Demeter

Demeter is an interloper goddess of fertility and agriculture from the Olympian pantheon.

Description

This goddess generally appeared in the form of a beautiful, motherly woman that was draped in robes whose colors varied depending upon the season. A lush green hue for the spring and summer, a golden hue for autumn, and a brown or black hue in the winter. Her avatar also sometimes took the form of a mare.

Demeter possessed a chariot that was pulled by two ancient green dragons.

She wielded a longspear that was made of ash wood and carried a +2 enchantment, though in later years this enchantment was enhanced to a +5. Additionally, her spear's enchantment made it so that trees would sprout from any wound made by it.

Personality

Demeter is a generally benevolent deity and almost never holds grudges.

Divine Realm

Demeter lives in a rather common-looking cottage amidst an immense field of golden grain in the divine realm known as Olympus.

Relationships

Throughout their time knowing each other, Demeter had always gotten on well with the Faerûnian goddess Chauntea.

Her favored proxy was a human by the name of Triptolemus. He drove a chariot pulled by a pair of bronze dragons and scattered grain seeds wherever he went.

History

Demeter was among the first six Olympians, born to the Greater Titan Cronus. After a curse was placed on him by his mother, swearing that one day his children would usurp him, Cronus proceeded to swallow Demeter alongside four of her siblings — Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon. Her sixth sibling, Zeus, would be smuggled away and years later return to free them all from their imprisonment.

Demeter went on to be the wife of Poseidon for a time, eventually parting ways as he took up residence in Aquallor. She then went on to marry Zeus and bore him a daughter named Persephone. This child would later be abducted into the Underworld by her brother Hades, after having obtained permission from Zeus to marry her. Hearing his daughter's cries for help Demeter ran off in search of her, doing so for nine days before she learned that Hades had taken her. She went into mourning, wandering listlessly for some time, until resorting to preventing the growth of the crops of Olympian worshipers until Persephone was returned. However, Persephone had already sealed her fate by partaking in the food of Hades's realm. Zeus would intervene in the matter, brokering a compromise that allowed Persephone to spend part of her time in the underworld and part of her time in Olympus, what mortals would consider equivalent to six months.

Demeter would go on to mourn the loss of Persephone every winter, during which time the crops of Olympian worshipers would not grow, and hold a longstanding grudge against Hades for what he had done.

Demeter

Lesser deity

Basic Information

Titles

Demeter of the Splendid Fruit
Lovely-Haired Demeter
The Gift-Giver
Fertile Mother

Pantheons

Olympian

Attributes

Alignment

Neutral Good

Symbol

Mare's head

Realm

Olympian Glades of Arborea/Olympus/Mount Olympus/Demeter's Field

Portfolio

Agriculture, Fertility

Favored Weapon

Halfspear or shortspear

Following

Worshippers

Druids
Rural folk
Farmers

Alignments

LG, NG, CG, LN, N, CN

Domains

Animal (-)
Plant (Leshy, Decay, Growth)
Weather (Seasons)

Favored Aspects

Animals/Plants

Cow

Colors

Green