Vaynera
The Seeress
Vaynera is an ancient goddess that once held a place within the Ordning pantheon. She was believed to be a mortal sorceress or a deity from another pantheon before she married the Storm Father Jötu and became the mother of the gods Duris, Frothga, Thenn, Styr, and Gronnar. It is believed that she died while using the Old Magic and giving birth to her youngest child, Gronnar.
Divine Domains
Vaynera was regarded as goddess of magic, oracles, prophecy, divination, runecasting, and the Old Magic. Her divine domains were Knowledge, Nature, and Grave.
Holy Books & Codes
The primary religious text for the gods of the Ordning is the Tale of Twilight, which is said to recount that which will come to pass in the days of the Twilight Era, the Final Doomed moments of the Material Plane. Ordered claim that it was Jötu, himself a powerful seer, that gleaned the Tale of Twilight through the runecasting. Jötu then had his child Duris record the Tale and give it to all the giants that they might prepare the smaller races for the coming apocalypse.
Beyond the songs of how the Tale came to be known to the Ordning, little is recorded about Vaynera.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Vaynera's divine symbol is the giant rune, vuruz, the Old Varangian sign for "looking through water."
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Vaynera is an ancient goddess that once held a place within the Ordning pantheon. She was believed to be a mortal or a deity from another pantheon before she married the Storm Father Jötu and formed the Hall of Kothungshúr and the Ordning itself. In giant religion and related belief systems, Vaynera is considered the mother of the gods Duris, Frothga, Thenn, Styr, and Gronnar. In giant tradition, Vaynera was the one to teach Jötu the Old Magic and the art of runecasting when she hung him from an ash tree for seven days and seven nights. By the end, Jötu's clouded eye could see into the future and the past and to things that could and could not be. Yet Vaynera always saw better than Jötu and foresaw the Twilight Prophecies in their entirety at one point, but in the midst of a great communion with the Old Magic, the infant Gronnar burst forth from her womb, killing the enchantress and causing the vision to fade.
Social
Family Ties
Vaynera married Jötu after teaching him the secrets of the Old Magic. She is the mother of Duris, Frothga, Thenn, Styr, and Gronnar.
Divine Classification
Demigod (deceased)
Religions
Alignment
Lawful Good
Current Location
Church/Cult
Circumstances of Death
Vaynera was killed by her infant son Gronnar while she was communing with the Old Magics.
Birthplace
Varangia
Children
Aligned Organization
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