Sheela Peryroyl

Overview

Sheela Peryroyl, the Green Sister of Yondalla, is a nature goddess, the lady of fields, streams, and the wilds found in shire and glen, and the weather in such places. She balances the concerns of wild untamed lands and habitats against the need for cultivation and harvest. She also presides over the pleasures of life - feasts, revelry, romance and a general desire to live life full of passion. Sheela is generally quiet, but she is rarely seen without a smile on her lips and a dance in her eyes. Though she appears naive, even simple, Sheela commands great power over nature: when she sings, flowers begin to bloom, trees to bud and seeds to sprout, and living plants grow and flower in her wake as she walks the earth. Sheela brings good weather to her favored worshippers but sends drought or flood to those who worship her poorly.

Description

Sheela Peryroyl appears as a pretty young halfling maiden dressed in garlands of wildflowers, with brilliant flowers in her hair.

Holy symbol

Sheela's symbol is a flower, specifically a daisy.

Favored weapon

If necessary, Sheela can instantly create a quarterstaff with all the abilities of a staff of the woodlands from a single blade of grass. She has also been known to wield a club or a sickle known as Oakthorne. Her priesthood have selected the sickle as their favored weapon.

Realm

World Tree cosmology

In the World Tree cosmology of Realmspace, Sheela Peryroyl resides within the outer planar realm known as Green Fields, which she shares with the rest of Yondalla's Children, including Yondalla, Cyrrollalee, Arvoreen, Brandobaris, and Urogalan. Green Fields is a pleasant realm of safety and repose, where halfling petitioners can while away their time in peaceful meditation and hard work, enjoying the fruits of their labour and the company of their fellows. Green Fields is basically a collection of halfling settlements scattered haphazardly among the gently rolling hills. The halfling pantheon places a great deal of emphasis on community and racial unity, and as such they share the Green Fields as a divine realm. They wander the realm from settlement to settlement, either with the seasons or on a mere whim. The settlements are themselves impermanent, and the residents quite happily wander from lakeshore to riverside, from cultivated fields to pastoral hills.

Great Wheel cosmology

In the Great Wheel cosmology, Sheela Peryroyl resides within her realm, known as the Flowering Hill, which is located on the Concordant Domain of the Outlands. The Flowering Hill consists of a single orchard and a wide farm. Sheela's halfling petitioners work the land, learning to balance the needs of nature against producing enough food. They are an open and friendly people, but they see an awful lot of invaders into their lands, and are therefore very careful about who they welcome.

Worship

Priests of Sheela Peryroyl are concerned with nature and agriculture, and work closely with halfling farmers and settlers to balance the need for the cultivation of fertile lands with the need for retaining pristine areas of wilderness. Many tend gardens of their own, seeking to develop new strains of crops and flowers. Others protects areas of wilderness from careless exploitation of available resources. Sheelas's priests oversee the integrity of halfling lands, leading their communities through an annual cycle of seed-sowing and harvest festivals. They also try to prevent wild beast and animals from running rampant through settled halfling areas, encouraging them to travel, live, or grow around halfling communities rather than through them.

In Spelljammer

Sheela Peryroyl is a member of Yondalla's Children and as such is considered native to Realmspace. Priests of Sheela Peryroyl are able to travel throughout Realmspace without limitation. However, if they leave Realmspace, they cannot recover any spells until they reenter a crystal sphere.

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External Links

• Sheela Peryroyl article at the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
• Sheela Peryroyl article at Greyhawkonline.com, a wiki for the Greyhawk campaign setting.
• Sheela Peryroyl article at the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition Wiki, a wiki for official Dungeons & Dragons content from 2nd edition AD&D.

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