Avandra

She who is Free
Avandra is the goddess of freedom and travel, all those that explore the wide world and help others to do the same have her blessing. Traders, adventurers and slaves looking to gain their freedom all pray to her for luck, hoping to change their fate.

Her temples are small and found near the frontier and borderlands of kingdoms. Her clergy that tend her temples are retired adventurers, or injured travelers that can no longer live a life on the road. The rest of her priests and clerics go from town to town, kingdom to kingdom searching for new lands, helping the poor and freeing the enslaved. There is no formal organization of her followers so any attempts to truly defeat them has been futile.

Avandra is one of the patrons of halflings, though she is outside of their usual panthion led by Yondalla. For reasons unknown she blessed the race of halflings with uncanny good luck. Some believe it was a trade with Yondalla for a great magic item Avandra wanted, others say Avandra was their first creator but she left them to be free from responsibilities. But most believe Avandra was impressed by their bravery in face of difficult odds, for a people so small in stature they stood tall at heart, and for that she can't help but smile.