Known as The Late Earth. An ancient deity of cthonic nature. Mother to the Moon. She has Her own thirst for ichor, and schemes to keep it from Her Pale Daughter.
Her Voice speaks to Grey Irma at times, compelling her to seek the Sculptor. The Gargoyles declare Grey Irma to be caught between Mother and Daughter, and at times warn not to listen to the lullaby of the Moon but instead the roots of the Earth. They yearn for the deeper time of Her dreamless sleep, when there was no time, no individuality, no cycle under the merciless moonlight of Her Daughter, who preys on lonely minds.
In distant past when Earth was young and cruel, She bore a race of giants that worshipped Her in grand temples and palaces. Zoran used bone powder from the bones of these giants to empower some of his clayborn. The Church of the Moon suggests the mad rage of the clayborn is begotten in their roots.
There is no explicit connection between Zoran and the Earth, though he is aware that it is Her clay that forms his clayborn moulds. Her Voice guides Grey Irma to seek Zoran, as part of Her conflict with Her Pale Daughter, while the Moon's disciple Red Irma seeks to thwart Zoran's plans. Zoran desires a Communion of all clayborn to free them from the Moon's predations, a melding of identities that coincides with the dreamless time of Earth's rule that the Gargoyles speak of. And perhaps the Great Kiln in the Earth's Bowels is one of the fabled temples of the ancient times, where giants worshipped Her grand body and basked in Her love.
Where does Zoran the Sculptor, hands caked in the clay of the Earth, truly draw his knowledge and power from...?