Pome

## Pome The Provider, God Of Horticulture

### Description

The Provider is often portrayed as a plant-like humanoid wearing a grapeleaf or flowered crown, and is also portrayed as either male or female, depending on the group of worshippers.

Although Pome is occasionally associated with the fermenation of cereals and grapes, The Provider is more often associated with horticulture and farming; specifically the cultivation of edible fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains, as well as medicinal and useful flowers, herbs, shrubs and trees.

Often worshipped alongside the Goddess of Fertility, the God of Wine, and other minor Gods of Animal Husbandry and Childbirth, Pome is acknowledged as the God responsible for the growth and prosperity of edible plants and the success of the Harvest.

Pome avoids the Gods and Goddesses representing destructive forces such as War and Greed, which are strongly associated with the destruction of growing things, and is strongly allied with the Gods of Life, Order, Fermentation, Plants, and minor Gods and Goddesses of Baking, Hunting, and homemaking activities.

### Actions

#### Age of Creation

During the Age of Creation, with the help of the other Gods, Pome created The Garden Sanctuary in the Forest of Eternal Life, with help from several other Gods, to be his Shrine on Gaea and act as a living museum for all the plantlife on the planet. Here, nothing ages and there are no changes. Growing near the Shrine itself is the Tree of Allfruit, created by Pome for only his Sanctuary, which produces fruit from every plant and tree on all of Gaea, keeping his worshippers fed on their pilgrimage.

He also created the Säen, a plant-humanoid species capable of photosynthesis but can also obtain nourishment from plant-based foods. They come in various sizes and shapes from large, long-lived and tree-like Säen to small, flowery and short-lived Säen. Their only purpose is to cover all of Gaea in edible, medicinal, or otherwise useful trees, flowers, vines, and other plantlife. They procreate similar to plants, and occasionally cross breed with actual plants, resulting in mindless living plants without conscious thought, but able to follow orders. These creatures are named only "Pome's Children" and are often short-lived, but still work towards the common goal of the community. The Säen currently live all over Gaea wherever green grows, camouflaged, tending to the plants.

Finally, Pome created The Forest of Brotherhood, so named by the Thorac Human Tribe for whom it was created: a short-lived race of humans attached at the thorax, two individuals sharing one heart, who meet an inescapable and bloody end. The trees Pome created in the Forest of Brotherhood are prolific fruit and nut bearing trees, which bloom throughout the year, releasing the short-lived humans from the added toil of tending to the land for food. Here, since the Age of Creation, the Säen have lived in harmony with the Thorac Tribe and the forest, tending to the trees, increasing its geographic size significantly, and breeding new species of edible fruiting and flowering plantlife.

#### Later Ages

After the age of creation, several other minor creations were added to Gaea including: bioluminescent flowers, lining the pathways in and out of the Forest of Brotherhood; oceanic forests and plants; and the Spirit of the Forest.

Other actions include the training of a Hellite named Dioneae to Champion the Säen (a very docile species), sending the Säen on an exploring mission throughout Gaea, sending them to assist The Schrykes by in The Roost by taming the Carrion Vine, and assisting the Flora in the Tree of Life with cultivation of the Naga Fruit.