"Her legs tired and feet bloodied, the poison biting at the wound in her side, she fell at the foot of a great oak. At once a voice thunder from all around her speaking in the tongue of birds and creaking wood, but she did not understand, and she cried out 'Where are you? Who are you? Will you save me?'
'I will save you, child' spake the voice 'and you in turn will save them' Iladanee opened her mouth to speak, but instead a lash of vine came out from the tree and wrapped around her it pulled her quick but gentle into the hollow of the wood and disguised her hence.
Her pursuers came soon after to the clearing, and finding the blood from her wounds did spend many hours searching for her, but not finding her made camp close by. In that hollow, Saphrenel revealed herself, speaking from the leaf of the vine into Iladanee's ear and told her of the magic which would save her, and Iladanee listened. Until in dead of night the wood wrapped outward and produced her from it's trunk. A branch crept into her hand, and the vine of Saphrenel wrapped about it.
She fell upon her pursuers then beating them with the crook of her staff. When they grabbed their bows and clubs to defend themselves, she spoke a word and they rotted out from their hands. They fell to their knees and submitted to their deaths, and she relented, as Saphrenel commanded her. Instead she bound their wounds. And spoke. "Once you were my kinsmen, then you were my hunters, now you will be my pupils and hear the word of Saphrenel the Lady of Life, and her students (who would be named St. Sinfenwir and St. Alyondane) were astonished and prostrated themselves to the Seer."
The Song of St. Iladanee the Seer
The Goddess Saphren, whose domains are of life and nature, the mother of all seers, she who is patroness of farmer, shepard and woodsmen, herbalist, healer and mid-wife. Whose animal is the sturdy and strong auroch, whom plows fields, gives milk and in death and slaughter feeds her faithful. Protector of forests and of all places where nature thrives.
The Goddess Saphren is one of the eight divine beings known as the Covenantal Gods, and first appeared to the Eirim maiden St. Iladenee the Seer in the Age of the Priestfall. Protecting her from her tribesmen who sought to kill and cannibalistically consume her to please the profane whims of the Old Gods. To St. Iladanee she taught the art of the seer, a magic before unknown to the world, which drew its source from the natural world and the spirits which dwelt therein.
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