High Hierophant Seraphine Caelira
Seraphine Caelira carries the beauty of one touched by divinity—sharp, angular features with skin like polished alabaster and hair of silver-shot black, braided in elaborate coils beneath her moonstone headdress. Her amber eyes glow faintly, though their light seems dimmer in recent years—like a flame burning low beneath glass. Her long, flowing robes are woven from star-silk and embroidered with constellations in fine gold thread. She always carries the Veil of Aetheris, a diaphanous shroud said to allow her to walk between the waking world and the gods' realm. Her presence is both graceful and unnerving—serene on the surface, but with a hollow stillness that suggests she is listening to something no one else can hear.
Seraphine is a woman caught between two worlds—a devout servant of the Skybound Pantheon and a reluctant puppet of the monarchy. Outwardly, she is calm, composed, and deeply wise—delivering cryptic visions with the quiet gravity of one who speaks for powers beyond mortal comprehension. Yet beneath the surface, there is something fractured within her—a woman haunted by the weight of prophecy and the slow, creeping realization that the gods' voices have grown... distant. She is neither wholly ally nor enemy to the monarchy. Instead, Seraphine walks the razor's edge—balancing faith against pragmatism, trying to protect her people without letting the crown consume the Reach entirely. Her sermons speak of balance and humility, warning that the gods' blessings are not given freely—and that the crown's ambitions may one day draw the Pantheon’s wrath.
Though she serves as the High Hierophant, Seraphine is not the highest authority in the Elyssan Reach—that title belongs to the Oracle of Aetheris, a divine seer who has spoken the gods' will for centuries. But for nearly thirty years, the Oracle has remained hidden behind the Silent Veil—a ritual seclusion where only the High Hierophant is permitted to hear their voice. Many whisper that the Oracle is dead, and Seraphine has been speaking with no one but herself—but none dare speak such heresy openly.
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