Avandra

Avandra, the Changebringer, also known as "She Who Makes the Path", is the goddess of freedom, trade, travel, adventure, and luck. She encourages her followers to venture into the unknown. Her nature leads to few temples dedicated to her in the centers of civilization, but they can be found near well traveled roads. Her worshipers include merchants, free spirits and adventurers.

Appearance and symbols
Avandra is usually depicted as a young woman with dark skin and light brown hair that changes into a road behind her.

Worship
People who are not disciples of Avandra nevertheless sometimes pray to her to fare well on a journey.

Issylra
Avandra is one of the main deities Vox Machina saw represented on the holy symbols worn by the guards of Vasselheim.

Tal'Dorei
Avandra is one of the main deities worshiped along the Lucidian Coast and on the Rifenmist Peninsula (outside the Iron Authority, which is dedicated to Bane). In Emon's Temple District, merchants seek Avandra's favor before a risky venture.

Wildemount
The Changebringer is not one of the deities approved for worship in the Dwendalian Empire. (The Triumph Chime in Rexxentrum used to be a temple to Avandra.) Nevertheless, some continue to worship her in secret, with some families (such as the Schuster family in Hupperdook) having worshiped her for years.

There is a beautiful temple to Avandra called the Pearl Shrine in the Crescents in Port Damali.

Known worshipers

 * Wallace and Gilda Schuster
 * The Stone family
 * Father Dwandath Pierce, dwarven head of the Pearl Shrine in Port Damali
 * Lady Diassa Kwynn

History
Some speculate that Avandra was responsible for the creation of the halflings.

Soon after the Raven Queen ascended to godhood, she told three of her champions to seek out Melora for instruction about what to do with the body of a fallen hero. Melora sent a vision to one of these champions, Stone, telling him to take the limbs of the hero and wander until he discovered an oasis with a cave veined with red and gold, and to feed the limbs to the beasts that would gather there, and that it would become the site of a menagerie as a gift from Melora to Avandra, to remind her that nature is infinite.

Avandra is known to be the longtime archnemesis of Asmodeus. During the Calamity, Avandra defeated Asmodeus by tricking his armies into attacking one another. (Asmodeus's devastating betrayal of Sarenrae earlier in that war led to a close bond between the followers of the two goddesses.) It was with Avandra's blessing that Pelor succeeded in vanquishing Tharizdun, the Chained Oblivion.

Trivia

 * Her holy day is New Dawn, on the first of Horisal. It is celebrated with feasts in Emon at midnight and on the Menagerie Coast at dusk.
 * There is a gambling game in Ank'Harel known as "Avandra's Favor".
 * In the Myriad's speakeasy beneath the Grumpy Lily, they serve a strong, syrupy drink called the Changebringer's Nectar.