Elves who enter the Shuttered City must pay ear-geld and utter a ritual apology for the disgrace that the Green Lady brought on Alberon through the Great Divorce.
Goddess of Thring. Baron Autumn is the so-called ‘second god’ of Thring.
One knight who returned ashen-faced from an encounter with the Witch Queen was exiled after he hacked to pieces the statue of the Green Lady in the Duke’s private chapel, screaming all the while that it depicted not Her, but the Witch Queen instead.
Statues resembling the Green Lady and other gods are found in the Inverted Temple (20.20)
When Princess Elandra was born the Green Lady gave her a gift - she cries nothing but gems.
Expectant mothers pray for hair colours other than red, as copperhair children were sometimes kidnapped by the elves and taken upon the Orphans’ March (27.09)
The Green Lady is said to be the mother of the elves. Though hawthorn is either anathema to or bewitching to elves, the Lady’s human followers often depict her with a wreath of hawthorn leaves.
According to the Whispering Sisters, Alberon cast aside and entombed his consort (She Who Waits) to marry the Green Lady. The church of Alberon considers this blasphemy. The Whispering Sisters sacrifice a man and a woman to represent Alberon and the Green Lady.
The Wedding Band (30.15) is said to be the ring of the Green Lady.
Clergy
Paladins of Thring are, like Duke Ulthar the Loved, (chastely) married to the Green Lady. The tradition was originally associated with another goddess, non-chaste and non-human, as described in 18.14. Today’s paladins still draw on the pagan power of the land.
Magister is a position in the Thringish clergy. There is a Magister of Castle Steadfast who made a ruling controversial to the clergy (20.13).