Saffra
Mistress of Delights
As the heat of summer dims and cools, the leaves don new, vibrant colors, providing a delightful backdrop to the ripening, bountiful harvest – a scene that Saffra sets with care and mirth. For autumn brings with it celebration and revelry, a needed reprieve from the labor amidst the summer’s blaze, and an opportunity to enjoy the fruits of one’s labor. How better to celebrate the highs, lows, and hallmarks of life than to share the harvest, share a meal, and to share a drink and a toast with those that make life enjoyable. As the overseer of the harvest and Mistress of Delights, Saffra was a patron of agriculture, harvests, food and drink, and revelry. She was often depicted as a curvy woman with long, curly hair and flushed cheeks. She was commonly dressed in a gown – often scandalous, by some standards – made mostly or entirely out of leaves in a myriad of colors: golden yellow, green, orange, red, and brown. In her hands, she often held various dishes of food, horns of mead, or cradled a cornucopia against her side. Given her association with revelry, Saffra was often broadly associated with festivals and celebrations, particularly those with an emphasis on food and drink.
The Night of Poisoned Sap
Most stories, myths, poems, and other texts dedicated to Saffra paint her as a benevolent, giving goddess with a fondness for a strong drink and a bit of a mischievous streak from time to time. One tale, however, holds a darker tone… for benign revelry can quickly become poison when pursued in excess.
On one celebration in honor of Saffra, the people of Orom’Rye gathered to feast, drink, and make merry. Nearly half the population of the city was killed in a single night, taken in hallucinatory bliss to their Afterlife. The records that survive the fall of Orom’Rye provide multiple perspectives on the Night of Poisoned Sap. Was it orchestrated by an outside force? By a feline god that saw Orom’Rye in need of discipline? Or was it carried out by Saffra’s own clergy in their pursuit for a stronger alcohol? Perhaps there is a hint of truth in all the theories that remain.
Divine Domains
Life, Fertility, Autumn, Agriculture, Harvests, Food & Drink, Wine, Mead, Revelry
Divine Symbols & Sigils
The Emerald gemstone, a cornucopia of grains, fruits, and vegetables
Tenets of Faith
Partake in Life's Bounty – Everyone deserves to reap what they have sewn. For every moment one spends in labor, one should spend another moment in rest. For the joys, delights, and revelries of the world exist for mortals to enjoy. Just as one enjoys the fruits of the harvest, take care to enjoy the bounty that life brings forth throughout its course.
Divine Classification
Spirit of the Land
Current Status
Bound by the Autumn Blight
Current Location
Children
Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Aligned Organization
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