Moreya

*Alignment.* Neutral Good

*Domains.* Life

*Divine Rank.* Greater Deity

Portfolio: Creation, Life, The Universe, Maternal Love, Healing

Pantheon: Morian

The Hitorigami (Lone Goddess) **Moreya**.

The legend of **Moreya** starts with her emerging into our empty universe and her arcana colliding with the very fabric of our universe sparking explosions of matter that came to be by mixing the fabrics of her realms magic and ours. This was the beginning of the formation of stars, planets, solar systems, and galaxies. The absolute beauty of it brought **Moreya** absolute joy and she vowed to protect it for eternity. She may have come to this plane as an average being; however, now she was interconnected to everything here.

It elevated her to divinity and this newfound power coursed through her. It gave her new abilities that just kept expanding and expanding as time went. The unique transformation eventually even let her create life; at first, she created the Kami (greater deities) of the realm: Oira, Tuliyan, and Aether. For a lengthy period of time things had prospered. Her and her children sprung new life across the universe and helped it to grow and flourish. This would be the golden age of creation, but as we know well; all great periods of time are met with tragedy and opposition eventually.

**Moreya** eventually had longed for a counter part beyond just her children, and with this she used her eyes to create her equal, her partner, Zalanoth. Everything was amazing, until one day when he betrayed her. He grew jealous of her giving attention to the mortals; he decided that they were unworthy of diverting the love he believed should only be reserved for him. He declared war on all living things. **Moreya** was for him and him alone.

Zalanoth created The Realm of Shadow, and within this realm resided a dark breed of monsters with only one purpose given to them; destroy any life they found outside their domain. He began travelling to world after world opening portals unleashing these creatures upon **Moreya**’s beloved mortals.

Her Daughter Oira caught Zalanoth in the act. He attempted to stop her as she fled to inform her mother of the atrocities that she witnessed. Luckily, he had failed; **Moreya** was furious and the lovers clashed in battle. He didn’t want to fight her, but he was not going to let anyone else have her if he could not. This battle lasted for 3 years with neither giving an inch of ground until Zalanoth finally made a misstep, and that was the end of it. In a short moment of the mistake, she cast a spell and banished him to the land he had created to destroy what was formed from her very existence; The Realm of Shadow. Locking him away in there, his minions might be able to slip through once in a while. Not him though.

With her everlasting guard of the veil between our two realms she has left the mortals to their own devices to grow, but as one last gift before her departure she left special crystals of protection for those who truly believe in her still; for those that continue to fight against the shadows that spill across the veil of Zalanoth‘s world.

##### **DOGMA**

Followers of **Moreya** view the world as sacred due to it being created by a part of their patron deity and having great respect for life. They often take a pledge of non-violence and strive to be healers, cleansing imbalances and mending the broken. Followers also have a clear hatred of the Shadow Realm as they see it as a twisted corruption of **Moreya**'s creation, and some sects strive to hunt down and destroy creatures of the Shadow Realm that enter into the Material Plane.

##### **CLERGY AND TEMPLES**

**Moreya** is worshiped by many even those who are clergy of other kami as they acknowledge her importance in the universe. She only has temples within the Earthian Republic on the material plane; however, she has many shrines dedicated to her in households and in special locations at the side of roads and in the wilderness. Her shrines are marked with white paper knots with two closed eyes drawn in ink on either side.

##### **AVATARS**

**Moreya** visits the mortal realms very rarely, only when there is a dire shift in the cosmic balance. When she does appear in front of mortals, she is usually in the form of an old woman with a veil or bandages covering her eyes. She rarely interferes directly with the mortals, instead of giving them advice or healing them.