Falnvir

Falnvir
Name:	Falnvir
Other names:	She who sows the mother of the harvest
World:	Gyllenheim
parents :	Unnamed spirit king and elven queen.
siblings :	None
Consorts :	Mirviva Falnmar several mortals
Children:	several

Falnvir is the goddess of sowing, growth, forests and plants in the holy chronological faith. She is the wife of Falnmar the god of harvest and is often depicted as sharing a relationship with the fertility goddess Mirviva and in generally are the three worshipped together.

As one of the fertility related gods in the holy chronicles so do Falnvir show several womanly characteristics according to the old Scanderan world view and she is often seen taking lovers, being more comfortable running a home rather than providing and guarding it. She is also described as being a rather non-violent and non-martial goddess that hardly if ever resorted to violence and preferred to negotiate and help people with advice and magic.

Birth

Falnvir was the daughter of an old forest spirit king that ruled a massive empire of sprits that all adored and worshipped him, amongst those were a young elven queen that fell in love with the spirit king so she sent her spies to tell her where the king often rode and hunted. Next to a river did she decide to wait wearing garment upon garment until she looked more like a massive pile rather than an elf. However she was a very fair queen and her face was enough to peek the attention of the spirit king and he dismounted and walked up to her and asked "Fairest of maidens, why is your beauty covered by layers upon layers?".

The elf queen replied "Garments upon garments I wear for a reason I will to you tell! However first when I stand as naked as upon the day I was born I will tell you my reason!". The forest spirit took her up on her challenge and tried to seduce her and when that did not work did he try force and lastly bribes. The elf queen just laughed and said "For each step back I take one you will follow, for each step a garment I will lose and when I am all naked like a child I will offer you myself"

The king agreed and the queen took step after step, losing garment after garment and in his hurry did the king of the forest follow without looking where they went. Finally did he realise he had been led out in the river where his powers were all gone. On a command from the queen did her troops row down the river on a longboat and they took the spirit to her castle where she married him and kept him as a hostage. When she died however were he allowed to leave and with him did he take their young daughter, Falnvir.

Falnvir in the sagas

Falnvir is often seen helping people or asking them for help in the holy chronicles when she needs violence and have taken quite a few champions to bed in return for them slaying evil spirits or demons, or just fetching her magical items. However mostly do she solve her own problem with trickery and charms. She is also married to the god Falnmar that is her lover but she has also repentantly been said to take Mirviva the goddess of fertility to bed. Especially is this mentioned in the prayers to the trio for good harvest where it is said that the fields become fertile after all the three gods joins in union.

Children

The most mentioned child of Falnvir is the forest spirit Askföd that was said to have been fathered on Falnvir by the spirit of a huge ash that she took as a lover after the mighty Ash championed her cause against an insult against another tree in another forest. Askföd is described as looking like a tree shaped like a man but with leaves instead of hair and bark instead of skin. In the holy chronicles is he mentioned as the servant of Falnvir and Falnmar.

She is also mentioned as being the mother of countless smaller demigods and minor gods that hardly are mentioned in the chronicles nor worshipped according to official chronological doctrine. Despite this however so do several noble families that can trace their decent to the days when the gods walked amongst the mortals that they are in some way descended from Falnvir. Most noteworthy is Sigrid auf gyllenheim that Emanuel the first took as his wife that is just named Sigrid auf gyllenheim or Sigrid from Gyllenheim in the holy chronicles. This have however sparked some debate as this was before "Auf" was adopted by the nobility and instead should she be mentioned as Sigrid Falnvirdottir. However so are there mentions in the older runestones of the era where a "Queen of all of Imermarkerna, wife of Emanuel and daughter of Mirviva and Falnvir!" is mentioned that were raised half a century after her death. The Chronological historians debate if this is an honest mistake later on or just a later fabrication.

Worship of Falnvir

At harvest and sowing times that even to this day remains one of the most holiest of times in the chronological calender so are there massive rituals to Falnvir, Falnmar and Mirviva. During the spring so are Falnvir and Mirviva in the focus and in the old days were it common that the priest of the village took a young virgin of the opposite sex out in the field and joined with him or her just like the gods did to bless the harvest. Would an child be born from such an union would it be declared "gudiföd" or "Godborn" and taken in by the holy chronicles to be raised a priest but it would also signify nine years of good harvests for the village. Template:Chronological gods