Britune, Goddess of Spring
Divine Domains
Britune's domain encompases the season of Spring. A time of rebirth and growth, her reimurgence is a welcome blessing for most people across Omnisia after the often harsh winters. Throughout her season, farmers and city-folk alike pray to her for fair weather and bloom. Esspecially those in Dobright and Taidon rejoyce and celebrate her return. As summer creepes ever closer, her power wanes and eventually goes dormant for the remainder of the year. Britune's reign is always too short, but it brings much needed reprieve.
Artifacts
Britune's most sacred artifact is a colorful mantle that is said to give her favorite champion a deeper connection with the natural world. Champions of Britune are tend to forge a deep connection with animals and even have the ability to speak with them. They also have the avility to manifest such a strong connection with trees that they can move through one and appear next to a different tree.
Holidays
The festival of E'Brill on the 13th of Admear is a colorful whirlwind. E'Brill occurs exaclty one month following the vernal equinox marking the annual celebration of Britune's full power. It is during this time, those who are particularly devout, notice her presence more consistently. It is a village affair and towns are decked in garlands made of fresh flowers colleced by local children. The air carries the sweet scents of local wildflowers mixing with the smells of the midday feast being prepared in the town center.
Attendees are dresses in all white, many adorned with wreaths of wildflowers on their heads, hands, and ankles. Together people gather in the center of the town or city and feast on food prepared by their neighbors and family. Music fills the air and people give thanks to the Goddess who's mercy allowed the world to be filled with warmth and joy once more.
Some of the flowers are dried and ground into fine colorful power that is then used in traditional dances after the midday feast. Dancers dance around the a shrine to the Goddess adorned with flowers and plants. As they dance, they throw the colorful powder into the air to symbolize the goddess gracing the plane with color again after the long winters. The powder stains their all white garments giving way to a new pattern of colors. A new spring.
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