Lowyrn
 | This article is severely incomplete, therefore a stub.
Be advised that its contents may still be under heavy development, and may be updated repeatedly. |
| Lowyrn | |
|---|---|
| |
| Member of the Roffian Gods | |
 Lowyrn digitally recreated from a 440 BNB manuscript | |
| Abode | Rowff Holl |
| Symbol | Wine, the Blue Wanderer |
| Genealogy | |
| Parents | Afan (creator), Llul (material) |
| Siblings | Hysdoniol (created from the same material) |
| Consort | Ffion, Afan (at times) |
Lowyrn or Bidwen is the Mósdrist god of distilled beverages, fruits, visions, religious trances, celebrations, festivals, joy, madness, the blue wandering star and patron of riadarths. One of the more popular deities apart from the supreme gods Lwfan and Afan, his devotees, the Bidwenian cult, are well known for organising massive celebrations in his honour. He's most commonly depicted wearing and using the mythical blue gold or llulael, a material that, much like himself, generated from the corpse of the dead Llul, one of two primordial lights that illuminated the early cosmos.
Name
Etymology
His most common name, Lowyrn, is very securely theorised to have come from Proto-Namuno-Ethian *Logʰr̥nm̥h₁s, whence also Ascon Lagernen, Manth Løgyrnym and Ragham Lagraṃ, formed by the roots *logʰ- "to entangle" and *ron "to enjoy, celebrate," and thus roughly translatable as "joyful entangler," or "joyful trickster."
Bidwen instead derives from *Bitwenes, which is theorised to have been the name of a different god in Proto-Namuno-Ethian mythology, meaning "grasping one," although a better translation could be "maddening one" (from *boyt- "to touch, to turn mad").
Epithets
Epithets of Lowyrn include:
- Jórmilt (EPh: Iōrmildios) "the drunken one."
- Llulth (EPh: Λulθos) "made from Llul," in reference to his origin as part of the body of Llul.
- Hymberadd (Synberaðis) "unresentful" or "unangered," in reference to his tendentially amenable disposition.
- Boed (Boytynt) "mad, crazy," in reference to his drunkenness.