Edyma

Greater Goddess of Fire, Healing, the Home
Also called Lady of the Hearth, Mother of the Home and First Nurturer.

• Portfolio: Fire, Healing, the Home (particularly rural life)
• Depiction: Edyma is depicted as sweetly curved and voluptuous, a woman of middling years old enough to be still beautiful but also have borne children. She is frequently depicted with a nursing babe cradled in one arm and a lantern in the other hand. She is often depicted with cauldrons, cats, loaves of bread and brooms nearby, as well.
• Symbols: The holy symbol of Edyma is the Empyrean Star crafted of copper, with a flame in its center. The symbols used by her faith are also brooms, cats, lanterns the center stone in a hearth and stones such as garnets and rubies. Edyma's favor in her champions manifests as a gust of heat, as though from standing too close to the fire, and a warm, merry radiance like the light from a hearth.
• Origins: Brought into being shortly after Aevo, Edyma was created by the Primordials at the same time as her sister, Ulandira. It is said that when created, the two were actually one, whom theologists call the Divine Mother, but canny Aevo tricked the Primoridals into giving them so many divine gifts that they were forced to split into two goddesses to bear them all.

Brightvale (Empyrean Heaven)

The pastoral paradise of Brightvale is a vast, green rolling hill-lands, rich in cultivated fields and orchards. The souls who dwell here are happy, simple country folk who work those fields and gardens for the love of doing so. The agrarian angels that serve Edyma bring the winds of the different seasons to her realm. In contrast, at the outer edges of Brightvale, the hills become thickly overgrown and forested - the Darkenwold, realm of Edyma's wild sister Ulandira.

Known Factions

• The Lyraclesean Orthodoxy: Perhaps the oldest expression of Edyman faith, the Lyraclesean Orthodoxy is believed to have been founded by the great Edyman saint Saint Lyraclea. Before her, worship of Edyma was disorganized, a faith of mere peasants and given no respect in the greater society. Saint Lyraclea ended slavery of Edyma's faithful in the lands now known as the Empire of the Nine through a series of devastating agricultural plagues that left the faithful untouched. The Orthodoxy is strongest in the northeastern part of Rinhony to this day.
• The Faith of the Two Mothers: Based out of Dorvaer, the Faith of the Two Mothers is a sect that is made up of not just the faith of Edyma, but that of Ulandira as well. The Faith serves the agricultural nobility of Dorvaer as advisors and defenders. The faith's construction includes the Croftknights of Dorvaer. Though based out of Dorvaer, the Faith of the Two Mothers can be found throughout the River Kingdoms.
• The Hearth-Keepers of Almanni (Almanni Theocracy): Operating not merely as the church of Edyma, but also serving as census-takers, population manager and domestic management, the Hearth-Keepers have a reputation for being willing to stand up against the other offices of the Theocracy in favor of the common man. Unfortunately, the Lord Theocrat doesn't often stand with them.

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