Gaia

Gaia is the embodiment of absolute good without regard to law or chaos. She is sometimes known as The Great Mother. She exists as the absolute ruler of The Blessed Fields of Elysium, guardinals, and celestial creatures. She grants her clerics the domain of Life.

Gaia is celebrated as a healer and fertility goddess. She is especially revered by folk heroes, outlanders, and acolytes as well as others devoted to healing and agriculture, but nearly allpeople pay her lip-service and most harbor a special place of affection for the mother goddess.

Discovery
Gaia is among the oldest of deities to be worshiped. She was identified as a primordial when the being Primus described her to Twinby Hex as existing before the Prime Material. This was confirmed as a common source was found for her aspects: Cauntea, Hathor, Isis, Pachamama, Tuuwaqatsi, Toci, Ninsun, Cybele, Rhea, Hera, Tellus, Anu, Nerthus, Frigg, Yer Tanri, Durga, Shakti, and many others. Knowing her nature, explorers were able to find her avatar protected by The Five Companions, leaders of the guardinals who protect the plane.

Appearance
Gaia's avatar appears on Elysium as a large, middle-aged woman with exaggerated feminine features and long hair dressed in simple but costly silken purple robes. Her exact features are difficult to discern but she carries a cheerful, compassionate disposition towards all visitors and speaks with a lively voice that cannot be interrupted. On the Prime Material, her appearance is usually similar, but taller with a more athletic build and often an aura of light that dispels all shadows. Her symbol is a dot with three concentric arches overhead, similar to a rainbow. Her followers sometimes create stone icons portraying her as pregnant focusing on her nature as a goddess of fertility. Her clerics use these as holy symbols and spellcasting focuses. They wear green robes of various hues to represent life, growth, and regeneration. Many favor green surcoats over heavy armor when armed.

Worship
Gaia demands that her followers meet together regularly where they sing songs of praise. Members of the Church of Gaia are expected to serve others when they can and give donations of time, food, money, and other goods to the church to further its work of providing for the sick and hungry. Clerics often work as healers in their communities and they often build worship centers to adjoin clinics. Followers of Gaia see all growing things and their harmony with one another as holy, so they try to keep gardens where they can pray to The Great Mother.