Sevicara

Overview
The goddess of fertility, love, and new life, the dark elves worship Sevicara as a force of endless vitality in the face of harsh desert. While the most impassioned of her worshipers rest in comfort and safety of ornate mansions, no wealth can overcome low elven fecundity. The overabundant dark magics in the region make already-difficult elven pregnancies far more dangerous, leading to great praise for a goddess who chooses some children to support through a gestation of many months, and who cares for the infant souls of the stillborn and young children.

Appearance
Depicted as a middle-aged dark elf swathed in the many layers of the wealthiest matriarchs, nearly every depiction of Sevicara features a pregnant figure carrying and guiding multiple other children. Her face, hair, and body hidden to allow her wealth and pregnancy to speak for her as dark elves fashions are wont to do, Sevicara's devotion to life and love dominate her imagery. Often pictured leading a young child by the hand, nursing an infant, or both.

Divine Mission
While married to Qooring, Sevicara pursues Zalhara with dogged persistence. Dark elf mythos tells that she gathers deceased infants and children—who lack the wealth to properly worship Zalhara—and cares for their endlessly young souls in Crolshka, her palace in the Expanse that serves as a vast and endless nursery. Her actions are noble, but her reasons are selfish as she ignores her concubine in favor of attempting to court another goddess

Religion
While clerics are rare, physicians, midwives, and child-rearers all belong to her embrace and are likely to be chosen as her servants and followers in the afterlife.

All dark elves attempting pregnancy, or those already pregnant, pray to Sevicara. Most wealthy homes hold shrine rooms to the goddess of motherhood, open to the carrying ladies of the family. Pregnancy is a mark of successful triumph over adversary among the dark elves, and carrying a child successfully to term is even rarer.

Only mothers who have birthed a child and raised it themselves (rather than through a nursemaid or a governess) may become priestesses of Sevicara.

Afterlife
A typically-designed classical manor house and palace complex in the Expanse, Crolshka has become a vast nursery. Souls do not grow and mature as living creatures do, and caring for those souls requires eternal infant care. A common target of fiendish raids, as the souls of the innocent are the most delicious to creatures of Hell, it is begrudgingly protected by Qooring's forces.

Magic Properties
Preferring to heal and comfort rather than harm if at all possible, Sevicara's magic is quieter and more subtle than some of the more powerful gods of life, such as the Allmother Matron's explosions of gold and warmth. The comforting pressure of a swaddling blanket, the kiss of a mother on her child's forehead, and the charming pride of a pregnant mother are all evoked in her magic—invisible forces and emotions that emanate from the caster of her spells with such a force that they are almost tangible to the world around them. Yet these same forces can be wielded in the defense of a mother's young, and they do so with devastating effect.