Thaerena

**Overview**

History

Affiliation

Quotes

"*Little one, rest your eyes, and listen to my lullaby. As long as the Moon is bright, I'll be here with you at night.*"
―Thaerena singing a restless child to sleep

## Thaerena

### Aliases

Goddess of Night, Lady Dusk, She Who Sings at Night, the Playful, Ren (by Aellus)

### Relatives

Aellus (regarded as her brother), the three wolves Beka, Khula, and Uzipho (regarded as her siblings)

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

**Thaerena the Playful** is one of the many Gods of Tolnithe. She is one of the more beloved gods by its mortal races, and is one of the only gods that interacts with them regularly.

## Appearance

Thaerena's appearance is very close to her appearance from her life as a human. She appears as a taller 6'7" woman with dark hazel eyes and sandy, moppy hair. She has pointed pupils in her eyes. Her skin is a dark tan color.

She normally wears what appears to be ragged tribal clothing, a memory of her time as a human. In includes a shoulder mantle covered in rabbit's fur. She also commonly wears paint on her face and body, and does not always draw the same patterns. Admirers of Thaerena sometimes try to mimic these patterns, and there are even records which assign certain meaning to certain patterns.

Underneath her garment she has several large scars from her encounter with Ulaka. Although healed by her new body, some signs remain. No one other than her wolves have ever seen these scars, however.

## Personality

Thaerena has a simple and straightforward personality. She is kind and giving. This manifests as her being very protective of the mortal races. She see part of her charge as protecting those who live on Tolnithe, and has been known to go out of her way to do so.

She is also very curious and playful. She spends much of her time exploring the surface of Tolnithe and playing with those who she wanders upon. Here are few locations of interest that she has not explored at least once.

She is also surprisingly assertive and aggressive at times. Almost immature despite her age and position, Thaerena's simple personality works against her in that sometimes she jumps to conclusions or sees things through a very small lens. She, despite her warmth and lovingness and kindness, can have explosive anger. Whenever she sees someone as harming her or someone that she cares about she is very, very straightforward about her displeasure.

Another way to think about her personality is that she is a consequentialist. She very simply looks at an action and the affect that it has on her and others and emotionally processes it at that very basic level. This has proven problematic whenever there is nuance involved.

## Abilities

### Natural abilities

These account for abilities which are afforded to many who become gods, and are not unique to Thaerena.

#### Deific physiology

* **Extreme inhuman speed:** Given Thaerena's function in the world, she has been blessed with incredible speed. She uses this to keep pace with Tonithe's moon as it is ferried across the sky. She also uses this agility to leap down from the sky to visit mortals and help them sleep when she is feeling playful. She is known to be, by far, the swiftest of the gods.
* **Extreme inhuman agility:** Also due to her charge, Thaerena has extreme agility, balance, and bodily coordination. Even in life Thaerena was nimble. Her elevation to godliness has only amplified her ability.
* **Extreme inhuman reflexes:** Thaerena's deific mind and body give her inhuman reflexes to match her speed and agility.
* **Extreme inhuman stamina:** All gods have an immense constitution. They can barely be harmed physically, and never need food, rest, nor sleep.
* **Extreme inhuman senses:** Thaerena commands inhuman hearing and eyesight.
	+ **Deific eyesight:** Thaerena is able to effortlessly seen from the Moon to the happenings on Tolnithe. She open keep watch on the mortal races as she runs across the sky. Not only is her vision impossibly sharp, but it is precise and steady. She can easily follow moving objects on the surface of the planet.
	+ **Deific hearing:** Thaerena also has the gift of, with concentration, being able to hear things extremely far away with extreme clarity. She cannot, however, hear things that occur on the planet in this way.

#### Deific magic

* **Scrying:** Although she cannot hear what is happening on the ground when she is in the sky, Thaerena has the ability to focus on a location and see and hear as if she were there. These locations are only limited by line of sight.
* **Teleporation:** Thaerena can move between locations so fast that it can be considered teleportation. However, she also hold the ability to teleport to anywhere that she is scrying. Due to this, it also has scrying's limitation of line of sight.

### Unique abilities

These are abilities which are totally unique to Thaerena in the world.

* **Movement of the Moon:** Thaerena, as the usher of the Moon, has the ability to control its movements. She has rarely been seen actually doing this, but there are a couple of documented cases where she moved the Moon for the sake of the tide or to get line of sight on something important. Worth mention, her three wolves also have the ability to control the Moon, but it takes all three of them.
* **Skywalking:** Thaerena is able to leap up to, run through the, and leap down from the sky. This ability is unique to her, although it is arguable that Aellus' steed Argo has the same ability.
* **Wolfspeak:** Thaerena has the ability to speak to wolves. Although the wolves are not capable of forming many words, they can form complicated thoughts through emotion. The wolves are able to share their feelings with Thaerena to such an extent that they can effectively communicate. Thaerena can also understand the emotions of other creatures, as well, although not as well as her wolves. This goes for wild animals and the mortal races alike.
* **Thaerena's lullaby:** One of Thaerena's favorite things to do to pass the time is to leap down from the sky and sing people to sleep. Her voice has a mystic power which can calm and cause anyone to slumber deep and well.