Maid, Mother, and Crone
Among the elves, three goddesses are held in highest repute. It is held that the Three govern all the cycle of life from beginning to end, and that by their power the world is maintained in balance.
Sehanine the Maid, Sehanine Moonbow, the Maiden of the Moon. A goddess of many titles, but enigmatic in her relations with mortals. Sehanine is the goddess of youth and trickery and love. She has no consort and will have none, but dances and hunts under the stars. Many claim to have encountered her hunts riding the woods at night. Among some she is held to be a daughter of Erastil and Jaidi, the sister and foil to Erathis - wild where Erathis is calm, instinctive where Erathis is thoughtful. But the elves hold this is not so, and that Sehanine has always been her own. Certainly she huts alongside Erastil, but more often she rides alone and makes the moonlit woods ring to the sound of horn and hound. Sehanine is impetuous and dangerous to offend.
Sehanine's symbol is a silver crescent moon, and her weapon is a bow.
Jaidi is the Mother. She is a goddess of spring, fertility, and agriculture. She taught mankind to plant and grow, and aids in childbirth. She is consort to Erastil and mother of Erathis. The elves hold that she is the creator and preserver of life. Bold or foolish is the farmer who does not lay offerings on Jaidi's alter in spring and again in autumn for the harvest. Jaidi is calmer and more forgiving than Sehanine, and strives to aid mortals in their survival.
Jaidi's symbol is a sheaf of wheat.
The Raven Queen is the Crone. Interestingly the elves revered her as chief goddess of death even before the death of Pharasma, who has never had much following among the elves. It is the Raven Queen's task to see that the cycle concludes. After autumn must come winter and so after life must come death. She is not seen as cruel, but cold and implacable, and mortals who escape her grasp will find themselves hunted by her servants the Keres.
The Raven Queen's symbol is a black raven, often on a field of wintry blue.
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