Character from The Gods are Bastards by D.D. Webb
Elder Goddess of Nature — the primordial force that created the fae, the dryads, and the Deep Wild, older than the Pantheon and more powerful than any of them want to admit.
Naiya is not a person in the way the Pantheon gods are people. She is a force — the force of nature itself, personified enough to have opinions but too vast to have a personality in any human sense. She created the fae and the dryads as extensions of herself, and she considers mortal civilization a temporary irritation on the surface of her world. She doesn't communicate in words so much as in impressions, growth, and decay. When she's angry, forests advance. When she's grieving, ecosystems collapse. The Pantheon sealed her away because they couldn't control her, and the seal is one of the most important (and precarious) elements of the current world order. Her relationship with Juniper is the most personal connection she maintains — dryads are her children in a literal sense, and Juniper attending a mortal university is something Naiya watches with an emotion that might be curiosity or might be predatory interest.
Rarely manifests in a stable form. When she does, she appears as a towering woman woven from living wood, vines, and flowers, with eyes of liquid green that contain entire forests. Her presence causes uncontrolled plant growth — trees bend toward her, flowers bloom in her footsteps, and the air fills with the scent of rain on green earth.
Also known as: Naiya, The Mother of the Wild, Elder Goddess of Nature