Pachamama

Pachamama is the raw, untrammeled, power of nature. She has few priests, temples, or formal shrines, trading them for the majestic simplicity of open fields, soaring mountains, sacred stones, and hidden groves. She is the foremost Goddess of nature, the Incan mother earth who brings fertility to the land, holds dominion over planting and harvesting all plants and animals, and summons earthquakes to destroy her foes. She is the embodiment of nature in all its forms, eschewing the patronage of the wealthy and powerful in favor of poor farmers, herders, and common people.

Pachamama is a stunningly beautiful woman with untamed hair that embodies her free spirit. She is extremely influential among the poor of Tawantinsuyu, whose adoration of Pachamama rivals that of even Inti.

Pachamama is easily one of the most powerful Apu. She is a witch, attended by a variety of spirits and has the uncanny ability to cast enchantments and speak with the earth, trees, rocks, and natural features of the World. She is a shapeshifter with the ability to communicate with the dragons of Tawantinsuyu. She is also an oracle with a dedicated cult of female shamans who read the future in the lungs of llamas or fallen foes. She is also a berserker of unimaginable fury, tearing her enemies limb-from-limb as she charges into battle with their lungs in her teeth.

Pachamama’s Scions take after their divine mother, free, unbound, and uncontrollable. They abandon the order of Inti’s court in favor of Tawantinsuyu’s natural places, although the wilds of the urban jungle appeal to a few. Pachamama’s Scions, like their mother, respect the power of Inti and his Scions because the natural world cannot survive without light, but prefer to stay at the periphery of his power until needed. They are as varied as the aspects of their mother, but include witches, oracles, astrologers, environmentalists, farmers, herders, mountain climbers, seismologists, berserk warriors, savage gang members, and vigilantes.