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Player > Setting > Deities > Talavet
Starfinder Core Rulebook p.490
LN goddess of community, self-reliance, tradition
Centers of Worship: Akiton, Bretheda, Idari, Triaxus, the Veskarium
Symbol: An ancient kasathan sigil of community
Kasathas are a people steeped in custom, history, and
tradition, and their goddess Talavet is no different.
In ages past, kasathan storytellers gathered their clans
around the fire and taught them the stories of their past,
the traditions of their clan, and the history of their people.
Tradition holds that as they did so, these first stories began
to take form, breathed into life and awareness by the blending
of ideas and the fundamental magic inherent in language and
communication. Thus was Talavet born—not just a storyteller,
but the story itself, a god embodying all the tales and legends of
the kasatha race. She is communal memory, a representation of
the bonds that hold the kasathas—and to some extent all races—
together and connect them to their ancestral home.
Talavet teaches that tradition is the most important link in
the chain of history that binds a community together and that
ancient legends, myths, and stories form the solid foundation of
an ordered society. Naturally, the Gap was a tremendous blow to
her church—with many seeing it as a form of divine punishment—
yet in the centuries since, her shattered congregation has
reforged itself, stronger for having survived what they now call
the Time of Silence. Her followers believe in sharing wisdom for
the benefit of all and looking to the past as a guide to the present
and the future. But especially in light of the Gap, they also know
that there are times when records fail or you cannot rely on the
community’s aid, and so you must learn to trust yourself and your
own personal traditions, just as a young kasatha must undergo
the Tempering to discover himself and become an adult.
Unsurprisingly, kasathas make up the majority of Talavet’s
worshipers and priests, but the Storyteller’s faith has also
gained a significant number of followers among the shirrens and
ysoki, who both have their own tight-knit bonds of family and
community, as well as the vesk, who find much to agree with
in the goddess’s focus on tradition and self-reliance. These same
tenets attract envoys and operatives to Talavet’s church, as well
as solarians, the inheritors of the ancient kasatha philosophy of
the Cycle. Talavet’s temples generally match the cultural styles of
the congregations that worship there, but even a simple hearth
can serve as a shrine to the Storyteller. Full churches often include
a hearth with a flame that is always kept burning and feature red
lighting that evokes memories of the kasathas’ original home star.
While Talavet’s church is generally easygoing and happy to
work with members of other religions—for even the cruelest
religions help to anchor their people—they have a long-standing
feud with the church of Nyarlathotep, resenting the way that
god’s faithful twist stories into deadly secrets and conspiracies.
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