Chauntea

The Great Mother, the Grain Goddess, the Golden Goddess, She Who Shapes All

Chauntea is a goddess of life, but it is the particulars of her domain that make her one of the most generally beloved deities. Known as the Grain Goddess, Chauntea takes a special interest in farmers and all manner of agrarian societies. This makes her one of the most important deities in the eyes of the many rural communities who live or die by the harvest. In any civilized settlement, any town or city in Faerûn, even lowly acolytes of Chauntea are treated with kindness and respect.
Chauntean priests and priestesses are often called upon to pray over freshly tilled soil, over new planting fields, and at harvest. In rural communities, weddings are sometimes held on or adjacent to a tilled field by Chauntean clerics, which is said to bless the couple with happiness or fertility.
Greengrass is a fertility festival, where Chaunteans take pleasure in consumption of food, drink, and hedonistic pursuits.
High Prayers of the Harvest is a celebration of Chauntea’s aid to an agrarian community. These celebrations occur on or near Highharvestide, though they are often specific to a community’s actual harvest season.
Most of Chauntea’s temples are small shrines that double as storage facilities for seeds and crops. Offerings of crops by local farmers are preserved longer than in mundane facilities, and the clergy there freely give seeds and food to those in need.
The best-known holy site of Chauntea is Goldenfields, which is a large abbey and farmland enclosed by walls and located northeast of Waterdeep. The nearly two dozen square miles of farmland is tended by a few thousand worshippers.

Divine Classification

Life domain

Alignment

Neutral Good