The Mistress of the Copper Mountain
CN demipower (possible archomental) of precious minerals, miners, metalworkers and stonecutters [She/Her]
Pantheon: Slavic
Symbol: A Gemstone Flower
Realms: Quasi-Elemental Mineral / Core Mineral / The Copper Mountain
Proxies: None
It is said that four Princes of Elemental Good arose to counterbalance the Princes of Elemental Evil. Perhaps, that’s who the Mistress is, the counterpart to presumably lawful and presumably good Crystalle. Though in fact, both are so bizarre and poorly-known to anyone not from the Plane of Mineral, that making such assumptions is probably unwise. And all things considered, the Mistress is probably more familiar to some primes, as she sometimes visits Prime Material Plane through one of the many vortices she seems to know the dark of.
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain is fickle and unpredictable, yet hauntingly beautiful. She can appear as an imposing green-eyed woman in a royal dress—peery cutters can notice that her braided hair tends to stick to her clothes like is a part of a statue. She also sometimes changes her shape to that of a little lizard with a tiny crown.Â
When it comes to her personality, the Mistress is chaotic as they come, being more like a fey than an elemental—basically she’s far too active and joyful to be a typical elemental. She is not as opposed to mining as some other denizens of the plane, and she is generally kind towards miners and underground workers, but hostile to thieves, slavers and oppressors. The Mistress often meets with and talks to primes she finds interesting, gifting the ones she approved of with gems and even dallying in brief romances. She’s known to play pranks on berks who displeases her though, for example, she might make a body’s jewellery cold, heavy and uncomfortable to wear, or get a sod lost in mineshafts. Enraged however, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain is a frightening sight. She can turn her adversaries into malachite or create clouds of toxic and highly abrasive stone dust.
On the cuter side, the Mistress has a lot of animental pets. Her favourites are the rock lizards, who are actually intelligent, speaking Terran and serving as her spies across the Inner Planes, but also cats with glowing eye-gems and Silverhoof, a male roe with, well, a silver hoof.
Sources: Margarita and Jon Winter-Holt. Margarita notes: While this homebrew power is based on Slavic folklore and beliefs, the amount of actual information we have on pre-Christian Slavic deities is so minuscule that building any kind of lore out of it is impossible. However, there are a lot of folk beliefs about things these deities are thought to represent, which I have worked into the piece.