Ibeji

Twins saw the houses of great personages but did not go there; instead they entered the houses of the poor. In Ishokun, Òyó, a farmer had an ongoing infant-mortality problem until he figured out that, oh, of course the troop of monkeys with super powers that he repeatedly drove away from his fields had cursed his wife out of spite. Once he let the monkeys run rampant over his crops, his wife bore two healthy children, the first sacred twins among the Yorùbá. Presumably his farm didn’t do so well after that, but he had magic children, and that was what was important.

Yorùbá mothers are now four times more likely to conceive dizygotic twins than any people on Earth. The older twin, traditionally named Kéhiǹdé, sends the younger twin, Taiyewo, out first, to make sure the World is worth inhabiting. The Twins judge your actions with the clarity and lack of preconceptions only children have. Wherever they go, animals follow, singing along with them like they're a Disney prince and princess, or animated ponies. Their incarnations are always twin children, though neither has a preferred gender.

Ìbejì tend not to generate Scions traditionally. Any twin, though, can become their Scion, especially if their mother has previously lost children. Because the Ìbejì Visit these Scions young, their adventures often involve their families, and they rarely operate without bands. As often as not, the non-Ìbejì-Scion twin winds up Scion of some random non-Òrìshà divine parent, who generally claims to have no idea how it happened. This phenomenon makes them foundational to Òrìshà diplomacy with other pantheons.