Antheia

Antheia is the goddess of agriculture, plant growth and crops.
== Dominions ==
Antheia is known as a matron of farmers and those who provide supply lines to cities and armies.
== Worship ==
Rituals include 
=== Clergy ===
Antheia's clergy oversee and lead farming communities. Her priests are known to oversee more urban areas, such as larger villages and towns surrounded by farmland, whereas her druidic clerics are to be found in the forests and meadows of wilder areas, seeing to it that the balance of plant life in these areas is maintained. Priests of Antheia maintain that since their flocks require the providence of the Earth Mother to keep their great numbers fed, that their more organised faith is superior and truer to the goddess's will that that of the druids. In response the druids believe that since the goddess herself is very rarely spied outside of the forests where they make their abodes, that the priesthood have forgotten their origins in favour of industry, sacrificing fidelity to Antheia in exchange for the increasing comforts of civilisation. Although a schism exists between the priests and the druids, there is no great enmity between the two sects and both seem to find roughly equal favour in terms of divine attention. Wherever they tread, clerics of Antheia find respect amongst the peoples of the world, for their role in feeding the masses is known to be a vital one, both within cities and beyond their walls.
=== Non-clerical Followers ===
Those seeking to protect communities, those seeking to preserve their hold over farmland regions, anyone seeking to make use of the earth for farming, homesteading or construction, low-born villagers and peasants whose lives hinge upon her favour and graciousness. Armies whose lives depend upon steadily maintained supply lines of food also offer her copious reverence.
== Theology ==
Antheia is a prominent member of the Pantheon of the West, within Araia finding worship amongst the peoples of Arktorah and within Naen finding followers within Sandoria.
=== Divine Relationships ===
Antheia, as the goddess of planting, is wife to Lek-Ken, the god of harvests, and the two deities are often worshipped together as a composite spirit.