The Keening Women
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Overview
The Three (Commontongue), also Mná Caointe (Feytongue ˈkwintɑ \mɪˈnɑ ˈkwintɑ\ for keening women) are named for the fact that there are exactly three individuals sharing this Strange God throne. Like most Strange Gods, lore about The Three is rare and incomplete. The lore comes primarily from scholars who have studied the Bleak Gods and their Orisons.
The Three are the rulers of The Court of Three, and Gods of Hags. Their obsession is with the numerological cardinality: how does the quantity of something reveal its mysteries?
History
Like all Bleak Gods, The Three came into existence when the Elves of Pelithos migrated across The Strange Sea to Arcadia in the early Dark Age.
Description
The Three have two forms. The first are as three individual women: Cailleach (Feytongue \ˈkɑliɑk\ for old woman) the Crone, Draoi (Feytongue \dri\ for wise) the Mother, and Mairnéalach (Feytongue \mɑrˈniəˌlʊk\ for young woman) the Maiden. Cailleach appears as an impossibly tall and thin woman with shriveled skin and a missing eye, often depicted with a sinister replacement. Draoi appears as a squat woman with an enormous girth and a basket covering her head. Mairnéalach appears as a woman of middle height and incredibly wiry and muscular frame with a wide smiling mouth full of sharp teeth.
The second form is that of a massive ogress with three faces.
Personality
Orisons
Most of The Candy King's Orisons are Gnomes, though other Mortals and Arcadians are sometimes chosen. Those who wish to form a pact with The Candy King must usually demonstrate an intense desire and capacity for joy. Orisons of The Candy King generally believe that he is keeper of a secret joke that is so funny it would end sadness forever, but also drive the listener insane.
His rituals involve long periods of fasting followed by extreme indulgence in delicious stimulants. His holy days are whirlwind carnivals.