It turned out that a policy of conciliation worked. Tyche's influence gradually expanded, and her altars could be seen everywhere in villages and towns.
Tyche also began to focus her energy on the church's armed forces. At her behest, the church formed a militant order to defend the temple.
Just as Tyche was busy hiring instructors from among the harp - players, two uninvited guests arrived at the periphery of Tyche's divine realm.
Loviatar and Talona unleashed all their avatars. Shar promised to intercept Boccob, the God of Knowledge, if he was likely to take action. This made the two goddesses cast aside their last scruples and launch a full - scale attack.
The Goddess of Torture, Loviatar, holding a three - headed whip, sized up the shabby divine realm. In her opinion, Tyche, who had just ascended to godhood, had done her best to perfect the divine realm. If she, an old - line deity, and Talona went all out, Tyche would have no choice but to surrender and hand over Bhaal's bloodline.
Tyche's combat avatar also emerged from the divine realm. After all, only the domains of protection and mercy were displayed externally. The avatar held the Shield of the Lady of the Lake and did not request Boccob's intervention.
"Goddess of Mercy, we are here for the Child of Murder. Hand over Bhaal's bloodline and we will leave," Loviatar said.
Tyche looked upright, completely unaffected by Loviatar's threat.
"I have sworn to protect women and children. Whether they choose to embrace darkness or follow the light, I will not interfere with their choices. But I cannot turn a blind eye to the cries of a child! If he falls into your hands, the pain he suffers will be incurable for a lifetime!"
The other deities of the absolute neutral alignment did not choose to take action. However, Ilmater, the God of Suffering, whose combat avatar carried chains on his back, descended and blocked Loviatar.
The doctrines of the two deities were completely opposed. Loviatar took pleasure in pain and regarded inflicting pain as a joy. Her priests had to whip themselves during prayers to receive divine spells. This big - name figure in the world of sadomasochism undoubtedly touched Ilmater's raw nerve. Ilmater hated the Goddess of Torture even more than Bane and Bhaal.
The four deities fought fiercely. As a moderate deity, Ilmater quickly gained the upper hand against Loviatar, a lesser deity. And Tyche, with the home - field advantage, was evenly matched with Talona, the Goddess of Disease.
After all, there were onlookers. Tyche did not want to show her true strength and attract attention. Playing possum to hold off Talona was still acceptable, as both were lesser deities and there was no essential difference between them.
Loviatar and Talona, relying on Shar's support, refused to give ground despite being at a disadvantage. They fought hard to resist Ilmater and Tyche.
On the Material Plane, the churches of the four deities also declared war on each other.
The Church of Mercy was clearly at a disadvantage in terms of heritage, but the assistance of its allies easily made up for these weaknesses.
The Earth Goddess Chauntea and the gods of nature took action upon hearing the news, taking the opportunity to suppress the followers of Loviatar and Talona, making Tyche's victory seem so natural.
The fluctuations in faith made the two goddesses uneasy. At this point, with Shar not showing up, any normal person would know that they had been betrayed.
Loviatar and Talona were now in a dilemma. They were gradually losing ground and could hardly withstand Ilmater, a moderate deity, and Tyche with the home - field advantage.
Seeing that the victory was already determined, Tyche stopped pretending. With a single act of her divine realm, she pulled Talona into the temple, and Tyche's true form confronted Talona!
This was undoubtedly a very risky move in the eyes of the gods. Although the destruction of an avatar was also a serious loss, as long as the true form survived, it was not a complete defeat. After resting for a period of time, one could recover in faith. The gods were surprised by Tyche's risky behavior and labeled the Goddess of Mercy as someone not to be trifled with.
The divine realm had an obvious suppressive effect on any non - owner deity. Therefore, no one doubted Talona's defeat.
When Tyche's avatar reappeared, Loviatar, regardless of Ilmater's incoming fist, turned and fled. Tyche, following the same trick, pulled her into the divine realm and dealt with her.
After thanking Ilmater for his help, the two deities headed towards the divine realms of Loviatar and Talona.
To kill while the iron is hot! Tyche was not a kind - hearted gentleman. Since Loviatar and Talona were doomed to fall, she would make their fall play the greatest role!
After all, affected by the destruction of their avatars, Loviatar and Talona were unable to fight back at this time and could only rely on the rules of their divine realms to resist the enemy. They would not want to use their true forms to fight unless it was absolutely necessary.
If Tyche were only a lesser deity, she might not have been able to deal with Loviatar and Talona. But the fatal thing was that Tyche was not a lesser deity.
The Shield of the Lady of the Lake gently rotated, and an almost imperceptible spatial rift brutally tore open Loviatar's divine realm! Ilmater's domains of goodness and order counteracted Loviatar's evil domain, and Tyche's domain of protection also resisted the influence of the pain domain. The two deities cut through Loviatar's supplicants all the way to the temple at the core of the divine realm.
