Mother Nature

Mother Nature is a name or title that may refer to one or more beings across several worlds.

It may refer to Mother Earth worshiped in the Druid religion, and also Ceres in the Realm of Eldritch. It may also refer to Venus, or is the name/title of standalone personification of nature.

Background

Humans are always trying to defy Mother Nature. The fish in Daventry believe in Mother Nature.

In Eldritch, seasons are controlled by Ceres, who is said to be Mother Nature herself. It is not clear if Mother Nature in Daventry's lore is same as Mother Nature in Realm of Eldritch’s world. Though Valanice may have later believed so.

Druids on the Isle of the Mists worship a similarly named being known as Mother Earth.

See also

• Mother Earth
• Ceres
• Venus (Aphrodite)
• Ahi'aorina Culatha

Behind the scenes

In real world Mother Nature may be synonymous terms for same concept or may represent similar but slightly different concepts. In Greek Mythology, Mother Earth/Nature is associated with Gaia, who was known as Terra Mater (Earth Mother) in Roman Mythology. Ceres was just the Roman goddess of agriculture (Demeter in Greek Mythology, and Anatolian goddess Cybele).

Demeter would take the place of her grandmother, Gaia, and her mother, Rhea, as goddess of the earth in a time when humans and gods thought the activities of the heavens more sacred than those of earth.

Roman Epicurean poet Lucretius opened his didactic poem De rerum natura by addressing Venus as a veritable mother of nature. Lucretius used Venus as "a personified symbol for the generative aspect of nature". This largely had to do with the nature of Lucretius' work, which presents a nontheistic understanding of the world that eschewed superstition.

The word "nature" comes from the Latin word, "natura", meaning birth or character. In English, its first recorded use (in the sense of the entirety of the phenomena of the world) was in 1266. "Natura" and the personification of Mother Nature were widely popular in the Middle Ages. As a concept, seated between the properly divine and the human, it can be traced to Ancient Greece, though Earth (or "Eorthe" in the Old English period) may have been personified as a goddess. The Norse also had a goddess called Jörð (Jord, or Erth). Medieval Christian thinkers did not see nature as inclusive of everything, but thought that it had been created by God; earth lay below the unchanging heavens and moon. Nature lay somewhere in the center, with agents above her (angels), and below her (demons and hell). Therefore mother nature became only a personification, not a goddess.

In KQ7 and the Companion, Mother Nature and Ceres are the same being and Valanice responds that they are the same after learning from Attis of her nature. Though in context she acknowledging what Attis said about Ceres in context of Eldritch (not necessarily back in Daventry). This isn’t clear in the early game realities (OT universe) where Mother Nature is an offhand reference made in KQ3, and may represent a later retcon, or unconnected ideas. At least from Companion perspective it does seems he believes Ceres is same Mother Nature in both worlds as she describes that to Graham.