Origin

Chimata is a god of marketplaces, defined here as physical marketplaces (such as a town square), rather than something like the stock market or even the idea of capitalism itself. Specifically, she is the god of "special event" marketplaces (as opposed to something like a regular farmer's market), which in Unconnected Marketeers is signified by the lunar rainbow. Her powers and goals are aligned towards transactions occurring in those marketplaces, and when ownership of an item is transferred from one person to another in a regulated way.

She may be based on a long-forgotten medieval Japanese custom of holding markets when there's a rainbow. It was believed, that the boundary between the human world and the world of Gods is beneath rainbows, so holding a market during a rainbow would please the Gods, because they temporarily receive everything that is being sold there.

Design

Chimata's design very closely reflects her lunar rainbow powers, with her dress appearing to be a patchwork of multicoloured fabrics held together with golden buckles and zippers, resembling modernist stained glass, magenta boots with white_bows, and the headband in her hair glowing with bright rainbow colours. She also wears a long white_cape, white on one side, and a bright blue sky with scattered clouds on its inner lining. On her belt, she carries a coin purse.