Church of Shiallia

The church of Shiallia was the primary religious organization dedicated to the worship and service of the goddess Shiallia, the Dancer in the Glades. They were commonly called Shiallians.

Temples
Shiallia limited her influence to the High Forest and was mostly unknown beyond its boundaries, though her Lady of the Woods aspect was venerated in the vicinity of the Neverwinter Wood and she had a few temples elsewhere. She was a favored deity of North Faerûn, but in general there was no central temple nor web of churches dedicated to her. Most of the year the majority of her clergy wandered the High Forest on personal trails with their own personal favorite places for worship in almost every area.

Notable Locations
Shiallia had two major holy sites: in the High Forest, she was revered the Glade of Life, which she shared with Chauntea, Mielikki, Eldath, and Lurue. The Glade was located at the the foot of the Star Mounts, near the village of Khle'cayre, and in the center of the Glade was the Fountain of Unicorns that fed the headwaters of the Unicorn Run. Circled by great oaks over a millennium old, the Glade had a unmatched fey beauty to it. Though much of the clergy was based there, they only rarely returned, save for the most senior high priest, a venerable female korred that lived in a sylvan dell known only as Grandmother or the Dancer of Life. The korreds danced there every night, which Shiallia sometimes joined on Midsummer nights, avatars of the other four goddesses sometimes joining in.

Shiallia's other primary place of worship was an inn beyond the High Forest located in Silverymoon, called the Golden Oak. It was excellent, expensive, beautiful, yet simple lodge built from fallen oak timber and natural resins. At the time of the Year of the Prince, it was run by the priestess Izolda Three-corn.

Another place of worship, simply called The Grotto, was said to lie somewhere in the vicinity of Everlund.

Symbol
Shiallians wore golden acorn necklaces or pendants around their necks as their holy symbols.

Dress
There was little formal dress code for Shiallia's followers, though they always wear their hair long and untied, decorating it to be similar to their goddess. Most wore simple robes of brown and green, donning flowing white robes and simple reed sandals during festivities. They would not wear animal hides or forged metals, and so for protective clothing mostly made do with heavy, woven cloths sewn into surcoats to make padded armor.

Weapons
When needed to defend themselves they usually crafted cudgels from fallen oak timber and enhanced them with the shillelagh spell, though some copied the shears used by korreds.