Shumunue

Shumunue

(Deity)

Titles

Carved Lady of Mimicry
Lord of Wood

Realm

Court of Transcendence, Plane of Wood

Areas of Concern

Wood, camouflage, carpentry, life, mimicry

Edicts

Make time for nature, recreate life in works, celebrate births

Anathema

Metamorphose another without consent, permanently damage a plant or wood creature

Domains (2E)

Creation, passion, swarm, wood
Alternative: perfection, repose

Favored Weapon

Club

Symbol

Wood esca of a fertile humanoid form with ginko leaves for a head

Source: Rage of Elements, pg(s). 194

Shumunue, Carved Lady of Mimicry, is an elemental lord of the Plane of Wood responsible for many of the plane's animated lifeforms. She is a rarity among elemental lords for not being native to the plane with which she has become associated.

History

Lady Shumunue claims to have been the product of a kodama and a traveling kizidhar wizard.

Relationships

Despite being an elemental lord, Lady Shumunue claims no land, power, or subjects. She instead cultivates followers and confidants who request her assistance on the behalf of others. She is associated with the Court of Transcendence, where she animated the plane's plants to take on forms of creatures native to other planes and produce their own offspring. Beings she created include painted stags and twins of rowan.

Lady Shumunue seeks connections with the other planes and has led trade negotiations with the Elemental Planes of Air, Fire, and Water. However, she has a distant relationship with her fellow elemental lord of wood Verilorn, with whom she has not spoken for thousands of years.

Home

While Lady Shumunue rules no realm on the Plane of Wood, she maintains a private residence on it. Only the Animated Garden is accessible to others, and only then to those selected from crafters who have lived on the plane for more than 10 years to make use of her premier tools and materials for wood-related arts. The Carved Lady visits the garden on her birthday to animate a creation of her choosing.

Appearance

Lady Shumunue resembles a forest dragon with ancient bark in place of scales, and a blighted mark of radioactive affliction from a failed invasion attempt of Ayrzul's Blistering Labyrinth.

Church of Lady Shumunue

Worshipers, emissaries, and clergy

Lady Shumunue counts ardandes among her worshipers, and her confidants' lead advisor is the ardande elementalist Master Yip Chi-Laan. The kizidhar Asim bint Attaar ranks among Lady Shumunue's confidants and is an expert at dealing with the disease known as Ayrzul's Blight.