At the critical moment of life and death, Loviatar had no choice but to fight bravely. Her flexible three - headed whip lashed out like a violent storm towards Tyche, but was blocked by the Shield of the Lady of the Lake. With the enhancement of the domain of protection, Loviatar was unable to do anything to the invaders for a while and could only watch Tyche continuously destroy her divine realm.
Ilmater reached out and grabbed the flying three - headed whip and pulled hard, almost bringing Loviatar's true form in front of him.
Loviatar reacted quickly and immediately let go and retreated. Ilmater tightened his arms, and the struggling three - headed whip snapped. A blood - colored spiritual light paused and then dimmed.
Without having time to be sad about the destruction of her weapon that had accompanied her for many years, Loviatar narrowly avoided the shield thrown by Tyche. The blue arc of the Shield of the Lady of the Lake slashed a wound on her arm and then rotated back into Tyche's hands.
"Lady Shar, I am willing to swear an oath to the River Styx to be loyal to you forever. Please help me!"
Loviatar's futile resistance did not bring a turning point. Knowing that there was no hope of survival, she made a desperate cry to Shar.
Shar, who had tried many times to seduce the Goddess of Torture to turn to her, showed no intention of taking action and ignored Loviatar being killed by Ilmater.
Ilmater took out the divine spark from Loviatar's dying body. Loviatar howled and was taken away by the Astral Plane, turning into an island.
The disintegrated divine realm turned into meteors streaking across the daytime sky. Loviatar's priests immediately knew of their goddess's fall. Their divine spells could not be used, and their morale plummeted.
The Goddess of Disease, Talona, was not spared either. While Tyche and Ilmater were attacking Loviatar's divine realm, she used this time to send messengers everywhere for help and also moved her divine realm towards an unknown outer plane.
No one expected Loviatar to fall so quickly. Just as Talona was comforting herself that Tyche and Ilmater's power had been greatly weakened and they would not bother to find her trouble, a crisp cracking sound made her heart skip a beat.
Loviatar's counter - attack at the point of death also made the invaders pay a price. Ilmater's avatar only had one arm left, and Tyche's avatar also lost both legs and barely maintained a human form.
Talona felt relieved and was about to negotiate with Ilmater when the God of Suffering rushed up without a word, hugged Talona, and self - destructed!
Ilmater's remaining consciousness returned to his divine realm. Having lost an important combat avatar, he also needed to rest for a period of time. However, with Loviatar's fall, which solved a major problem for him, and all of Loviatar's divine mantles, Ilmater made a great profit.
Looking at the disheveled Talona, Tyche grinned. Her damaged avatar was restored to its original state, and she raised the shield and smashed it down!
After easily dealing with Talona, Tyche accepted her divine mantles with pleasure.
Perhaps because of the existence of magic and divine spells, herbalism was not given much attention in the Faerûn world. Divine spells and spells for removing diseases could solve most ailments. As long as you had enough money, even if you died, there were resurrection spells to bring you back. For open wounds, there were healing spells and divine spells from the positive energy domain to repair them. After all, among the gods, only Talona, the Goddess of Poison and Disease, was involved in the field of herbalism.
Although Talona only delved into the aspects of herbalism that were in line with her poisonous divine mantle, even so, she was an outstanding figure in the field of herbalism.
Talona, from the chaotic evil alignment, had two divine mantles: poison and disease. Tyche spent a great deal of time purifying these two divine mantles. The emergence of the health and herbalism divine mantles made up for the lack in the treatment aspect and formed a synergy with the divine mantle of the protector of women and children.
Helm, the God of Guardians, had the divine mantles of defense, guardianship, and vigilance. With the help of her allies, Tyche divided the protection divine mantle from his domain. With the emergence of this new divine mantle, Tyche naturally ascended to the level of a moderate deity.
After becoming a moderate deity, Tyche's power could no longer be ignored by the powerful deities. Boccob, the God of Knowledge, invited Tyche to join the Knowledge Pantheon several times. Gond, who was obsessed with forging, also showed goodwill and reached a series of mutual aid agreements with Tyche.
Tyche would decline the invitations she could, and for those she couldn't easily decline, she could only try to cope as much as possible.
Cyric, who had lost his death divine mantle and almost all of his avatars, had to behave himself. His followers came from the Three Deaths. The faith of his priests, which was hastily converted, was not very devout. In fact, many bishops experienced fluctuations in their faith!
Cyric himself was no pushover. The incident of "Cyric's Codex" and the transfer of death divine mantles exposed his cowardice. Coupled with the fact that he had made enemies everywhere and had no allies, the good deities who had time to spare joined forces to strike at the power of Cyric's church.
This powerful deity who had ascended to power in one step was almost dethroned. If it weren't for the fall of the God of Thieves, Mask, which made the thieves turn their faith to Cyric and gave him some replenishment, he would have become a moderate or even a lesser deity.
