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On the morning of the 6th of Chronos, the people of [[Shallam]] awoke to a shimmering glow above the estate of the [[Crystalline Circle]].  They would later discover that their four elemental minions had departed from this world, and in their wake was left a land in sufferingBoth the sky and the land were torn in the process, and through this violent upheaval, '''Artemis, Goddess of the Cataclysm''', was able to awaken.
On the morning of the 6th of Chronos 437 AF, the people of [[Shallam]] awoke to tremors within the earth of increasing frequency and intensity. Soon after, a shimmering glow above the estate of the [[Crystalline Circle]] appeared. Rumours ran rife of elementals departing their watch over a flawed master crystal in [[Shallam]]. Blizzards howled, steaming fissures gaped open like wounds in the earth, lava flowed, and sandstorms swept across the Mhojave desert, carrying off hapless travellers in their paths.
 
In the midst of these alarming events, [[Titania]], the Queen of the Dryads,
was plagued by painful visions of trees aflame, trees dying in droughts,
and trees shattering beneath the weight of ice. Meanwhile in the [[Darkenwood]], a fissure had broken the ground.
 
It was soon discoverd that the nine sacred elder trees within which the spirits of the forests, save [[Urania]] and exiled [[Propasia]] in the [[Darkenwood]], had retreated during the years of the[[ Eternal Night]]. Though the eclipse had come to an end long before, the spirits remained yet sequestered within the
elder trees.
   
Adventurers soon discovered that chanting the strange words that [[Propasia]] had murmured - Tionolaim sibh, anachaine! - would summon a sudden and violent cataclysm that destroyed each tree in turn. As [[Titania]] had foreseen, the elder trees were indeed destroyed by fire and wind, by water and quake, through their chanting. However, the result was not utter disaster as feared, but the release of the forest spirits. The first to be freed in such a manner was the spirit [[Clio]] of the Western Ithmia.
As each of the forest spirits were freed, each silently made her way to
the temple of [[Gaia]] until all were assembled there, including [[Urania]] and
[[Propasia]] of the [[Darkenwood]]. The old dryad teacher [[Caladriendra]] was found crouching upon the ground there, crooning to the earth and speaking of a seed that she could feel growing beneath her feet.Those gathered slowly realised that the seed of which [[Caladriendra]] spoke was a yew-tree seed gifted there by the former goddess of destruction, [[Makali]]. As the [[Tree landmark|Great Oak]] landmark had been annihilated at the birth of that goddess, She had seen fit to gift the seed to the forestal community as a symbol of rebirth. The seed had been planted there and remained dormant all these years, forgotten, until the energies of the recent natural cataclysmic events had nourished and awakened it.
 
The forest spirits quickly encircled the earth above where the seed was
buried, and the adventurers in attendance joined them. [[Propasia]] led them
in incanting the same chant as had freed her sister spirits: "Tionolaim
sibh, anachaine!" As they did so, a small sapling pushed itself rapidly upwards from the earth. Before the astonished eyes of all, the sapling grew into a flourishing young yew tree, then a mature tree in the space of a breath. As the
chanting eased, [[Propasia]] approached the tree and lay her hands upon it.
As a deep green radiance spread over the temple grounds, the Exiled One
melded with the tree as her sisters had previously done with the sacred
elder trees of their forests.
 
As her form became one with the tree, a deafening peal of thunder sounded as a bolt of lightning from nowhere struck the yew, splitting it in twain. Standing between the smouldering halves: a woman, not [[Propasia]], clad only in vines. Ignoring those gathered there, the woman murmured to the earth, which had been shaking violently the entire time. The earth calmed, and the woman took to the
skies in a whirlwind of movement.
   
The forces of the cataclysmic occurrences currently raging through the
realm focused upon her as if summoned to her, and her body was wracked
and ravaged as ice pierced her flesh and fire consumed her. As the
goddess slowly drifted down to the ground, the whirlwinds and fires and
quakes abated and controlled, cries of joy and welcome rose up. Through this violent upheaval, '''Artemis, Goddess of the Cataclysm''', was able to awaken.
 


She is partially the rebirth of [[Propasia]], a spirit of the forest, and the seed of Destruction that lay within [[Gaia|Gaia's]] temple.  Now merged into one, She possesses qualities of both, being intimately entwined with nature's wrath.  Her symbol reflects this marriage of the two forces-a yew tree being split by nature's own wrath, a lightning bolt.  Governing over this realm of Achaea, Lady Artemis has no care for "Good" or "Evil," only for that which is the natural world.  Calling forth the power of nature, She can cause great havoc, and is especially inclined to do so in order to defend nature's beauty.


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