Silvanus

Silvanus
Alignment	True Neutral
Divine Rank	Greater God
Pantheon	Faerun, Celtic, Roman
Portfolio	Animals, Trees, Nature, Wild Growth, opposing civilization
Domains	3E: Animal, Plant, Protection, Renewal, Water. 4E Life, Storm, Wilderness
Home Plane	2E: Tir Na Nog (Outlands), 3E: House of Nature (Beastlands), 4E: Deep Wilds
Worshippers	Druids, Rangers, Wood Elves, Hippies, Environmentalists
Favoured Weapon	The Great Mallet of Silvanus!! (Maul)

Silvanus is the god of wild nature in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.

He is served by several deities of nature, most notably Mielikki, goddess of good woodland creatures, which points to some very close analogous between Obad-Hai and Ehlonna from the Greyhawk setting, that they may very well be the same deities just under different names.

History / Dogma

Silvanus, along with Oghma is an interloper deity, recognised on many worlds under many different guises. (Both of them likely originating from the RL Celtic pantheon, where Silvanus is known as Sucellos). In Faerun his portfolio used to belong to Chauntea, but as time went on and after Netheril fell, Chauntea became more associated with agriculture than nature and so lost parts of her portfolio to Silvanus.

Silvanus is one of those old, dawn of time deities along with Chauntea and Lathander who exist to administer to fundamental forces of the universe and have always been greater deities, rather than having risen up from lower ranks of godhood or mortality.

As such, he is typically detached from events in the world, preferring to get involved where his portfolio says so and little else.

However, he is not without ideology; though he has an off/on relationship with the Earthmother Chauntea, goddess of agriculture, domestic animals and gardens, Silvanus believes that you shouldn't fuck with nature and opposes any attempt to tame the wilderness, taking a particular dislike to people who use fire and anyone whose profession is "woodcutter".

Trivia

• Silvanus was a god in the real life Roman Pantheon. However rather than being the cranky old fucker who yells "keep off the grass" he was a PROPER god of MANLY bare-chested MEN who spent all their time toiling with their MUSCLES in the fields to bring home food for the wimmin-folk. Thus he was a goddess of agriculture, rather than wild nature, and his cults were exclusively male.
• As another variant on the Silvanus / Obad-Hai mixture, in the Ghostwalk campaign they probably got blended with Corellon Larethian to form Galaedros which is what you'd get if you put Silvanus at the top of a pantheon and gave him a crazy as fuck ex-wife.