Corellon

Corellon, the Archeart is the deity of arcane magic and the fey. During the Founding, the Archeart wandered the lands, spreading magic and raising the forests. Corellon created the first elves, and so they are considered the Mother and Father of all elves. Centaurs believe the Archeart to be their creator, as well.

Description
Corellon is commonly depicted as an impossibly graceful and beautiful elven being. They are androgynous and alluring, with long golden hair. Many early elven art pieces were inspired by the Archeart, and elements of their visage or symbol can be found in most elven architecture.

Worship
The worshippers of Corellon are those who seek art in all their work, both magic and mundane. The Spider Queen and her priestesses are loathed by followers of the Archeart for leading the drow elves astray.

Tal'Dorei
Corellon has many worshipers in the Stormcrest Mountains and the Verdant Expanse, as well as among the centaurs of the Dividing Plains. Some artists pray to Corellon in the Temple District of Emon.

Wildemount
In Gwardan on the Menagerie Coast, the House of Enchantment is a temple to Corellon as well as a center of advanced study.

One of the two small temples in Palebank Village is dedicated to Corellon.

Known worshippers

 * Clay family
 * King Imathan Talviel of Uthodurn
 * Lyssev Sorveline

Holy day
The Archeart is the guardian of the spring season, but their holy day is called Elvendawn, or Midsummer, and is celebrated on the 20th day of Brussendar.

History
During the Founding, Corellon wove the first elves from grass.

Soon after the Raven Queen ascended to godhood, she told three of her champions to seek out Melora for instruction about what to do with the body of a fallen hero. Melora sent a vision to one of these champions, Clay, sending her with the head of the hero into a forest to find a spring surrounded by crystalline stone, and to put the head in the spring, and that it would become the site of a garden as a gift: the flora would remind Corellon that nature is beautiful.

Possibly before or during the Calamity, Corellon banished Artagan to the Feywild for tricking an elven culture into worshiping a whale carcass.

During the Calamity, at the foothills of the Ironseat Ridge, Corellon fought one of the Betrayer Gods, Gruumsh the Ruiner. According to various myths, when Corellon pierced Gruumsh's eye, the Ruiner's blood rained down and mutated the elven Horselords of Laphithas who rode into battle to aid Corellon. Some were fused with their horses and became the first centaurs. Others, elven and possibly human as well, were transformed into the first orcs. After the battle, the elves of northern Wildemount prayed to Corellon to save them, but received no answer, as Corellon's ears were said to still ring with pain; those elves encased their civilization in ice and retreated to the Feywild.

At some point in the Calamity, in what would become the Greying Wildlands, Corellon's right hand, the solar Xalicas, was so badly injured that she could not see, fly, or leave Exandria, and had no strength to move for over a century. Through Corellon and Melora's magic, a small section of that forest was preserved from an extremely slow-burning forest fire, and the elves who returned founded Molaesmyr in the preserved section of forest.

Centuries later, the hill where Corellon battled Gruumsh is known as Throne of the Archeart and has become a holy place for nomadic centaur herds. Every decade they meet here on the day called Herdsmeet and discuss the state and politics of their tribes and pay homage to Corellon.

Trivia

 * Corellon's soubriquet is spelled as "Archeart" in the original Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting and as "Arch Heart" in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount.
 * In the subterranean tunnels of the Labenda Swamp, Caleb Widogast searched through a pile of contraband holy symbols of deities not approved in the Dwendalian Empire for a holy symbol of the Archeart. He found six or seven of them, and pocketed the one most similar to one he had seen in the past.
 * The seventh episode of Narrative Telephone, Caduceus's Cautionary Chronicle, tells the story that starts with Caduceus's siblings conveying the body of a cleric of Corellon named Kristof Kasimar.