Vedana

- The Ascended

- The Wild Prince

- Trickery

- Honesty

- Shepherds

- Courage

- Marksmanship

- Wit

- Innovation

- Cunning

- The Moon

- Redstone

- Stealth

- Winter

- The wilderness

- Taiga

- Cold

- Tala *(partner)*

- Salmon

- Rabbits

- Polar Bears

- Humans

- Covecku

- Salmon

- Snow

- Spruce Trees

- Ferns

- Pawprints

- Rabbit's Feet

- Bows and Crossbows

- Iron Axes

- Iron

- Redstone

- Redstone Torches

Vedana is the young goddess of humans, covecku, and their innovations. She is part of the Yvana pantheon and is the youngest complete god in the pantheon. She was born to Yva and a coveck during the Azdahoan Period, but later ascended to complete godhood during the first Vedanan Trials. She is the only god of Osmon that does not live in Osmoni, and rather lives with her partner Tala in Toafa. She is known for her cunning and mental and physical skill that she applies to hunting.

## Origins

Vedana was born to Yva, the desert goddess, during the First War. She was at first kept in the Toafa, as Yva wished to keep her with her, but was taken by Orzu and hidden on Earth during the Toafan Raid. Orzu's phantoms delivered the child to her coveck father, a man named Obu, and directed him to tell no one of her true nature.

Obu raised Vedana as any coveck would, teaching her to hunt, craft, and more, never telling her of her divine nature. Vedana favored hunting to other activities. She was incredibly skilled with a bow and would often hunt in the spruce forest they lived in. She always had an incredibly strong tie to nature, being the first to tame a wolf and the first to perfect modern hunting techniques.

## The Vedanan Trials

Vedana remained hidden from the gods until she was fifteen, when she defeated a Wither summoned by the deranged tawil Layi. She used her experience with hunting and her ally wolves to defeat both the Wither and Layi, which impressed the gods and led Samudri to realize her divine blood. He was at first enraged and wanted to smite Vedana where she stood, as her mother was a traitor and war criminal, but Torid convinced him to spare her. Instead, Samudri would hold a series of trials that would determine Vedana's fate. There were three options that would be determined by a collection of gods: Vedana would become fully coveck, fully god, or be killed.

The news was delivered to Vedana in the form of a parrot messenger sent by Torid, which allowed Orzu to find out about the trial, as parrots are one of his sacred animals. Vedana accepted the terms of the trial, which was to begin in three days, and began preparing. During this period of preparation, Orzu appeared to Vedana and explained how he had been the one to save her from the Osmon gods in the first place. He explained that a trial like this was going to be impossible, as the gods wanted to see her lose, but Vedana was determined. With Orzu's help, she prepared, and met the gods at the foot of Osmoni. Orzu had convinced Samudri to allow him to sit on the panel of gods watching, making it a bit fairer for her.

The first trial was to climb Osmoni itself, which took Vedana two years, but she succeeded. She then had to herd Felic's one-thousand sheep and direct them into his barn, which was an impossible task. However, with the help of the wolves she had tamed, Vedana managed to do it. The next trial was proposed by Samudri, who was displeased that she had succeeded in the previous trials. It was that she had to fly to the top of Samudri's palace—something only gods could do. Vedana constructed a flying machine using redstone. Then, she had to find and kill the Ender Dragon. She did so, discovering the use of Eyes of Ender to access the portals, which the gods closed to make it more difficult for her, and killed the dragon Xudo.

This concluded the trials, leading to Samudri begrudgingly granting Vedana full godhood. She stayed in Osmoni to both adjust to her new life and to make sure Samudri kept his word and didn't revoke her godhood, where she grew close to and eventually began a relationship with Tala. She moved with Tala to Toafa, but demanded she still be a member in the Osmoni pantheon, leveraging her contact with Tala to keep Samudri civil. She and Tala revived Toafa and made it their own realm, where they still live.

## Appearance

Vedana takes on a form nearly identical to her original coveck form. She is a thin, feminine coveck with dark skin and box braids, which are often pulled back with a bit of string or a thick hairband and possibly decorated with silver and gold rings. She wears animal pelts and iron-toed boots and an iron axe hangs at her side along with a bow, which is tied to her back. She usually has a basket of salmon she caught or the body of an animal she killed with her. Her body is covered in tawny, hawklike feathers, as is her tail.