Maranwe Atara

No longer worshiped in the Elvish Pantheon, Maranwe Atara is a dead goddess. Once the soulmate of Aman, she was the prized jewel of the Sunrise People. Maranwe represented fate and the strength of the earth. She stood beside her husband in the battles against mankind, and was the inspiration behind the elves’ choice to go into hiding.

Maranwe is depicted as a dark-skinned elf with striking green eyes and hair like snow. She dresses in a gown of blue and gold and wears a sheer hood over her head. Her eyes stare straight ahead, her arms stretch out to her sides with a set of golden scales dangling from her hands. Behind her is a midnight sky full of stars.

Maranwe’s portfolio encompassed deep elves, fate, the night, music, magic, earth, and merchants. But few know of this goddess anymore, or speak her name openly. Her symbol, a set of seven stars in a tight spiral on a midnight background, has been struck from almost every record save that of the grey elves (who never erase any past knowledge).

In the beginning, Maranwe was a beacon of hope. But her love for her own deep elf children spurred her to raise them above the rest of elvenkind. Aman refused to acknowledge the drow as anything more than equals with the others, and Maranwe grew bitter. She tricked her eldest, Ulara, into leading Aman away from his people for a time. And while he was gone, she decimated nearly half of the elven race.

Aman returned to civil war. The different elven families were divided against each other, each fearful of betrayal by those they once called friend. It took nearly a decade to settle the disputes and root out the cause. Maranwe demanded once more for her children to be acknowledged as the superior elf. This time, Aman could not simply ignore her. Her treason against him was more painful than anything he could have anticipated.

Maranwe was cast out, alongside the deep elves. Ulara was banished as well, despite having no knowledge of what her mother had been planning. The deep elves slipped into the shadowed tunnels deep underground, their hearts forever hardened against their fair-skinned kin. Maranwe and Ulara were stripped of their divinity, their essence banished deep into the Lower Planes.