Fionnghuala

D&D Deity
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name=Fionnghuala
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home=The Seelie Court (wandering realm)
power=Demigoddess
alignment=Neutral Good
portfolio=Swanmays, communications, sorority
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In many campaign settings for the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game, Fionnghuala is the deity of swanmays, communications, and sorority. Her symbol is a white feather.

Description

Fionnghuala is a small, very slender human woman with red hair and green eyes. She wears white feathered patches on her shoulders and on the crown of her head, and gossomer armor. She may also appear as a giant swan.

Realm

Fionnghuala is part of the Outer Circle of the Seelie Court, though her duties often take her elsewhere. She attends meetings of mortal swanmays, flies in swan form as a sentinel around faerie lands, and eagerly plans for assaults against the Unseelie fey. She can often be found wandering Elysium on various tasks.

Dogma

Fionnghuala is fiercely loving and protective of good-aligned faerie folk, and will slay any who deliberately kills a faerie in her presence.

Worshippers

Fionnghuala is revered by swanmays, a secretive organization of female human rangers with the ability to transform into swans. They continue to worship the deities who were their patrons before their transformation as well. Fionnghuala has no clerics.

Myths and legends

Fionnghuala was once a mortal human ranger who gave many services to the fey and their kind. Fionnghuala was gravely wounded during a battle against an avatar of the Queen of Air and Darkness while selflessly protecting the avatar of Oberon. In reward for her services, Titania raised her from the dead and brought her to the Seelie Court. She was given a white feather that allowed her to take on the form of a swan, changing her from a mortal being to something partly of Faerie. Over the centuries since this event, a small, secretive sorority of rangers have been granted simulacra of this feather, allowing them to become swanmays as well.

Creative origins

Fionnghuala's name comes from Fionnuala, a swan maiden in Celtic mythology.

References

* McComb, Colin. "On Hallowed Ground". Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1996.
* Sargent, Carl. "Monster Mythology" (TSR, 1992).