Caihrnn

## God of Soil and Stone

* Artwork
* Symbol

## Technical Information

### Symbol

A trio of mushrooms, rust-brown and dotted grey, sometimes a large crab is utilised by his faithful

### Constellation

A crab made up of twelve stars. Historically found in the eastern sky, now all but faded from vision.

## Rules Information

### Domains

Life, Nature

Caihrnn, also known as the One With the Dirt and the Lord in the Quiet Places was a member of the Ahlusian Pantheon known as the Principal Sixteen. Since the Manifestation, his constellation had faded from the Canvas of Night, something attributed to his seemed destruction by a cosmic weapon known as the Hungering Void. The last remnant of their power became the Archfey Erastus, before their likewise destruction.

He was the God of Soil and Stone.

## Commandments

* Protect the quiet places in the world, none more so than the Sacred Groves where Caihrnn takes his rest.
* Embrace the wilds that come with the passage of life. Celebrate the successes, rest through the sorrows, grow stronger through them both.
* Abominations and aberrations that make mockery of the way of nature should be sought out and returned to the soil.

His priests, priestesses and acolytes traditionally carry pouches of wildflower seeds pierced through at the base, leaving a trail wherever they walk.

## Holy Day

Caihrnn's Holy Day is Dayroot's Last Light, which takes place on the sixth day of Vluk. Marking the day by which the harvest should be gathered, save it fall foul of the fickle nature of Whiterose, it serves as a traditional day of rest for farmers and other labourers that have heeded its warning. For the acolytes and avid followers of Caihrnn, it is a time of celebration as the fields and meadows return to a more wild state until the turn of Greencrown.

## During Aita's Gift

Caihrnn is credited with the creation of the plants and beasts of the land, the residents of the mountains, forests and plains, as well as the lands themselves.

His creations occupied Ahlus before Aita created the Principal Races, and served the basis for Aita's own creation. Many claim that Aita's creations were little more than Caihrnn's when they first created, and it took the Second Gift before they truly grew past this point.

## Exarchs

While there is no strict limit on the number of Exarchs that a deity may take, it is widely noted that the Ahlusian Pantheon usually maintain but one, serving as a representation of their will, having hailed from mortal backgrounds and finding elevation to that of minor divinity by direct infusion of their patron's deific presence. Caihrnn stands, once again, at contrast to much of the rest of the Ahlusian Sixteen, in that it is believed that they had three Exarchs, one to watch over each of the domains in which the beasts created to reside upon the soil and stone had come to reside. Curiously however, given the common association with Caihrnn with the symbol of a crab, none of those selected heralded from this group of beasts.

For the waves of the water, Caihrnn breathed further life into a lowly diving beetle, naming it Ditashki, and pledging it to roam from the surface to the greatest depths, watching over each and every creation that paddled, swam or dive. For the winds of the air, Caihrnn elevated a fleeting wren, naming it Roglo, granting it boundless energy with which to travel from place to place, never tiring, to watch over each and every creation that flapped, glided or flew. Finally, for the stirring of the soil, Caihrnn empowered a skittish shrew, naming it Sohryca, and requested it scurry through the undergrowth, ever vigilant as it watched over each and every creation that paced, slithered or walked. Inconspicuous as the beasts chosen were, the presence and influence of these Exarchs remains a challenge to detect and prove.