Auna

Auna is the Goddess of Life and Death. She is both loved and feared by followers of the Pantheon, and is extremely powerful. Auna's symbol is a phoenix.

Description
Auna's appearance is shrouded in mystery. Some say she appears as a figure cloaked in layers of shadow, her face unseen. Others say she appears as a young sky elf child, pale with dark wings and white eyes. There are also tales of her appearing as a very old human, beginning to decay. None know the truth.

Silence defines Auna. She never speaks, yet those she chooses to visit seem to understand what she wants. Auna is fair and impartial; she brings new life and takes life away when she believes it is time, without care for wealth or status.

Ailas
Lord Ailas is the current High Priest of Auna. The eldest current High Priest (in fact, the eldest ever), Ailas was born in late 1822, making him nearly 433 years old. Ailas was born in Pyrias to a couple of wood elf bandits. They had no interest in being parents - his birth was entirely accidental, and they left him on the steps of a Temple of Auna when he was only hours old. This was, it turned out, destiny; the High Priest, Lyth Niran, died the very same day. Ailas was discovered to be their successor, and was thus trained his entire childhood in the ways of Auna.

For a long time, Ailas was an exemplary High Priest, leading Auna's followers with grace and wisdom. Around his third century, however, he began spending more and more time in the fabled Library of Death, a massive underground library which only the very highest ranking Priests have access to. In current times, Ailas spends almost all of his time there, returning to the surface only for special occasions like Auna's festival. At times, he is underground so long that Auna's followers worry he has perished with no one to find him - but he always returns, to somewhat mixed reception.