Elysa

Elysa (a.k.a. Matron of Aels, Good Light)

Elysa, goddess of light and goodness, matron of the pantheon Aelion, second born of the Five Sisters and supreme queen of Elysium. Her constant and essential participation in the history of the mortals guaranteed that she remained as the most beloved deity of all time and, consequently, one of the most powerful.

Divine Domains

From her birth, Elysa has dominion over the light of all Aels. More recently, her great kindness to mortals has assured her of her mastery over goodness itself. Today, Elysa is considered the goddess of light and goodness.

Holy Books & Codes

Elysa wrote her ordinances in the well-known Book of the Enlightened. This book is present in all places of the cult of the goddess, in the Church of the Good Light, and her worshipers must follow them.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

In allusion to his own light and his deed to erect the Great Sun, Elysa's chief symbol is the upper half of a sun with an isosceles triangle pointing upward in the centre of it.

Holidays

The central tradition for the goddess is the Festival of Spring Lights. This feast occurs once a year in the major cities and the goddess worship centres in early spring. This festival is one of the ordinances of the goddess Elysa, and she beholds her most faithful worshipers with her important and glorious presence.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

Since the end of the Dawn War, the goddess of goodness swore to fight against her evil sister in order to eradicate the evil of all Aels, while blessing the good ones by being kind to all the worthy.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Being very close to mortals, Elysa regularly takes her physical form to introduce herself to her worshipers. Once a year, during the Festival of Lights of Spring, the kind goddess appears as a woman of 9 feet of height and extreme beauty. Clear skin, long silvery straight hair, blue eyes like the afternoon sky and always with a beautiful smile on her face. She wears a white spring dress that goes up to her knees and a golden tiara that alludes to her sacred symbol. Around her, its possible feel an aura of warmth and goodness, together with a unique floral scent.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

With her portfolio encompassing light and goodness, Elysa is one of the principal deities of the Aelion pantheon, one of the Five Sisters of the beginning of time and one of the Nine Nobles. She currently holds sway over the Elysium plane and influences the planes of Bytopia and the Beastlands.
The goddess is known for her constant presence in the most critical events of the simple mortals and her great kindness towards them. Even before the existence of life as we know it, she faced the goddess of evil in the battle between light and darkness and again defended all the Aels in the Dawn War, where she raised the Great Star upon the World Tree.
Because of her deeds and her closeness, Elysa is the most worshipped by mortals among all other entities and is considered the matron of her pantheon. Given so many worshipers, Elysa's powers are incomparably stronger than all other deities except the goddesses Nuria and Myone.

Appearence

The goddess was the second deity to appear in Aels, from the Primal Seed nourished by the Primordial Essence, as did her sister and predecessor Nuria. In its first form, Elysa and her sisters were united, being only different manifestations of the same entity called by many as Amalgam.
The sisters are considered as individual deities since the moment of creation of the World Tree, when each took responsibility of one of the branches of the tree, separating from the collective consciousness of before. Some believe that the Five Sisters can still unite again, if necessary, forming Amalgam again, an entity that would transcend the power of the gods themselves.

The Creation of Aels

Together with her sisters, Elysa was responsible for the initial creation of Aels. At first, the Five Sisters, still as Amalgam, used the Primordial Essence to make their first creation: the Astral Sea. They placed it as an energetic sphere in the centre of the crystal sphere.
From there, the sisters divided themselves to follow their individualities, generating five distinct energy points. The pure energy of each of the goddesses became five of the planes of the Aels cosmology, and the boundaries between planes, where two forms of energy meet, with the abundance of the Primordial Essence, soon became new forms of force, the second generation of gods. This process was repeated a second time after that, resulting in the third generation of gods.
The energy of Elysa and her nearest sister, Hadassah, was transmitted over all the others, one after the other. The first brought the light with her silver hair, and the second the dark with her black hair. All of this happened in the Cold Age, so called because there was no heat in Aels, and soon there was no life beyond the energetic life form of the Lumens.

