Greek/Roman Deities: Persephone/Proserpina

Soon on The Bardess’ Library #4! In these long nights at the end of the year, the cycle of seasons is waiting to begin anew, and Persephone is the embodiment of the seasons in Greek myth.

Persephone has two sets of stats not because her Roman version (Proserpina) was so different from the Greek one, but because of her double aspect. From the vernal to autumnal equinox she is Kore, Goddess of Spring, worshiped together with her mother Demeter; in autumn and winter, she goes to the Underworld to be the wife of Hades and Queen of the Dead.

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Kore (the Maiden) (NG)

Favored Weapon: unarmed strike

Sacred Animal: doe

Symbol: Pomegranate

Sacred Color: green

Domains: [Fertility] Good, Healing, Plant, Sun, Weather

Subdomains: [Agathion] Angel, Day, [Flowers], Growth, [Nourishment] Restoration, Resurrection, Seasons [Spring]

Inquisitions: Conversion, Restoration

Mysteries/Spirits: Life, Nature [Spring]

Witch Patron: Devotion, Healing, Plant, Recovery, Spring

Variant Channeling: Nature

Clergy: clerics, oracles, shamans, witches

Spells: plant growth (all clergy members may prepare/learn it as a 3rd-level spell).

Persephone (the Bringer of Destruction) (N)

Favored Weapon: light mace

Sacred Animal: dog

Symbol: pomegranate

Sacred Color: black

Domains: Darkness, Earth, Magic, Nobility, Repose

Subdomains: Arcane, Aristocracy, Caves, Loss, Psychopomp, Souls

Apocryphal Subdomains: Hubris, Rites

Druidic Domains: Cave

Inquisitions: Conversion, Damnation, Fate, Final Rest, True Death

Mysteries/Spirits: Ancestor, Bones, Reaper

Witch Patron: Ancestors, Boundaries, Devotion, Spirits [Witchcraft]

Variant Channeling: Death, Magic

Clergy: clerics, inquisitors, mediums, oracles, shamans, spiritualists, witches

Spells: Speak with dead (all clergy members can prepare/learn it as a 3rd-level spell). Clerics of Persephone with the Souls subdomain replace animate dead with speak with dead as a domain spell.