Orshan

Orshan is a "goddess of crops and farmers".

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Pilgrims to Orshan's mazes can open themselves to wisdom from Orshan.

Prelates of Orshan renounce their houses for the family they made for themselves, and at least the men are referred to as "Brother", while women may be called "Sister". Both elves and goblins can be prelates of Orshan. Orshaneisei seem to be very hospitable and helpful.

The Sanctuary of Orshan in Amalo is south "and west of the city, along the River Road", and the Sanctuary keeps "a corn maze in the old way, with a great procession to celebrate when they harvested the corn, which then went to the city’s poor. . . [The] maze was marked out by the weight of thousands and thousands of feet, plodding, dancing, marching, and it was permissible to walk the corn maze even when the corn was not there.” At the center of the maze was a cross made out of pebbles, and at its center "was a four-legged bowl containing a great heap of the milky white pebbles", which visitors can take for themselves seemingly as tokens of their pilgrimage through the maze.

No one can become lost in an Orshaneise maze. Hurrying is considered an affront to Orshan, so maze wanderers are meant to take their time. When Thara Celehar visited the maze in Amalo, he was asked to return to the Sanctuary by sundown. Both of his visits were followed by a meal with the Orshaneisei.

An Orshalvero is "a doll given to farmers’ daughters to hold them close to Orshan as they grew", and carved from wood by the Orshaneisei.

Orshaneisei

 * Brother Cenethis

Quotations

 * "To Orshan, we are all brothers."