Pelios(God of Emotions)

Pelios is the god of emotions, born of the union of Yala(Goddess of Life) and Ius(God of the Moon). When the world was young, the burgeoning life created by the first gods were bland husks, lumbering around the earth without goals. Seeing her creations without true emotion, Yala danced with Ius to form a being capable of granting them with the love she felt for all of them. Pelios came into being, radiating the love that his mother felt for him and spreading it to the creatures of Esai. However, Pelios also took after his father, and Yala did not expect that her son would give the new world the depth of emotion that gods carried. With love came hate. With happiness came sadness. With trust came anger. Pelios did not mean to do this, his gifts and curses flowed from him like a river. Indeed, any strong emotion felt by a creature is said to be the gaze of Pelios lingering on it for even a moment.

Even Pelios himself is not immune to his own raw divinity. When seduced by his wild sister Ova, the two became the most prolific pair of gods in history, bearing 7 divine children. It was only then that Pelios truly understood the love that he gifted others. When the Godswar started, Pelios was torn between loyalty to his children and the curse he bore upon the children of Man. Seeing the anguish in their hearts as they were torn asunder by his bretheren, he used his divinity to spark courage and rage into their hearts to fight back against the divine hordes bearing down upon them. He was torn apart by the hatred of War's troops, who were beyond even the God of Emotion's domain.

While Xunos created the first of the races of man, the Wild Elves, Pelios soon followed suit, elevating a group of primates through raw divine energy. The first halflings were a rambunctious group, constant pranksters, and took each minute to live life to its fullest. Pelios adored them, and many of his future children would be born of halfling mothers. When in human form, he would often appear as a halfling, leaving a trail or revelry or destruction in his wake wherever he went.