Yemys

Yemys is the Goddess of the Covenant and Greater Love of the Imperial Pantheon. Though having lost some of her everyday significance in modern times, Yemys is often regarded as one of the mothers of the Old Empire, having played an essential part in its creation.
== Biography ==
=== Before Ascension ===
Yemys Ravatris Eilirith was once a high-elf princess within the Sil'darean Republic. She was born sometime during the tail end of the Endtimes and spent her early life with her family, travelling from city to city to avoid armies of the Umbral Lords. During these formative years, she met and formed connections with many high ranking high-elves and humans.
Later she acted as a diplomat. Using her advanced arcane skills to safely travel between the few surviving high-elven and human settlements in an effort to maintain and deepen their alliance against the Umbral Lords. During these labours, she met the love of her life. A human queen called Harphoria IV of Tralua. The two joined the ever-growing number of human-elf marriages.
Once the last Umbral Lord, Erava was defeated and forged into the Blade of Shifting Chance, the new focus turned to the seemingly impossible task of rebuilding. At first, the alliance between the two races wavered, each being more concerned with their own problems. Yet through the tireless effort of a small army of diplomats led by Yemys, they saved the alliance which in just a short while would morph to become the Old Empire.
Her labour was not done and for the next few decades she dedicated herself to bringing the two races together, consecrating countless marriages between humans and elves, making the two societies effectively inseparable.
Harphoria, as a result of her much shorter lifespan, would die some decades after. Yemys, though heartbroken, never abandoned her duty to the new empire, her wife, or her lands. To the end of her mortal life, Yemys would never remarry and live in the lands of or wife, Tralua. In time, she would become to be known as its guardian and later patron goddess.
=== After Ascension ===
As Yemys aged, the empire rose and the stories of her part in bringing it about and the countless families forged with her help eventually led her to ascend to godhood. Here she joined a small group of human and elven gods of love and, though a high-elf herself, she was considered the first imperial goddess of love.
Yemys focused on the greater or true love she felt to her wife. The kind of love between fated soulmates, only to be met once per lifetime. But unlike other gods and goddesses of love, she further expanded her domain into what would later become known has the covenant. It encapsulates the duties and responsibilities of love and marriage. 
She lists them as three part, often called the three commandments of covenant."Duty to oneself. To take care of yourself and not to bring pain to your loved one. To be the person they fell in love with, and to strife to be ever better for yourself and for them.
Duty to them. To take care of your loved one. To help them with their struggles, and to protect and care for them in both the big and small challenges of life.
Duty to their duties. To take care of your loved one's duties. As marriage is a covenant and two become one, their duties and responsibilities become yours. To help them in the execution of their duties or execute them yourself if they become incapable of doing so."Though originally simply, her advice to help newly-weds understand the significance of their marriage, the three commandments of covenant soon became included in marriage vows and are, to this day, a core component of any imperial proposal and wedding ceremony.
Yemys, though a rather powerful goddess, was relatively aloof, leaving mortals largely to their own. She spent the millennia blessing the marriages of mortals and, unlike other deities of greater love, did not punish those who broke their vows. Instead, she would console the ones hurt by their actions.
This relative passivity reduced Yemys significance in daily life and reduced her to be only a lesser deity today. Other love deities, most recently Arianne, taking the forefront. Though Arianne and Yemys often have a strained and difficult relationship due to their conflicting views on love, they still try their best to understand each other. After Yemys consecrated the marriage between Arianne and Leusfiette the relationship between Yemys and Arianne was described to be that of a mother and her slightly estranged daughter. Tense but still friendly and caring.
=== Threat of fall ===
Yemys, during the latter part of the New Age used to be a greater deity and would later fall to an intermediate deity for most of the Old Empire reign. Though she survived Stormfall and remained on the pantheon, she would soon after fall to a lesser deity. While it's relatively normal, though uncommon, for deities to fall a rank, falling from greater deity to lesser deity, though it took a few millennia, is an alarming trend.
Many have raised their worries that Yemys may fall and disappear one day. They have warned and begged her to become more active, to play a bigger part in daily life, and to make people remember the role she played in the founding of the Old Empire.
Yemys has not denied the danger but has simply responded:"It has been 10'000 years since my beloved left me. Each day my heart breaks anew as I feel her absence. I have taken care of our people and seen them prosper. I have helped people to find their love and to fully bind themselves together as one. I long for the day where I can rest and, I know, become whole again whith my beloved Harphoria"