Altana (3.5e Deity)

Summary::Goddess of the Dawn and protector of her children, Altana is a benevolent deity who preaches virtue.

Altana appears as a strikingly beautiful human woman with pure white wings either with open arms or in a perpetual state of sorrow over the constant loss of life upon the material plane.

Dogma
Altana preaches that other avenues other than violence should be the first to be explored when dealing with a confrontation and that the loss of a sentient life is always a terrible thing, no matter how corrupt the being was. She preaches that the only reason to fight is to protect the truly innocent and that, if such an event occurs, to do the deplorable deed as efficiently as possible and to take no joy in it.

Clergy and Temples
Altana's clerics tend to act as the healers of a society, only taking up arms if the need is dire. Her primary worshipers are Galka, Elvaan, Mithra, Tarutaru and Humans. In the cities in which she is worshiped, temples to her are quite common, and small shrines in public buildings are not rare. Her temples are usually similar to Christian churches with a number of pews set up so that visitors may listen to the priests' sermons.

Pantheon
Altana is the Mother Goddess of the Vana'dielian pantheon.