====== Isis/Aset ======

Isis is known as the Mistress of Life and the All-Mother. Her domain presides over healing, life, and fertility, with her taking up an occasional role as a goddess of family and the hearth. Her priests manage the ceremonies and processes surrounding marriage and new birth, often serving as midwives for expectant and postpartum mothers. Many Isisites also serve in hospitals, where they are some of the most effective doctors known to Jaern and Cahyali both. When a person reaches Isis with a Divine Intervention role, she may decide to spare their soul from the clutches of [[gods:anubis|Anubis]], restoring them to life.

On [[settings:jaern|Jaern]], Isis is known to be compassionate to a fault. Her title has changed hands many times in recorded history, with the most recent incarnation being only about a decade and a half old. Still, she serves her post dutifully. On [[settings:cahyali|Cahyali]], she takes a similar role, with the difference lying in that, compared to Jaernian Isisites, many Asetites will participate in war and violence, often in the role of a combat medic or a battlefield healer.

===== Aspects =====

===== Origins =====
Jaernian myth posits Isis as having once been mortal, with the seat of preservator of life having gone unfilled until her ascension in the time of ancient [[settings:torandor|Torandor.]] She is also said to be the long-lost consort of Anubis, the two having been separated by cruel twists of fate and the interference of the rest of the old pantheon. Her compassion and understanding for mortals is attributed to this mortal origin.

More recently, Isis had channeled a significant amount of her divine energy into a mortal priest named Anna, in order to avoid a calamity foretold to the gods by At’ena (the [[history:jaern:gods_and_dragons:reckoning|Day of Reckoning]]). Anna’s mortal body could not contain the entirely of the divine energy inside of it, and this caused a minor disease to transform into a global plague that threatened all life on Jaern. 

Eventually, Anna realized what had happened and performed a ritual to bring back Isis, and her body was vaporized in the process. Isis returned, cleansed the plague of divine energy, and due to the time spent inside Anna’s body, was forever changed, and imbued with aspects of Anna’s soul. 

The origins of Aset on Cahyali are more unclear. Few records remain containing ancient [[settings:cahyali:dahabu|Dahabu]] mythology, and what myths survive to this day seem to mention her as an entity that has always existed as long as life has. Regional aspects of her, however, do point to an origin [WIP]

===== Priesthood =====