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Verna — The Green Mother
Verna is the goddess of harvest, nature, seasons, animals, and the living world in all its immediate, personal forms. Where Epherion is the source of life at the cosmic scale, Verna is the expression of it at the human one — the field that feeds a family, the forest that shelters a village, the turning of seasons that structures a year.
She was not made. She accrued — emerging from the world as it began to grow under Epherion’s gift, the way warmth emerges from fire. Her worship is among the oldest in Vael, predating most formal theology by a significant margin, running beneath other religious practices in many communities without anyone much noticing. Her temples are often gardens. Her clergy are as likely to be found working the land as leading ceremonies. She is the god you encounter most often without naming. The Unfinished — people killed before their time — represent a kind of desecration of her domain that her clergy have not yet fully theologically processed. Neither have I, honestly.
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Stephen B. Anthony is the author of Transmigrant, an epic science fiction thriller, available on both Amazon and Audible.