Thassa

Domains
Thassa is the goddess of the sea and is also associated with aquatic creatures and the secrets of the briny deep. She is also the god of ancient knowledge, murmurs, gradual change, introspection, vast distances, long voyages, and far-ranging searches. Thassa can also be described as the god of patterns, such as tides, currents, ripples in water, and even the passage of time.

Personality
Thassa is the god who is least likely to be satisfied with the status quo, but in the meantime she is also the least likely to rush to change. She works slow, eventual, unfolding change to everything by resculpting the land, changing coastlines and upending institutions. When she speaks, she usually does so in the future tense, always referring to what tomorrow will bring and uninterested with the reality of today. Thassa is slow to anger but implacable once roused. Her anger grows like a rumbling, cresting, unstoppable wave, destroying whole villages with its fury — then subside with the tide, dragging the evidence of her wrath out to sea.

Worship
Tritons, Merfolk, and Sahuagin comprise most of Thassa's worshippers, as well as all who venture out to sea, whether for exploration, commerce, or war. Despite the tritons exalting her above all other gods, she shows no favoritism toward them, being equally impassive to all mortals. Thassa is worshipped with offerings of fish and salt by the poor, offerings of pearls and nacre by the rich, and with murmured prayers and quiet contemplation by all. When Thassa wishes to see a mortal, she does not issue a summons or grant a vision requesting a visit: the sea simply brings her guest before her.

Signature Item
Thassa wields the bident Dekella. Wielding Dekella allows her to control the tides and stir the seas into whirlpools.

History
Tales about Thassa typically demonstrate that she is often patient, but never kind.

Callaphe the False
During the last great Silence of the gods, a triton appeared, impersonated a mariner named Callaphe, and traveled the waves aboard Callaphe's living ship, The Monsoon. This false Callaphe misled the tritons with false prophecies and pulled a kraken from the depths. hoping to harness his power. When the Silence was lifted and Thassa returned to the world, she struck the impostor down with such fury that she shattered her bident. Purphoros, remembering Thassa's kindness to him on many occasions, replaced her sacred weapon.

Dreams in the Deep
While Purphoros is renowned for his endless creations and desires to bring new ideas into being, Thassa secretly shares similar creative desires. Endlessly bored with the predictable denizens of the land and sky, in the deepest ocean trenches, Thassa wills immortal dreams and nightmares into being. Delicate beauty, undulating grace. and tentacular terrors are birthed in the absolute dark, iterate for generations, and suffer swift extinctions at the god's whim, never knowing the sun's touch. Sapient mortals aren't welcome in these maddening ateliers; Thassa remains bitterly unwilling to reveal her work until her creations, and the time, are absolutely perfect.

Every Tear the Sea
Few myths tell of those who escape Thassa's wrath. This isn't one of them. When the infamous explorer Rasiao failed to steal one of Thassa's Tidelock Pearls, wave-controlling treasures protected by vicious mollusks, she spent years avoiding the waves before finding her way back to the mainland. Although she'd failed to abscond with one of Thassa's treasures, she'd avoided the sea god's wrath, a claim she valued more preciously than gold. For years, Rasiao lived far from ocean or river, making her home in the driest reaches of Orbis. She lived a long life, but on one trip to New Khiba to resupply and brag, she drowned in a bowl of ox stew. Those who found Rasiao discovered a pearl, too large to pass her lips, lodged in her mouth. Fearing further reprisal, Rasiao's daughters committed their mother's body to the Deyda River and Thassa's clutches. The explorer's daughters never forgot that just as countless drops make the sea, so too is every raindrop, tear, and cup part of Thassa's domain.

Thief's Fate
According to legend, a mortal sailor once stole Thassa's bident and used it to sink an enemy fleet. Thassa cared nothing for the vanquished fleet, but punished the sailor for his thievery by turning his family into eels. The sailor tried to care for the eels, but they blamed him for their fate and disappeared into the sea, leaving the sailor weeping on the shore.