Ehlonna

Ehlonna is one of the three major deities of the Malthusian Pantheon, and is embodied on the Material Plane by the very ground itself. She is shown in art in a variety of ways, but always as a human woman; her figure, and how she is dressed, can change considerably depending on how she is worshipped. Ehlonna is the Fertile Ground, the goddess of fertility, sex, and goodness.

Due to the ingrained misogyny of the Malthusians and its lingering effects in Northward, there are very few adherents of Ehlonna in the region. Most will revere her, and say prayers to her before planting or when trying to conceive a child, but there is only one anchory, an abbey, devoted to her, on the Lancemount in Strongfield. There were once templars of Ehlonna in Northward, but now there is only a cloistered order of Sisters dedicated to her worship. The sisters wear brown habits and scapulars, and wear their hair long. The Abbess of Strongfield is Gerta the Farlander, who wears the simple garb of her fellow sisters.

Ehlonnic burial practices are unique in Northward in that Ehlonnic adherents are buried in the ground, typically naked, and the burial site is marked with a headstone.