Yondalla
Yondalla is the chief halfling goddess and a member of the 3rd edition D&D "core pantheon". Her symbol is a shield with a cornucopia motif.
Yondalla is the goddess of Protection, Fertility, the Halfling Race, Children, Security, Leadership, Diplomacy, Wisdom, the Cycle of Life, Creation, Family and Familial Love, Tradition, Community, Harmony, and Prosperity. Yondalla is also known as the Protector and the Provider, the Nurturing Matriarch, and the Blessed One.
Yondalla is represented as a strong female halfling with red-golden hair, looking determined and proud. She dresses in green, yellow, and brown, and carries a shield. Yondalla has two aspects that the halflings speak of in front of others: the Provider and the Protector. As the Provider, she is a goddess of fertility and growing things, of birth and youth. She can make barren things fertile and increase the growing rate of plants and animals to any speed she chooses. She can equally easily make fertile things barren, if she chooses. She can age, wither, and slay as easily as she can create, though it takes much to drive her to do this.
As Protector, Yondalla wards off evil influences and intrusions and gives halflings the strength and determination to defend themselves.
Despite her widespread worship among halflings and her central role in their society; her temples were unusually rare, those that did exist were designed to look like a well-hidden halfling burrow-home and were filled with weapons and food so that the communities that surrounded them could hold out against possible invaders.
Differences from 3rd Edition
Yondalla isn't a miltaristic god and provides support for her people in the form of reproductive fertility, successful harvests, and strong communities. When she feels a need or feels like her people are threatened, she will empower community leaders with divine power to protect the little guys.Current Lore
Yondalla was a Lesser God that made a Lesser Race in the Halflings to protect Lightheartedness, Joy, and the simple pleasures. Her creation of the stouthearted halflings during the Demon Wars garnered such appreciation and admiration from the Greater Gods, that they blessed the Halflings with souls and an afterlife, and gave Yondalla the powers of a Greater God. Since this time, she has conservatively used them and practiced restraint. Being the only Greater God that had no dealings in the other realms, she nurtures and cares for Immelion greatly. Now that she has noticed bad things starting to happen she feels she needs to handle it herself, hence why she has created her first paladin in Mantis Bugbattler.Divine Symbols & Sigils
Her sacred animal is the dove and her symbol is a shield.
Divine Classification
Lesser and Greater God
Children
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