Anwen

Anwen is the goddess of travel, weather, and the sea. She oversees anyone embarking on a journey, especially those doing so via sailing. She is not an evil god, but known to to be temperamental and fickle in her moods and most sailors will attest that her favor is crucial to a successful voyage. Anwen is the warmth of the summer winds and the fury of a autumn tempest.   In addition to overseeing those already on a journey, she is held responsible for urging people to travel. When someone is afflicted by sudden or intense wanderlust or desire to travel it is said they are "Searching for Anwen". Anwen's followers and clerics often become adventurers or guides. Though she has few temples dedicated to her, many roadside shrines and rest houses are run by her clergy or are dedicated in her name.   Anwen is one of the most widely-acknowledged deities, but she has a much smaller clergy than most. Most people pay her token lip service or offer her some prayer during a journey and sailors are among her most common devout worshipers. Despite this, few take up the mantle of priest or priestess of her name. Those that do are often wanderers who seek to spread her messages and blessings throughout the world. These wandering priests are often found among sailors as well and most large vessels, especially those undertaking long journeys, have a priest or cleric of Anwen aboard. However, these few wanderers cannot compete with the numbers of clergy the other Imperial deities have within the settled societies.   Most cultures view Anwen as something of a situational goddess. One to whom prayers are offered in relevant situations, such as when they or their loved ones are travelling, during sowing season, and during winter, but otherwise ignored. Few cultures pray to her with regularity. There are also some cultures, especially nomadic cultures, who place much more importance on her worship, but these are few and far between.   Anwen is sometimes viewed as a partner (though typically not a romantic one, as this is reserved for Blithe) or accomplice to Twain, even another aspect of him. They are both unpredictable and sometimes extreme in their moods. However, beyond this, there is little similarity or connection between the two, making the correlation a rather niche interpretation.

In the Central Pantheon - Marlis

Within the Central Pantheon Marlis's purview is somewhat altered. While she still has connections to travel, travel is not explicitly her domain. Rather, she is a goddess of weather. People may, and often do, beseech her for her blessings of fair weather before travelling. She is viewed as a very capricious goddess being fair of spirit one moment and full of wrath the next. Sometimes this emotional fickleness leads her to be associated with certain aspects of femininity, due to the belief that women are more emotionally turbulent than men. The degree to which this is accepted varies, however.
 

In the Western Pantheon

Anwen is viewed as a goddess of travel in the Western Pantheon, and it is from the Western Pantheon that she derives much of that aspect of her Imperial characterization. In particular, though she is older than Maranam, many of the local clans believe she oversees souls on their journey through the desert.
 

In the Southern Pantheon - Beatrix

The Southern Pantheon, Anwen is known as Beatrix. Her main sphere of influence is naval travel (land-based travel is not in her purview) and wind (but not weather directly). She has clergy in port cities and aboard ships, but is largely absent from inland settlements.
 

In the Eastern Pantheon - Nephele

In the Eastern Pantheon, Anwen is known as Nephele and is one of the two facets of the dual deity Somatios, the diety of the physical world and material creation. Nephele is their feminine facet who controls the winds, the weather, and the sea. Nephele is a tempermental goddess, even moreso than in other Pantheons. She is violent and unstable, but not intrinsically evil. Nephele may be violent, but she is also quick to offer succor and comfort after one of her violent outbursts. Nephele is often said to be bitter rivals, sometimes even outright enemies with Iris and the two constantly seek to overpower each other, Nephele by blotting out the sun and dousing fires and Nephele by dispersing the clouds and drying up the waters. Meanwhile, Neofytos and Nephele are often close allies as Neofytos relies on the rain to water his gardens and his plants are among the most appreciative of her rain. 
 

In the Northern Pantheon

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In the Wandering Pantheon

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