| Other Names | The Land Father |
| Status | Abstract |
| Area Of Control | Nature, The Land, Farming |
| Ethos | |
| Pantheon | Grum |
| Worshipers | Farmers, gardeners, hunters |
| Appearance | Usually depicted as a very old and somewhat thin grumman male. Spectacles, grey hair, beard, gnarled hands and wrinkled skin. Walks with a staff. |
| Symbol | A flower, a handful of seeds, a plow. |
Khoras is the patron god of grumman farmers. Although he is a grumman god, his worshipers are widespread and he is also worshiped by many humans, some elves, nature lovers, druids, woodsmen and more. He is a vague entity of great power. He is the force of nature and represents the world as a unified whole. According to legend, the sky is his soul and the weather predicts his mood.
According to grumman mythology, the world is a living thing and it has a soul. It is a great and powerful god on which all things depend. Once, long ago, the spirit and essence of the world took on the guise of a grumman man so that it could walk the world. This was merely a projection of the world, an avatar of sorts. This avatar came to live as a mortal, a grumman farmer, and learn how the grum tend the land. This avatar, who took the name of Khoras, cared for the farms of friends when they would go off to fight battles. He would go for long walks, tend gardens and was in all ways in love with the land. Even as he learned from the grum, he taught them as well: how to coax food from the weakest soil, how to rotate crops, how to ration water, how to nurture. When the avatar had learned enough, he died and rejoined the world. But he left behind those who had learned from him, those who honored the land as he had done. And so, those who remembered, practiced his ways and taught his children. In this way was the worship of Khoras sustained.
While not a powerful cult, the worship of Khoras is widespread. Druids, rangers, woodsmen, farmers, gardeners, herbalists and countless others practice the rituals and repeat the land from devastation, over-farming and the ravages of war.
This page last updated Monday, October 08, 2007. Copyright 1990-2008 David M. Roomes.