True Name: The True Mother.  

Persona Name: Sienna 

Other Personas: Tazara, Marian, Dreia, and Wa’Naal.  

Creator Goddess of Creation, Birth, and Motherhood.  

Excerpt: ‘Rock, Stone, Hearth, and Home. We atone words from sacred tome. Give us peaceful sleep, in our earthen cradles so deep.  Should we die, do not weep, for we are yours for eternity to keep.’ Translated Dwarven bedtime prayer. 

Known across the plane as Sienna, The True Mother, The First, The All-Mother, The World Bearer, She who Glimmers, The Lady in Gold, Mother of Mountains, The Mournful Mother, and The Eternal Keeper. 

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.  

Sienna is the stone; she is the diamond; she is stability; she is strength; and she is eternal. She is the breath, the beating hearts, she is the mother of Dwar’Vic, the mother of mountains. She is all that lives, be it mortal or divine.  

Sienna’s holy symbol is the Heart of Stone; A heart surrounding an open eye. Tears pool at the bottom of the heart.  

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 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 True Mother 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.  

Sienna has a few mortal artifacts, including the Stone Heart, Crowns of the Dwar Queens, and the Staff of the Mountain Heart. 

Sienna views the goat, mushrooms, and nightshade as sacred.  

Sienna is a mournful dwarven maid with long golden braids that drag behind her like the oceans before a beach. She is matronly in all white without ornament to show she stands equal to her children. While her face has deep tear tracks, she stands as strong as a mountain. 

Sienna is patient, maternal, caring, and urges her children to strive. She seeks peace and urges compassion in times of conflict. She is humble and sees herself as equal to the greatest of Gods and the lowest of beggars. 

Sienna grants her divine servants basic healing magic, earth shaping, curse breaking, easing pregnancy, and the means to induce stone sleep, which allows a long-term coma to recover from grievous wounds that other magic can’t safely mend. Her clerics and priests excel at creating remedies for pregnancy sicknesses, birth complications, easing pain, and painless death for the Dwar who wish to embrace the final sleep. 

Sienna has a holiday on the first day of each season, marking the birth of a new time. Celebrated by gathering family and friends and helping with projects in their community.  

Sienna is worshipped once a week on Revensday, sermons are preached, alms and aid are petitioned for by those in need, a community gathering, and childcare to grant parents some personal time. 

Sienna holds rites for births, which involve marking the child with their birth rune and a blessed mark on the mother to show her devotion to the True Mother. 

Sienna accepts alms for the poor, sacrifices of art, crafts, weapons, and jewelry made by the children of her flock, which are kept in her home.  

Sienna’s Values  

Arches (Goals) – Sienna dreams of her children finding peace, of a great coming together, of an acceptance between species and gods. 

Pillars (Virtues) – Humility, Innocence, Love, Honesty, Intellect, Motherhood, and Fatherhood.  

Columns (Vices) –  

Arrogance, Hatred, Deceit, Ignorance, and Loneliness. 

Sienna is worshipped in large stone temples with great domes of stained glass and a tower that holds a spell light that orbits, casting the temple’s interior in ever-changing showers of color. 

Sienna is served by her Avatar Nightshade, Avatar of Mothers; she is a woman of gold and stone, carved with a fractal face, pieced together from dozens of different carved faces, a monomyth of mothers made into a single entity. She is a warrior, a royal, a peasant, and a heroine.  

Sienna does not have Coelestis. 

Sienna has no demi-god species. 

Sienna has no mortal species. 

Sienna does not raise one child above the others and thus refuses to choose between saints and prophets. 

Sienna has dozens of sects, every community tweaking her preaching, every preacher his own denominational leader.   

The Divine Fellowship of Sienna, Sienna allows male warriors, but clergy are exclusively female. 

-The Eternal: The Highest Priestess of Sienna. 

-Matron: High Priestesses of Sienna. 

-Goldheart: High Clerics of Sienna. 

-Brother/Sister of Stone: High Paladins of Sienna. 

-Mother: Priestess of Sienna. 

-Silverheart: Cleric of Sienna. 

-Stone Daughter/Son: Paladin of Sienna. 

-Daughter: Acolytes. 

-Earthborn: Acolyte or assistant for the clergy. 

-Stone Child: Paladin hopeful. 

Sienna vestments are earthy tones, embellished with dull greys, silvers, golds, and platinum to signify rank. The Eternal bleaches their hair and skin with arsenic, giving them an ethereal appearance. Paladins of Sienna wear heavy plate armor, highly decorative and mostly ceremonial; they serve as an honor guard for important clergy, as temple defenders, and as guards for people of importance and connections to the temple. 

Sienna Holy Orders consist of the Son Bearers, the Sons of Stone, and the Adamant Daughters. 

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.