Mielikki
| Mielikki | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alignment | Neutral Good | |
| Divine Rank | Intermediate Goddess | |
| Pantheon | Faerun | |
| Portfolio | Animals, Forest Creatures, Forests, Dryads, Autumn | |
| Domains | Animal, Good, Plant, Travel | |
| Home Plane | 3E: House of Nature (Beastlands), 4E: Deep Wilds | |
| Worshippers | Druids, Dryads, Rangers, Elves, Gnomes, Handlings, Foresters | |
| Favoured Weapon | Hornblade (Scimitar) | |
Mielikki is the goddess of good woodland creatures in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. She is often considered the daughter of Silvanus although the two don't always see eye to eye on how to manage nature.
She is heavily associated with unicorns: her symbol is a unicorn, she spends her time in the Grove of Unicorns and her closest friend is a demigod unicorn.
If you think this sounds familiar then you're not wrong. You'd be taking the piss if you can't see that Mielikki and Ehlonna are the same Deity. Their portfolios and cosmology are virtually identical, with only plot points separating them and the number of siblings/servants she has, mostly because the Forgotten Realms setting squeezes in as many gods as possible, so there comes a slight dilution in portfolio.
History
Worshippers
Mielikki is immensely popular compared to her "core" counterpart Ehlonna for one very big reason: Drizzt Do'Urden.
Because of the popularity of that single sexy Elf, every fanboy and their dog worship Mielikki in imitation.
Servants / Exarchs
Mielikki has a plethora of demigod servants at her disposal, which means that although her divine portfolio on its own isnt quite as spanning as her counterpart Elhonna's is, when you put them all together and combine it with her sister Eldath, you end up with a powerful little pantheon of nature gods which you could consider Silvanus to be the over god for.
Lurue
| Lurue | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alignment | Chaotic Good | |
| Divine Rank | Demigoddess | |
| Pantheon | Faerun | |
| Portfolio | Intelligent/Talking Animals | |
| Domains | Animal, Chaos, Good, Healing | |
| Home Plane | 3E: House of Nature (Beastlands), 4E: Deep Wilds | |
| Worshippers | Druids, Rangers, Bards, Travellers, Furries | |
| Favoured Weapon | Short Spear | |
The aforementioned faithful steed of Mielikki is a demigoddess unicorn called Lurue. Her "Core" counterpart is Valerian.
One big deviation is that Lurue is female, and can take an uber-hot humanoid form, complete with horn in the middle of her forehead, when not being ridden around by Mielikki. Therefore fulfilling Rule 63 and Rule 34 at the same time.
Gwaeron Windstrom
| Gwaeron Windstrom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alignment | Neutral Good | |
| Divine Rank | Demigod | |
| Pantheon | Faerun | |
| Portfolio | Tracking, Hunting | |
| Domains | Animal, Good, Knowledge, Plants, Travel | |
| Home Plane | 3E: House of Nature (Beastlands), 4E: Deep Wilds | |
| Worshippers | Rangers, Druids, Troll Hunters | |
| Favoured Weapon | Flameheart (Great sword) | |
This guy started out as a mortal who was really good at tracking and was so good that he even managed to track down and slay several manifestations of the beast god: Malar. So Mielikki raised him up to a demigod.
His problem is that his portfolio is so freaking specific and not that much different from Mielikki's at all. He has no organised clergy away from the church of Mielikki, they even share the same holy places and observances. So people who meet a Cleric or Druid of Gwaeron Windstrom might not have actually realised that he was actually a god at all and merely some proxy or a herald. This means that he is in real danger of becoming forgotten about and just being absorbed into Mielikki.
This probably isn't a terrible fate for him, since at least he would be joining his own goddess rather than being reduced to nothingness by some enemy.
Shiallia
| Shiallia | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alignment | Neutral Good | |
| Divine Rank | Demigoddess | |
| Pantheon | Faerun | |
| Portfolio | Fertility, Celebrations of Life, Pregnancy, Children | |
| Domains | Animal, Good, Plants, Renewal | |
| Home Plane | 3E: House of Nature (Beastlands), 4E: Deep Wilds | |
| Worshippers | Druids, Farmers, Gardeners, people who want children | |
| Favoured Weapon | Forest's Friend (Quarterstaff) | |
Shiallia is the daughter of Tapann, the patron deity of the Korred species (imagine a really hairy Gnome) and either Mielikki herself, or the dwarven goddess Sharindlar, or the gestalt Uthgart Tree Spirit So she has a rare case of her paternity not bring in question, but several potential mothers all going "it's not mine!"
In any case, Shallia appears as a beautiful Korred whose mission is to promote the doctrine of "go forth and multiply" as holy writ.
She is a patron goddess of children, making it her business to ensure that young ones are kept safe whenever they enter woodland areas.
Her followers plant things wherever they go, but unlike the church of Chauntea the act of growing is good enough, not necessarily promoting agriculture or long term planning. So expect random assortments of flowers to pop up in their wakes.
Realm
Mielikki and her godlings reside in the House of Nature which is almost certainly a subrealm of the Beastlands. The realm is inherently good, and utterly given over to nature.
Petitioners who come here start out appearing much as they did in life, but over time their form slowly takes on animal traits; eventually culminating with them becoming true celestial animals and losing their minds where they becoming one with the plane.
Mielikki's Realm is the Grove of Unicorns, though it has no major features other than there are a lot of unicorns here.
| The Deities of Forgotten Realms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawful | Neutral | Chaotic | |
| Good | Ilmater • Nobanion • Torm • Tyr | Chauntea • Deneir • Eldath • Enlil • Gwaeron Windstrom • Lathander • Mielikki • Milil • Mystra • Shiallia | Lliira • Lurue • Selûne • Sharess • Sune • Tymora • Valkur |
| Neutral | Azuth • Helm • Hoar • Jergal • Kelemvor • Red Knight • Savras • Siamorphe • Ulutiu | Akadi • Ao • Auppenser • Gond • Grumbar • Istishia • Karsus • Kossuth • Oghma • Silvanus • Tempus • Ubtao • Waukeen | Finder Wyvernspur • Ibrandul • Leira • Mask • Shaundakul • Uthgar |
| Evil | Asmodeus • Bane • Gargauth • Gilgeam • Iyachtu Xvim • Loviatar | Auril • Bhaal • Myrkul • Shar • Velsharoon | Beshaba • Cyric • Garagos • Malar • Moander • Talona • Talos • Umberlee |