Circle
the Golden Goddess
Circle is one of the Aggoles of the Nod Noch Nine. According to myths of the Aggelomachy she never served on the Council of Man as many of the other Nine did before the war. Rather she preferred to wonder alone through the vast of the world. When the war began, she joined Tyre and his army in order to break from what she saw as enslavement by Alu so she could remain in the beauty of Aldern. She, as all aggoles that fought were imprisoned in Etu Enur after their defeat. A fitting punishment for one so obsessed with the natural world to end up in a shadowy reflection of it.
Her eternal damnation to never physically return to Aldern has driven her mad. She is known to talk in broken sentences and circling conversations that the other aggoles dismiss. For reasons only to them, she is favored by Tyre and Nyx and remains one of the core members of the Nine because of it. Her confusing conversations are interpreted as riddles of wisdom to be deciphered by her followers. Something that perhaps Nyx believes as well, as many legends of the Nine have Nyx and Circle as inseparable companions.
Circle has become associated with nature of the ages. With cult following raising up to worship her. These cults teaching base around her love of the cycle of nature, live, death, and rebirth. Unlike the other Nine, who are often seen as dark spirits and pure evil, Circle's name is sometimes invoked by farmers looking for a good seasonal crop.
Elf worshippers are Circles favorite, as their love of nature matches her own. This is rare however, with few elves ever becoming any of the Nine's worship. Her worshippers have a complicated relationship with Nymph. While both have a common interest in preserving the forests of their lands, some of Circle's core doctrine conflict with the nymphs. Both elves and nymph have a dislike of farmlands, something which Circle seems to favor, despite her love of the forests of the world.
Circle, like many divine spirits associated with nature, is heavily connected with the changing of the season. The 'Circle of the season,' as many among her cult are known to say. Unlike others that are often associated with spring month, Circle is often connected to the fall months. She loves the natural world but is obsessed with the death and rebirth of it all. The cutting of crops, only for it to grow once more the next spring. She has gained the moniker of 'Golden Goddess' through the ages and even worshipped as the goddess of the harvest. She is known as Ilu Autumn in Char'wyn.
While she is seen favorably by farmers and creatures of the forests, has something that taints her reputation. She utterly believes that it is the Elder Tree of the world that are keeping her trapped in her prison. In her opinion as long as the elder trees remain the aggoles will forever remain banished. The other Nine disregard or disagree with her assessment. It is folklore throughout Novyum that Circle was the source of the dark disease that killed elder tree Onoma and curses the lands around it.
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