Aen Qar

The Aen Qar are a wide group of deities, though not as their name suggests, the first of such. These gods are worshipped by the largest proportion of mortals in Canthia, though their popularity has waned in recent decades with the rise of new faiths like the Seekers and the Red Wolf.

Indrakar, The Sentinel Mother
The first-born of the Bright Mingling after the defeat of the Demonsires in far, far pre-history, Indrakar is the high mother goddess of Canthia. It is her duty to guard the Cosmos from the incursion of the Demonsires or any malevolent beings that might happen upon our young world. As a goddess of the Aen Qar, she is associated mostly with child-bearing, motherhood, death vigils and protection. She is the patron of guards, mothers, walls and castles. She is invoked first during a bith and last at the time of a person's death as it is believed Indrakar is the first and last thing a spirit meets when it travels through the Cosmos to inhabit a form.

The most common pictographical depiction of Indrakar is as an armoured woman, her helm's visor lifted to show her face. Her eyes are bright shining stars and her hair is spun gold. Indrakar holds in her left hand a shield, known as the Bastion, an artefact which is said to be impervious to harm through physical or magical means. In the other hand, she holds a spear, the Edge of Stars, it's metal tip forged in the heart of Canthia's fiery sun by Erastellos, her nephew.

Rilandra, the Phoenix Queen
Sister to Indrakar, Rilandra is the Sentinel of Moon and Sun and Kindly Grandmother of Humanity. Her chidren make up the larger part of the human pantheon, the Sect of Stars and as such she is viewed as a higher goddess than her elder sister, Indrakar.

Rilandra's duty is to ensure the proper measure of the sun and moon. She controls day and night, the seasons and the weather by this power. Where as her sister and her nephews are skewed more to the watching and guarding of concepts and the larger Cosmos, Rilandra and her children are more attuned to the specific physical nature of Canthia. Though more involved directly with mortalkind, Rilandra is still rather aloof to the affairs of man and elf. She is rarely invoked except for harvests or seasons and her depictions are rare though they do exist in more rural and agrarian areas of the world.

Her image is most commonly that of a middle-ages woman dressed in the common garb of a peasant. Under her left arm she holds the right eye of Aei, our sun. Under her right, she holds the second eye, our moon. On her dress is depicted the four seasons in equal parts to signify her stewardship over them.