Asketi

The "hag"; stealer of children, wild mistress of barren fields and the midnight hunt. Asketi is the master of the North Wind, and delights in causing pain and terror in the lands. On the darkest night of the year it is said she rides on the backs of hideous black unicorns and carves a bloody path through the city that has failed to venerate her the most. The stealer of life, she carries a rough burlap sack at her hip in which she carries the souls of those she has killed.

Symbol

Adder

Other Aspects

Neutral - Hodierna
Light - Berengaria

Altar Locations

• Crossing Temple, Eyes of the 13
• Shard, Temple of Darkness - no favor orbs
• Inside the Temple of Hodierna
• Temple of the North Wind

Proper Offerings

• items of the type: soulstone
• items with the noun of: sack, scythe
• items with the adjective of: adder's tongue
• anything with Asketi or adder in the art/adj/noun
  • Examples:
  • adder beads
  • parchment adder primers
  • Immortal Asketi cards

Artwork

As with all the Immortals, various works of art to the goddess can be found throughout the realms.

Asketi's Mount

• Found outside the Temple of the North Wind:

A miniature shrine, if it could even be called that, rests dangerously close to the summit's edge. Sheltered inside the shrine is a diminutive representation of a withered, grey hag bearing a rough burlap sack at her hip and a blood-stained scythe in her right hand that is poised for a strike above her head. Propped at the base of the figure is a badly weathered crib filled with rotten vegetables that have been preserved only by the sheer lack of warmth to be found here atop the world.

Carved into the side of the mountain, the small shrine is slightly shorter than a Human. Asketi's withered representation stands as the showpiece of the granite shrine. One of the crib's slender side-guards has broken free and has been haphazardly propped against the foot of the figure.

• Statue found inside the Temple of the North Wind:

The statue is carved in exquisite detail, every wrinkle of the skin and fold of cloth faithfully reproduced. The withered crone squints down the broad stairway, her features twisted into a fierce scowl. Her once fine robes are now tattered rags and a large sack hangs from her belt. In her hands she holds scythe. Adders coil about her feet and spill down the pedestal to frame the plaque at the base.

• Statue found in the catacombs of the Temple of the North Wind:

The statue has been placed so that the blade of the scythe is aligned with the top of the arch, a not-so-subtle reminder that Asketi holds dominion over life and death here.

• Bas-relief found in the catacombs of the Temple of the North Wind:

Mounted upon a wild-eyed unicorn, a haggard woman raises her adder-wrapped arms to the sky. The ragged field before her is flattened by blustery gales, crops killed by the frozen north wind.

• Mosaic found in the catacombs of the Temple of the North Wind:

Thousands of tiny colored tiles depict a stormy night sky. A flame-eyed black unicorn gallops across the thunderclouds, its wind-tangled mane streaming behind. Tortured spirits, eyeless wraiths with dark mouths open in howling agony, are captured in the wind of the great animal's passing. Sullen red glass tiles twist and interweave through the borders of the mosaic, forming slender adders coiled together in a deadly embrace.

Dark Burrows mural

Found in the Stumpy Blight Ogre section of the area:

Closer inspection reveals more detail. Clad in plain robes, a group of Dwarven pilgrims stands near the tunnel mouth. Before them is an enormous ice-blue adder's head with its jaws spread wide apart. One pilgrim has a foot placed upon the forked tongue, as if preparing to enter the serpent's maw. The length of the snake's body weaves through a painting of the Starry Road to end with the adder's second head, jaws gaping, next to a bent hag leaning against a hideous black unicorn.

Items

Item	Source is	Rare item
Adder (1)	Heavenly Entrances (1)
Adder stamp	Stamped!
Adder-shaped iron cloak pin	Pi'rasha's Pins (4), Pi'rasha's Pins (3)	true
Adder-shaped sacrificial dagger	Ragged wind hag
Adderstone
Adderwood Asketi amulet	Snake Pit
Aged cherrywood humidor trimmed with a thin golden band	Dunshade: Echo of Tears/End loot
Ammunition pouch branded with twin black unicorns	Slings and Things (1)
Anloral adder pin	Soulful Trinkets (2), Soulful Trinkets (1)	true
Aquamarine-hued crystal medallion flecked with bits of Katamba's spire	Item:Hollow Eve 406 gift, Item:Hollow Eve 406 gift
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