Hylea

Hylea
General
Symbol
Aliases	Sky-Mother Queen of Birds
Portfolio	The sky Birds Maternity Creativity Language Song Invention The arts
Allies	Eothas
Foes	Magran (a relatively new development)
Symbols	A sky-blue bird’s egg
People
Followers	Pallegina Casfath Onŵen
Temple	Temple of Hylea
Priests
Playable	No
Godlike	Avian godlike
Related
Quests	The Nest Above the Clouds
Books	The Midwife's Memoirs

“	Hylea prefers the worship of two children singing over a thousand petitioners silently praying for victory.	”
~ The Midwife's Memoirs

Hylea (high-LEE-Uh) is the goddess of birds, the sky, child-birth and creative inspiration.

Manifestations

Residing in her Court of Birds, she is described as wrapped "in a mantle of many colors, made from the feathers of every species of bird that had ever been seen". She is thought to use birds as her eyes and ears.

Worship

Hylea's clergy is a mix of formal and informal followers. Her temples are usually many windowed, with skylights and aviaries. Her informal clergy of country midwives show their devotion in their practice and by wearing charms of colorful feathers. Artists will keep birds in their homes in hopes of inspiration.

Orlans, in an attempt to capture inspiration, catch and eat the most beautiful birds they can find. It's believed that this is an affront to Hylea, and the painful childbirth that Orlan's experience is because she has no clergy amongst them.

Interactions

Pillars of Eternity

• Hylea is one of the gods you can curry the favor of during Council of Stars and requests that in return, you return the souls to the bodies they were intended for.

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

• Hylea will either reward or punish the Watcher depending on their actions in Pillars of Eternity.
• Hylea, along with Wael, will ask the Watcher to seek aid from Eothas during the final confrontation.

See also

• The Midwife's Memoirs