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Fandarra

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Fandarra
Fandarra
(Deity)

Titles
The Blood Mother
The Bleeding Stone
The Earth Seer
Alignment
Areas of Concern
Blood
The cycle of life
Fertility
Knowledge
Worshipers
Stone giants
Edicts
Abide by the cycles of life, aid childbirth, destroy undead
Anathema
Strive to break the cycle of life (such as by attaining immortality or creating undead), despoil the earth, kill a juvenile creature
Follower Alignments (1E)
Domains (1E)
Community, Death, Earth, Knowledge, Plant
Subdomains (1E)
Caves, Family, Growth, Home, Memory, Thought
Follower Alignments (2E)
Sanctification (2E)
Can choose holy or unholy
Domains (2E)
Death, family, knowledge, nature
Alternate: Earth
Favored Weapon
Symbol
Mountain and moon
Sacred Animal
Sacred Colors
Brown, ivory
Source: Inner Sea Gods, pg(s). 324 (1E)
Divine Mysteries, pg(s). 202–203, 310–311 (2E)
Also detailed in Lost Mammoth Valley 62. Alignment details sourced from Inner Sea Gods and Lost Mammoth Valley. In Inner Sea Gods, Fandarra's areas of concern were the cycle of life, earth, and knowledge.

Fandarra is an ancient deity worshipped primarily by stone giants, although she is also followed by some humanoid peoples of northern Avistan.1

History

A contemporary of Erastil, Fandarra stayed rooted in the old tribal traditions and never embraced civilisation.1 Another legend tells that she is the mother of both stone giants and dire bears, a result of her union with the giants' aspect of Erastil known as Estig the Hunter.21

Appearance

Fandarra is typically depicted as a bald female stone giant wearing a crown of leaves and a dress of red mammoth fur, holding a haunch of meat in one hand and a stone tablet in the other. When her vengeful aspect is emphasized, she wears a necklace of knives or arrowheads. When depicted as a fertility goddess, she is pregnant or holds twin giants in her arms.1

Worshippers and clergy

Most of her worshippers are found among the stone, frost, and hill giants of northern Avistan. Her worship requires great sacrifices, and at times of great suffering the sacrifice of a worshipper might be necessary to appease her. Most of Fandarra's priests are clerics and druids. She sometimes grants her champions magical bear and mammoth guardians of great intelligence. Some are even said to understand the giant language.314

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Sean K Reynolds. “Other Gods” in Gods and Magic, 49. Paizo Inc., 2008
  2. Wolfgang Baur. “Born of Stone” in Fortress of the Stone Giants, 58. Paizo Inc., 2007
  3. Wolfgang Baur. “Born of Stone” in Fortress of the Stone Giants, 56. Paizo Inc., 2007
  4. Sean K Reynolds, et al. Inner Sea Gods, 188. Paizo Inc., 2014