God Name: Anwen the Dreamer
Titles: The Dreamweaver, Star-Kindler, Lady of the Stars, The Starsinger
Holy Sumbol: The Sign of Anwen
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Portfolio: Dreams, Stars and Travel
Patron of: Travellers, astronomers, musicians, dreamers, wanderers, explorers and stargazers
Gender: Female
God Appearance: Anwen is a tall woman, with long gold-white hair which cascades down her back and around her shoulders. Her eyes are deep and can draw others in further than they’d like, sometimes showing a faint reflection of a person’s inner dreams; but for the most part they remain a simple emerald green colour unless she has become angry and allowed them to become black holes. Her body looks as if there is a ghostly echo of her every movement which appears as a faint sparkle of glittering light. This somewhat ethereal look is further enhanced by the pair of sleek white wings that sprout from her back.
When she sees others in their dreams she tends to be perceived slightly differently by everyone depending on her mood as well as those of the person. Usually this doesn’t always translate into the rest of reality but as she sometimes blurs those lines she has a tendency to wear whatever appearance others may prefer instead of her natural form for the majority; which can vary from male to female or tall to short. Though throughout it all there is usually a common theme between each one, perhaps her golden-white hair or she has white feathers similar to her wings as decoration.
Personality: Anwen lives a mostly solitary life, and her personality is somewhat reserved and withdrawn. This is mainly due to her being rather hard to keep focused, resulting in a never-ending wanderlust as well as insatiable curiosity of people’s innermost dreams. She tends to come across as reserved due to her true existence residing in the dreaming world so she feels somewhat at odds when not in that realm. While she does greatly enjoy traversing the world below it is the heavens and void beyond that calls to her most of all, but some of the more dreamlike landscapes can keep her grounded, mostly those which seem to defy all logical reason or rhyme. While always helpful to those lost on their travels, mortals who remain static or close-minded find little love from her. She has a great love of the beauty to be found in dreams as well as the darkness inherent in their nightmares; be they those of gods or hose of all the mortal creatures. It is an odd thing to see everything through the eyes of the world’s dreamers as well as through her own, but it is what she does all the same.
Favoured Weapon: N/A
Opinion of mortals: “When they dream I see the darkness within their hearts, but I also see the hope in their souls for something better.”
God’s Domain: Anwen lives primarily among the stars of the mortal realm, moving amongst them and cultivating their birth, death and rebirth throughout their long lives. Her home here is at the heart of the North Polar Star, Ilúvatar; a name she gave the star upon its birth as it was the first star to appear in the sky. The star itself rests at the heart of a spiral of several other stars which seem to shine different colours throughout the year and have been nicknamed the Pharasma by many mortals.
While this is her home, it is also one of the gateways to her domain in the material world as it is the realm beyond that truly belongs to her above all others. A domain that she knows completely and yet holds secrets untold. The realm of dreaming, a multiverse created and destroyed with every passing moment as all creatures who dream, be they mortal or immortal have their place here. She travels from reality to this land of imagination in the space of a heartbeat whenever she desires, exploring both the waking and sleeping world of Ashariel in her travels.
The domain itself can almost appear sentient due to how it reacts to events within its boundaries but many just brush it off as Anwen’s influence, which is partly true. But at the heart of the dreamscape is a part of who she is; a hidden aspect to her being which lives a life all its own yet not, a creature named Dream. While she governs the dreams of those who sleep and rest in her care it is he who brings their nightmares in an attempt to protect her. Sometimes a flicker of Dream can been seen when Anwen’s moods fluctuate but for the most part he resides in the minds of sleeping mortals, bringing a balance to their dreams that Anwen will not do so herself for he is little more than a manifestation of her powers given form.
Avatar Name: Fiona
Alias:
Title(s)/Rank: The Wandering Star
Avatar Appearance: A slight and slender elfish girl, looking barely out of her teenage years by human reckoning yet agile and quick witted. She stands at 5’10” with silvery-white wavy hair which stops just above her shoulders and turquoise coloured eyes.
Real Age: Unknown
Visual Age: 19
Personality: A somewhat skittish and jittery girl, Fiona is always on the move and rarely stays in one place for too long as she feels haunted and hunted by the horrors of humanity. She has moments of calm in her storm of panic where she is relaxed enough to enjoy herself, which oddly enough she spends her time finding ways into places she shouldn’t and sometimes ‘borrowing’ items from others. This may well explain part of why she thinks people are after her.
Enemies: While she is somewhat fearful of rather a lot she doesn’t really have enemies, since many do not even know who she is, or what she is.
Allies: None.
Magic Abilities: Able to weave the very stuff of dreams itself, almost with an unnatural ease to enter the dreams of others and use the myriad of paths through them to travel great distances and return to reality near another dreamer. In addition to this gift she can use her weave of dreaming to mask herself and how others see her in an attempt to go unnoticed, as well as making it appear that she is accompanied by whatever she can imagine as a deterrent (though such things are little more than illusions they appear real till proven otherwise by direct contact).
Something she has been able to do but rarely does due to the unstable nature of it as well as it’s taxing and demanding nature is to alter her surroundings by bridging the gap between the dreamscape and reality itself. This can allow for the stuff of nightmares and dreams to be made real but at a great cost, making it little more than a last resort; though the more unstable reality is the easier it is to make it that little bit more unbalanced.
She has also been investigating the possibility of bridging reality the other way, thereby allowing her to bring waking creatures to the dream where altering reality would be as easy as breathing.
Favoured Weapon: A single staff of silvery metal, engraved with runic patterns and raised carvings. Near the orb at the top is a small lantern-like device in which is contained a living star taken from the heavens which helps to light her path.
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