Title: The Sad Maiden
Symbol: Heart with an air glyph within
Portfolio: East Wind, Renewal, Spring
Alignment: Neutral Good
Worshipers Alignment: Any Non-evil
Domains: Air, Good, Plant, Sun, Travel
Favoured Weapons: Windstorm (Sling)
Atroa (ah-TRO-ah) is the goddess of Spring, East Wind, and Renewal. As Goddess of Spring, Atroa is the invigorating brea
th that awakens the world from its slumber. She gifts the world with new love and new life, renews old friendships, and plucks the heartstrings of lovers, travelers, and poets. The Sad Maiden promotes spring as a time for burying old feuds, repairing old items, and eliminating old biases. Spring, like the dawn, presages great things; Atroa urges her followers to look to the future with open minds and hearts in order to enjoy them to the fullest. They believe in taking responsibility for what they have begun, and nurturing what they have planted. It is a great sin in Atroa’s faith to allow a plant to die because of neglect, or to allow a child to go hungry. They believe in the basic good of all people. Celibacy is frowned upon by Atroa, who encourages marriages and pregnancies. Pregnant priestesses of Atroa are considered the holiest of them all.
There are two sects of the Atroan church: the Planterings and the Bearers. The Planterings concentrate on Atroa’s seasonal aspect, working hard at farming, honouring the spring and preparing for winter. The Bearers concentrate on the aspect of renewal, revering the family and urging the proliferation of the human race. They run orphanages, and are usually women.
She is revered by explorers, romantics,farmers and others who depend on the land’s bounty.
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