True Name: The True Mother.  

Persona Name: Tazara  

Other Personas: Marian, Dreian, Sienna, and Wa’Naal.  

Creator Goddess of Creation, Birth, and Motherhood.  

Excerpt: ‘In the darkest hearts and brightest breast, Mother Tazara loves us best. The Mother of Gods and Mortals both, from her all life sallied forth. In her arms we found our peace, until we grew to love our beast. Now our mother cries sacred tears, while we fight and fulfill her fears. Oh mother, our mother shall cry no more, for one day, oh one day we’ll unite and soar. A world united and covered with scars; we find our peace amongst the stars.’ Prophecy of the True Mother; from Talisman.  

Known across the plane as Tazara, The True Mother, The All-Mother, The Earth Mother, Mother of the Gods, The Creator, The Life Bringer, and Goddess of Tears.  

Holy Book: The Buch der Kronen, The Book of Crowns, The Tosk og Hal, Gambri nuk Kunn, The Immortal Scriptures, The Book of First Flame, and The Book of Scales.    

The Leader of the Ladies of Life.  

Tazara is creation, she is life, she is the miracle of birth, mother of the Gods, and the source of all things upon Ithia. She was the first of the Gods and had watched too many of her divine and mortal children die. Her heart filled with despair; she withdrew from the mortal world and, in her isolation, wept for those who have and will die.  

Tazara’s holy symbol is the Eye of Mari, an open eye with three tears falling from it, showing that while she weeps for the lost, she is still ever vigilant for those who still live. Many of those outside of the Marok no longer actively worship her, and veils of weeping closed eyes hang from many of her temples, not as a sign of spite but one of sorrow.  

When active on Ithia, A rare or even fantastical event, she is represented by the planet Merribell, a great white marble in the sky larger than either of the remaining moons. When active, it sits in the center of whichever piece of the greater plane one is on. While Merribell is in the sky, fertility rates are greatly magnified for plants, animals, and people. It seems to diminish pain and leave one with a strange, warm comfort.  

The True Mother’s divine plane is a small, humble manor house where she runs a boarding home and orphanage for lost souls. The mortal children, planar travelers, and anyone in desperate need might find themselves within her home.   

The True Mother commands several divine artifacts, including the Decanter of Tears, the Veil of the Mother, and the Bonding Pins.  

-The Decanter of Tears is a crystalline decanter filled with white wine. It can mend any wound, cure any disease, resurrect the dead whose souls have not yet been collected, and create life. It is believed this is one of the most powerful of the divine artifacts and is guarded by many Coelestis.  

-The Veil of the Mother is a silk headdress soaked with the tears of the Tazara that seems to radiate positive energy to the wearer. One cannot be affected by adverse magical effects, slowly recover from wounds and fatigue, and protect from foreign influence.  

-The Bonding Pins are a set of gold, silver, and bronze hairpins with various animals. There are ten of each metal, and those who wear one can feel, hear, and deeply understand anyone else where one. These have been lost to the mortal coil.  

Tazara has no artifacts made by mortals, though her other personas have many.  

Tazara views the Swan and Lily as sacred.  

Tazara is a matronly beauty. She has thick golden curls, the skin of eggshells, and eyes of silver and gold. Her face radiates love, care, and sorrow with deep trenches where tears have flowed for so long. She is eternally pregnant and always in the black of a mourner. She wears no jewelry, a veil of black silk covering her face, and some of her curls. Her clothes are soaked with her endless tears, but she keeps her clothes layered for modesty.  

Tazara is sorrowful, regal, a presence like the gravitational field of some great collapsed star which can be felt even when shes not present. She is the True Mother, the First of the Gods, she is creation itself, that from which mortal and divine life stem, she is the wanton endless love of a mother abused and tormented by children who grew into adults with voids instead of hearts.   

Tazara grants her divine servants potent protective magic, healing spells, curse-breaking, stopping internal bleeding, and magic to ease the pain, discomfort, and difficulty of pregnancy and childbirth. Her Clerics and Priests are specialized in creating potent remedies for ailments of pregnancy, maintaining healthy fetuses, ensuring the nutrition of mother and child, and greatly decreasing the mortality rates of childbirth.   

