Laya

"I never knew what heaven would sound like...until I heard her play." -Elven Matriarch To be blessed by the gods is a rare feat, but to forge your own blessing is even rarer. This is precisely what Laya, the Celestial Chordspeaker did. Raised as an oracle of the sun Elves from a young age, her destiny had always been to become a seer for her people; someone who could gaze into the future and predict calamities before they happened. But no matter how hard her caretakers tried to awaken her slumbering power, Laya's connection to the gods never surfaced. Years passed, and disappointment took root in the Elves' hearts. Was this finally the end of their lineage of oracles? No one was as opposed to that travesty as Laya. She resolved not to wait for her power to awaken; instead she would trigger it herself. Laya threw herself into the magical study and religious practices of a myriad number of schools of faith. She learned and toiled, and eventually landed on music -- specifically, chords -- realizing they could transcend dimensions in ways mortals could not. Laya thus set to crafting her own unique instrument; one that would be bound to her soul, and allow her to transcend mortal barriers. The cost was high. Laya resolved to craft a harp, but the requirement was that her soul would be bound to the instrument forever. This meant that should anything happen to the instrument, she would suffer physical consequences as a result. It was as if the instrument was an extention of her very mind and body. But pain was not something Laya feared. She feared letting down her people, and sought to fulfill her destiny at all cost. And so she did it, binding herself to the harp. The bonding was a success, and Laya accomplished that which no Elf had done before. Through playing magical chords on the harp, Laya was able to not only commune with divine deities, but also receive their boons and aid. Achieving her destiny, she became an oracle for the sun Elves, earning her honored title and a place in Tya's history books.