Riga the White Sage

Riga Oréna An-Hava, The Magnificent (a.k.a. The Maiden of Glory, the Radiant Queen, the Enchantress, Singer of the White Songs; Destroyer of Dwarves, Despoiler of the Gnomes)

Riga Oréna An-Hava was born in the city of Illoria on the south coast the Realms of the Goddess. Trained as a Choral Singer, Riga distinguished herself as a unique singer with a haunting and beautiful voice. As a result of her natural talent, she was unanimously chosen by the Spring Queens to conduct the songs and rituals to honour the Creator Goddess, Yhera, on their behalf. Each of the Spring Queens were themselves skilled magicians and priestesses of the Pantheon, the sheer beauty and glory of Riga's voice was central in the rituals, observations and sacrifices they made to the Goddess of Goddesses.
Over the time that Riga served as the High Priestess of the Heavens, the Spring Queens and the Realms of the Goddess found great blessings in everything they did as individuals and for the People of the Blood. Going from success to success, the High Elves and their allies were able to push the Dwarven Legions back from the edges of their homelands. It came to a point where they were so successful that they retook the highly strategic Port of Adia, annexed the Kingdom of Abenton, and forged a strong alliance with the wood elves and half-elves of Lyria. Riga quickly gained a legendary reputation, and the peoples of the Lakelands, the Steppelands and the Dwarven Empire began to call her the Radiant Queen of the Elves. Despite never gaining that title in any official capacity, Riga did not correct them and ensured that she was seen leading the high elven hosts from victory to victory.
Wherever Riga went, people followed and obeyed. Upon meeting her, countless soldiers, warriors, and nobles devoted themselves to her service regardless of their heritage. Hundreds of High Elves, Wood Elves, Half-Elves, Humans, even some Half-Orcs, bent the knee and took an oath to take on the mantle of a Green Knight of the Radiant Order. These fighting men and women ventured forth in defense of the Old Faith and the ways of the People of the Blood in direct confrontation with the Dwarven God-Emperor and his Legions who had conquered most of the civilized world. The Green Knights rode at the vanguard of a great army devoted to Riga the Magnificent, who would sing a song that steeled the hearts and soothed the minds of all who followed her in this struggle against foreign conquest.
Beautiful and powerful, Riga embodied the glory and caprice of the high elven ideal, though tinged with no small of degree of hubris and vanity. She was able to unite the fractious elven people behind her in the purpose of ousting the Dwarven God-Emperor from the realms professing the Old Faith. Her armies swept as far north as the city-states of Mercadia, as far west as Thessidia and the gnomish lands. Coupled with the pressure the orcs from the Lands of the Eye had been putting on the Shield Lands and the gnomish lands, Riga was able to push the dwarves back and on their heels over the course of a year.
This all started to change when Victor Magnus himself began to attend to the defenses of dwarven possessions in the Steppelands and the far western shores of the gnomish people. With the strength of the Thirteenth Legion bolstered by motivated gnomish and Thessidian auxiliaries, Victor Magnus was able to rout a combined army of high elves and wood elves who attempted to lay siege to the dwarven-controlled city of Qorum. In relieving the city, the Grand Conqueror began to march upon the beleaguered Lakeland Realm of Greyvale. While there, he deployed his Thessidian troops, who were mostly mounted as extremely mobile light cavalry, to harass and disrupt the high elven operations there. They were successful enough to hold them in place, and give the dwarves and gnomes enough time get into position and dismantle and dismember the army.
This last action was the first time that Riga the Magnificent had seen defeat. Bewildered and stricken silent by the destruction of her beloved vanguard of Green Knights, Riga retreated back to the Realms of the Goddess to recover. During that time, the Grand Conqueror turned east to retake the conquered cities in Mercadia, to bring the Lyrians to heel, and to liberate Abenton from elven occupation. By the time Riga and her host had recovered their numbers and supplies, the dwarves had retaken Abenton and they had begun laying siege to the Port of Adia one year to the day that it was taken from the God-Emperor by Riga herself. With the campaign seemingly well in hand, the God-Emperor of the Dwarves was drawn westward to his newly-established Western Seat of Power in the greatest of gnomish cities: Togran Wargarad.
The next month is shrouded in mystery. Over that time, it was revealed that Riga the Magnificent had fallen into a deep depression. While she was still radiant in her beauty and lovely in her singing, her demeanour was darkened and sadness followed her. It was said that she was rebuked by the Spring Queens, and while she retained the loyalty of what remained of her Green Knights, the rest of the high elven people began to pull back from what was becoming the painful consequence of standing too close to her silver and golden flame. With her retainers, she sought guidance from the Heavens and disappeared into the borderlands of the Garden and the Steppelands for nearly three months.
Riga reemerged on the edge of the great Western Seat, surrounded by her devoted followers. She performed a great ritual that opened a great rift high above the city and called down what are now known as Yhera's Tears. They impacted the city with great and terrible destruction, but also affected the surrounded region with the same level of destruction. As a direct result of the Falling of Yhera's Tears, the city was destroyed and both the God-Emperor and Riga the White were considered killed. In addition, the falling stars left behind a metallic slime that slowly killed whatever it touched. This "Grey Waste" remains throughout the entirety of the gnomish homeland to this day -- the gnomish people largely died out, with small populations surviving underground or by virtue of fortunate isolation.
The Dwarven Empire was struck a mortal blow. Slowly, the Empire would wane and crumble. It would leave behind successor states that now define this day and age.
Riga herself was declared a Saint, posthumously. She took on the moniker "Riga the White Sage" and became the elven Goddess of Caprice, Charisma and Pride.
Her legacy would be mixed. While viewed as a saviour to elvenkind, she is reviled by the dwarves and especially hated by the gnomes. Her legacy was to kick off the fifth age of civilization, a time when the great heroes were forever gone (Myth, Heroes, Blood and Fire, Empires, Present).

Divine Domains

Ambition, Caprice, Charisma, Confidence, Light, Love, Pride, Trickery, Vainglory

Divine Classification

Demigod of Caprice, Charisma and Pride

Alignment

Chaotic-Good

Current Location

The Garden of Geniché

Ethnicity

People of the Blood

Realm

The Garden of Geniché

Church/Cult

The Old Faith

Circumstances of Birth

Auspicious - Crescent Moon Aligned with Yaro and the Dawn Maiden

Circumstances of Death

Auspicious - Full Moon Aligned with Yaro and the Dusk Maiden

Birthplace

Garden of Geniché

Place of Death

The Western Seat

Pronouns

she/her

Gender

CisFemale

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Golden Blonde

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Very Fair Skin

Height

5'9"

Belief/Deity

The Old Faith

Aligned Organization

The Realms of the Goddess

Other Affiliations

• The Old Faith