Galathana

Greatprophetess Galathana of the Kalushi Oracle during the Era of Exploration

Greatprophetess Galathana "the Foreseester" of the Kalushi Oracle was a mysterious Elvin with a mythical reputation living in the Archipelago. While little was factually known about her, she was considered to be a Higher Being among Elvenkind with the power of prescient foresight, allowing her to partially see into the future. As Greatprophetess of the Kalushi Oracle, she had gathered a sizeable following of worshippers and cultist agents. She lived in the enigmatic Prescience Spire.

## Mythical Reputation

During the Era of Exploration, Galathana was a widely known Elvin in Oderia. While the act of divination into past events and the scrying into presents events were feats practised by a sizeable number of magic-wielders, and acts of foreseeing augury and tarot were dabbled in, the feat of true prescient vision eluded even the most talented wizard or cleric. As such, Galathana held great fame across the archipelago with her prophecies and foresight. Galathana was extremely reclusive, and few souls outside of the acolytes of the Kalushi Oracle ever laid eyes upon her. Her prophecies were mostly proclaimed by spokespeople of the Kalushi Oracle, and as such were difficult to verify. The prohecies also widely differed in level of detail or timespan in which they would take place.

Another part of the mythical reputation was the supposed age of Galathana. According to popular rumor, she is ancient even among elvenkind, having been alive for thousands of years, on par with dragons such as Ometiklan the Storyteller. Witness accounts speak of Galathana as beautiful and the example of grace without showing the barest suggestion of wear due to age, akin to adolescent elves.

## Description

Galathana was described as a beautiful elven woman in her adolesence, suggesting an age of one to two centuries old. She has an oval face with a small nose and soft marble-colored skin. Her eyes are white within whites, giving it a cloudlike appearance akin to blind eyes. She has large, waving silver hair. Beneath both eyes, she had subtle pink tattoo's of symbolic line arts. As described by visitors, she was often clothed in elaborately decorated green silken drapes with golden decorations.

Galathana spoke with a soft and warm voice, which seemed to be non-local, not necessarily eminating from her mouth but having the sound and words simply appear in the air around you.

Her eyes were described as 'piercing' in the rare occurance that she looked straight at visitors. Most of the time, she seemed to stare into the distance without a particular focus. Even though seemingly not paying much attention to the world around her, her statements proved that she had incredible perceptive skills and insight.

## Skepticism

Due to her reclusive nature; unique and unverifyable prescient ability; and supposed incredibe age, many scholars and skeptics doubt the myth surrounding Galathana. it is speculated that Galathana is not a single individual, but that the Kalushi Oracle keeps up the appearance by switching her out for a similarly-looking elvin every few centuries. Likewise, the accuracy of her prophecies are called into question as many prophecies are vague enough that it can be interpreted in uncountable ways, and that people simply project their hopes and fears upon these prophecies, causing them to come true. Others explain the prophecies away not as a prescient ability, but as educated guesses due to Galathana's supposed incredible age.

## Devotion

Despite the fair share of skeptics, Galathana is generally considered to be more often correct in her prophecies than not, and she has a wide religious following worshipping her as a Higher Being among mortals. While not nearly as widespread present as the Lifelight of the World's Heart, the Foreseester and her acolytes held considerable sway in religious and political matters of Oderia.