Help Index :: Religion :: Cynnis Deep within the multi-colored canopy, hidden amongst the fauna of the forest lives the goddess known to all who follow the ways of the woodlands: Cynnis, guardian of the wildlands. She is known to her followers as the Huntress, or simply Mother Nature. She loves and looks after all the plants and animals of the world, but Cynnis always has a special place in her heart for the verdant green forests. For this reason, she has attracted a large number of ent and elven followers; indeed, many woodsmen and hunters are devoted to her because of her intrests in the woodlands and the animals that make them their home. Not a forest in the land has escaped the gentle hand of Cynnis and her followers. Cynnis believes natural beauty to be the highest form of perfection, and considers any unnecessary alterations of this tangible perfection a perversion. She does, however, grudgingly allow the peoples of the earth to take what they need of Nature's abundant resources, though those who seek to wantonly destroy her lands often live to regret it. Cynnis recognizes the needs of both predators and prey, as death is merely a part of life's natural cycle. The willful destruction of her creatures, be they the flora or fauna, however, is not tolerated. In respect for the land, followers of Cynnis do not wear steel. Those who claim to have seen the Huntress in her domain claim that she appears as a large, snow-white wolf, a very tall and graceful ent, or as a beautiful elven archer, her hair a mane of honey-gold locks, carrying a longbow of silvery white birch that seems almost alive. Even without actually seeing her, though, there is not a woodsman who has not felt her serene prescence while amidst the wooded groves. Her symbol is that of the wolf whose form she sometimes shares: large, with a shimmering coat of purest white and brillant green eyes representing the natural world she holds so dear. Cynnis does not accept mages among her worshipper. Far too often, their spells of power cause great destruction to the wildlands, and for this reason, she does not welcome them to her service. Allowed worshipper alignments: Any non-evil (LG, LN, NG, PN, CG, CN)