#Luma = the Daughter (Maelands) and the Legend (Emarye) and Lu'Ma (Sieril (pronouns again))

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favorite goddess in the ehlverse for WBW?

hi hello!!! im late answering this bc ive had a deficit of spoons the last couple days, but thank you for sending it in, becca!!!! <3

Okay, SO, I talked about my top two favorite Goddesses here this week as well, but now I want to talk about the runner-up, Luma!!

Luma is the patron of Vigor, Battle, Legends, and Siblinghood, but when talking about her domains, Vigor is also often translated/portrayed as Youth! She's who everyone in the Maelands devotes to until they're ~15, as she's basically the Goddess of Childhood (literally, her indirect titles include The Daughter and The Child (but in Emarye, she's called The Legend!)) and devoting to her is seen as a protective blessing!

One of the reasons I like her so much is because, when I was coming up with what devotion ceremonies looked like, I decided her thing was getting a piercing! So every year you choose to devote to Luma, you get a new earring, lip ring, nose ring, etc. etc. So the longest-devoted Priestesses of hers are these strong old women with so many piercings that their ears sag with the weight!! And these Priestesses are often both bards and super battle-heavy - and because Luma is often depicted with a battleax and a lute, you'll just see these super punk-looking old women around the Ehlverse with a bajillion piercings, fuckoff huge battleaxes, and instruments on their person at random!!

But yeah!! I love Luma, and I love her role in the story as well (Tieling is a Prophet of Luma, the prophecy that led to him being Chosen was granted by Luma to his mother during his birth, and she's the most revered of the Goddesses in Sieril, alongside Erra, hence the Warriors of Luma a.k.a. Lu'Siire) and I could talk about her and the other Goddesses literally all day