Erathis

**Erathis** (Air-Rath-iss) is a neutral god who oversees civilisation, inventions, and infrastructure. Those who believe in her consider it both bad form and very bad luck not to honour her in any given town, city, or nation. Therefore, while Erathis has fewer highly devoted followers than other gods, she commonly receives some degree of worship from most everyone in societies that honour the god. Those who do follow her are often builders, architects, civil servants, or rulers of some kind, like mayors or dukes.

Erathis is worshiped mainly by humans, dwarves, and minotaurs. Erathis is respected and worshipped by some in Mer-Rein, The Mithril Isles, Carthorka, and The Drazia Dynasty, but in Torlund she is actively worshipped as one of the main gods of the country. In Scandar, it is considered a weakness to honour or worship Erathis, and in Grecca, it is a crime. In Rexthen and Janmier, she is relatively unknown, while in Cad'Lear, it is believed that she has played a pivotal role in shaping the country, albeit from the shadows in this instance.

### History

Some say that as towns started to grow and sparks of ingenuity emerged within the first nations like Torlund, Muin-Ru, The Thebilum Empire Mer-Fen, and Tek-Rein it gave birth to Erathis as a new stage of sentient life developed and created a void in the realm of worship. Erathis then either manifested herself within this void or, was a mortal who ascended to godhood as the first being to fully understand the magnitude and meaning of this new age and the potential of Civilisation. Others argue that it was Torag, Ioun, or Iomedae who created or gave birth to her, specifically to fill the void before a divine conflict arose over the rightful dominion.

Other tales mention her existence prior to The Emergence, and she even appears in certain Creation Myths. However, when theAkarieans died out, the need for her presence waned, so she was forced to await the return of civilisation before she could return as well.

Either way, many tales of the founding of early towns, cities, and nations tell of her guiding hand and influence. Great inventors, who propelled development forward by leaps and bounds, spoke of being visited by her and subtly bestowed with ideas.

### Appearance

Erathis is portrayed as an elderly woman with eyes of white marble and dark hair tied tightly at the back of her head. Above her head floats a crown made of stone, resembling pillars holding up a scroll and with laws carved atop them. In on hand, she holds a roll of high-quality parchment, much like that used by architects. In her other hand, she carries a large water far from which pours a stream of starlight. She wears a practical but high-quality blue dress, large white earrings, and a golden necklace, but no makeup.

### Relationships

Erathis is notoriously indifferent to the squabbles and actions of the gods and refrains from taking sides in nearly any dispute. She is known to get on well with Asmodeus and Achaekek, since they follow an order and play by the rules, even if they are rules that others don't like. This disposition disgusts Iomedae, but she is still very fond of Erathis since law and justice go hand in hand with civilisation, and it is said that they talk about each other like they were sisters.

The gods that Erathis disagrees with most often are those who govern nature and the wild, like Erastil and Gozreh, but none more so than Ravagug, who seeks to destroy everything that she builds.

### Realm

There is a large city that stands on The godly Plane known as The Metropolis which is a vast and sprawling place made of buildings far taller than any that can be found on Trayst made of Akariean Silk with glass walkways interconnecting them and thousands of floating disks whizzing between them, the city is filled with Civilians, Erathis Clerks and Divine Officials who live, work and run the city like an incredibly complex version of a humanoid city, it is filled with burocracy and governmental systems.

### Providence

Erathis is known to bless or curse entire settlements more often than individual people but when she does it can be as mundane as a promotion or more responsibility within the settlement or a spark of inspiration to design a new machine or even a system of running things. While getting on her bad side can cause people to find themselves frustratingly unable to concentrate, complete projects or finish designs on new inventions.

A populace blessed by Erathis will find things running smoothing from new building projects to simple day to day running of the utilities and services of the city. While delays, mistakes and general poor organisation plague those settlements that anger her.

### Servants

At first Erathis began claiming any and all souls from the Greylands claiming that in a truly civilised world any and all can find their place and reform to become productive members of society, but this angered the other gods especially those who believe that the after life is a time for atonement / punishment like Iomedae adhering to the rule of the majority she began only accepting those who had contributed to their local societies in some major way weather it was well known about or not.

The souls that Erathis selected become Civilians her Divine Race that then inhabit The Metropolis those who serve well Erathis Clerks and finally Divine Officials many of them were once the Akarieans but in their new forms they are all of the races are indistinguishable and in fact the individuals are almost indistinguishable from one another other than their number printed on their left arm and their job title marked over their left breast.

### Church of Erathis

In the countries that follow Erathis a village can't be considered a town unless it has at least a shrine to Erathis and a town can only become a city once it has at least a temple to her, having one of these is not enough on its own to warrant the change in classification but the change can't happen with out it.

#### Clergy

Many of the clerics wear simple blue attire and often carry clip boards full of paper and possible documents that they might need.

#### Holy Text

The Tome of Order is Erathis' holy text, it is a large and extensive tome that details many different governmental systems with their pros and cons as well as good methods to keep the running smoothly some think that some of these methods are a little extreme but the followers of Erathis defend these by stating that they are ways to effectively run bad forms of government and thus are there as a cautionary tale about what is needed to run them as apposed to advice on how to give dictators more power, for instance.

#### Holidays

Erathis doesn't have any official holidays that are celebrated across her religion, but important days to the governmental systems like election day or the monarchs birthday are treated with an extra level of reverence by those of this religion.