Hanali Celanil

The Heart of Gold, Winsome Rose, Lady Goldheart

Hanali Celanil is the elven goddess of love and beauty. She embodies romance, beauty, love, and joy in elven spirits, her only flaws being her mild vanity and flighty nature. Although she rarely appears to her faithful, Hanali delights in seeing the growth of love among elves, and she often acts in secret to protect young lovers.

Worshipers, Clergy & Temples

Hanali's clerics are flighty and somewhat vain, given to dancing and wild celebrations. The hierarchy is loosely organized, and clerics can join or leave a temple's ranks as they wish. They preside over marriages and rites of passage ceremonies for young elves, although they aren't required to marry, as Hanali's concern is love, not marriage.
Members of Hanali's clergy spend their days cultivating beauty and love in all its myriad forms. Many of Lady Goldheart's clerics tend fine gardens, while others amass personal or temple-based collections of gems, crystal sculptures, and other fine works of art. While things of gold and crystal, particularly jewelry and statues, are favored, beautiful art in any form is admired, collected, and displayed.

Vestments

Hanali's priests must always be finely dressed, and displaying one's personal beauty to its best advantage is a requirement of every priest of the Heart of Gold. Paramours wear golden robes sprinkled with gold dust and wear their hair long and unbound without any covering. Gold rings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, and earrings are common adornments. The faith's holy symbol is either a miniature gold rose or a miniature gold stylized heart. Both forms of Hanali's holy symbol are often worn as a brooch or necklace.
Hanali's priests are drawn to romantic quests like moths to a flame; thus, they take to adventuring more than one might expect. In dangerous situations, Hanali's followers must balance beauty and pragmatism. Paramours favor weapons and armor that are a beauty to behold, emphasizing the natural elven grace of their bearer, yet that also guard against any weapon strike or spell that might mar their natural beauty. As such, Hanali's priesthood prefers chainmail (of elven make if available), shields, and weapons unlikely to bring them into melee combat or disfigure an opponent's appearance.

Hierarchy

The hierarchy is loosely organized, and priests can join or leave the church as they wish. Novices of Hanali are known as the Beauteous. Full priests of the Heart of Gold are known as Paramours. In ascending order of rank, the titles used by Hanalian priests are Dove, Suitor, Lover, Libertine, Soft Caress, Heart's Desire, and Fiery Ardor.

Temples

Temples of Hanali are bright and beautiful, with fountains and springs throughout and great gardens encircling the central chapel. Most of Lady Goldheart's houses of worship are designed with young lovers in mind, providing endless mazes of shady paths, babbling brooks, quiet pools, leafy bowers, and flowering hedgerows so as to facilitate amorous trysts and romantic rendezvous. Interior chambers are designed so as to permit the entrance of the sun, moon, and gentle breezes.
Many chambers display beautiful works of art, serving the local community as museums. In contrast, others are designed as great concert halls from which strains of music spill out into the surrounding gardens.

Rituals

Clerics of Hanali pray for their spells whenever the moon is highest in the sky, a time of romance.
While Hanali's clerics are given to frequent impromptu revels, their greatest celebrations were held every month beneath the full moon's bright light. Such holy days are known as Secrets of the Heart, as romantically involved participants are said to experience the full bloom of their affections on such nights, allowing them to evaluate the strength of their feelings. Likewise, the inner beauty of celebrants visibly manifested as a rosy glow in their cheeks and eyes for days thereafter. 
Offerings of objects of great beauty are made to Lady Goldheart during such holy festivals, some of which are swept into Arvandor while others are returned to be shared among Hanali's followers. It isn't uncommon for artists to unveil their latest work on such holy days, nor is it rare for young lovers to either pledge their truth secretly or proclaim it to all assembled, as doing so is said to invite Hanali's favor.

Orders

The Chaperones of the Moonlight Tryst are a fellowship of romantically inclined rogues and rangers who discretely safeguard young elven lovers from those who would take advantage of their distraction and/or innocence. Members of this merry band are also called on occasionally to facilitate secret meetings between lovers of rival houses or to aid them in eloping against their family's wishes. 
Chaperones of the Moonlight Tryst usually work closely with the priests of the local temple of Hanali, as those who serve Lady Goldheart often receive the confidences of those struck by the arrows of the Archer of Love.

Dogma

• Life is worth living because of the beauty found in the world and the love that draws twin hearts together. 
• Nurture what is beautiful in life, and let beauty's rapturous glow enliven and brighten the lives of those around you. 
• The greatest joy is the rapture of newfound love and the tide of romance that sweeps over those wrapped in its embrace. 
• Find love wherever it takes root and bring it to its fullest bloom so that all may share in the joy and beauty it creates. 
• Always give shelter and succor to young lovers, for their hearts, are the truest guides to life's proper course.

Appearance, Manifestations

Hanali is an eternally young elf maiden with shoulder-length hair who wears sheer silk shifts and the like. She is a being of timeless beauty and benign nature; she always forgives minor transgressions and delights in rewarding her followers with the bliss of unexpected love and affection.

Symbol: 

Gold heart

Portfolio:

Love, romance, beauty, enchantment, magic, item artistry, fine art, artists

Worshipers:

Aesthetes, artists, enchanters, lovers, sorcerers, bards

Plane: 

Arborea (Arvandor)

Weapon: 

Dagger

Statue of Hanali

Pendany of the Holy Symbol of Hanali

Member of The Chaperones of the Moonlight Tryst