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Artemis came to be in 437 AF, amongst a score of continent-wide disasters. Mysterious earthquakes and unexplained storms ravaged [[Sapience]] while dreams of burning trees and strange prophecies and chants possessed those empathic to nature, including [[Titania]]. At her urging, [[adventurers]] followed clues to awaken the nine [[forest spirit]]s which had merged the elder trees of their forests since the [[Eternal Night]]. Once freed, the woodland apparitions converged on the [[Primordial Forest|Temple of Gaia]] where adventurers found [[Caladriendra]] singing to the earth. The old [[dryad]] teacher spoke of a secret yew seed once planted there by the [[Makali]], the Goddess of Destruction years prior which was awakened by the energies of recent cataclysmic events. Joined by the tenth forest spirit, the exiled [[Propasia]], the spirits caused the seed to sprout into a fully grown yew with ritual chant. Propasia merged with the tree before a bolt of lightning split it in two. From the centre arose a new being who rose into the sky and braved the onslaught of the ongoing cataclysms. The raging storms quieted. In the silence the being pronounced herself: Artemis, Goddess of the Cataclysm.  

Artemis went on to share patronage of [[Eleusis]] with Her fellow Nature deities. She garnered a tribe of loyal followers about Herself called the Anachaine. Her realm was a syncretic one, once which fused the cosmic destructive forces of Her beginnings with the terrestrial provisions of Nature to express the living ferocity of the natural world. When the terror of [[Bal'met]] swept the Pantheon, Artemis was most often seen in company of [[Lupus]] and [[Melantha]], but also [[Vastar]] who shared Her love of the unbridled storm. After the coma of Lupus and the death of Melantha, [[Gaia]] arose anew, and it was arguably in the sisterhood of the Earthmother and the Great Wrath that Nature truly flourished in the post-Worldreaver years.