Auramind Goddess of Agriculture

Titles -

Auramind is the Goddess of Agriculture, Performance, Seasons, and Home. She is also called the Twilight Bazaar and Lotos Somno.

Appearance -

The Goddess of Agriculture often takes the appearance of an adult Desert Gnome woman with long, curly, dark brown hair and green eyes. She usually wears a red festive desert style red dress with several accessories of her past. She has a red tattoo in the shape of a lotus flower on her backShe also wears a golden tiara with her emblem on the centerpiece. Auramind’s emblem is a lotus surrounded by two worlds: desert and springs.

History -

Auramind was born as a Gnome in the Uchlesin Tribe’s Burrow Town in 33rd of Diber, 572 DT. She was said to be born with a special ability. This was to be able to comprehend almost any language or art form at a glance. She was able to find the meaning in humanoid creatures' creative expressions. Some say that her abilities came from an early blessing by “The Party Trickster” himself.
Long ago the Sâchrin Desert existed from what is now southern Tech Meadow, Northern Remoria, and much of the modern Great Dessert. This desert had unique landscapes that ranged from valleys, oases, mountains, dunes, caves and some others which no longer exist anywhere in the mortal plane of Tailon. It was, in general, a place for many Gnomes that were able to use their smarts to create a good life for themselves within the desert. However, when “The Chrome Glutton” descended, any hope for a good life in the Sâchrin was lost.
By the 500s DT, the Sâchrin Desert had become almost a wasteland. With barely any food, water, or other resources besides rocks. Yet those rocks had kept the people there alive (for better or for worse) for the last several hundred years. The specific minerals of rock within the desert proved a valuable resource to many outside. Certain minerals had healing properties or could be used for other magical purposes. The Chrome Lords, a group of chromatic dragons and other humanoids who worshiped and were led by Tiamat (it remnants would eventually become the Cult of the Dragon), took great interest at the beginning of their Goddesses reign to secure these minerals.
So they conquered the peaceful Sâchrin Desert and enslaved its people under the banner of Tiamat. They would then have the inhabitants of the desert work in its mines and quarries to dig up as many precious resources as they could. Often having the people work the whole day in the extremely hot conditions of the desert.
After a few hundred years most of the special mineral resources had been mined up and the people there were still slaving away for these rocks. The Chrome Lords did not care for the people of Sâchrin, so when these resources began to deplete they began to leave the people to starve and die.
By the time of Auramind’s birth the desert people were dying off in the thousands as there weren't enough resources in the desert any longer to support the people there. Auramind had to grow up in one of the many Gnomish tribes that formed to survive after the Chrome Lords left. Life there was extremely hard with lack of food and water combined with constant conflict with other people and tribes to even just barely survive.
Auramind grew up experiencing all of the suffering, hardship, and death of the desert folk. As a young girl she promised to herself to make life in the desert possible for all people. So she began to study ancient texts that no one else understood that were littered around the Sâchrin. She gained knowledge of what the now ancient Gnomes did to survive in the desert. She learned of their dance rituals and their use of the special minerals of the desert to create rain in specific places that were best suited for agriculture.
When she grew up she used her gift and the knowledge of the ancient texts to help her tribe create the first farm in the desert in over six hundred years. She was revered by the people of her tribe for this deed. She would continue to use her knowledge to help out other desert people for over one hundred years. Eventually, through shared agriculture a semi united civilization of the Gnomish tribes formed in the desert.
However, the Chrome Lords would come back to the desert after seeing its rebirth. They wanted to continue to harvest the minerals of the desert for their own gain. They threatened to re enslave the people if they refused to return to the mines for the minerals. Of course, after experiencing the horrors of desert after the Chrome Lord came, the Gnomes rejected the lords and rebelled against them.
But after a few weeks the still weak Gnome civilization was at the brink of destruction by the mighty Chromatic Dragons. So the tribes of the Gnomes came together to devise a plan. Their plan was to put all of the Sâchrin’s faith into Auramind. They believed that with their faith and her gift and knowledge they could create a way to fend off the Dragons.
They set up a massive ritual and poured their resources and faith into her. It would be a large ceremony to collect magic from the Gnomes to transport Auramind back to the birthplace of the Gnomes, Bytopia, to plead for their help in defeating the Dragons. They called this ceremony Lotos Somno. And after an intense day-long ritual Auramind entered a sleep where she was transported to Bytopia.
Here, Auramind explored the home of the Gnomes while trying to find and meet with the Lords of the Golden Hills. Here she also gained much more knowledge from the Gnomes, sentient animals, and angels who lived there. She would go around desperately performing the struggles of her people in a dance to all that she met with to try to rally support for the Sâchrin Desert.
She would finally be escorted to the Lords of the Golden Hills by a band of people that she had recruited to help her people. The Lords of the Golden Hills would recognize Auramind’s pleas. They gave her some of their power and the knowledge to protect the desert.
She would then awake from her ceremonial sleep and bring with her the power to rewrite the war. Auramind went forth and changed the landscape of the entire desert. She brought life and water to the Sâchrin, transforming much of it into a giant meadow full of life. Then her allies from Bytopia chased out the Chrome Lords from the desert turned meadow.
Auramind would create the seasons and life to the once desolate desert. While communing with her allies in Bytopia to keep at bay the evil Dragons of Tiamat for many years. She, through some combination of factors (Bravery, Power, Faith of her People and deeds), would be given Divine Treasures from The King of the Gods. Allowing her to continue to protect her people until the end of the reign of Tiamat.
Throughout the hundreds of years Auramind’s divine influence would continue to change the environment of Sâchrin. By the start of the 4 Great Dragon Champions Rebellion the region has become what it is today: a large jungle and meadow full of life, resources, and water. She would help the Dragon Champions in their rebellion with her powers to create food for war and entertainment with dances.
After Tiamat was defeated Auramind Ascended in what had become the annual Lotos Somno festival which commemorated her great deeds to save the Sâchrin. Now the festival is an important part of the year, especially for Gnomes, and happens for 11 days after the 17th of Hexber. (11 days was how long she was asleep in Bytopia).

General -

Auramind is warm, smiling, friendly, and extremely polite to just about everyone she meets. She is highly skilled in dancing, being the main star of the Mathusgi Theater on Mount Celestia (this theater was once a theater in Sâchrin but has been destroyed since). She is patient and helpful, guiding anyone who meets her through issues they have step-by-step and offering ways to relieve stress.
The Goddess of Agriculture and Seasons is very connected to her Authorities. Enough to be able to actually control the seasons herself and promote agriculture in the mortal plane. While her Authorities aren’t very strong in battle she still has the power to completely control the seasons and cause an eternal winter if she wanted to.
Even though she doesn't have the Divine Authority of Gnomes, many see her as their God. But right now the Tech Meadow has claim to and controls most of her people (Gnomes) homes on the mortal plane. There is no longer an official nation of Gnomes after her Queendom of Uchlesin Sâchrin collapsed in 2824 AT under the Tortle Kingdom. While Auramind is a peaceful and extremely polite Goddess, she is very unhappy with the current treatment and status of Gnomes on the mortal plane.

Alignment

Neutral Good

Species

Gnome

Ethnicity

Desert

Date of Birth

33rd of Diber, 572 DT

Sex

Female

Eyes

Green

Hair

Dark Brown, Long, curly

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Tanned

Height

3'6"

Aligned Organization

The Pantheon