Aelia

Aelia, the Giving, is the goddess of nature, the seasons, the harvest, and food bearing foliage. Her domain brings growth and bounty to the world and to the people.

Description
Aelia is Sharo's twin sister and is shown as a beautiful brown-haired woman wearing robes and a crown of flowers and vines. She is drawn with green eyes and a slender figure. She is not usually depicted wearing armor but she is sometimes shown wielding a large sickle.

Personality
Aelia is seen as generous and wise. She is slow to anger and seeks to provide mortals with gifts from the earth. She seeks to nurture and grow people/things that she comes into contact with both physically and more often than not, spiritually and emotionally. She can be prone to be overly serious at times always concerned with how mortals' behavior impacts the natural order of things.

Powers & Abilities
All of Aelia's magical abilities stem from controlling nature and the earth. She can control plants and trees as if they were sentient. She can make things grow and sprout and bring life to otherwise lifeless areas among other things.

Worshipers
She is worshiped by farmers and some rangers as she is also goddess of the seasons and therefore called upon for good weather during harvest time. Land owners will call upon Aelia to bless their lands to be prosperous. Temples to her are always in woods and priests are druid-like in their appearance and personality.

Traditions
Much of the Festival of Crowns is to give thanks to Aelia for a successful harvest and to enjoy the fruit of one's labors. Offerings of the best of what was harvested are often burnt on the altar to give homage and thanks to Aelia a week before the actual Festival begins in order to specifically worship her and ask for another bountiful year coming up.