Kayin. God of Character, Agriculture, Patience, and Manhood.  

Known across the plane as the Bear God, The Father of Bears, The Sustainer, The Calm, The Hearth Shield, The Protector, The Teacher, The Beacon, and the Offered Hand. 

Kayin is the leader of the Gods of the Field and a member of the Fated Crowns, The Gods of Growth, the Siblings, and the Gods of Wisdom. 

Holy Books: The Book of Crowns.    

Kayin is almost exclusively known as the Bear God and is worshipped primarily in the Isles. He is the patron god that heralds a boy becoming a man. Son of Mealis and Zatolen. 

His Symbol is the Warrior Scholar – An Open book with its pages threaded through a five-prong pitchfork. A wood axe and scythe cross behind it.  

When active on Ithia, Kayin’s celestial body is the Totem Bear a set of dark blue stars forming the head of a bear. When all the siblings are active their constellations form a totem pole, the Bear God is always the base. 

Kayin’s divine plane is a great hunters hall, tavern, and apothecary surrounded by a village of the honored dead of the fallen Children of the Isles. All three remaining aligned siblings share this divine plane.  

Kayin does not maintain any artifacts. 

Kayin is a tower of a man with rippling muscles covered in scars from blade, fire, acid, and necrosis. His hands callused his face constantly bruised, his body covered in the pelts of a hundred bears bound in bronze rings. A bronze breast plate covers his chest and thick tufts of fur and hair cover his body where visible under his floor-length beard. His hair is a deep brown spotted with grey and silver.  

Kayin is a ring of stones around the fire of his sister Maralina. He is calm, he is patient, he contains the fire of the world, he is the cooler head, the pursuit of peace, the dream of calm. He is all that remains when a boy goes from fiery youth, through war and hardship, pain and death and all that is left is forged steel. Though his kind and patient demeanor should not be mistaken for weakness as the Bear God when roused will pursue his foes with unyielding persistence. His divine servants can soothe beasts, speak to animals, aerate soil, conjure seeds, enter a stasis, and delay wounds till later.  

Kayin is worshipped in villages, household shrines, and rural lands. He is worshipped by farmers, veterans, militia, tribes of the Children, boys, and men.  He is seen as the means to move on from the tragedies and atrocities of war. He accepts sacrifices of ginger, peppers, citrus, crops, arms and armor that have seen combat, and broken farming tools.  

Kayin’s Values.  

Pillars (Virtues)- Life, Manhood, Patience, and Courage. 

Columns (Vices)- Death, Immaturity, Haste, and Cowardice.  

Kayin does not maintain any holy orders.