Editing The Elemental Gods (section)

==Cerithwen - the Lady of the Moon==
Sister Hart is the mistress of the new. In other spheres, she dreamed of the world that Scalgard could be and she now longs to shape it to her dream. In her mind she sees crumbled towers not just made whole, but built up as spires of marble and silver, testaments to her glory.  She will heal men of hurt and illness, or inspire inventors to new heights, all in the name of her dream.  But a dream to some is a nightmare to others, and not all of the moon-beasts she makes have mankind's interests at heart. Her world is primal, and dangers would lurk there; worse, for her dream to become reality, the Scalgard men know today must fall, so its nations have much to fear from the Lady of the Moon.

The gods' worst rivalry traces a regular path across the night sky, where Cerithwen makes her home. Month by month the moon waxes full and wanes, pursued, sometimes covered over, by storms. Mannanan chases Cerithwen through the night, and Stormlords make cruel jokes of their patron's lust for the comfort of her full breasts and his willingness to hold them by force. Annwyn's Cerements, a more scholarly lot (who nevertheless hold no love for the goddess who would unmake all of the lore they have collected), point out that a god so devoted to destruction would be naturally opposed to a goddess who sought to renew. Mannanan's chaos will never be complete so long as Cerithwen still lives.

Cerithwen seems to be a full and beautiful woman with dark skin that yet shines white.  Her hair is silver, her court-dress is blue, and both trail into a mist that pours from her as she walks. In her passing, flowers bloom that have never been seen on Scalgard before.  Her priests are the '''Luminous''' and are invested as Devoted Clerics.

A character knows the following with a successful Religion check:

* '''DC 20''' - ''The Churlish Servant'' - Cerithwen set her priest Gwion to tend the fire beneath her cauldron.  But when three drops boiled over from the bowl and splashed on his hand, the goddess came at him in a rage for learning the secrets she had brewed.  He turned himself into a rabbit to run from her, but she chased him as a hound; he became a salmon and jumped into a river, but she swam after as an otter; he took to the air, a swallow, but she was faster as a hawk.  Gwion only lost his lady when he became a seed, but now he will not return to life as a man for fear his goddess will find him from her view in the skies.  
* '''DC 25''' - ''Early Birds Better Late'' - Ever seeking the new, Cerithwen was the first of the gods to come to Scalgard.  Though she did not mean for them to see, Annwyn and Mannanan followed her light to find the way.  A skilled astrologer might be able trace her courses through the sky and find a path to the land from which the gods arrived, but reaching that land once a path is found might prove... difficult.
* '''DC 30''' - ''Birthing the New Flesh'' - The same ritual that the Luminous use to change their shapes can be turned into a terrible curse when used against their foes.  A man can be changed to a pig and set in a sty to wallow his days away in filth, or a fox to be hunted by his own hounds.  But cursed worse yet is the man whose form will not stay still, but changes from man to wolf and back again, his nights filled with murderous rage directed against his most loved, as Cerithwen chases him across the sky.