Luzak

 Goddess of Knowledge

Luzak first arose out of the first words engraved in stone, coming forth as a soft mist that rose from the impressions in the stone tablet. She applauded the efforts of elf who carved it, and offered to teach him logic, writing, and to access the arcane channels, if he would be the first hearkener and spread her knowledge amongst mortal kind. Thus religion was born with Luzak, and she taught the gods as well as mortals.

Luzak is described as a beautiful raven haired woman with rounded ears, which is explained by her priests to mean that she has the form of a human woman, but came into being before humanity arose—however, the description of rounded ears and human form had become traditional. Many of her priests speculate that being a goddess born of written language, she is not actually a woman at all, so to describe her as an elf with round ears no more inaccurate than calling her a human, or even a dwarf or orc. 

Luzak was vital to the ending of the last war of the gods, sneaking into the war camp of Isald and Yaalasar to pluck out Isald's eye. She turned the eye to stone and imbued it with some of her own power, allowing the her hearkener to use it to see the weakness of whoever he chose.

Luzak had lost her memory of her husband Vovaenis in the Forgotten War of the Gods and tended to to flirt with with men and treat women as sisters until she regained her memories  in the War of Traia. While she doesn't laugh or joke loudly, both then and now, she has a quick wit and an appreciation for well worded language. Before her memories returned she wasespecially attracted to Saurians, the first race her husband created.

The priests of Zaerel, while not outrightly rude or hostile towards Luzak or her priesthood, tend to have disdain for the goddess and her priests, and once we're known to say she slept with her hearkener regularly, but this is generally understood to be part of the elitist attitude held by the priesthoods of the individual gods.

Luzak stealing the eye of Issald was vital to Issald and Yaalasar losing the last war of the gods, causing Yaalasar to hate Luzak. The priests of Luzak believe that there is more to it than simply the sting of Yaalasar's pride at losing, and the priests of Yaalasar will initiate a duel often without warning if asked about the topic.

Luzaks temples are more like open libraries, designed for the writing and studying of tomes. Priests are required to teach any who wish to read and to understand mathematics. All books are available for any to read, the only exception being personal books of her priests and books written by Luzak's own hand, kept in the Sacrarium of the temple. All truly advanced nations have at least one temple of Luzak.