Acts of Iomedae
Each of the Acts is a specific episode of heroism performed by Iomedae during her life as a champion in the service of Arazni and Aroden. Tales of valor and adventure, these stories serve as examples of Iomedaean virtues. While regional variants of the stories exist, all have the same general themes, with the goddess herself acknowledging that it is the lessons, not the particulars, that are important. The 11 Acts are as follows.
First: She slew the fell beast Nakorshor'mond and cut the still-sleeping bodies of her circle from its gullets.
Second: She defeated a coven of Garundi witches, freeing the city of Senghor from their tyranny.
Third: While riding a griffon in an aerial battle, she cut the wings from Segruchen the Iron Gargoyle, so-called King of the Barrowood, then slew him in his falling-crater before he could flee.
Fourth: With heartfelt words and a prayer to Arazni, she convinced a regiment of mortally wounded knights at the Second Battle of Encarthan to hold back a wave of wraiths long enough for reinforcements to arrive at dawn.
Fifth: She smote Erum-Hel, Lord of the Mohrgs, at the Battle of Three Sorrows (where the Whispering Tyrant returned Arazni's body to the Knights of Ozem), crippling him and causing him to flee to Orv.
Sixth: After the Whispering Tyrant used magic to break her sword, she fused it together with a prayer and an oath to bring an end to his evil, her pure heart and righteous ire reforging it in an instant.
Seventh: An image of Iomedae appeared at a shrine to Aroden in Absalom, healing anyone virtuous who touched it and burning wicked folk who came too near. When she later became a goddess, the shrine was expanded into a temple dedicated to her, named the Seventh Church.
Eighth: She convinced the graveknight known only as the Black Prince to throw himself upon his sword as punishment for his evil. This reversed his undead state, redeeming his soul and allowing him to be judged and pass into Aroden's domain on Axis.
Ninth: She gave nine drops of her blood to free nine righteous knights imprisoned by the vampire-mage Basilov; she and the knights then slew him when he attempted to recapture them.
Tenth: She ruled the city of Kantaria for a year and a day while its lord, heirless patriarch of House Narikopolous, was missing; the city prospered despite constant attacks by shape-changing horrors, which she battled personally.
Eleventh: At the Pit of the Starstone in Absalom, she cast her cloak before her, transforming it into a firm walkway across the gap so she could enter the cathedral and take the test.