Melandru is a goddess of earth and nature. She is a patroness goddess of Rangers, Earth Clerics and Geomancers.
Views of landmass: Tyria
The goddess of earth and nature, Melandru is the favored god of Rangers and earth Elementalists. It is said the Centaur druids at one time worshipped this deity, but there are none alive today who can confirm the truth of this rumor. Melandru is frequently depicted as a human female torso whose lower body is the trunk, branches, and roots of a living tree. Her statues attract weary travelers. Beneath her branches await plenty of fresh water and shelter from the elements.
Cantha
Melandru is frequently depicted in Cantha as a tall, winged dryad from the waist up. Canthan artists usually describe a severe figure ensconced in an outcrop of Echovald quartz. Melandru's roadside temples offer shelter, food, and water to weary travelers even in Cantha, though such shrines are few, and separated by long stretches of lifeless stonescape.
Elona
Most statues of the goddess of Earth and Nature show her as a tall, winged dryad rising from a tree-shaped base. Many temples use magic to shape that shrine from a living tree; for example, Elonian sculptures often rise from the base of a mebayah or a rooted dreamflower. A cleric or earth mage assuming the Form of Melandru (avatar) has an arboreal appearance, acting with the same resolve as a tree with roots deep in the earth.
About Sylvari and Melandru: Melandru offers special bonds to speciffic Sylvari. These bonds usually consist of the power over the earthern elements and the access to various spirits that Melandru has to offer. Near endless whispering goes on within the heads of the bonded. Usually these whispers are mere chants, songs or favors. At other moments they are guiding words and targetted at a singular Sylvari. This connection can not be severed or atleast no possible way was found yet. The purpose for the exsistence of the bond is left unknown to most but it is rumored that Melandru wishes to initiate some redemption of sorts amongst the Fey, most speccifically within the Beastlands. Though no one knows where Melandru's true home is, all leads send back to Brux. Though often it is debated every place with earth is her home.