At the invitation of the Moon Goddess Sune, Tyche came to the Domain of the Bright Water. Sharess, the chaotic good Love Goddess, and Sune welcomed Tyche together.
From Tyche's perspective, the code of conduct of the gods of chaotic good was to follow their own whims completely. Although they recognized all virtues and axioms, they were unwilling to be restricted by laws and norms. It was impossible to make these people act according to orders. They had their own set of moral standards. Although they were not evil, their standards were not exactly the same as the general moral standards.
Take Sharess, the powerful deity who controlled love, beauty, charm, and passion, as an example. Her priests obtained wealth donations from believers through improper transactions. What made Tyche even more incomprehensible was that during the entanglement between the priests and the believers, this goddess would sometimes descend onto the priests to enjoy physical pleasure! To some extent, this was equivalent to Sharess...!
Although there were temple prostitutes in India and Babylon, it was still a bit unacceptable for a goddess to participate directly.
"Welcome to the Domain of the Bright Water."
Sharess's avatar was wearing a complicated red gauze dress. The layers of thin gauze did not serve their intended purpose. In some places that highlighted a woman's charm, the material was extremely scarce, which had an indescribable seductive feeling.
Tyche raised a perfectly arched smile. The three goddesses chatted as they walked towards the banquet.
All the residents of the Domain of the Bright Water were female deities. With Sune's guidance, Tyche met Lliira, the Goddess of Joy; Tymora, the Goddess of Luck; Sharess, the Goddess of Cats and Dance; and Suhwar, the Goddess of Nobility. Driven by joy and passion, the goddesses danced self - forgetfully, which was very appropriate against the backdrop of the magnificent temple.
The attendants coming and going were all handsome men. Sharess, the fiery - haired lady, reached out and touched the attendant's chest in front of Tyche's somewhat surprised eyes and was about to undress him in a flash!
Tyche even saw a group of tieflings. These human - devil hybrids were naturally good at making women happy and were dancing around Lliira with the Goddess of Joy.
The amorous atmosphere filled the temple, which shocked Tyche! Everywhere she looked, there were handsome men with half - exposed clothes. Tyche had to cover her face and retreat.
Aphrodite, I'm sorry! I wronged you!
The actions of the goddesses entangled with men were even more bold. Sharess leaned against a male with elf blood and joked. Her fair arms were like vines, winding around the half - elf's neck and enjoying his service.
"Big sister! I was wrong! You are following your heart to pursue freedom. I am willing to respect you as a spokeswoman for feminism. Please put away your magic!"
Tyche's silent cry obviously did not reach Sharess's heart. The unrestrained fiery - haired lady let down the curtain and pushed down the half - elf. The sound of the cloth tearing made Tyche almost jump in shock.
Turning to look at the Moon Goddess Sune, Tyche found that Sune's behavior was even worse!
Putting down her wine cup, Tyche calmly waved away the men who were approaching her and walked out of this web - like cave to enjoy the scenery of the Domain of the Bright Water.
Apart from Tyche, the Red Knight, a subordinate deity of the God of War, Torm, was also among the invited. This weak deity was a subordinate deity recently promoted by Torm. She controlled the divine mantles of tactics, planning, and victory and was responsible for formulating strategies on the battlefield.
This strategic lady was obviously not very used to this kind of occasion and stood silently in a corner from a distance.
Tyche went up to greet the Red Knight and defended the goddesses, "Don't think that they are against common sense. Eternal deities always need to find some fun to kill the boredom. Human morality cannot restrain deities. You will eventually get used to it."
Although she couldn't accept it either, Tyche was well aware that their actions were consensual and there was nothing blameworthy.
"In the Warrior's Rest, all the time is spent on honing martial arts! There are also female warriors among the followers of the Father God. They fight just as bravely as men."
Perhaps because the God of War and the Love Goddess were naturally somewhat at odds, Torm looked down on Sharess. The Lord of War believed that the followers of the fiery - haired lady would only make warriors lose their ambition and even drive the priests to drive away the followers of Sharess. The Red Knight, who regarded Torm as her father, naturally didn't have much good feeling towards Sharess.
Torm, from the chaotic neutral alignment, had a certain degree of respect for the peaceful concept of the Water Spring Goddess. He repeatedly ordered his followers not to invade the altars and holy places of Ilmater. Even when Ilmater protested many times against his rudeness and warlike behavior, he just laughed it off.
"Then why did you accept the invitation?"
Tyche was a bit puzzled. It was no secret that Sharess played around a lot. Her priests regarded holding masked parties as a dedication to the goddess, and many priests were promoted in rank because of this. The Red Knight had no need to force herself. With Torm's support, everyone would give her some face.
After hesitating for a while, the Red Knight looked at the divine realm of the Goddess of Commerce, Waukeen, in the distance, "The Father God suspects that the Waukeen Church was involved in several demon - summoning incidents. I think I may be able to find some clues in the Domain of the Bright Water."