Lehto
Lehto is a prominent god within the religion of The Hallowed Faith, where he is a member of the Alkutari gods, the first generation of gods who came after the first god, Tuono. Lehto is the god of the grasslands and fenlands, often being popular with rural communities and agricultural workers who believe that Lehto grants safety and protection to those who work and maintain the land, often people seeking his blessing to avoid the spoiling of harvests, insect parasites and soil erosion.
In historic mythology, Lehto was one of the many gods responsible for splitting the humans throughout Tuono's Corpse into many different tribes, himself creating the wide and expansive grasslands and the treacherous fenlands and swamps. The grasslands were once barren, much like the vast lands that surrounded the ancient haven of Tempala, however, Lehto would create "islands" of grass and vegetation in order to persuade the human tribes to settle and avoid intermingling. Lehto was said to have pitied the state to which the human race was reduced to after their loss in the war with the gods, and he would trade larger and larger portions of grasslands in return for their management and care of the plants and animals by the human inhabitants. He was so empathetic, that within a thousand years, the great grasslands that are present today are said to largely have come from Lehto's bargaining with the humans.
Divine Domains
Grasslands and Fens
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