deities
Tunare, the Mother of All
The goddess of nature and growth, creator of the elves, patron of druids and the living wild.
Tunare is the goddess of nature, growth, and the patient flourishing of the living world. She is the creator of the elves — the Koada'Dal (High Elves), the Feir'Dal (Wood Elves), and the Half Elf bloodlines — and her domain extends across the green wild of Faydwer, the great forests of Karana, and every place where growing things hold against the dark. She is the most directly opposed of the good gods to Innoruuk, whose Teir'Dal were torn from her own High Elven children, and her clergy regards the long restoration of those stolen souls as one of the great unfinished works of the pantheon.
Her realm is the Plane of Growth, a primordial forest of impossibly vast trees, accessible at the era cap through the Plane of Faydark and the Tunarian quest network. She is allied with the Marr siblings, with Quellious, and with Bristlebane; she is opposed by Innoruuk, by Cazic-Thule (whose primal fear is the photographic negative of her primal growth), and by Rallos Zek's destroyers.
Lore
Tunare is named in the elder myths as one of the original creator-gods, her hand in the shaping of Norrath as old as Brell's. Where Brell hollowed the deeps and seeded them with the dwarves and gnomes, Tunare grew the surface and seeded it with the elves. The High Elves of Felwithe, the Wood Elves of Kelethin, and the Half Elf bloodlines all carry her direct lineage; her clergy treats the elven peoples as her ongoing work, not her finished work.
Her relationship with Innoruuk is the most personal hostility in the good pantheon. The Teir'Dal — the Dark Elves — were High Elves before Innoruuk's centuries-long torture remade them, and Tunare's longest project is the slow recovery of any Dark Elf soul that turns away from the Prince of Hate. Her clergy has historically been willing to extend redemption to individual Dark Elves who have repudiated Innoruuk, and the era cap quests in the Greater Faydark hint at this work.
The Plane of Growth is the architectural expression of her doctrine: a primordial forest at planar scale, where the trees are larger than the cities of the surface and the long patience of growing things is made visible.
Class and race access
Canonical EQ deity restrictions on Tunare are unusually broad: she accepts Druid, Ranger, Cleric, Warrior, Bard, Rogue, Magician, Enchanter, Wizard, and Paladin. She is the canonical Druid and Ranger patron — most Druid and Ranger lore at the era cap routes through her clergy — and she is one of the deities a Paladin may canonically claim. She does not accept Monks, Shamans, Necromancers, Shadow Knights, or Beastlords (Beastlords venerate Karana, Tunare, Brell, Bristlebane, or Veeshan canonically — Tunare may also be claimed by Beastlords in some readings; verify per server).
On The Last Camp the any-race-class doctrine unlocks racial combinations — a Dark Elf Druid of Tunare, an Iksar Ranger of Tunare, an Ogre Paladin of Tunare — and these combinations are particularly resonant under her redemption-arc doctrine. The deity restrictions on class remain in canonical form; the racial restrictions on class do not.
Realm and epic ties
The Plane of Growth is Tunare's seat, and the Druid epic 1.0 — Nature Walker's Scimitar — is the most directly Tunarian class quest in the canon, forged through her clergy and culminating in a planar invocation of her favor. The Ranger epic — Earthcaller — is similarly her work, and the Paladin epic (Fiery Defender) draws on her favor when the wielder claims her as patron. The Cleric epic (Water Sprinkler of Nem Ankh) routes through her clergy at multiple checkpoints, and the Bard epic (Singing Short Sword) carries her implicit blessing in its Faydwer phases.
Notable followers and quests
Kelethin, Felwithe, Surefall Glade, and the Karana druid rings are the canonical pillars of her worship. The Druid and Ranger class progressions at every level reference her clergy, and the Greater Faydark, Lesser Faydark, and Steamfont questgivers are saturated with her name. The Plane of Growth raid encounters in PoP feature her direct lieutenants, and the Tunarian quest network in Greater Faydark is the most extensive deity-aligned questline in the era cap.
The Last Camp-specific notes
The any-race-class doctrine produces the most lore-resonant Tunarian characters of any deity — the Dark Elf who has turned to Tunare is exactly the redemption arc her doctrine is built to receive, and the Iksar Druid, Ogre Ranger, or Troll Paladin of Tunare are characters her clergy is canonically prepared to accept. Faction with the Faydark and the Karanas will reflect deity over race when the deity is Tunare, which is one of the most useful deity-on-faction interactions on The Last Camp for players choosing unusual race-class combinations.
Worship and observance
Tunarian observances follow the seasonal calendar — equinoxes and solstices are the high days of her clergy, and the spring rites in Greater Faydark are the most attended public observance in the era. Her temples are typically combined with druidic groves and ranger lodges, and the canonical Tunarian shrine is built into the living trees rather than constructed beside them. Initiation into her Druid and Ranger orders requires extended residency in a wild zone under her clergy's supervision, with the candidate's connection to the living wild assessed across the seasons.