Reaper & Sower

The Reaper & Sower — also known as the Carrion Lord, and Black Siol — is a God recognised by the Church of Eighteen Eyes, believed to rule over the domains of Earth, Healing, Nature, and Undeath. The Reaper & Sower is a cyclical God, overseeing all that grows on Glüm. However, They are a jealous God, and refuse to see Their fields fall fallow, and Their plants rot into nothing. As such, They are known to have things linger far longer than they should, wasting away with disease and the smell of spoiled flesh.
The Reaper & Sower is a favoured deity of farmers and those with little to lose, often finding fertile ground for worship among the poor and downtrodden.

Divine Portfolio

• Edicts the bereft mind is fertile ground, sow seeds early to reap rewards often, share widely to recover quickly
• Anathema hoard more than you require, allow others to starve, kill without need
• Divine Font harm or heal
• Divine Skill Nature
• Favoured Weapon scythes
• Domains earth, healing, nature, undeath
• Cleric Spells 1st: goblin pox, 3rd: wall of thorns, 5th: treestride

Holidays

Though praised everyday by most people, the Reaper & Sower has specific worship days at the beginning and ending of each week of the Vekhen Calendar: Sowday and Reapday. On Sowday, farmers are expected to plant a seed — even if it is not planting season — whilst other people are encouraged to express intentions for the week ahead. On Reapday, farmers are expected to collect some form of harvest (and being unable to collect anything is considered a curse), whilst others are encouraged to take stock of their week.
The two largest festivals for Reaper & Sower are midnight on the 15th of High-Autumn — the Autumn Equinox — and dawn on the 16th of High-Spring — the first light after the Spring Equinox. The Autumn Equinox is supposed to be marked as a time of death and letting go, where communities gather to conduct mass ritualised funerals for those they lost that year, as well as burning symbols of their troubles. Vegetable scraps — especially grain husks — are used to create simulacra of the Reaper so that They may carry off any evils. The morning after the Spring Equinox is supposed to be marked as a time of new life and rejoicing, where communities gather to conduct mass ritualised marriages and other fertility displays.

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Divine Classification

God

Realm

Fallows

Church/Cult

Church of Eighteen Eyes

Ruled Locations

• Fallows