Geren

(From Cher Gloamplume's Guide to Pantheon by FrozenTear)

Geren

The Goddess of Night and Wishes

Other Names: Daughter of the Night, Goddess of the Dark of the Moon, The Silvermoon, Our Lady of the Night, The Nightwatcher, The Wishmistress

Symbol: A bright silver moon, surrounded by three stars

Alignment: Neutral

Domains: Darkness, Dreams, Miracles, Moon, Navigation, Night, Secrets, Wanderers, Wishes

Worshipers: Elves, Half-Elves, Lycanthropes, Navigators, Rogues, Sailors, Wizards, those who seek miracles

Geren is the Goddess of Night and Wishes, and is also the mistress of secrets and wanderers. Unlike more modern versions of deities of darkness in other lesser cultures the Lady of the Night is the personification of primordial darkness and the moon that hovers upon Callyria: she embraces all who seek her and is not inherently evil, and is said to make true those mortal dreams that she finds pleasing. She is often portrayed as a beautiful woman with long, black hair in a revealing black gown, her hands holding a black disc with the moon within, depicting darkness and the silver moon.

Dogma The Lady of the Night promotes to all that darkness is nothing to be feared. True that secrets only exist within darkness, but is secret revealed under the light still secrets? She teaches that even in darkness the silver moon still guides those who need guidance with its soft radiance. Darkness in itself is not evil, for good can still come from darkness, but evil can be committed more freely under the cover of shadows – those who follows the Lady of the Night should refrain themselves and do good deeds to spread the soft light of the silver moon.

Clergy and Temples Clergies of the Lady of the Night are dressed in black robes that are without hood, and they always wear their holy symbol on their forehead, usually as the central piece of a circlet or headband. Some members of the monstrous races find that the peace that Geren offered to them is so significant that they willingly bear the mantle of a member of the clergy. The priesthoods are adept at giving guidance and advice to those who had just suffered great loss, whether personal, financial or even physical. Temples of Geren are almost always small churches decorated with paintings of the many forms of the moon – new, crescent, half, full, waxing, rising, setting, eclipse, and more. The priesthood of Geren do not usually gives out quests, but when they do it usually is of great urgency.

A member of Callyria's Pantheon.