Melora, The Wildmother

The Wildmother

The brutality and serene beauty of nature, all in one. Melora is considered to be one of the oldest and most powerful deities and goddess of wilderness and the sea. She watches over nature, good harvests, grants protection from washing away in storms, and guides the passage of ships. Her commandments are as follows:

• Protect the untamed wildernesses of the realm from exploitation and destruction.
• Slay abominations and other dark mockeries of nature.
• Embrace and respect the savage nature of the world. Exist in harmony with it.

Far and Wide

Followers of the Wildmother, by the nature of what she is, tend to prefer living out in the wilder and more untamed places of the world, or at least travel out into it whenever they can. More recently however, temples of Melora have been cropping up in more and more cities, where she is beseeched and worshipped by local farmers to help aid their land and their harvest. Something attributed to her conflicting but loving relationship with Erathis, The Lawbearer.  Inadvertently, followers and worshippers of Auril, The Winter and Malar, The Hunter are also worshippers of the Wildmother, as they are considered to be aspects of her.
Her paladins often come in the form of druids and rangers who help safeguard the land and spread her teachings of existing alongside nature, rather than in conflict with it. On larger ships it is a custom to have at least a shrine to her, if not an actual priest.

Spiral

The Wildmother's symbol is that of a blue spiral. But, oft depending on the artist or the state of the material it is found on, it has sometimes been unfortunately mistaken for that of the dread god Tharizdun, The Chained Oblivion.

Classification: 

• Prime Deity

Titles:

• The Wildmother
• Queen of the Sea
• Mother Nature
• The Untamed

Pantheons:

• Haerasian Pantheon
• Elven Pantheon

Symbolism:

• The Wildmother is depicted as a long-haired matronly woman dressed in flowers and blooms.
• Her symbol is that of an inward spiral turning into a cresting wave.