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====== Balani Lightfoot ======

**Alignment: Neutral Good**

**Domains: Protection, Good, Travel, Luck**

Many consider the goddess of the halflings a contridiction. She is the patron of those halflings who seek a comfortable home and hearth, but she also is the patron of other halflings that seek out adventure. Her priests preach that one should be comfortable wherever one is, but never overstay their welcome. Halfling families that follow this deity are therefore nomadic, stopping wherever they find a nice place, staying there until they start to draw more from the place then they give back before moving onwards. These families have mastered the manufacture and transportation of elaborate multi-roomed tents and small houses that can be disassembled within hours, and assembled within a day whenever the head of the household or the priest decides that it is time to move on. Temples to this deity are always modular, able to be picked up and moved from place to place quite easily, and are really simply markers for wherever the priest has chosen to settle this month.\\ —-

===== Description =====

Unlike many deities who have little contact with any gods outside their own pantheon Balani Lightfoot has made it part of her goal to meet as many of the other patron deities of her people as possible. Through contact with this goddess many of the Halfling gods from other pantheons have met each other. Balani keeps them all in contact, as she considers it part of her duty to roam around from pantheon to pantheon keeping all of their people protected and in contact. She is familiar with Halflings of many different realms observing each in turn to learn what she can from their behavior. For some she has developed great affection, for others great sympathy. Within this pantheon Balani is considered a mother figure and a busy body, as she always seems to be poking her nose into other gods business. Usually she has good intentions, but her actions get in the way more often then she helps. Several of the other gods have tried to eliminate Balani for one cause or another. Paragor holds animosity towards Balani because she disrupted of one of his plots to open a daemonic portal to the material realm. Most of the attempts on Balani’s existence have failed spectacularly for one reason or another. Usually a lucky event will save her at the last moment, giving her the reputation as the patron goddess of luck as well as her other domains.

Due to her relationships with other Pantheons, the transition to Balani as the new patron deity of the transplanted Halflings from Nordok took place with very little difficulty. Like the true mother she is, she waited impatiently for her time to help her people, but understood that distance needed to be maintained during the time of transition. When the Halfling community took up their usual haunts in the hills and fields she made herself known to her chosen profits; steering them to the nomadic life that many Halflings in the new realm choose today.

===== Temple Structure =====

Temples? What temples? Due to Balani’s preference for a nomadic lifestyle she does not allow her disciples to build any form of permanent structures on her behalf. Her temples are often whatever temporary structure her icon has been set up in this week. Her icons have been found underneath trees, inside tents, temporary built inside buildings, even the shade of a particularly covering hill and at the edge of a waterfall can serve as an impromptu temple. All are places of transition and places where a temporary lodging can be set up for any length of time. The priests who follow Balani are usually the guides for their communities, deciding when and where the family or village will move and what resources will be sought after for the season. For this purpose Balani gifts her high priests with amulets that allow them to scout quickly and see far, allowing them to go ahead of their communities to choose new locations for them to settle. The female priestesses often act as councilors and confidants, portraying the more motherly and protective role of their patron. This protection also extends to the household the priestess or community they belong to, and so Balani grants her high priestess the ability to surround whatever domicile or tent they protect with a barrier against those that may attempt to attack it.

===== Worshippers =====

Individual families of Halflings are the most common worshippers of Balani, though sometimes several such families will band together as a traveling community. Individually many different types of people and races worship her, especially merchants and messengers, those that spend most of their time traveling. Balani withholds her support from any with evil intentions, so worshippers tend to be both chaotic, and either good or neutral.

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