This will now be the sixth god I have completed on the book I am currently writing. Title and book is very much a work in progress, so if you have any additional ideas or critiques, you are more than welcome to toss me a comment below!
The book is about adding piety scores (Perks for worshipping and following your god’s dogma and what they believe in) to the Forgotten Realms deities. Chauntea may not be the most exciting god to worship but I could see A LOT of role play opportunities by following and worshipping her.
After the PDF’s scroll to the bottom for additional info accompanied by artwork like: What would their temple look like? What would a priest and/or adventurer look like as a follower?
Chauntea’s Description
Chauntea is portrayed as a kindly, white-haired woman of middle years, wise by virtue of a long life well-lived. She has a lush beauty, tanned, brown skin, and a powerful build. She is usually draped in white robes of the finest linen or heavy silk cinched by a girdle embroidered with all manner of growing plants. Leaves, vines, and flowers twine through her hair and about her body, some even seeming to grow from her head.
Chauntea’s Other Manifestations
Chauntea often manifests as a flower where none has been or should be that sprouts, rises, and blossoms with lightning speed. Such a flower may appear as a simple sign of the approval of the goddess or a “yes” answer to a question asked in prayer. The blooming of such a flower can also accompany the sudden appearance of seeds, a garden tool, or helpful plants or herbs. Her floral signature also has marked the parting of growing things to reveal a path, door, or other feature that is being sought.
Chauntea’s Divine Realm
Chauntea maintained her divine realm named Great Mother’s Garden on Elysium’s second layer of Eronia.
The layer was marked by a rising landscape, with steep hills and mountains that rose beyond brightly lit clouds from deep valleys of white granite. At the bottom of the valleys, the River Oceanus flowed in a winding pattern, cutting canyons and gorges and flowing in rapids and extremely tall cascades.Chauntea’s realm was a representation of her dominion over the Realms. During the annual planting season, the goddess worked her realm’s sprawling fields, planting handfuls of seeds in furrows and closing them with her bare feet. The goddess took her duties with intense diligence, knowing that if she was late to plant or the fields were damaged, it caused the fertility of the Realms to suffer. A churned plot of earth in one spot of the field could cause croup failure in Halruaa, in another spot – scorched earth could create famine in Amn. Her realm’s fields were teeming with life: insects bussed about, earthworms filled the soil, robins flittered about
Chauntea’s Domain
Agriculture, plants cultivated by humans, farmers, gardeners, summer
Chauntea’s Temple
Goldenfields, a vast, walled abbey and farm compound east and north of Waterdeep, is the current pride of Chauntea. The goddess is said to be delighted at the community of more 5,000 worshipers who till over 20 square miles of contiguous land and outlying holdings on the banks of the Dessarin. The largest and most energetic project under- taken by the faithful of Chauntea, it has become the Granary of the North.
Chauntea’s Clergy
Priests of high rank of all types in the service of Chauntea tend to favor white or sun-colored ceremonial robes trimmed in deep forest green and to use staves smoothed by much handling but otherwise natural in appearance. Some such staves are enchanted to purify or promote the growth of what they touch.
Chauntea’s Adventurers
Chauntea’s followers often dress simply without any pretense, however they favor earth colors such as green and brown.Druids prefer simple brown robes and a belt laced with gold thread or some other similar, precious decoration.Clerics, on the other hand, wear an open-fronted brown cloak with more standard garments, like tunic and trousers, underneath.Magic users tend to wear colorful everyday clothing or robes in brighter hues of earth tones.
Mighty Flail 