Seta

Seta (SET-uh) is the Seasonal goddess of autumn, harvest, crops and bounty, as well as family and community. To model these values, she created the halflings. Seta guides communities to harvest the fruits of their labors from the earth and trees before the frost.

Table of Contents Description Personality Powers Aspects Realm Activities Relationships Worshipers Clergy Orders Temples Dogma Rites Scripture Holy Days Relics History Myths and Legends

Description

Seta is portrayed as a matronly with elaborate braided hair and hazel eyes. She is often depicted with a cornucopia of harvested treats and her sickle. While often noted as appearing like a halfling, Seta’s depictions often reflect the community she is adopted by.


During Starfall, Seta fell to a mortal form yet to be recorded.

Personality

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Powers

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Aspects

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Realm

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Activities

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Relationships

Seta is peaceful and attempts to be accepting of all of the other deities. However, there is some contention between Seta and Pyryrakas as they struggle for control of the year’s end.

Worshipers

Seta is popular among smaller rural communities and farmers who may refer to Seta as, ”The Harvester.”
Halfling communities look to ”The Hearth” for a sense of comfort and home. While dwarves and elves indulge in Seta’s matronly role calling her ”Egan, the Den Mother,” and ”Settahlenthal, Mother Harvest,” respectively.

Clergy

Individual clergy of Seta are often known as Crops and Bounty, but as a group are called ”The Harvest.” Their reach is near universal with at least the smallest of sects within communities in an effort to support their growth. New members of The Harvest become apprentices to older members who share and pass down traditions, encouraging youths to augment the traditions with modern magic for the betterment of all. High priests are often community leaders and representatives of the everyman.
The devout provide services related to farming and harvest, including educating future generations into the traditions and process of raising and tending to livestock, preparing, treating, and harvesting the land, and encouraging educational play.
Those that swear oaths or dedicate their lives to Seta often adorn themselves in the colors of Saffron and Goldenrod and defend themselves with tools of her craft such as the sickle, scythe, or pitchfork.

Orders

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Temples

A temple to Seta is called “The Pavilion of,” and then the name of the town or location it is in. No matter a community’s size, the temple begins and is centered around a finely crafted wooden structure that, by appearances, looks like a large tent. They frequently feature stables, usable by the faithful at no cost or by travelers in exchange for coin or community service.

Dogma

The Harvest believe that one needs the intrinsic desire to improve in order to achieve enlightenment. This is often due to the hard work required of its followers in building and maintaining one’s community and has caused many would-be acolytes to leave their apprenticeships early. There is one strong ideal that runs through Seta’s teachings:

• Treat others within the flock and family, livestock included, as one would treat Seta herself.

Within the worship of Seta, farmland is recognized as holy ground. Its care is reciprocated to its tender.

Rites

The Harvest encourages weekly worship both at home and within their community.
Faithful demonstrate their devotion by:

• Providing service within their community in the form of expertise, labor, or time.
• Sharing a meal with those outside your home, be they extended family, friends, or strangers.
• Meeting as a community to share anecdotes and open communication of grievances.

The latter is often facilitated by a head priest but serves as an open forum to express ideas and concerns, either personal or philosophical. Members sit on the ground as a symbol of everyone being “on even ground.”
Other rites within the harvest include clerics blessing farmlands in the spring, after planting, mid-summer, to encourage growth of crops and livestock, and the first day of harvest to bless the bounty and give thanks.

Scripture

The Crops and Bounty’s Almanac of Seta: A book, commonplace in appearance, that is enchanted to update upon the first day of winter. The first half of the book describes patterns for the faithful to notice in their surroundings to inform them of the coming year’s bounty. The second half of the book is filled with prophecies for the coming year. Schisms occur over the accuracy of the prophecies’ interpretations.

Holy Days

Harvestfest - Harvestfest occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. Given the different environments of the world, its exact time varies year to year as well as region to region. During Harvestfest, communities celebrate with feasting, merriment, contests, music, and romance.

Relics

The Golden Plow of Ameil is a moldboard plow with a golden blade. When used to till the earth, the land becomes magically fertile no matter the environment. Each plow may only enchant one field at a time. If a plow would be used to make a new field fertile, the previous field withers within a week.

History

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Myths and Legends

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Seta

Symbol of Seta by Trickster Serval

A Sickle in front of a Sun and Crescent Moon

Aliases: Egan, The Den Mother (Dwarven)‌; Settahlenthal, Mother Harvest (Elven)‌; The Hearth (Halfling)‌; The Harvester (Human)‌
Alignment: Neutral Good
Divine Rank: Seasonal
Portfolio/Domains: Animal; Community; Earth; Grave; Hunger; Knowledge; Nature; Plant; Repose; Sun
Worshipers: Druids; Halflings; Rangers
Favored Weapon: Scythe and Sickle