Children of the Wild Mother
Goddess of Nature and the embodyment of pacifism
Mythology & Lore
Normally appeared in a 10 ft (3 m) tall female form, but the details varied. Depictions in religious art and known appearances had her as a human, wild elf, sea elf, dryad, and nereid. She was tall, thin, graceful, beautiful, and her form was always translucent enough to be seen through at all times. Sometimes she was said to have dark hair while at others her hair was colorless like water, and seemed more like spun glass or flowing ice; as a dryad or wild elf, her hair was blue and green. Her eyes were a deep shade of green.
Divine Origins
As a druid she helped cultivate nature and in return nature made her its god.
Cosmological Views
Gods are beings of unimaginable energy that lat themselves to the beliefs of mortals. The faith of mortals provides a deity with not only power but the purpose. Gods can have many forms and they change them frequently. Once they have attached themself to a domain that enough mortals believe in they assume their role. For example, the divine entities might assume their place in the domain of fine cooking and win now any faith within the psychical planes tied to that domain fuels that god. Any being of raw power that does not assume godhood runs the risk of being consumed by other more powerful beings or dissipating back into raw unintelligent energy.
Ditris started life as a druid but her compassion for nature and the example she set allowed her to send to godhood when she left the mortal coil and nature itself assigned the role to her.
Tenets of Faith
Embrace the Diversity of Nature.
Balance is the Key to Life.
Cultivate the Garden of Self.
Ethics
Ditris is a pacifist who avoided hostile action, even if threatened. Although shy, quiet, and enigmatic, the Green Goddess was possessed of unknown depths of character and unexpressed resolve that could not be broken. Ditris protects rivers, streams, and druids' groves.
Worship
Ditris followers are organized into a simplistic hierarchy, where priests reported to a local high priest responsible for a realm or larger region. Most followers dwelt in quiet forest communities with open-air sacred places of worship or in woodside cottages, far from the baseness of city life; both often containing pools of placid water in unspoiled areas. They rarely ever engaged in open confrontation and always acted subtly and peacefully
Her clergy often followed migratory patterns travelling from holy site to holy site in a local area. They took care of the holy sites and allied with the local druids who followed the First Circle, of which Ditris was considered a member. The violence of any kind against a Ditristen priest was considered taboo, and murdering one was said to bring extremely bad luck. Even so, most servants of Ditris preferred to avoid conflict rather than trying to pacify it because they understood that peace cannot be forced. They would happily preside over peaceful meetings and witness political treaties
Political Influence & Intrigue
Many rural communities had a designated pond or glade which served as a holy site for local parishioners. These places were traditionally used as places to reflect and meditate. Usually a body of water (either the pond itself or a stream near those glades considered holy sites) served as a repository for offerings to Ditris in connection with these holy places. If no water was nearby, a special tree or bush was designated as a repository on which offerings were tied to the branches.
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