Vrahn

Overview
The goddess of sorcery and the accidental instigator of the Rupture of the Golden in life, Vrahn founded the queendom of dark elves for which she is named and discovered the existence of sorcery during the First Age. Abandoned by her fellows after publishing her findings, Vrahn gathered her family, friends, peers, and students and traveled south in disgrace, serving as the first sorcerer-queen of the Vrahn Queendom. Her powers were sufficient that she was able to preserve her life far longer than a typical dark elf, but after centuries of living as a god-queen she abdicated the throne and, after her death, ascended to godhood.

Appearance
Much of Vrahn's mortal appearance has either been lost to history or embellished to the point of worthlessness, but her divine appearance is clear—a gorgeous, flawless dark elf woman emanating magic from every surface, her clothes deep shades of violet and magenta with silks rippling in the air from the strength of her power, and constellations glittering in her hair.

Divine Mission
Vrahn devoted her life and afterlife to ensuring the success of the dark elf queendom, and exists to support them and enforce the laws of society she herself created. She imposes the rules of dark elven society upon her people, ensuring that the women of the nobility remain educated, powerful, and ruling, and the men serve as warriors on the frontier. While not as harsh as her sister, Vrahn administers the status quo without question or criticism.

Religion
All dark elves are beholden to Vrahn. She is powerful, regal, and motherly, but brooks no criticism. Vrahn's word is law, and her decrees are divine. To Vrahn, any person or god which disrupts the operation of dark elf society is not to be tolerated. Everyone in her eponymous kingdom worships her through their acts, deeds, and behaviors in a matriarchal society.

Throughout her life Vrahn maintained disciplined and structured living as an ideal worth defending at all costs. To exist in the stratified dark elf society is to participate in worship of Vrahn; the direct descendants of her mother have diversified into several dozen noble ruling houses, and follow strict codes of dress, worship, diet, treatment of men, and magical practice. Other dark elves exist to serve them, or exist entirely outside their sphere of influence and scarcely subsist at all.

Afterlife
In her Guidance for Inhabiting the Darkest Lands Vrahn instructed the wealthiest and most powerful dark elves in daily prayer, ensuring that she maintains her power within the Expanse. The Ebon Palace complex there plays host to the souls of the most influential and elegant dark elf souls, as well as several gods. Little departure from their mortal lifestyles, the dark elf elites survive in comfort and intellectual luxury forevermore.

Magic Properties
Practitioners of Vrahn's magic blur the line between sorcerer and divinely chosen. Beautiful dark waves emanate from the bodies of those casting spells in her name, surrounding them in a rich violet aura shot through with nightsky blue, magenta, and pink. These are small cuts of the Robe off the First Queen, an artifact of immeasurably divine and arcane power. Any casts of Vrahn's magic summon her robes, woven from innumerable castings of ''Wish. ''