Wee Jas
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| Greyhawk Deity | |
|---|---|
| Wee Jas | |
| Title(s) | The Ruby Sorceress, the Dark-Eyed Lady, the Witch Goddess, the Stern Lady, the Taker, the Lady of Book and Bone |
| Home Plane | Infernal Battlefield of Acheron |
| Power Level | Intermediate |
| Alignment | Lawful Neutral (Lawful Evil) |
| Portfolio | Death, Magic, Vanity, Law |
| Domains | Death, Law, Magic |
| Superior | none |
In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting and the default pantheon of deities for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Wee Jas is the Suel goddess of Magic, Death, Vanity and Law. Known as the Dark-Eyed Lady and the Ruby Sorceress, Wee Jas and Norebo have been romantically linked. She bears great enmity toward Phyton, for his dominion over beauty.
She makes her home on the layer of Acheron known as Ocanthus, where she dwells in an elegant castle of black ice known as the Cabal Macabre.
Notable temples to Wee Jas can be found in Hardby and Alhaster.
[edit] Status
Wee Jas was originally described in the first edition Greyhawk references and Dragon #88 (the first description of Wee Jas that is longer than one sentence) as a greater goddess, but her status was demoted to intermediate in From the Ashes along with a shift in alignment from lawful neutral to lawful neutral with evil tendencies (especially as concerns power). It is not clear if this change in status and alignment was an ongoing transition of the goddess's status, or merely a reflection of the changing perception of the peoples of the Flanaess.
Her standing with respect to Boccob and Nerull, greater gods with which she shares the domains of magic and death respectively, is also unclear. Being of Suel origin, Wee Jas may stand outside of many of the relationships of the common and Flannae deities.
[edit] References
- Grubb, Jeff, Bruce R Cordell, and David Noonan. Manual of the Planes (Wizards of the Coast, 2001).
- Gygax, Gary. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (TSR, 1983).
- Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).
- Moore, Roger. The Adventure Begins (TSR, 1998).
- Noonan, David. Complete Divine (Wizards of the Coast, 2004).
- Redman, Rich, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt. Deities and Demigods (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).
- Reynolds, Sean K. "Core Beliefs: Wee Jas." Dragon #350 (Paizo Publishing, 2006).
- Sargent, Carl. From the Ashes (TSR, 1992).
[edit] External links
- Wee Jas Dissected Part I and part II, an analysis of the history of Wee Jas in the various editions of D&D.
- Wee Jas Resurrected, a view of Wee Jas that attempts to unify the diverging descriptions.
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