Greek/Roman Deities: Psyche

Psyche, “Soul”, was the personification of the human soul and life in the Greek/Roman mythology, seen as a young woman with butterfly wings or as a butterfly that left the human body with the last breath. Since the human soul longs for love above all, Psyche became in later myths the bride of Eros. Apuleius tells her story as a fairy tale in his novel The Metamorphoses. Psyche was a human princess, chosen by Eros to be his wife, under one condition: she would only meet him at night and could never try to see his true appearance. When Psyche broke this prohibition, Eros had to flee from her and the desperate girl had to search for him in the world and pass many painful trials (symbolizing the growth of the soul to wisdom) to regain his trust, lastly dying and being resurrected as a goddess. Their daughter was Hedone/Voluptas, “Pleasure” or “Joy”. 

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Psyche (NG)

Favored Weapon: dagger

Sacred Animal: butterfly

Symbol: butterfly

Sacred Color: white

Domains: Animal, Charm, Good, Healing, Repose

Subdomains: Agathion, [Birth] Love, Redemption, Psychopomp, Resurrection, Souls

Druidic Domains: none 

Inquisitions: Conversion, [Emotion] Persistence, Redemption, Revelation, Zeal

Mysteries/Spirits: Life, [Passion]

Witch Patron: Animals, Devotion, Enchantment, Endurance, Healing, Mercy, Recovery

Variant Channeling: Beauty/Love/Lust, Self-Perfection

Clergy: bards, clerics, inquisitors (few), oracles, psychics, shamans, witches

Spells: charm animal (all clergy members can prepare/learn it as a 1st-level spell); reveal true shape (bards can learn it as a 1st-level spells; other clergy members can prepare/learn it as a 2nd-level spell); joyful rapture (bards can learn it as a 3rd-level spell; clerics and oracles can prepare/learn it as a 5th-level spell; inquisitors, psychics, shamans, and witches can prepare/learn it as a 6th-level spell); resurrection (clerics and oracles can prepare/learn it as a 6th-level spell; shamans, and witches can learn it as a 7th-level spell; psychics can learn it as a 8th-level spell)

Unique Summon Rules: erotes (summon nature’s ally IV)