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When the fire god wished to almost literally know the secrets of creation, she let out a little chuckle. "You use terms of endearment, brother, then seek knowledge that might help you displace me. Still, I will answer your question, other than the fact that it is my very purpose.. I do not have another domain to retreat to. The earth is my domain. I wish it to thrive and to be healthy and happy.. As to how I do such things, brother.. It is simply what I do." She exhaled a sigh in the stifling heat of his domain and simply grew a small plant in the palm of her hand. It was a single rose that she plucked, roots and all from her hand and offered to her brother. The rose's coloring mimicked fire, blue at the very center, then red, and orange, and the outermost petals were yellow. It seemed to be more thorns than leaves and it all seemed to be coated in a rather thick waxy substance. "This will grow well in the heat of your mountain, brother, but it is not terribly useful for much other than being pretty. If my answer of your question has satisfied you and our deal for an exchange of knowledge can be struck, seek me out. If such is not the case.." There was a shrug of her shoulders. "Enjoy your flower. But I wish to leave this place. It is most unpleasant." Her leaves were drying out! Without much further ado, she vanished from the fire domain and returned home.

Some time after she arrived home, another brother reached out to her. The god of spirit, offering to demarcate her borders for her while preparing for war himself, though he was quite some distance from her people's homes. "I will think on it, brother."

And think on it she did. Brooding a bit while she examined what the other gods had done with their people and how they instructed them to behave. It was concerning really. Enslaving those that didn't worship as you worshiped, preparing for war, pitting people against one another. So as she retreated into the earth, she began to think that perhaps her people needed protection as well, not from ideas, but from overzealous adherents to other gods. Though those adherents were not yet an actual danger to her people. She thought better of an army or something that might be watched, and instead was inspired by another creation, the lowly earth worm that helped aerate the soil so that plants might more easily grow. She created a long segmented creature with many rows of large plates of teeth that were used for grinding and crushing rock that it fed on. The minerals from the rock then deposited on its outer segments, essentially creating articulated armor segments. These she sent North from her people, mostly to aerate the soil toward the mountains, but there might have been other motives for sending the subterranean beasts in that direction.

She did not neglect her children, though, and made sure to visit often when her daughter, Vynnie, was in a particular village to ensure that the people knew Vynnie carried her mother's will. She had her people spread out and explore the vast forest they had settled, and she had Vynnie teaching those that sought to learn from her, the medicinal uses of the plants around them so that they might better survive any diseases that cropped up. A few that followed Vynnie almost like groupies and prayed to Vynnessia each morning as Vynnie did, began to receive blessings from their goddess, allowing them to do some of the things that her daughter could do, but only when they were truly one with nature.

After some deliberation and a fair amount of time writing down some of her thoughts on her very own bark in the language of the gods, Vynnessia finally answered Aegis. "Brother, I shall not purposely invade land that you feel is rightfully yours, but nor will I tell my people they cannot traverse to the mountains or past them if they wish to do so. I shall have to deny your suggestion, because even now, there are foreign footfalls upon the westernmost area you have seen fit to allow me to possess. I shall finish with this.. I do not believe your people have anything to fear from my people."