The Lesser Tuatha

Due to this, this page includes only a handful, and the most 'important' of the Lesser Gods that appear here. If anyone desperately wants to know what Eadon Neit, or any of the other smattering of Lesser members would have, send us an email or a message on the forums, and they can be scrounged up.

Airmed

Skills: Academics, Animal Ken, Empathy, Medicine, Occult, Survival

Powers: Health

Legend: 10

Daughter of Dian Cecht and sister of Miach, Airmed is a physician just as her father and brother before her. The healing siblings once, when encountering a one eyed man at Tara, took the eye from a cat and sewed it into his head where it became his own. When her brother was murdered by their father, Airmed mourned at his grave, and there grew all of the healing herbs in the world. Seeing the opertunity, Airmed lay out her cloak, and began picking the herbs, organising them by what they could cure. When Dian Cecht saw this, still infuriated and afraid his other child would outdo him, he snatched the cloak and scattered the herbs to the wind. Now, after her brother and father's death, Airmed is likely the physician of the Pantheon.

Anne

Skills: Animal Ken, Art, Empathy, Medicine, Occult, Presence

Powers: Chaos, Epic Appearance

Legend: 9

Daughter of Manannan mac Lir, Anne is the prototypical Leanne Sidhe. The fairy princess was raped by King Ailill Olom of Munster and later by Maurice the First Earl of Desmond, who she both slew with her magics. She was a particularly vengeful goddess, not for the previous fact, but for the fact Anne took revenge on King Oilioll Oluim for killing her brother by placing a little harp playing man in a tree. Oilioll and his brother discovered the wondrous little musician, and quarreled to the point of outright war with each other over possession, which led to the death of Oilioll and his seven sons. Irrationallity seems to be a marker of the goddess, as the mad dogs of Ireland travel to her home, and she owned a stone which attracted those who had lost their wits, and stole the wits of those who sat on it.

Clodna

Skills: Empathy, Command, Control, Occult, Presence, Survival

Powers: Epic Appearance, Illusion

Legend: 9

Like her sistera Anne and Niamh, so too did Clodna find love in mortals. The first, she ran off with, but her father Manannan mac Lir sent a colossal wave to sweep her back to his lands. The second time, she enticed Connla, son of Conn of the Hundred Battles away to Manannan's lands, offering him eternal youth, and a land where there was only peace. There must be something in the blood to do with mortal lovers, or part mortal lovers, in that family. Either way, Clodna is a beautiful goddess who inherited some of her father's skills in misleading.

Dian Cecht

Skills: Academics, MedicineMelee, Occult, Politics, Survival

Powers: Health

Legend: 10

The spiteful doctor of the Tuatha de Danann was almost the most skilled of their number. He aided in the creation of Nuada's silver hand, and during the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh created a special healing bath which would restore any of their number to complete health as long as their bone marrow was not cut into, and their brain was not harmed. These were the limitations of Dian Cecht, and it was here that he was surpassed by his son Miach. In rage for being upstaged, Dian Cecht committed a terrible deed in slaying his own child. The spiteful doctor died, somewhat ironically, of a terrible sickness that he could not cure. Perhaps if he had not ruined the lives of his children, one of them would have been able to save him.

Fand

Skills: Command, Empathy, Integrity, Larceny, Presence, Politics

Powers: Epic Appearance

Legend: 11

The pearl of the sea, Fand is the wife of Manannan mac Lir, and likely the most powerful Queen of the Fairies. In Manannan's land Fand rules alongside her husband, her daughters and sons symbols of her greatness. Fand is a good example of the nature the Sidhe, where her daughters are relatively normal for the Divine, some might suggest that Fand is cruel in her words. The fairy Queen once had an affair with CuChulain, when Emir, CuChulain's wife, and Manannan arrived to catch the pair in the act, and Fand was given an ultimatum, her nature shone through. Evaluating the situation, Fand declared that she would return with Manannan, but she would stay with CuChulain if it were not for Emir who was currently wielding a knife. A particularly skilled warrior might find Fand dropping herself in their lap, and a wise warrior would find a way to disappear, as broken hearts move in her wake.

Miach

Skills: Animal Ken, Art, Empathy, Fortitude, Medicine

Powers: Health

Legend: 10

The son of Dian Cecht, and brother to Airmed, Miach was a skilled healer. When the young god had heard that his father was creating a new hand for Nuada, Miach thought about how to restore Nuada's hand rather than replace it. The skilled doctor set out after Nuada had been fitted with his new hand, and traveled to the ex-king of the Pantheon. There, he waved his hand over Nuada's stumped wrist, and spoke a poem inciting the bone, flesh, and sinue to grow. Miraculiously, it did, and Miach overcame his father's limitation in being unable to help when bone had been cut through. For this, Dian Cecht struck Miach in the head with a sword, and Miach healed it. Then again, and Miach healed himself once more. Then, Dian Cecht struck his son so hard that the blade pierced the brain membrane, and Miach was slain.

Nechtan

Skills: Academics, Animal Ken, Art, Integrity, Medicine, Occult

Powers: Water

Legend: 9

The husband of Boann, Nechtan watches over a secret well of knowledge. There a great hazelnut grows over a well, and from the tree drop the nuts of knowledge, which are then eaten by salmon in the well. There were originally nine salmon before one was caught by Finnegas and Finn MacCool accidentally burned his finger on it while cooking, giving him all the knowledge in the world if he were to suck on that thumb. Nechtan still watches over the well, and the hill it is atop of has become his home Underhill. A knowledge seeking Scion would have to appease the god if they wished to dine on one of the fish, but if they were to, they would gain all the knowledge in the world.

Niamh

Skills: Art, Control, Empathy, Investigation, Occult, Presence

Powers: Epic Appearance, Epic Charisma

Legend: 9

Daughter of Manannan, and like her sisters, an aficionado in mortal men. When she heard of Oisin, son of Finn MacCool, Niamh knew she must have him. So, Niamh set out over the waves on her father's steed Embar, and found Oisin with the Fianna, dazzling him with her beauty and good looks. Oisin agreed to come away with her, so Niamh carried her new lover away over the waves and to Tir na nOg, the land of the young where age would never touch them. Here they lived as lovers, until Oisin grew homesick and asked for Niamh to let him visit his home. Niamh brought forth Embar, but told Oisin he couldn't touch the ground of Ireland. Oisin failed to heed the words of Niamh, and he got off Embar, whereupon all of the time that he had been protected from came on him at once, and Niamh mourned for him.