Melora

Wildmother

Melora, the Wildmother is the goddess of wilderness and the sea. She watches over nature, good harvest, grants protection from washing away in storms, and guides the passage of ships.

Worship

Issylra

The district of Vasselheim known as Abundant Terrace is dedicated to the Wildmother. The Abundant Terrace is where most of the food in Vasselheim is grown. In such a cold environment it is Melora's blessing that allows the land there to be fertile and grow crops from many different places. The temple in this district devoted to her worship is called the the Birthheart.

Wildemount

Worship of the Wildmother is banned in the Dwendalian Empire.
Outside of the Empire, there are five notable holy sites or shrines dedicated to the Wildmother that are currently known and many others hidden from the common eye.

Divine Domains

Life, Nature, Tempest.

Artifacts

The Hide of the Feral Guardian is one of the Vestiges of Divergence. It is believed that this polished and beautifully detailed leather armor was a gift from Melora, bestowed on a long-forgotten archdruid and champion of the natural world before the terrors of the Calamity.
The Spire of Conflux, an ancient staff made by Melora's breath, allows the wielder to cast powerful spells. It is one of the legendary artifacts known as Vestiges of the Divergence.
Star Razor, also known as Dwueth'var, is a sword from the Age of Arcanum and a Vestige of Divergence.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Tenets of Faith

Protect the untamed wilderness from exploitation and destruction.
Slay abominations and other mockeries of nature.
Embrace and respect that which you cannot control in this world. Exist in harmony with it.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

The Wildmother is in a relationship, albeit fractured, with the goddess of civilization and laws, Erathis. The fractured nature of the relationship reflects the disparity between civilization and nature, and Melora greatly wishes for the two to return to the harmony they once had. Druids of Melora and clerics of Erathis work to preserve the balance of nature and civilization. When this balance is upset, the two goddesses grow furious, and their fury manifests as devastating natural disasters.
Erathis and Melora created humans through their passionate love as the third race on Exandria. They granted humans passionate hearts as well but also a chaos that blessed them with the ambitions, mirth, and curiosity of their two creators but also cursed them to be too short-lived to fully fulfill these impulses. According to legends, the Wildmother is also responsible for the existence of two races: the aarakocra, created as storm herders who used to drive the clouds across the sky; and tabaxi, either through her dreams or magically influencing common felines with them.
During the Age of Arcanum, mortal followers of Sehanine and Melora forged Dwueth'var; unlike many of the weapons crafted during that era, it was intended to help protect Exandria rather than surpass or fight the gods.
In the Calamity, Melora bestowed the Spire of Conflux, one of the Vestiges of Divergence, on one of her heroes.
During the Calamity, Zehir ambushed and killed many followers of Melora near one of her shrines. Her screams created the tortuous, thorny Lushgut Forest, which crushed the followers of Zehir and sent them into retreat.
In one of the last battles of the Calamity, Melora and her Free Children battled Bane and his goblinoid legions, this time on the Beynsfal Plateaus of the Rifenmist Peninsula, where Bane was defeated and his armor was scattered across the region. The site of the battle was reduced to ash, and plants wouldn't grow there ever again.
Towards the end of the Calamity, the Wildmother planted a seed in the most desolate place in the world before withdrawing beyond the Divine Gate along with the rest of the Prime Deities. That place is now the Barbed Fields of Xhorhas, where the huge tree stands alone in the middle of dangerous plains. Called the Arbor Exemplar, it is considered the sister of the Seed of Rebirth in the The Abundant Terrace, the main temple of the Wildmother in Vasselheim.

Divine Classification

Prime Deity

Pronouns

She/her/hers

Gender

Female

Hair

Wild, tangled with leaves and vines

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Deep brown