Domains: Illusion, the audacious prank, the negotiated reality.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion. Cohort: current. Ikvanel cohered as the Ianovko pixies developed the prank-as-status-economy and the Luma grove-libraries added their own register of layered deceptions to the practice, and the two traditions discovered they were two sides of the same patron.
Worshipped by: The Ianovko in their dispersed diaspora and the Luma at their grove-libraries. Pixie street-tricksters across half a dozen cities keep him without naming him in writing, on the theory that to write a trickster's name is to give the rival pranksters a target. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
Status, on the Ianovko account, is not the wit of a lie but its audacity. A clever lie that fools one mark is a small thing. A lie that should not fool anyone but does, and that gets larger every time it is repeated, and that ends with a city council formally appropriating funds for a building that does not exist, is a great thing — and Ikvanel is the patron of the great-thing's calibration: how large a prank can be made before it collapses under its own weight, and how to time the collapse so the prankster is somewhere else when it happens. The Luma grove-libraries study the question academically. The Ianovko study it by trying.
He is not Solas. Solas is the orc patron of cunning, wit, and humor — the clever line, the riposte, the joke that lands because it is sharp. His followers' status is a cumulative reputation for being quicker than the room. Ikvanel's followers' status is the scale of the most recent operational lie. Solas's joke is consumed in a moment; Ikvanel's prank is a project. A pixie who tells a sharp joke is honored by Solas in passing; a pixie who runs a six-month con on a Drachman trade-house is honored by Ikvanel formally. The two patrons are not rivals. Their followers occasionally collaborate, with mixed results.
His name does not carry the -ko terminal that marks most pixie names. This is not an accident. The cult's view is that a trickster whose name announced him as a pixie before he opened his mouth would have lost the prank's first move; the Ik- opener was kept because it is hard and unambiguously pixie to those who know, but the terminal was chosen to read as something almost but not quite elven — a small initial misdirection embedded in the name itself. The Ianovko priesthood considers this evidence the patron is paying attention. The Luma priesthood considers it evidence the patron picked his name himself. Both positions, on the patron's account, are correct, and the prank is on whichever one was wrong.