Sidoseed

''"Lord of the Wood, help me to find order in thy chaos, safety in thy peril, and beauty in a world scarred with sin." ''- Cantations 36:21, the Book of Truth

Sidoseed is the ninth god, and his domain is nature and the order to be found within its chaos. The Woods Prince is usually depicted as an antlered man who guides the forces of nature with his Flute of the Grove. It was Sidoseed who planted the seed that would become the natural world, to eventually be populated with the creations of Elyrial, goddess of life. He was then given the task by Marpholones to guard these denizens and nature itself. His clerics serve this mandate, as they hunt the evil monstrosities that despoil the woodlands, bless the harvest of the faithful, or wither the crops of those who anger their gods.

It is believed by Wishmoreen scholars that in the original Valamari myth, it was either Marpholones or Tirena (or a combination) who created the world due to possible translations of Tirena's "god-womb" being a misinterpretation of "world-womb" and various other references to a creation event orchestrated by the Sun God and His wife. Sidoseed is then believed to be a later adaptation of the Wood Elf myth of Cydbwysedd, a shapeshifting fey creature that fights the forces of civilisation and elemental interference to preserve the balance of nature. Cydbwysedd is revered not only by wood elves, but by all druids who pledge service to its cause. Believing that nature's health depended on a precarious balance, druids holdthat the four elements of the natural world - air, earth, fire, and water - must be prevented from ever gaining advantage over one another, lest the world become dominated by destruction. Likewise, druids believe nature exists outside of civilised conceptions of good, evil, order or chaos, instead seeking only to maintain a natural state of being which most of the civilised world cannot or will not understand. But though druids may accept cruelty in nature, they abhor that which is alien to it, violently opposing the existence of aberrations and undead, both of which are affronts to the natural order and Cydbwysedd. In their initiation rites, druids disavow all allegiance to any one nation, abandoning borders to instead wander the wilds and meet at sacred sites for conclave.