Goddess: Biris

Biris

Goddess of Agriculture, the hunt and fertility

Biris is seen as a minor agricultural deity by those who dwell in places like Vertange or Perlis, though she has a lot of followers outside the big cities, these being mostly farmers but a lot of hunter-gatherers also pray to her for a successful hunt.

You can often find small improvised shrines for her on the countryside made from flat stones stacked to form a small tower. Near these shrines, fertile farms and edible plants are more likely to be found, allowing those who pay respect to Biris to survive more easily when on the road.

She is most often depicted as a young female holding either a sickle or a hunting bow.

Biris is not known for warring with her fellow gods. She tends to stay away from conflicts if they are not a matter of survival, largely giving both her and her followers a neutral nature.

The only thing known to truly earning her ire is the mistreatment or mismanagement of land and wildlife. Hunting a species into extinction or indiscriminately carving away at the forests in which she dwells upsets both Biris and her children, the dryads.

Most of her followers take good care of their farmlands and forests, in part due to this but also in part due to practicality. Those who worship Biris oft speak of sudden strokes of luck, coincidences such as an usually large harvest when drought strikes a nearby village or a deer kneeling before them rather than running away while game is sparse.

The mantles of power that are associated with Biris are:

- agriculture

- wildlife

- forests

- the natural cycle of death and rebirth