St. Yondalla

Saint Yondalla, commonly referred to as the Mother of Halflings, is a Filian Saint and the patroness of halflings and farmers. She is also invoked by families for harmonious family life. Scholars speculate that Yondalla's epithet points towards identification with an earlier mother goddess of the halflings. Indeed, this is clearer with Yondalla than with other saints, as tradition explicitly identifies Yondalla as one of the first halflings after they crossed over into the Material Realm, rather than a pious and more contemporary saint. Nevertheless, popular devotion to St. Yondalla among halflings is such that the church maintained her as a saint of a different order.

Yondalla is depicted as a stout halfling woman with golden hair, holding traditional cooking implements or depicted by a hearthside. Figures representing her 101 children (according to tradition) often accompany her.