Boldrei
Let our table be full, our words be kind, and our work be shared.
Boldrei is the Sovereign of Hall and Hearth, the quiet engine behind every functioning community. She guides and protects families, neighborhoods, and nations alike, and she is invoked whenever people decide to stop acting like lone wolves and start acting like a town. If Aureon is the law on the page, Boldrei is the reason anyone agrees to live by it in the first place.
What Boldrei Represents
Boldrei stands for home, cooperation, tradition, and the shared work that keeps a roof standing and a street safe. Her domain is not only the literal hearth, but also the social hearth: the place people gather, settle disputes, share meals, raise children, and decide that tomorrow is worth building together.
She is also the patron of the unglamorous virtues. Patience. Neighborliness. Showing up. Bringing soup. Keeping your promises when nobody is watching.
Worshipers and Everyday Devotion
Boldrei is worshiped by almost everyone, including people who would swear they are not particularly religious. Her influence is baked into daily life. She is the blessing on a marriage, the solemn weight behind a coronation, and the small prayer that turns a building from a structure into a home.
Many communities mark new construction by inscribing a prayer to Boldrei somewhere in the building, sometimes openly, sometimes tucked into a foundation stone where it will outlast the names of whoever paid for the work.
Iconography and Forms
Boldrei is traditionally depicted as a humble humanoid commoner, not crowned, not radiant, not dramatic. That choice is the point. Boldrei’s holiness is ordinary life done well.
Less commonly, she is shown as a copper dragon curled on a nest of eggs, which is a very unsubtle way of saying “protection, family, and the future.” Also, it looks impressive above an altar, and people do love impressive.
Divine Relations
Boldrei is the wife of Aureon in many traditions, a pairing that neatly ties law to community. Wisdom and structure are valuable, but they only matter if they serve people, and Boldrei is the Sovereign most concerned with keeping people together.
Rites and Holy Days
Boldrei’s blessing is commonly sought in civil ceremonies, especially marriages and coronations. Her rites show up where society publicly affirms itself.
Boldrei’s Feast falls on the 9th of Rhaan and is widely celebrated with communal feasting across Khorvaire. It is also the traditional day for government elections, which is either a charming symbol of civic unity or an excellent way to ensure politicians are judged by how well they behave at a crowded table.
Clergy and Temples
A priest of Boldrei rarely serves only as a priest. They tend to be civil servants, organizers, mediators, and the person who knows exactly whose cousin is feuding with whose neighbor and how to keep it from turning into a brawl.
Shrines to Boldrei are found in community halls, hearth places, and anywhere people gather to share burdens. A temple to Boldrei is, ideally, not just a place to pray, but a place that actively holds a community together.
