Fierna

Fierna is a fallen god of the Materian Pantheon. She is credited for the existence of monsters: the strange, unnatural and often violent creatures of the world, especially dire animals, gigantic vermin, feral humanoids like trolls, and the other monstrous creatures that stalk the lonely, wild parts of the world.
There is reasonable contention regarding Fierna. Some tales say that she is a malicious being, intentionally creating wild, destructive beings to sew unhappiness and chaos. These stories usually paint her as a ruler of hell, a favoured consort of Riast. Other tales depict her as a tragic figure: at the creation of the earth, Enthidor tasked the two goddesses Fierna and Yoma with populating the land with life. Finding Fierna's creations less desirable than Yoma's, he commanded her to destroy her creations and remake them in the image of Yoma's benign plants and animals. Fierna refused, as they were her children and she loved them, and so Enthidor rejected her and cast her away. Lonely and dejected, she wanders the edges of the earth and heavens, much as her children haunt the edges of the civilized world.
Fierna lends her name to Fiernan, the language of uncivilized yet at least somewhat intelligent creatures.
Category:Religion