Tazara has several holidays, the most sacred is the Day of Mothers, followed by the Day of Fathers, and the Day of the Children. Each one respects each piece in the creation of life. It involves the giving of gifts made, grown, and otherwise produced by one’s own hand, spending time together with family, and speaking of woes and burdens at the start of the day. It is about understanding, cementing bonds, and refreshing affections.   

Tazara is worshipped every Revensday, with short masses followed by large social gatherings of the congregation. Worship is less about litany and scripture and more about building a unified, social community.   

Tazara has rites and rituals for childbirth , many of which were cemented into Tazarite lore as ceremonies to disinfect areas, purify the air, and prepare a safe environment for the child and mother, such as her rites requiring all tools to be coated in blessed copper and serving of teas of ginger and oregano.  

Tazara accepts sacrifices of honey, echinacea, copper, ginger, cloves, and oregano.  She does, however, not encourage nor want her worshippers to give sacrifices.  

Tazarite Values  

Arches (Goals) – Tazara and her clergy strive to minimize pain, suffering, and want in everyday life, while more specifically pursuing the reduction of pain, discomfort, and death in pregnancy and childbirth.  

Pillars (Virtues) – Life, Enlightenment, Family, and Truth.  

Columns (Vices) – Pain, Ignorance, Abuse, and Regret.   

The Tazarite temples tend to be simple stone structures; tall stone arches hold up a basic tiled roof. Open to the elements with a long hearth down its center. The back of the structure is more enclosed, serving as the living quarters for the temple staff. These simple structures tend to have large outdoor gathering areas with small structures for cooking and making drinks. In larger cities, Tazarite temples tend to have more outbuildings for lodging and maintaining the hygiene of the destitute, travelers down on their luck, and urchins. The Tazarite maintains smaller idols of Tazara in household shrines. Her idols protect households from discomfort, nausea, and pain caused by pregnancy. Idols of Sister Pennyroyal help prevent pregnancy, while those of Sister Primrose increase fertility.  

Tazara has two main Avatars, the Sisters Pennyroyal and Primrose. There are two marble statues, with their respective plants growing from cracks in their bodies. The two Avatars embody Protection and Fertility.   

Tazara maintains a small group of Coelestis referred to as the Handmaids.  

Tazara has no Demi-God species, but the Marok see her as their mother Goddess.  

Tazara made no mortal species.  

Tazara was named after her first Prophet, Taza Heron, who split from the Marian church when the great exodus from Mariland occurred. Taza was once a high-ranking priestess in the Marok church but fled with the Plains humans and restarted a more traditional form of worship to the True Mother.  

Tazara worshipers maintain one primary sect with a few minor deviations in more isolated communities. Her worship outside of this Persona follows its primary orthodox.   

The Divine Fellowship of Tazara. Tazara clergy members are exclusively female.  

-Taza Eternal: A symbolic position for the Prophet Taza may Tazara cradle her soul lovingly.  

-The High Mother: The Highest living-ranked member of the Tazara clergy.  

-The Mother Priest: High Clerics and Priests of Tazara.  

-The Matrons: High-ranking clerics and Priests are primarily tasked with teaching. Equal to Mother Priests.  

-The Sisters: Standard Ranking Clerics and Priests.  

-The Maidens of Swords: General Paladins of Tazara.   

-The Maidens of Words: Lower-ranking Clerics and Priests.  

-Maidens of Books: Members of the clergy staff not blessed with divine gifts; scribes tasked with maintaining records, writing holy records and books, and archeological tasks with recovering relics lost during the Septrinian Empire.  

-Daughters: Hopefuls, training clergy, and Paladin squires.  

Tazarite vestments include black robes, veils, and hoods. Maidens of the Sword are granted a breast plate, gauntlets, a silver-plated sword, and a skull cap. Matrons and Mother Priests get white hip cloaks. The High Mother wears a cloak of humanely gathered swan feathers.  

Tazara does not maintain any Divine Orders.  

The True Mother has no parents and is the mate of Seir’Alst and Talcor. She has many children including Zatolen(Adopted), Haltheris, Mealis, Paladar, Na’Tally, Talisman, Vutha, Malisara, Dwar’Vic, Zale, Garon, Mire, Kaum, Daltmot, Solus, Ondra Seir(Adopted), Tasmar Oriondus, Zerairel, Nil’Brek, Mara’Dia, Aveirnoot, Vexia Katar, Eldrag, Tal Zakra, Tal Seir, Agis Katar, Ja Zoi, and Nul’Maar.