Nimire

(By Embry Potter, player: auxarcs)

Nimire is the Goddess Nature, also called Mother Earth and Lady of Abundance. She is Protectoress of hunters and the hunt, farmers, bards and healers, Sponsoress of wisdom and poetry. She holds within her protection all flowers and plants, springs, creeks, rivers and lakes, and beasts of every sort as well as the earth itself.

She is a well-loved and well-respected member of the Callyria's Pantheon, especially in farm communities and among hunters and those whose livelihood depends on the flora and fauna of Callyria. She is also called upon when wells and springs and creeks run dry.

Her animal manifestations are a white female deer or white owl though she has been known to appear near farms as a white mare and mining camps as a white badger.

Her symbol is a sheaf of wheat representing abundance superimposed over a symbol of water within a circle representing the circle of life that contains all natural things. One or more of her animal manifestations may be included as well.

Her human manifestation is a pretty young woman with warm brown/black hair the color of the earth and worn in a plait over one shoulder, and warm brown eyes, wearing a simple pale green, brown or white gown. As offering she accepts anything of the earth, including all natural metal coins, crops, animals, etc. She prefers natural to forged or made things but does accept coinage with pleasure. Leather goods nor anything including leather goods are unacceptable however. Occasionaly made objects like clay dishes and reed basketry are accepted (as long as they don’t include leather or gut or other animal parts such as bone meal). Animal offerings must be living. Cattle and goats and sheep can be used by priestesses for milk. Sheep are also welcome for the wool they provide. Chickens and roosters, ducks, etc for their eggs.

Nimire has a shrine in Perigord in the District of Light as well as small temples and shrines in farming villages like Ellon and in semi-permanent hunting and mining camps as she is mother of the earth, and the priestesses occasionally give adventurers quests involving the hunt, beast of any sort, land bound water ways, healing and bardic adventure, and flora including magical flora, the earth and anything that threatens any of the things under her care.

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