Uastra

• Worshiped by: Elf, regeneration seeking Shanata, forest travelers.

Info

Uastra, the upholder of nature, fighter of progress. She likes the old ways, the primitive and the "clean and simple" ways. Her servants make sure that the flora and fauna of Heimr, needed for the intelligent races to survive, survives on it's own. She is generally protective, but leaves people to fall in their own pitfalls when provoked (she gets provoked mostly by dumb people who keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over again). She is married to Ranimsul. He captured her hart when her protective mother feelings started when she saw how scared Ranimsul was, for nothing really. Her Angels, the Treemen?, are slow but massively strong walking trees who protect the wild against great (war)machines that venture to far into their territory and scare away people who come to close to the centre of the forest. Her demons, the Satyr?, are humanoids who have goat horns and legs. They lure travellers with their magic flute play and than play them to sleep. Than they murder the children old and sick, keep the males as slaves, they are not above raping woman.

Good Worshipping methods

The elves still worship Uastra as a secondary god, next to Danu. They do this effectively by planting a tree for every one they cut down, or give the forest time to regrown on its own, that is all Uastra demands, she has little formal worshipping methods. Regeneration seeking Shanata feel the urge to reset their physical body's to a more primitive state after living for more of less 50 years. They worship Uastra by living as a tree parasite for a full year, effectively resetting their age but losing about a tenth of their wisdom. Forest travellers often call upon Uastra to give them safe passage trough the forest; this is often done by burning a used wooden tool or book and spreading the ashes to the trees on the side of the forest. This keeps the Satyr and Treemen away (unless you get to close to the center) but won't help against Shanata or Feyfolk, they are not Uastra's to control.

Evil Worshipping methods

Evil cults focused around Uastra often create powerful poisons and drugs from the mushrooms she provides. Sometimes these cults lure people to Satyr gathering places for the cults and the Satyr's enjoyment, the Satyr usually don't harm the cult members, knowing they will bring more.

Realm

Under a sky thick with swarms of black, furry flies grows the Shadowed Garden. Twisted, rotten boughs entangled with grasping vines cover the moulding ground, beneath an insect-infested canopy of leaves. Fungi both plain and spectacular break through the leafstewn mulch of the forest floor, puffing out clouds of hallucinating spores. The stems of half-demonic plants wave of their own accord, unstirred by the still, pungent air. Satyr play their corrupting music from the gloomy woodscape, luring any ill-willed visitor deep within the nauseous mires. Jutting amidst one of these mires is Archdemon Ga'ap mansion. Decrepit and ancient, yet eternally strong at its foundations, the mansion is an eclectic structure of rotted timbers and broken walls, overgrown with crawling poison ivy and thick mosses. Within these tumbling walls, Ga'ap toils at a rusted cauldron, a receptacle vast enough to contain an entire lake. Chuckling and singing to himself, the Archdemon labours tireless to create new poisons and Satyr from the seduced souls of mortals.

Far above the morbid forestground, enormous city-trees reach out into the nurturing sunlight. Healthy and lush, this realm flourishes with life. The treetops themselves are shaped to the needs of their occupants - the Treemen and their Uastra's good followers. Halls, temples and even entire palaces are formed from the living wood. Hundreds of enormous suspended terraces, carefully cultivated by these angels of Uastra, are filled with every kind of flower, herb or plant imaginable. In the centre of the lush surroundings stands an enormous wooden throne - The Seat of Sae, Archangel of Uastra and keeper of life.

Category:Gods and Divine Beings?