Deiha Menifia

Deiha, The Gentle Sea and Peacekeeper of the Quaternity, she is the example of forgiveness, tranquillity, and compassion with a deep love for the aquatic races and those who prefer sea over land, she is a protector of the seas and controller of storms.

## General Information

### Titles

* Tidebringer
* Peacekeeper of the Quaternity
* Peacemaker of the Gods
* The Gentle Sea

### Portfolio

Water, The oceans, lakes, rivers, springs, sea creatures, storms, rain, clouds, tranquility, forgiveness, compassion, fortune, good luck, misfortune, fish, season of spring

### Pantheon(s)

* Ardhian Pantheon
* Damaian Pantheon
* Holy Quaternity

### Other Symbol(s)

* A large wave crashing over a boat
* A trident covered in coral and seaweed
* A dolphin jumping from the sea

### Connected Element(s)

* Water
* Lightning
* Wind

## Worship

### Associated Domains

* Tempest
* Nature
* Luck

### Worshippers

* Common-folk
* Sailors
* Fishermen
* Aquatic races

## Avatars

Deiha Menifia has the most forms compared to her three sisters, these forms are often sea-related such as the Dolphin and Whale which can only be seen by a person when they are on or by the sea, however, she also has a few human forms to even out the roster, with each dedicated to a different type of person she may come across. An important thing of note that transfers over to all her avatars, are milky white blind eyes, each with a slit going from the top of the iris to the bottom; this scarring and blindness occurred during the Divine Sundering.

**Peacekeeper:** a simply but versatile form used for conversation, magic, and personal blessings. This form is a somewhat small human woman with pale blue skin and long black hair always dripping and covered in water, the form appears sort of fragile and weak with thin but long limbs and sunken eyes and cheeks, it wears a simple coral blue robe dripping with algae and seaweed. Spikes of coral act as an adorning crown to her head, starfish earrings and a seashell necklace are just a few of this forms defining accessories.

**Sister Menifia:** the form Deiha takes when appearing before mortals and deities, used for conversation and diplomacy, it is a tall Aquatic Elf woman, dark ocean blue skin, fins on her head replicating hair, pointed ears tipped with sharpened coral, long fingers with sharp and long nails, jagged shark-like teeth. As both sexes of Aquatic Elves are somewhat formless with no determinable sex Sister Menifia replicates this.

## Relationships

Deiha is quite separated from her fellow sisters and members of the Holy Quaternity due to her position on most things, many of her sisters prefer conflict and think it to be the best way to solve most problems, while Deiha finds that to be quite the contrary and thinks that people should be tried for their crimes by the people in anyway short of death but then forgiven after their dues are paid and their time served. Due to this many common folk adore the Tidebringer for her kindness and gentle nature when it comes to the mortal folk of Damis and thank her kindly during the time of New Tide. In regards to the other deities, Deiha is rather quiet and secluded, preferring to focus on her work and people that rely on her rather than her relationships with the lesser deities of the realms; though she has had an of again on again romantic relationship with the Greater Deity Irihana who she still remains friends with even when not in a relationship.

**Allied Deities:** Isati, Vaaya, Midiri, Irihana

## Worshippers

Prayer to Deiha is not rare but somewhat inconsistent with most of her worship and prayer being either from seafarers, aquatic races, and fisherman, though this is partly due to Deiha not being as hard to please as some of the other deities, a simple prayer works just fine while other deities may become upset when there is nothing offered as part of the prayer. When attempting a prayer to Deiha it is often seen as unlucky to not do so with the aid of sea water or, for those distanced from the ocean, saltwater which one cleans their hands and prayer symbol; if they have one; in then clutch their holy symbol to their chest as they pray or if they do not have a holy symbol they may cross their hands over their chest in the form of an X. To empower a prayer to Deiha people often will spread salt in an X beneath where they would sit, light candles, and perhaps have a trinket once belonging to the ocean such as a starfish or seashell; some have even used a piece of the boat they once sailed on or some sand gathered in a glass container.

