Name: Yefr
By-line: Twin Brother of Ayefr
Type: Greater God of the Elves
Alignment: Neutral good
Abilities: Turn Undead, Detect Magic (once/day)
Major Spheres: Healing, Sun, Charm, Combat, Protection, Creation, Animal, Necromantic, Wards, Travelers
Minor Spheres: Elemental, Thought
Weapons: Short Sword, Mace, Morning Star, Club, Sling, Warhammer
Spiritual hunger is well ingrained into the soul of a priest of Yefr. A priest must be sponsored into an apprenticeship and usually the sponsor is the main trainer, though this is not always the case. The sponsor, apparently drawn to the new recruit, appears after the recruit has spent several years suffering from a vague ennui. In some, this ennui takes the form of wanderlust (a common affliction in elves), while in others, it appears as a distaste for all worldly things. It has many other manifestations also, but these are the most common.
When the sponsor arrives, the recruit is at a spiritual state of seeking and the sponsor shows the recruit the power of the priest of Yefr. If the recruit decides to attempt to achieve this power, he enters the inner circle of the shrine and declares his loyalty to Yefr, and the training begins.
All shrines of Yefr are made entirely of wood, and are of the finest workmanship. Everything in a true shrine is made of wood, including the nails and joints. No metal at all. Priests of Yefr who are not granted the power of spellcraft (about 75%) become extremely adept carpenters, though they cannot use these skills for profit or for non-temple related items, with one exception. All temples of Ayefr are built by carpenter priest of Yefr. However, temples of Ayefr also have metal sections which the priests of Ayefr handle themselves. It is often the case that the temples of Yefr and Ayefr are close together, but they never touch or communicate directly, again with one exception.
The main, or at least the oldest, temple to Yefr and Ayefr, located in the high forest is a temple with twin spires of immense size. The priest carpenters find that the sense of ennui that had been such a factor in their previous lives has been slaked by there association with Yefr.
Clerics who are granted magical powers do not necessarily lose their wanderlust, and hence usually become adventurers.
The Kronian temple of Yefr is located in a park and is surrounded by planted beech trees. The temple looks after it's little forest with great care and is always looking to expand it's size, though city officials are often trying to do the opposite.
On the various religious holidays of Yefr, elves and other worshippers can be found roaming the forest and visiting the temple, and the high priest, Nan-Ulek also roams the forest on these occasions, meeting various elves and men. Often games are played on these holidays, and each holiday has a characteristic game.
At vespers on these holidays all those who are in
the small woods of this shrine chant in unison the sacred words
of Yefr: [Ali Rami Shi Yefr-Ayefr transmalli mutanus kelamini
shemari-ta] "The twins Yefr and Ayefr have one everchanging[approx]
soul."