The War of Light and Darkness

On seeing the cold situation of Aels, the god of desires Arvandor begged the Five Sisters to give him permission and resources to create biological life. This request, however, generated disagreement among the sisters, because, although Elysa and Limbo were supportive of the idea, Hadassah and Nirvana believed that such a life should not exist.
The goddess of light believed that allowing other life forms to exist would be an example of goodness to follow and fought to the end with that vision. Thus, the war of light against darkness began. The goddesses and gods took positions as they saw fit: whether favourable or contrary to life. Nuria, the older sister, abstained from the discussion and did not take a stand during the entire conflict.
As a side effect of the battle between Elysa and Hadassah, the first war goddess, Barbel, and Limbo's fight against Nirvana, the elemental god Eisuhr, emerged. The latter was the first of the Mephistos to appear, as the living manifestation of the four fundamental elements. Both took a position together with Elysa in the war, fighting against Hadassah and its ideals.
The war lasted aeons, but at last Elysa and her allies defeated Hadassah and his group. At Arvandor's request, Eisurh created the original material plan, consisting of four regions, one for each fundamental element. The goddess of light then placed a flame of pure fire in the palm of her hand and lifted it above the Tree of the Worlds, and there left the first star, the Great Sun. The sparks of the flame fell upon the realms, and the stars that today light and warm the lives of mortals. To this day, Elysa and Eisurh travel together to keep the flame above the World Tree eternally accessed.
Hadassah and those who joined her took refuge in the lower reaches of Aels, away from the heat and glare of the Great Star. But despite the defeat, the goddess of darkness still plotted her divine vengeance.

The Dawn War

Even with the heat provided by the Great Sun, it was not enough to generate life and answer Arvandor's desire. Nirvana, even having participated in the side that lost the war between light and darkness, realising that there would be no other choice, attended the request of her sisters Elysa and Limbo. As the goddess of the mind, she joined her forces to those of Arvandor to give rise to Mazdrael, a mephistus, and the god of life.
As he is the pure consummation of what she sought to prevent, Hadassah hated her new nephew since the first moment. Looking for revenge and although knowing the consequences of a relationship between a lumen and a mephistus, she began her plan to rise as the queen goddess over all Aels. The losing goddess slipped through the garments of Mazdrael when he was asleep and reaped her essence, which she then used as raw material to create the first Primordial.
The Primordials are beings formed from the divine essence of the life god and the vital energy of the goddess Hadassah. She used the four elements and their combinations to create these beings of extreme power and placed them in the Material Plane that was created by Eisuhr. From there, the Primordials, led by Hadassah, began their struggle to subjugate the gods and become the new rulers of Aels.
The first actions of the Primordials were in the Material Plane, dividing the original one into the seven distinct planes we know today. Then they began to walk the World Tree, taking dominion wherever they went. Thus started the Dawn War, marked by the conflict between gods and primordial by the power to lead on Aels. Being stronger in the lower realms, Hadassah was able to dominate the gods in these planes quickly.
The struggle between gods and primordial lasted for several aeons, and everything seemed to show a victory for the side of the creatures of Hadassah. In addition to being gravely wounded by the last war, the gods were also numerically disadvantaged against the Primordials that were rapidly multiplying.
The god Eisuhr himself forged a chain of five gold rings and handed it to the goddesses. With this magic weapon, they were finally able to arrest Hadassah and use her pure essence to create a mephistus that would bring ruin to the Primordial. Thus, they created Rhena, the death goddess. Only with her help along with the aid of Gahlia, goddess of instinct, and Dreemur, goddess of thought, daughters of the goddess of war Barbel, the deities were able to win against the creatures of Hadassah.
The war ceased when the remaining Primordials surrendered to the powers of the deities, accepting the punishment of being banished to the extremities of the elemental planes. Some, however, had united with the divine forces in the war, abandoning their evil origins. These were rewarded with domains, becoming Elementary Lords, worshipped today by mortals.
The destruction at Aels was no small thing, and for the first time, the goddess Nuria became embroiled in the affairs of her sisters. She, together with Elysa, Limbo and Nirvana, decided to remove the sister from her dominion over the darkness, transferring it to the newly arrived goddess Ursula, daughter of Mazdrael and Rhena. Hadassah was declared the goddess of evil and was condemned to spend eternity imprisoned and weakened.
In a ritual performed in the depths of Hades, the four goddesses bombarded the evil sister with their purest essences. The energy of the four sisters in contact with the energy of Hadassah's resistance caused a viscous liquid of undefined colour to drip. This substance gave shape to Myone, the magic goddess, who emerged in the form of a newborn child. The evil sister, now weakened, has been banished to an outside plan, where she remains to this day.

Divine Classification

Greater Goddess

Alignment

Neutral Good