> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Green Lady > [![[Green_Lady_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Green_Lady.webp) > ###### Lore Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Lore | > Category | Deity | > Pantheon | Gods of Old | > Portfolio | The wild wood, green and growing things | > Symbol | A single green leaf | > Revered by | Woodland druids and forest-folk | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Forgotten | The **Green Lady** is the old goddess of the wild wood — patron of green and growing things, of quiet groves and still springs, and of the slow, patient life of the forest. She belongs among the Gods of Old, the powers of the age before the [[The Pantheon|Seven Divines]], and like most of that elder company she has slipped almost entirely from the memory of the wider world. Where she is remembered at all it is in the deep woods, by those who keep the old ways and do not much trouble themselves over whether the presence they serve is a goddess, a spirit, or simply the will of the trees. ## Overview The Green Lady is reckoned a goddess of the living world — of forests and groves, of the green flush of new growth and the deep stillness of ancient woods, of springs and shaded pools and the quiet places where the wild is left to itself. Hers is not the bright divinity of temples and processions but a gentler, rooted thing: the patience of trees, the mercy of a grove that takes in the lost, the slow turning of season into season. The old lore that survives of her names her the Green Goddess and the Lady of the Wood, and holds that the wild forests of [[Elandis]] are hers, tended in her name long after the cities forgot it. What worship she still keeps is the worship of druids. In the forests of the [[Borealia Forest]], north of [[Val Aran]], a small circle of woodland druids gathers about a great living tree they hold sacred to her, and serve her as their patron — taking the names of trees and plants for their own, tending the wild, and offering shelter to those who come to the wood with nothing left. To them the Green Lady is no distant power but a near and watching presence: the spirit at the heart of their grove, watched over in turn as much as she watches. ## In Memory & Belief Beyond the eaves of the deep forest, the Green Lady is scarcely remembered at all. The faith of the wider world flows to the [[The Pantheon|Seven Divines]], and the old woodland goddess has dwindled to a half-name carried by hedge-tales and the songs of the forest-folk — an echo of an age when the wild itself was held divine. Even those who serve her rarely agree on what she is. Some name her an ancient goddess of the elder age; some, a nature-spirit older than any god; some hold that there is no lady at all, only the will of the wood given a face and a name by those who love it. The druids who keep her grove tend not to press the question. An old goddess, an ancient sprite, or merely the spirit of the woods — no one truly knows, and few who walk beneath her trees feel the lack.