Lavandria

Lavandria
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Name:	Lavandria
Other names:	Lavandria, the mage, the spellsinger, She who hears, the mother of rituals, the magical crone, the spellcaster, the rune writer.
World:	Gyllenheim
parents :	None
siblings :	None
Consorts :	Several
Children:	Egil

Lavandria is the goddess of magic and as such one of the most important goddesses in the Chronological faith and one of the most praised god in all of the four churches. She is also however seen as the goddess of writing and runes and according to the tales was it she and her son Egil the scholar that togeather wrote not only the first of the runestones but also the first version of the holy chronicles and gave it to the victorious soldiers after the war of light and shadow to spread the words of the divine gods over the continent.

Birth

Lavandria was once a mere human and a shaman for one of the large tribes that controlled huge part of the continent and the daughter of the cheiftain. As the shaman was she often said to be one of the most magically powerful humans ever born and that she could challange even the gods that had been born and that she put even the most powerful of Wharen mage princes to shame with her power. However she also loved to wander the land and it was said that she visited the people of ryggen and their empire as well as even the dark forbidden cities of the Wharen in the south.

However in one of her travels did she offend the Wharen mage-prince Ilir-Sishi and he waited for her on the road and challenged the young Shaman to a magical duel. Lavandria accepted and they both prepared to draw their magical circles when Ilir-Shishi took a javelin and threw it right at the young Shaman, piercing her gut and leaving her mortally wounded. However she was rescued by Arkar as the trickster god showed up and managed to trick Ilir-Shishi to hand her over. He took her up to Gyllenheim and let her eat of the golden apples that gave the gods Immortality and for nine decades did she stay with the divine gods, locked in their golden halls between life and death. On the end of her ninth decade however did she once more emerge truly a goddess with her head burning and the youth which she had once had was gone. Furiously did she return to Midgard and sought out Ilir-Shshi and with a simple rune drawn in the sky did she turn him and his entire city into dust.

Lavandria in the sagas

In the holy chronicles is Lavandria a old crone that mostly stays in her hall in Gyllenheim, always advancing magic and giving power to the spells cast by priests and mages on midgard. She is however often a kind woman giving not only advice but also the most powerful items to heroes and rosetouched that needs them. She also is known as a good sign and the villages she visits are not touched by sickness nor do their crops fail for nine years when she casts her spells amongst them.

She was however also known as a very vengeful woman as well and often hunted down those that wronged them and more than once did she curse both Arkar and Lander if the two stole from her even if she often went softer on the first.

Children

There are a few children Lavandria has birthed and most of them are minor rosetouched often prayed to for various blessings in scholarship or magical related things. The most important of these children are however Egil the scholar that was a known runescriber and at least a few hundred runestones have been attributed to him.

Worship of Lavandria

There are not many prayers in the holy chronicles to Lavandria and she is not a god of the common people as most commoners and nobles alike do not cast spells very often, however amongst the priests and the mages so is she one of the most important gods and often is her one of the largest idols in most temples and in mage towers so can one often find large shrines to her glory. However she does not require prayer nor sacrifices and it is said that the magic made in her name is her prayers. Template:Chronological gods