundations they just formed. From the darkness came a figure unlike any they had seen, a being cloaked in flame and shadow that was neither Divine nor Primordial, holding in its hands a scroll of gold and vellum. The being spoke with civility and decorum, informing them that the adversary they fought so valiantly to seal would eventually be reborn if they did not take careful steps to ensure the stability of their newly created realm. Ashmedae referred to himself as a curator of order and divided the fundamental forces between the younger gods as a neutral party. No recollection states exactly what was said, but a contract was formed, a Divine Mandate, one that would ensure the everlasting sealing of the First Adversary and balance of the Inner Planes.

Divine Mandate
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