Academy Anthology: Tales of Home

• Titles: Starlit Lady, Our Lady of Balance, Voidlight
• Pronouns: she/her
• Holy Sigil: A black four-pointed star
• Other Symbols: The colors black, white, and gray, stars, moons, space debris, aurora borealis, bats, moths, scales, shadows
• Portfolio: Balance, gravity, light, space, void
• Domains: Light, Nature, Twilight

Aurora is depicted as an elven woman clad in simple black and white robes, her posing always symmetrical in some fashion. Her dark skin is contrasted with white hair, done in small, long braids that nearly reach her feet. Her black eyes have white pupils shaped like stars, her expression always neutral. She stands on the line between what exists and what does not, of everything and nothing, and her depictions typically show her within the void, only a few stars scattered behind her.

Aurora is balance, a perfect mixture of both good and evil. To be manifest from both all that's ever existed and everything that does not exist anymore gives her a strange aura, a power that's perhaps unfathomable even to Aurora herself. With many things in her portfolio being brand new things for a Goddess to have domain over, Aurora seems to understand that she must tread lightly, taking a disciplined approach to her newfound abilities. Her teachings encourage her followers to do similarly, observing the new universe around them and taking careful steps into a new unknown.

Aurorans strive for balance and neutrality in all things. They are ideal mediators, looking at conflicts from all sides and trying to strive for solutions that are most beneficial to the larger balance. Compromise sometimes meets that criteria, but other times, Aurorans will advocate for an option that is clearly more beneficial to one side than another from the perspective of maintaining the larger balance. However, Aurorans prefer to stay out of larger conflicts, such as those between organizations, so as to not have to break their neutrality. At most, one might act as a mediator between the two groups, then be excused if the groups cannot come to an understanding.

Auroran clergy are clad in simple gray robes, their temples and shrines decorated in beautiful murals of the stars and Shards. Followers typically do not leave offerings, though some have been known to leave pieces of space debris or trinkets in the shapes of her chosen animals on them. Instead, candles are ceremonially lit or snuffed out depending on the particular rituals or worship taking place.