Papa Fleuve

First mentioned in the Wartorn Gazetteer Volume II: Conquista, Papa Fleuve is the Loa of the rivers. He travels endlessly along the streams of the Cluster on his rickety old raft, a trail of failed marriages and love affairs in his wake. He brings life to the land, but is an incorrigible trickster and flirt who encourages people to trade and travel.

Appearance

Imagery of Papa Fleuve shows him as a bald, long-bearded old man with one crippled leg and very few teeth in his mouth; the result of an eternity of smoking and drinking rum. He carries a clay jug that may smell of cheap booze, but actually contains the water of the rivers he embodies. From time to time, Papa Fleuve may be accompanied by any number of dirty, rude children; he claims these are his 'grandbabies' and complains outrageously that they're eating him out of house and home (which he does not have). If challenged, these grandchildren may prove to be Water Elementals or river-bound Fey.

Statistics

• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
• Domains: Charm, Travel, Water
• Schools: Conjuration, Enchantment, Illusion

Trivia

According to one alternate version of the Creation Myth of Conquista, Papa Fleuve was once the lover of Brightwell possibly when she was still a mortal human woman, and may be the father of il Demonio. In the current age, he appears to have neither love for nor authority over his wicked son, and the relationship with his erstwhile lover has withered on the vine as so many others.Papa Fleuve is known in the domain of Raba as one of the Loa Estable, the pantheon of South-Raba. In spite of this affiliation, he is known to travel all throughout the domain, and is also a member of the Loa Malalta, the pantheon of the Raba Riverlands region.