Lunthir, the Full Measure

Deity of Abundance, Harvest, and Enough

The fields under the Asara Plate grow faster than fields have any business growing. The animals are absurdly healthy. The people there are, by common agreement, some of the happiest in Iridia.

Lunthir is the god of that, and of the thing sitting underneath it.

Because the third domain is the real one. Abundance without a notion of enough is not prosperity — it is the condition under which someone works out how much can be taken before anyone complains. Lunthir's harvest festivals end with a recitation of what the community decided it needed this year, spoken aloud before anyone's share is counted, specifically so the number exists before the argument does.

The levies on the Plate have risen three years running. Lunthir's clergy have started reciting louder.

Domains:

• Abundance: More than was needed, arriving reliably. Lunthir's power gathers in worked land rather than wild, and it has never once blessed a field nobody tends.
• Harvest: The taking-in, and the labour of it. The faith is unromantic about this: the miracle is in the soil, the work is not, and anyone who conflates the two is usually not the one doing it.
• Enough: The declared sufficiency of a household or a village, named in advance. The faith's only real doctrine and the reason it keeps colliding with tax collectors.

Manifestation and Symbols:

• Lunthir is depicted as a figure with both arms full, standing still, having plainly stopped picking.
• Its sigil is a level-struck measure — grain swept flat across the rim of the vessel, neither heaped nor short.
• Its presence shows as food that goes further than it should. Nothing multiplies. The pot simply reaches the end of the table.

Doctrine and Influence:

• "Name what is enough before the harvest, not after."
  • A share agreed in advance is a share. A share decided once the yield is known is a negotiation with the strong.
• "The Plate gives. It does not give to anyone in particular."
  • Lunthir's clergy hold that the Scale's bounty is a property of the ground, not a reward for whoever holds title to it, which is a politically inconvenient position stated as plain theology.

Worshippers:

• Farmers, granary-keepers and millers of the Asara Plate, whose festivals are cheerful, extremely well fed, and getting noticeably tense.
• Herders of the Blooming Skein, who borrow Lunthir's rites for the calving season.
• Almost no merchants, who find the third domain unhelpful.

"You have plenty. Say how much plenty is, while you still can."