Editing Waukeen

{{Infobox Deity
|Name = Waukeen
|Symbol = [[File:Waukeen symbol.jpg|150px]]
|Aliases = The Coinmaiden, the Golden Lady, Liberty's Maiden, Merchant's Friend, Our Lady of Gold
|Alignment = True Neutral
|Divine Rank = Lesser Deity
|Pantheon = Faerûn
|Portfolio = Trade, money, wealth
|Domains = '''3E:''' Balance, Knowledge, Protection, Travel, Trade<br>'''4E:''' Civilization, Knowledge<br>'''5E:''' Knowledge, Trickery
|Home Plane = '''[[Great Wheel]]:''' ''Marketplace Eternal'' ([[Outlands]])<br>'''[[World Tree]]:''' ''Marketplace Eternal'' (Brightwater)<br>'''[[World Axis]]:''' ''Marketplace Eternal'' (Eternal Sun)
|Worshippers = Traders, merchants, moneylenders, smugglers, [[Rogue|rogues]]
|Favoured Weapon = ''Cloud of coins'' (Nunchaku)
}}
'''Waukeen''' is the goddess of commerce and trade in the [[Forgotten Realms]] of [[Dungeons & Dragons]] fame. She would have been good friend with the money lending Philistines of biblical times.

==History==
Waukeen was among the many gods who made their influence on Toril made after the ''Fall of Netheril'', her faith spreading with the expansion of trade and the thriving merchant class. But she became one of the casualties of 2e [[metaplot]]ting, much like [[Orcus]]. Also as with Orcus the late-1990s designers had [[Dead Gods|second-thoughts]] about demoting this deity so wrote a module for some high-level party to bring her back: here, ''[[For Duty & Deity]]''. There we learn she's about the dumbest entity ever to have a priest simp for her.

During the [[Time of Troubles]] Waukeen had got stuck in her avatar mortal form in Faerûn. Like most other deities, she wished to return to her realm and take advantage of the situation as soon as possible. She eventually met with [[Lliira]], and two started to make their way to the "celestial stairway" (''i.e.'' [[Infinite Staircase]]), with Waukeen planning on bribing [[Helm]] to get back to her realm. The plan failed, with Waukeen eventually realizing there was nothing she could entice the [[Lawful Stupid]] god with.

After that, the two goddesses retreated to form a new plan. Waukeen eventually concocted a scheme to smuggle herself back her realm through the [[Astral Plane]] and the [[Lower Planes]], by dealing with their denizens, calling in favors, and bribery. Through a long and twisted chain of contacts, the [[Greyhawk|Oeridian]] god [[Celestian]] promised to help the goddess in exchange for paying off the debt he owed, but was unwilling to help Lliira, in fear of the added risk. [[Ao]] had anticipated of the gods attempting to something like this, however, and bound them to Toril itself. Waukeen, believing it was her divinity that was binding her to Toril, eventually asked for Lliira to take her divinity until she had returned to her realm.

After transport to the Astral plane, she began her long trek through the Lower Planes like a fucking moron. Once she reached the [[Abyss]], the minions of [[Graz'zt]] abducted her, with the [[Demon Prince]] seeking to transfer her portfolio to his daughter [[Thraxxia]].

Meanwhile Waukeenar's priests were distraught that they were unable to gain proper access to their powers, or speak to their goddess. Lliira eventually sent a prophet to the many temples of Waukeen, telling them of what happened to the goddess. Eventually Waukeen was located by a priest of hers - and that's when the module happens.

Happened ''past''-tense, for those of us who didn't want to play the module and are living over two decades later. With Waukeen's return to her realm in the [[Outlands]], Lliira gave her portfolio back to her as promised, and Waukeen began the work on recovering her church.

==[[Heresy]]==
The Harlot's Coin Heresy is an evil splinter-sect of Waukeen's worship that has originated due to cross-pollination with Graz'zt-worshipping [[demon]] cultists, and her dissappearance. In a nutshell, the members of this heretical sect believe that Waukeen was imprisoned by Graz'zt due to failing to pay back debts she owed him, and ultimately was only freed from his layer of the Abyss by selling off her divine portfolios (and her sexual favors), making Graz'zt the true god of commerce and trade.
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File:Waukeen p88.jpg|The Coinmaiden, living to her title.
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