Mother Ausra, Legendary Freedom Fighter

Legendary leader of the resistance during the Last Rebellion 15,000 years ago.

Mother Ausra is one of the most famous heroes in history and the namesake of the ausrani - elves, humans, orcs and their offshoots the halflings, goblins, and others.
Three hundred thousand years ago, dragons arrived in Anathra through the largest and longest-lasting otherworldly passage ever to form. Dragon overlords of all kinds brought with them thousands of human, elven, and orcish slaves, mercenaries, and servants. After eons of rule, 16,000 years ago an uprising by the descendants of those slaves began that would last a thousand years, leading to the Last Rebellion which overthrew the Five Emperors and freed the continent from their draconic oppression.
The most famous leader of the Last Rebellion was known as Mother Ausra. Little is known of her life before the revolution. Born from free orc parents somewhere in the Tanatran Mountains, she was raised in an orcish caravan avoiding the eye of the Emperors in the eastern Carentan Forest. She was part of the resistance from an early age, allegedly recruited by a cousin. She quickly gained a reputation for both her stealth and her medical skills. In her thirties, she was ordained a cleric of Basheira of the Holy Twins, goddess of strategy and war.
Ausra was so loved and respected that when the Five Emperors were defeated, the descendants of their slaves - all the races descended from those first elves, humans, and orcs - began calling themselves "ausrani". This was in homage and contrast to the indigenous "yesreni" giants, dwarves, and gnomes.
It is not known where or when Mother Ausra died. Some, of course, say she never died, or that she was lifted up to the heavens by the gods. But most scholars think that she lies somewhere in an unmarked grave, fallen in battle against the remnants of the Emperors' forces sometime after the revolution. If she ever really existed. It's entirely possible that "Mother Ausra" is an amalgam of several different folk heroes from the time of the Thousand Year Uprising and the Last Rebellion, merged into one quasi-historical figure through folk tales and the exaggerations of bards.