Ulara Tindomerel

Ulara is the firstborn daughter of Aman and Maranwe, with a complicated relationship in the Elvish Pantheon. As a child of night and day, she possesses many powers similar to her parents. In the beginning, Ulara was the princess that her people loved most. And though her life has not been easy, she has remained ever graceful and kind.

Ulara is depicted as a young, silver-haired deep elf girl. She wears a gown of pure white, so light it is nearly weightless. She balances in a pirouette along the blade of her father’s silver sword, with a book in one hand and a star in the other. Behind her, the crescent moon frames her figure.

Ulara’s portfolio encompasses the moon, dancers, singers, travelers, memory, mercy, and (most recently) goodly deep elves. She has three major temples within Vocari, each of which is connected in some way to her own demiplane, the Moonlight Shores. Her faithful wear her symbol openly (a miniature crescent moon cast from silver on a fine chain) and spread her mercy and hope to all in need.

For a time, after losing her divinity in the wake of the Elven civil war, Aman stripped Ulara of his last name. She was viewed as a traitor, the same as her mother, and was renamed Shadeborne. But despite her fall, Ulara held tight to her ideals of mercy. She worked from the shadows of the Lower Planes, reaching out to the Deep Elves in the hopes of drawing them away from Morwen’s control.

Over the course of six thousand years, this non-deity was able to convert and save so many drow that she caught the attention of the Elven pantheon once more. Aman Tindomerel recognized that his daughter’s spirit remained unbroken. And seeing the good that she was able to do, even without her power, he was willing to offer her a second chance.

Ulara’s station as a lesser goddess was restored. For Aman had refused to divide it up among the other gods in her absence, and had held onto her portfolio in the hopes that she would return to his side. She was also granted the Tindomerel name once again and her name quickly spread through the elven nations.

Today, Ulara represents all the hope the elves harbor for their brothers and sisters in the Deep. Her followers are primarily drow who have braved the journey back to the surface, but the ranks of her church are also filled with Grey elves and humans who share her kindhearted nature.