Ky, Nature Mother
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Ky, Nature Mother

Gods

🌿 Ky, the Nature Mother

Goddess of Wild Nature, Beasts, Plants, and the Living World
Greater Deity of Primeval Life and the Untamed Earth
Alignment: Neutral

📜 Lore & Origin

Ky is the eternal mother of the wild, the breath of the forest and the heartbeat of the storm. She is the untouched wilderness, the bloom that bursts from the earth unbidden, and the rain that falls without asking. While druids call her The Green Lady and rangers whisper her name as She-Who-Grows, she is more than a spirit of fertility—she is the raw, sacred balance of nature itself.

She is unclaimed by civilization, unbound by culture, and untamed in both wrath and mercy. She does not farm, but she feeds. She does not train beasts, but gives them freedom. Domesticated plants and cultivated land fall to her son Bloom, god of fields, who tends what she lets grow wild.

Ky’s wildness is tempered, though never contained, by her divine spouse: Nisaba, the Ledger-Keeper. Their union is one of sacred contrast—untamed nature and measured agriculture, spontaneous growth and structured bounty. Though their worshippers rarely cross paths, druids and grain priests alike tell stories of the two goddesses dancing under equinox moons, binding chaos and order in the cycle of seasons.

Ky is most fervently worshipped by druids, hermit-scholars, and rangers, though some fey, dryads, and beastkin revere her in secret places.

🌼 Depiction

Ky is most often portrayed as a petite, lithe woman with skin the color of bark, hair like woven ivy and moss, and eyes blooming with flower-petals instead of irises. Her form often shifts to that of animals, trees, or weather-born mist. She is clad in living leaves, sometimes glowing faintly with natural bioluminescence.

Her holy symbol is the iris flower, blooming in radiant forest green, representing life’s fragile beauty and quiet resilience.

🛕 Worship & Doctrine

Temples: Rarely built—her “temples” are sacred groves, mossy hilltops, deep forests, or open meadows.
Clergy Titles: Grove-Mothers, Beast-Friends, Greenhands
Holy Days: Equinoxes, Spring’s First Bloom, and the Day of Rainfall (first heavy storm after winter)
Holy Symbol: An iris flower, usually carved from wood or stone
Sacred Animals: The stag and the owl—guardians of the forest and watchers in the night

🦌 Tenets of the Faithful

Clerics and followers of Ky must:

  • Preserve the wild wherever it exists

  • Take only what is needed from nature, and leave the rest untouched

  • Defend animals and plants from senseless harm or defilement

  • Allow the cycle of life, death, and growth to flow unhindered

  • Revere storms, wild places, and beasts as the language of the goddess

🔮 Special Spell Access (Arcane Crossovers)

Clerics of Ky may prepare the following OSE Advanced arcane spells as divine, representing her influence over living things and nature’s subtle power.

Spell LevelSpell NameArcane SourceDivine Meaning in Ky's Faith
2ndInvisibilityArcaneA veil of nature—become as the silent beast or hidden leaf
3rdFlyArcaneRide the wind as birds do—freedom gifted by the storm
4thPolymorph OtherArcaneLife reshaped—blessing or lesson from nature’s hand
5thWall of ThornsArcaneThe forest’s wrath—thickets rise to shield or punish

These spells must be prepared under open sky, in the presence of living flora or fauna.

✨ Holy Garb of Ky

“Wear the world as your cloak. Let every leaf and creature know your step.”
— Whispered Prayer of the Grove-Mothers

Clerics of Ky wear living garments—robes woven from moss, petals, and animal hair, enchanted to grow with the seasons. These vestments serve as divine foci, blessed only when worn beneath sky and bough.

🧥 Stages of Sacred Garb

1. Cloak of Petals (20 gp)

  • Appearance: A forest-green robe with a mantle of pressed flower petals, ever fresh and fragrant.

  • Focus Use: Required for 1st-level spell preparation.

“Let beauty defend you.”

2. Circlet of Vines (75 gp)

  • Appearance: A twisted circlet of ivy, thorns, and silverleaf.

  • Focus Use: Required for 2nd-level and higher spells.

  • Optional Effect: 1/day, speak with any non-hostile beast as Speak with Animals.

“Crown yourself with the voices of the wild.”

3. Gorget of the Living Root (300 gp)

  • Appearance: A wooden gorget grown from a sacred tree, set with amber stones and carved with animal sigils.

  • Focus Use: Required for 3rd-level spells and higher.

  • Optional Effect: While worn in sunlight or rain, regain 1 HP per turn during rest, once per day.

“The world nourishes those who nurture it.”

⛓️ Rules for Divine Focus in Ky’s Faith

  • Spellcasting Restriction: Clerics must wear or carry their sacred garb to prepare and cast spells.

  • Defilement or Loss: Garb must be regrown or replaced via ritual planting, druidic blessing, or fasting in the wild.

  • Turn Undead: Without proper garb, Turn Undead attempts suffer −2 penalty, as the balance of life and death falters.

Marks of Servitude

  • 1st: Vines or moss grow faintly in hair overnight.

  • 2nd: Skin takes on faint patterns like bark or leaf-veins.

  • 3rd: Scent of earth or rain clings to them regardless of hygiene.

  • 4th: Eyes reflect green light like forest creatures.

  • 5th: Flowers bloom briefly in footprints or hair during divine rites.