Bucca Bramblehearth

The Hearth-Mother

Bucca is the goddess of luck, joy, peace, and good company. A radiant and humble divinity who cares little for thrones or temples, but deeply for laughter, family, and the small moments that make life worth living. She is the beloved matron of halflings, whom she created while skipping barefoot across the green hills of the world. Her presence is in warm hearths, shared meals, and the calm after a storm. She is joy not as spectacle, but as strength, soft, subtle, and enduring.

Appearance

Bucca is most often depicted as a plump, rosy-cheeked halfling woman with wild curls of auburn hair, twinkling eyes, and grass-stained feet. She carries no weapon, only a patchwork cloak filled with trinkets, food, and luck-charms. Her laughter is said to carry on the breeze, and flowers bloom where her toes touch the ground. In more symbolic art, she is shown as a ring of clover surrounding a flame, or a hill with two feet at its summit and stars in the grass.

Dogma

Bucca teaches that life is meant to be lived with gratitude and curiosity. Peace is sacred, laughter is holy, and luck belongs to those who make room for it. She is not a god of control, but of trust. Trust in the journey, in friendship, and in the quiet magic of home. Her followers are taught to be brave in kindness, fierce in joy, and ever-open to the unexpected. She does not demand worship, only that her people live well, care for one another, and keep a place at the table for a wandering friend or stranger.

Worship

Bucca’s worship is informal but ever-present, especially among halflings and rural folk. Her shrines are often found in gardens, kitchens, crossroads, and campfires. All marked with stones, carved clovers, or bundles of fresh bread and herbs. Her priests, if they can be called that, are Hearthkeepers: cooks, midwives, musicians, and peace-bringers who bless fields and settle quarrels with laughter and pie.
Her sacred sayings are collected in The Song Under the Hill, a loosely written and constantly evolving tome filled with proverbs, stories, and riddles. Many verses begin as jokes and end as revelations.
Her holy day is Hearthtide, celebrated at midsummer. Communities gather for long meals, games, dancing, and the ceremonial sharing of “the luck loaf”, bread baked with trinkets of fortune hidden within. It is a day where grudges are forgotten, and even the gods are invited to sit and rest.

Relations

Bucca is widely beloved among the pantheon, though few understand her. She shares a special bond with Kaelus, whom many halflings believe to be her child, whether by blood, blessing, or a particularly reckless wish. She dances with Valmira, tends the wild with Cernius, and speaks often with Lethara, whose silence she respects more than most. Even grim gods soften slightly in her presence, for she brings peace not as surrender, but as a reminder that joy is worth fighting for. Only Nyxarion recoils from her entirely, finding her hope unbearable.

History

The Hearthmother was born of the mortal wish for peace and a simple life. The longing gaze of mortals watching over the horizons would see Bucca wandering across the hills, laughing to herself and planting songs in the grass. Where her feet touched, the first halflings emerged, cheerful, brave, and clever. She never claimed dominion. She never built a realm. But her presence remains wherever a home is safe, a child is loved, and a song is sung not to impress, but to delight. Bucca does not walk among mortals in disguise, she walks openly, if at all. And often, those who meet her don’t realize until they’ve already shared a story, a drink, and a moment of unexpected luck.

Divine Classification

New God

Alignment

Neutral Good

Species

Halfling

Realm

Nirvana

Honorary & Occupational Titles

• The Hearth-Mother
• Luck’s Laughter
• Joy Beneath the Hills
• The Cook of Eternity

Pathfinder Statistics

Divine Attribute: Constitution or Charisma
Divine Domains

• Confidence
• Family
• Freedom
• Luck

Divine Font: Heal
Divine Skill: Crafting
Favored Weapon: Sling Staff
Cleric Spells: 1st: wall of shrubs, 2nd: laughing fit, 7th: planar palace

D&D 5e Statistics

Suggested Domain

• Life Domain
• Peace Domain