Moriel Yára

Moriel Yára arrived as a small girl with her family to Vara in the 3rd Century and her parents took up residence. Her father was a successful merchant, selling family remedies and offering spiritual guidance to all who would listen. Growing up religious, under Erdra's domain of youth and birth, Moriel began to work at her fathers' side learning from his ministering. He soon began to be a sought-after sage in counsel and physical healing, but it was Moriel who would affect Vara most. 
After her father and mother had died, Moriel continued to teach and heal those who came seeking her care, but where she showed the most passion and promise was in care of birth. She began to assist various women and females throughout the city and countryside in the carrying, birthing, and nourishing processes of bearing children, even helping the wife of the Lord of Vara during her pregnancies and when she give birth. 
Her expertise became most urgent when in the year 41 of the 3rd Century, an illness of fatigue, fever, and muscle aches befell the city, seemingly affecting mostly females. The children born from those affected by the illness would rarely live and where often born with obvious physical malformations. As she and other healers scrambled to treat and care for the ill, Moriel began to gather information about the illness. It was the young and able Maiden of Vara that traced the illness to the manure of livestock, cats, and dogs, but mainly to the manure of Tyraeli cattle, a staple of livestock in the area. Moriel was praised by the Lord of Vara and the Land Council for her role in preserving the future of the city. 
In later years, Moriel developed a seminary and eventual temple to Erdra and was seen as a wise and steadfast spiritual leader, providing counsel and guidance on faith and hardship until her death. She also continued to care for and treat women and infants and pioneered several techniques of care, like massaging the abdomen to reduce blood loss after giving birth. After her death she gained the title of Luminary of the East and serves a symbol of the Varan soul.