### Clergy

Deiha has two factions of her clergy: The Teal Trident and the Creasant Boat, the Teal Trident is the collection of her Aquatic clergy who lack contact with each other for the most part, and the Creasant Boat are her seafarers and landlivers who may travel on the sea but never live within it. Her clergy is divided as so because each half lacks contact with the other, with many landlivers; as aquatic races and Deiha call it; do not even believe in the existence of aquatic races and their cities. As such each part of her clergy has different ideas of good and bad omens, ways of praying, and ways of dressing.

#### The Teal Trident

The oceanic branch of her clergy and what many of them to believe are the children or true worshippers of Deiha with the Creasant Boat being a poor imitation not true to the goddess will and fully within her caring gaze. While anyone can be a priest only one displaying true compassion, forgiveness, and still of the mind may become a cleric of the Tidebringer, with many trying to prove their worth and capabilities but failing as it is of humanoid nature to do so. The Clergy of the Teal Trident dress in elaborate robes crafted from seaweed through a process known as Sea yarning where the seaweed is mixed with what is called Yukleya to make a yarn out of seaweed that is waterproof and wearable, died different colors through the various corals and plants of the ocean. Teal Trident's wear a seaweed robe colored a pale and creamy white with dark ocean blue trim and patterns representing the ocean waves, a coral crown called a Tide crown is woven with coral and seaweed, barnacles, and other such sea items displayed on it. It is unknown how they differentiate placement in the clergy or if there is even such a thing as it is possible all Teal Trident's are equals besides the Clerics who are put above the rest. The holy symbol of the Teal Trident is an necklace with their symbol for the Tidebringer -a seaweed covered trident- as its decorative piece, it is believed by the Teal Trident's that you do not have to bless your holy symbol unless you are a member of the clergy and especially if you are a cleric of the Tidebringer; in addition, many of her Teal Trident Clergy carry a trident themselves engraved with the common prayer of the sea in Aquatic runes.

##### Temples

Temples of the Tidebringer crafted by the Teal Trident are submerged in water at the center of whatever aquatic town it resides in, crafted from quartz, large seashells, and glass they are often made to be large and elaborately built beautiful from the inside and outside, decorated with little furnishing besides many statues and statuettes of the Tidebringer and her many forms as well as her favored animals and sea objects decorate the halls of these temples. It is common for their to be a glass ceiling from which the Tidebringer can gaze down upon her subjects easily.

#### The Creasant Boat

The landliver branch of Deiha's clergy, lovers of seafaring and inner peace, anyone can be a priest only one displaying true compassion, forgiveness, and still of the mind may become a cleric of the Tidebringer, with many trying to prove their worth and capabilities but failing as it is of humanoid nature to do so. Most of the Creasant Boat clergy and other worshippers of Deiha who may not be clergy but simply landlivers, do not believe in the existence of the aquatic races with those who have seen them being deem crazy or simply tired, Deiha makes little effort to correct this allowing each to find each other in their own time. Creasant Boat clergy wear dark blue robes with stripes of white making the waves and the moon, bracelet's, necklaces, and earrings made of pearls or seashells decorated with the common symbol of the Peacekeeper. The Holy symbol for the Creasant Boat clergy is an amulet made of glass carved so that three waves line the surface, it is taboo to not have your holy symbol blessed not matter how poor you are.

##### Temples

Temples of the Tidebringer crafted by the Creasant Boat clergy are often nearby the ocean, if not the ocean than the nearest water source, built simply with large glass windows to look out upon the water with, with simple furnishing all colored blue, coral pink, or white and a statue of the Tidebringer as well as trinkets from the sea.

#### Dogma

Deiha's dogma and code transfers from the Creasant Boat clergy and the Teal Tridents who have interpreted the Tidebringer's words similarly though their are minor differences due to many Aquatic runes not have a direct translation in most other languages or writing systems, however the code is this:

* *Help those in need whenever they may need.*
* *Punish those who have done wrong not for your own benefit but for others who have been wronged.*
* *Forgive those who have done wrong should they show true remorse.*
* *Never kill for the benefit of yourself.*
* *All you do should be for those that depend on you be they lover or friend, but it is important to also do things for yourself when it is needed.*
* *Never doubt that you have room to grow and always strive to improve yourself and others around you.*