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Nikta, the Shepherd of the Seasons

Summary

The most powerful Faint Divinity that protected the land. The Shepherd kept Fanewick in balance by turning her eyes upon the land, first for ripening, then ruination. Thus Nikta maintained the cycle of seasons—of growth and decay, of death and rebirth.

Haven's forces, under the guidance of Archmage Phylax, plucked out her Reaping Eye. With her Reaping Eye removed, Nikta can only watch over Fanewick with the Sowing Eye, forcing the land into everlasting spring. This has led to the scourge known as the Witherwild.

Domains

The Sowing Eye

The Sowing Eye represents growth, renewal, and the fertile spring. When Nikta gazes upon the land with this eye, crops flourish, flowers bloom, and life springs forth in abundance. The Sowing Eye brings warmth, rain, and the promise of harvest. It is the eye of beginnings, of potential realized, of nature's generous bounty.

With only the Sowing Eye remaining, Fanewick is trapped in eternal spring. While this might seem like a blessing, the lack of natural decay and the season's end has created an imbalance that manifests as the Witherwild—a corruption of endless, uncontrolled growth.

The Reaping Eye

The Reaping Eye represents decay, harvest, and the necessary autumn and winter. When Nikta turned this eye upon the land, it brought the time of reaping—when crops were gathered, leaves fell, and the world prepared for rest. The Reaping Eye allowed for death and dormancy, clearing away the old to make room for the new. It was the eye of endings, of completion, of nature's stern but necessary pruning.

Archmage Phylax discovered that the Reaping Eye could be used to create a cure for the Serpent's Sickness. Under their guidance, the The Witherwild/03 Factions/Haven Army plucked out the Reaping Eye from Nikta herself. The eye was used to cultivate the crimson Lady's Veil, a fungus that can cure the Serpent's Sickness but requires the Reaping Eye's power of decay to grow properly.

The theft of the Reaping Eye is the central crime that drives the conflict in Fanewick. It saved Haven from plague but doomed Fanewick to corruption.

Not Death, the Wound That Remains

With the Reaping Eye torn away, Nikta is no longer a simple life‑giver. She is defined by loss—a god of Not Death. The forest is too alive: endings are denied, growth runs wild, and rest is withheld. This trauma shapes her presence in Fanewick:

These signs echo the Witherwild, a world without reaping, where cycles cannot complete.

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