Myrios, the Goddess of Peace

The goddess of peace.

**Myrios** acts as the guardian of groves and watersheds in the Korinthian Pantheon, her presence is felt wherever there was calm. She is a pacifist who avoids hostile action, even if threatened. Although shy, quiet and enigmatic, Myrios is possessed of unknown depths of character and unexpressed resolve that could not be broken. Her protected rivers, streams, and druids' groves; her dogma is pacifistic, and her followers only resort to violence in defense of themselves, of their friends and loved ones, and of pools and groves.

She is regarded as a goddess of serenity, comfort, and healing. Any waters blessed by her are known to cure sickness and madness. They can also calm the dying giving them peace and a natural passing. Many rural communities have a designated pond or glade which serves as a holy site for local parishioners.These places are traditionally used as places to reflect and meditate. Usually a body of water, either the pond itself or a stream near those glades considered holy sites, serves as a repository for offerings to Myrios in connection with these holy places. But, when no water is near a special tree or bush is designated as a repository to which offerings are tied to its branches. Offerings are typically weapons broken so they can never be used again, or an item that caused an argument and must be discarded to promote peace.

## Worshipers

Myrians are organized into a simplistic hierarchy, where priests report to a local high priest responsible for a realm or larger region. Most followers dwell in quiet forest communities with open-air sacred places of worship or in woodside cottages, far from the baseness of city life; both often containing pools of placid water in unspoiled areas. They rarely ever engage in open confrontation and always act subtly and peacefully.

Druids of Myrios pray for their evocations once per day at a time selected after great personal reflection. The only calendar-related holy day of the church is the Greening, a gathering and festival celebrated at spring. It was preceded by Firstflow, a festival held at varying times when the ice broke up and began to flow at the conclusion of winter.

Worshipers of Myrios could be of any alignment, but priests are always non-evil. Druids that followed the Mother of the Waters remained neutral, while her specialty priests sometimes leaned toward good.

Many people came to her for help in overcoming memories of a violent past, sometimes a single event that affected them but it could also have been an accumulation of battles fought by the individual.

Her clergy often follow migratory patterns traveling from holy site to holy site in a local area. They took care of the holy sites and allied with the local druids who followed the First Circle, of which Myrios is considered a member. Violence of any kind against an Myrian priest is considered taboo, and murdering one is said to bring extremely bad luck. Even so, most servants of Myrios prefer to avoid conflict rather than trying to pacify it because they understood that peace cannot be forced. They would happily preside over peaceful meetings and witness political treaties.