Chauntea

Chauntea is an old nature goddess who has few temples, one of which is located at Greenest. Her temples have no clergy but accept offerings and gifts from the locals. Her temple is described as a vast unearthly gardenwhere the flora and fauna are peaceful unless provoked and are other worldly as a whole. They are speculation that her temples are in someway connected to the Feywilds.

Chauntea is some times refereed to as the sleeper due to her lack of appearance to any who visit her temple. Very few stories exist where she plays an active role and only a few rumors exist about her.

The people of Greenest casually worship her and she is considered the reason for the prosperity of the town. As told by one local: "The temple has always been here in town, though we have never really had a priest or cleric. We all just leave gifts throughout the year in the building and tend to the gardens (never eat the fruit growing on the trees) and the town of Greenest has always prospered. They say this is the place where Chauntea chose to lay for a great sleep and she still sleeps in the earth this day. The gardens are strange, people wander in and get lost, they wander out a few days later in perfect health but they never go back. Some say there is something alive in those gardens, not sure what it could be though."

One group of adventurers had made an expedition into the temple gardens at one point. As told by Guard Captain Ada of Greenest: "Those crazy people were talking about a secret/short-cut? Not entirely sure about it but there was a rumor a few years back about an adventuring party that went into the gardens and found some great magic thing? They kept their lips sealed when they came out but they let slip that there was some powerful magic hidden there. That could have been what they were looking for? Those adventurers looked like they had journeyed far past some simple gardens, no matter how enchanted they seemed."

Recently, she visited the firbolg Yarrow to offer assistance with healing a tainted heart tree in the remains of an old steading. The assistance came with a price, in that Yarrow cleansed the tree and surrounding forest of the taint, but now carries the curse with him. Should he step foot in the bounds of a steading again, he will release the curse upon the surrounding nature.