Shadari

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Titles: The Fearless Mother, The Compassionate, The Patient Shepherdess, The Light in the Sky.

‌Shadari is the goddess of harvest and healing in the Imperial Pantheon. Compassion and peace are her greatest virtues, but her followers should also be ready to protect their flock against those that would do them harm.

Domains

Agriculture, community and healing are the three main pillars of Shadari’s powers. She also has some of the powers of the sun, bringing light to the dark places and smiting that which hides in the darkness.

Teachings

• Show compassion towards all. Even your worst enemies might find redemption in kindness.
• Share your blessings with those that have less. Giving should come from the heart, and not from the pressure of others.
• Care for those that are sick or injured. Carry their burdens on your back, as you would like others to do, if you were in their place.
• Peace is a virtue. But when peace is impossible, you should not hesitate what needs to be done. Destroy those that would destroy your community, and if the source is taint, burn it out.

Symbols

Shadari’s symbol is a chalice overflowing with bounty or wine. The official weapon of her church is the scimitar, though her followers will also take up farming implements like scythes and sickles to fight their foes.

Her followers do not carry a holy symbol, but may present the gesture of The Cupped Hands.

Her color is blue. While her clergy in town and cities may wear robes of all blue, the clergy in smaller towns and villages generally wear whatever is available, no matter the color.

Organization

Worshippers

Shadari is worshipped throughout the empire, but her worship is dominant in rural communities where her shrine may be the only in the village. Almost every farmer will offer prayers to Shadari for good harvest, even those that also worship local gods and spirits on the side. In urban communities, worship is less consistent, with citizens visiting her temples when they are sick or incapable of supporting themselves (as the church often run soup kitchens and shelters when able). Depending on the community, donations to the church may be plentiful, or leave the church struggling to make ends meet.

Clergy

The church of Shadari is organized organically, with each temple and shrine responsible for its own running, though different temples will readily help each other when needed. In some larger towns and cities, temples and shrines will be grouped together, enabling them to distribute their resources where they are needed the most.

The clergy of Shadari are tasked with tending to the physical and spiritual needs of any person that might need help. The should help their local community and try to improve the circumstances of the people therein. However, priests are also expected to be trained in combat, so that they can help defend the community, if the need arises.

Temples and Shrines

Temples and shrines to Shadari is found in most settlements in the empire.

In the towns and cities, the temples serve as meeting places, soup kitchens and shelters for the homeless and sick. They are made in the local styles, and generally indistinguishable from a large guild hall. Priests may live in the temple, or in their own dwellings depending on the local culture.

In the smaller villages and hamlets, the shrines follow more or less the same style, though they can usually dispense with the auxiliary structures used to help the poor in larger settlements.

Holy days and Festivals

In rural communities, it is common for the locals to meet in the shrine every 10 days or so to listen to the priests and speak about local affairs. In addition they will hold harvest and planting festivals to Shadari (and local farming deities and spirits) at the end of Harvest and before Planting. There is usually also midwinter day of prayer around the end of the month of Prayer.

Universally, Shadari is one of the patron deities of The Festival, during which the church of Shadari provides food and entertainment (if the budget allows it). It is custom during the festival for well-to-do citizens and local leaders to donate generously to the church.

In addition, there are smaller holy days that may or may not be celebrated depending on the locale:

• New Birth (6th of Judgement): Where the children that have been born during the previous year are introduced to Shadari and the community.
• Salve of Shadari (24th to 26th of Books): During which are relegated the story of the believer Naae, one of Shadari’s first followers.
• The Walk of Penance (13th to 18th of Mercy): During which newly released criminals can stand before the congregation and state their penitence, so as to be forgiven by the community.

Sects

The Blades of Shadari

A martial order of monks with monastery in Toulin, the Blades of Shadari specialize in hunting down monsters that have been permanently tainted by the forces of darkness.

The Veil of the Innocent

A sect of the church which opposes the slavery that takes place in the southern and eastern parts of the empire. They have started freeing slaves and otherwise causing disruptions, which has caused the Imperial Inquisition to declare them outlaws. Though local priests has been forced to disavow the sect, they still have much support.

Priests of Shadari

Class Skills: Priests of Shadari gain the following class skills: Diplomacy (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge(nature; Int), Perception (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis).

Channel Energy: Priests of Shadari channel positive energy, healing living creatures and damaging undead creatures.

Granted Spheres: Priests of Shadari gain the Fate and Life spheres. You also get the Sympathetic drawback.

Granted Powers

Rebuke Death (Sp)

You can touch a living creature as a standard action, healing it for 1d4 points of damage plus 1 for every two priest levels you possess. You can only use this ability on a creature that is below 0 hit points.

You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.

Touch of Nourishment (Su)

As a standard action, you can touch an ally to nourish it with divine energy, granting it fast healing 1 for 1 minute.

In addition, this healing provides nourishment to the ally as if it had eaten a normal meal for a Medium creature.

You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.

Healer’s Blessing (Su)

At 6th level, all of your cure spells are treated as if they were empowered, increasing the amount of damage healed by half (+50%). This does not apply to damage dealt to undead with a cure spell. This does not stack with the Empower Spell metamagic feat.

Bramble Armor (Su)

At 6th level, you can cause a host of wooden thorns to burst from your skin as a free action. While bramble armor is in effect, any foe striking you with an unarmed strike or a melee weapon without reach takes 1d6 points of piercing damage + 1 point per two priest levels you possess.

You can use this ability for a number of rounds per day equal to your cleric level. These rounds do not need to be consecutive.