Aeddor

Art By Fynn!

### Symbol

A mountain with a rising sun in the back, with a womb or giants head at the base of it

## **Summary**

Aeddor is the mountain that was the bride of Avog. She is most well known for being the birther of all giants and giant types, as well as the main reason why Avog left reality. Many giants still worship her as a birth giver, like how a child treats their mother, but some resent her for her actions that eventually lead to Avog leaving reality. Nonetheless, Aeddor is still seen as the leader of the Giant Pantheon due to her immense power. She represents fertility and peace, yet also betrayal and false promises.

## **Description**

       Aeddor is a giant mountain in all forms depicted. She is shown to be larger than 50,000 Oni, as well as being taller than each of them stacked on top of each other. The mountain is never represented in a humanoid or giant-like form, as to the Pantheon of Giants, Aeddor is literally a sentient mountain. Her color and form are never quite consistently depicted, as some show her to have a flat top, while others show her with a sharp peak. Some also depict her as made of brown granite, others show her with a grassy side, with trees growing all over the edges; and other’s show her as a black stoned winter mountain. The consistent detail between all depictions of her is her large cave at the very base of the mountain, known as “The Womb”, this is supposedly where all giants (Excluding Avog) where birthed from, and is a sacred place of fertility and endurance in all of Giant culture.

Aeddor is represented with the symbol of a snow peaked mountain, with the face of a giant at the base of it. Aeddor is commonly shown with Dire Rams, Mammoths, and Snow Hares. Typically in her shrines sickle-leaved hare's-ear is grown as to the giants it promotes fertility and prosperity. Aeddor is known to be shown with earthy colors, such as browns and tans. Whenever gemstones are placed in her shrines or symbols, Tsavorite is often picked.

## **Personality**

Aeddor is a kind and maternal goddess, she is seen as calm and compassionate, but often apathetic to her later spawn. She is often communicative to giantfolk, especially to those who are in a state of pregnancy. To those giantfolk who worship her, she will communicate with pregnant giants and usher them to make pilgrimage to either their homeland or to herself, whichever is closer. There: many giants of all types set aside any differences they have to help giantfolk with labor and taking care of children. Sometimes, even creatures other than giant folk will make pilgrimage to Aeddor to be taken care of during and after childbirth; this is a typical procedure by nomads native to North Rederium, or to divorced/abandoned women. It is said that Aeddor is able to create an aura of serenity around her shrines, nullifying any pain or shock that could come from labor.

## **Powers**

Aeddor is an imbobile goddess, being condemned to North Rederium in The Material Plane. However, she is able to exhibit great strength around her holy sites and herself, being able to calm or nullify emotions around herself. In addition to this, any creature that enters her womb can be restored to great health; at the cost of age. Due to her being the birther of every giant god (besides Avog), she gains all benefits of worship when her children are worshiped. In times of turmoil, or when another god attempts to kill/destroy Aeddor or one of her children, she is able to possess a worshiper and use them as an avatar, being able to cast divine healing magic and being an expert in the Flail.

## **Realm**

Aeddor exists in a region of North Rederium known as Matenlend, which exists east of the mountain chain that borders Xauvis and North Rederium, her mountain rests in a small pocket of boreal forest, inhabited by many animals of every type, but most typically being Dire Goats and Snow Hares. It is often that predators will also come into the region, such as Polar Bears and Wolves, normally as a form of balance to the populations of these creatures. Many seabirds and large raptors will make pilgrimage to Aeddor and her region during the winter months to lay their eggs, the area around them being able to give the eggs fertility, no matter if a male was present or not.

## **Relationships**

Aeddor is the bride to Avog, and birthed every single Giant god that is of each type in the ordining (Storm, Cloud, Frost, Fire, Stone, Hill, and Trolls). She is seen as a motherly figure by most giants. With a heavy exception of Oto, the only giant who was birthed from Avog and Aeddor, as he was the witness of his mother’s affairs against his father, he resented his mother for her actions. It was often that they would get into arguments with his mother about her antics.

## **Aeddor’s Children.**

Aeddor birthed Oto, the first storm giant, as a child of Avog. Bolor was also born around this time, but was quickly forgotten about as he was overshadowed by his brother. Then, Aeddor immediately went on to conceive and birth Clifur as a child of Edite. Because of this being the first affair, Avog was unbothered, knowing that Aeddor was most likely not the reason this affair happened (Despite the fact that she was). Goas was then born after this point, as a child of Tezzeth; but Aeddor felt a great shame from this birth, and thus Goas was never spoken of besides when he was named. While all of this was happening, Aeddor had a long standing relationship with The Forgemaster, which eventually ended in the birth of Odus. However, Odus was not made aware of his siblings; however, he went to live in the realm of The Forgemaster during the talks between Avog and Aeddor. Then, coming from this arguing, Aeddor went on to create Vuos by herself. Vuos has no father, and as a Frost giant bore the most resemblance to Aeddor out of all of her children. After this, Avog decided to leave The Material Plane and instead exist in the Ethereal Plane, as he wished to be away from Aeddor for a period of time. After Aeddor promised to not have any other affairs, she immediately went on to make 2 other giant gods, both being with “unruly” fathers. At this point, Aeddor only held true to his 2 favorite children, the Goliaths and the Storm Giants. But, quickly as Dwarves and Goliaths began to live in the same areas, Goliaths took the words of a sentient Dire Goat known as Yhiggdrasajr, instead of their own gods, and went to war against Dwarves. This last action caused Avog to leave all of reality, and Aeddor to be without a husband.

## **History**

In the beginning of The Material Plane’s Existence, Giant lore depicts the entire world as one large tree, with roots at the bottom to represent the underworlds and the leaves at the top to represent Elysium and Ysgard. But, when Istus came from The 9 Hells up to the Material Plane, it is said that her magma body fed on the bark of the world tree, burning it down and scattering the planes away from each other.

From the ash and bark that the tree remained, Aeddor was created. She manifested as the tree’s last will, with multiple consciousnesses and thoughts, she eventually went to become the bride of Avog, as both of them had a similar idea of how the world should be.

During this marriage, Aeddor went on to create many children against the will of Avog. This constant disobedience of the wants of Avog eventually led to him leaving without a word, sending Aeddor into a deep depression.

To attempt to repair this leaving of Avog, she now spends her days monitoring all life in her domain. Whenever a creature is wantonly pregnant, she will guide that creature through a stable birth to her best abilities.