Hiatea Hiatea is the giant deity of nature , agriculture , hunting , females , and children . Her symbol is a flaming spear . She takes the form of a tanned , lithe giantess with long legs , wearing leather armor and carrying a spear that flames on her command , a bow , and a quiver of arrows . Her hair is red - golden , and her large eyes are hazel - brown . She is sometimes said to have used her spear to slay an enormous hydra , preventing its heads from regenerating by cauterizing them with fire . She is strong , confident , and an exceptional hunter . Being from the giant pantheon , Hiatea is actually a titan . Hiatea has two aspects . From her firbolg upbringing , she has an affinity for community , agriculture , and family . Once she discovered her true patrimony ( another myth said it was due to Stronmaus ' teasing ) , she reinvented herself as a mighty hunter and protector . Hiatea is a daughter of Annam . Her mother was an unnamed sky goddess or , according to some myths , a mortal giant . Annam originally preferred sons over daughters , and used magic to ensure the gender of his offspring was male . Hiatea ' s mother hid her pregnancy from Annam and had her daughter raised by firbolgs so that Annam would never learn of her existence . When she came of age , a messenger was sent from her mother ' s deathbed to tell Hiatea of her true parentage . Hiatea proved herself with a series of daring feats , culminating in an epic battle with a great monster , sometimes named as a Lernaean hydra with fifty heads and sometimes as a tarrasque . She brought a trophy of her kill to her father , who recognized her valor and worth , accepting her as one of his own offspring . Upon learning of her existence , her brother Stronmaus celebrated by creating mighty storms that flooded the worlds and washed away great evils . Hiatea ' s other siblings or half - siblings include Skoraeus Stonebones , Surtr , Thrym , Grolantor , Karontor , Iallanis , Diancastra , and possibly Vaprak and Memnor . Because of her patronage of the wood giants , Hiatea she has begun to develop real friendships with some of the elven deities , notably Solonor Thelandira , whom she often engages with in archery contests . Hiatea lives in " Woodhaven " on the wild , rugged layer of " Eronia " on the plane of Elysium . She often journeys to the Beastlands on hunting expeditions , impressing all who dwell there . Worshipers . Hiatea is worshipped by giants of all species , especially females . Firbolgs and voadkyn ( wood giants ) of both genders are particularly fond of Hiatea , and consider her to be their special patron . Hiatea teaches that Nature is both creator and destroyer , and that admitting defeat is the worst shame a giant can bear . Still , some prices are too high to pay even for victory , for Hiatea is a goddess with tendencies toward good . Hiatea ' s priests typically have one of two roles , although the boundary between the two can occasionally be fuzzy . There are the community priests ( " priests of the steadings " ) who tend to agriculture and the raising , protection , and education of children ; there are also the protector ( or sentinel ) priests who patrol woodlands and forests and keeping an eye on other races . Her voadkyn protector priests go out of their way to maintain relations with the wood elves . Among the firbolg , female clerics may be somewhat more numerous than male ones , though males and females are considered of equal merit in all of Hiatea ' s sects . The highest priests of Hiatea belong to no community , visiting the giant steadings only to issue orders to the priests of the community . Hiatea communicates frequently with her priests and shamans , sending omens in the form of distinctive shapes in the fires , or in flaming spheres within dying embers . Her community priests may see omens in the dreams of children . She may also send omens in the form of a gigantic ( 2 - foot wingspan ) yellow - gold moth that will spiral around flame . Her priests perceive messages in its path of flight . Those who capture the moth alive will be invisible in woodlands for days . All of Hiatea ' s clerics must be capable of surviving and hunting in the wilderness . Those who lose this ability due to age , injury , or other ailment must retire . Hiatea ' s favored weapon is the spear . Once a month or so , the community priests accompany the sentinel priests and the faithful on a ceremonial hunt . Once a year , usually in the spring , they select a particularly challenging creature to kill . Making family decisions without consulting a community priest of Hiatea is considered a minor sin by the faithful .