Valmenys

Valmenys (Elvhen: The Most Beautiful) is an Orantir noted for her beauty, only paralleled by Erúntarië. She was the first born from the original Orantir, and was the reasoning for the rest of her siblings to be made. Valmenys is the gentle hand behind the forging of relationships.

Biography
Born of a union pure of love and new to the world, Valmenys was made as the most beautiful of the second Orantir, closest to the light of Orante with her born the first of the Triumvirate.

She amazed her parents with her abilities and existence, creating a desire in the Triumvirate for more children. It was with this desire that the Orantir, and later the Oranar, were shaped.

Valmenys is the spouse of Ôlafinor, and together they have one child, Maeron, the Lord of Arts and Giver of Beauty. Despite being in union, she has other children not born of Ôlafinor's seed. Nesvinya was created independently of Valmenys's own love, care, and wish. This purity of emotions would create a gentle soul suited for healing the Andir. Opolessa, born of a tryst of Calenhadr and Valmenys was the first child from her womb, and one that led to a large portion of her power sacrificed in attempts to preserve her [formerly] mortal child.

Valmenys dwells with her husband in the Arbors of Creation, where much of her time is spent creating paintings of couples she had seen fit to bless. These paintings of Valmenys are what she uses to bring together and bless unions and are hung within the Arbors of Creation.

During the Thousand Year War, Valmenys had her power mimicked by Taurvala, using his perverted version to turn allies against each other, kinslaying, as well as forcing together tabbo unions to produce his own breeding experimentation. This perversion of the Gift of Valmenys had caused anguish within her and had pushed her to seclusion. This seclusion would only end with the end of the Thousand Year War.

Character
Valmenys is a coquettish and vain woman, luring all attracted to her charms to her. Unafraid to compliment another, she tends to show her love and care with words rather than actions.

She is associated with love, beauty, roses, and gems. Her sacred animals are lions and swans.

Abilities and Power
Valmenys has the ability to kindle and nurse relationships between beings, creating feelings of amity where there wouldn't be before. She also has the power to make love bloom between two people through the creation of paintings. Her subjects of the painting would be in love for however long Valmenys determines they should be, slashing the painting when feelings are to come to an end.

Trivia

 * Valmenys is heavily inspired by the Greek God, Aphrodite.