Valhena(God of Strength)

Valhena is the god of strength, born from the union of Ova(Goddess of Beasts) and Pelios(God of Emotions). With the willpower of his mother and the tenacity of his father, Valhena entered the earth bounding towards his power. Immediately gathering worshippers from a wealth of orcs, as well as some particularly talented humans, the god of strength gathered immense power and turned it towards using it towards conquering his bretheren.

Using the strength of his worshippers, he crafted the first giants. While some would look at Valehna's progeny as crude and ugly, each giant has simplicity in purpose, unwaveringly loyal to their creator. Gifting his progeny with his own divine strength, Valhena staged a brief and ill-fated attempt at world domination early in the world's history. He sent his giants to conquer Esai. In one of the first instances of true divine intervention, his mother and his brother Cenos allied themselves to stop Valhena and his army. Most of the giants were killed, and the survivors were scattered to the four corners of the world, a rare but not unheard of sight. Valhena was imprisoned, tasked with holding together the various astral realms that the gods take residence in.

During the Godswar, Valhena was freed from his bonds by Vistrix and Wodea under the condition that he fight alongside Sifor in the coming war. The god of strength agreed, eager for the war to end so that he could return to his plans for domination. Instead, during his battle with Cenos, both met their end. In fact, it is theorized that it was Valhena's relinquishment of his duties that allowed for the gods to be killed in the first place.

Valhena is the patron of the strong and the willing. Fighters, bodyguards, and bruisers of all kinds worship him in hopes of gaining some fraction of his divinity, as well as of course the giants who still roam the wilds of Esai. Valhena abhors the weak, as well as those who impose artificial limits on their natural abilities. In his brief freedom, he was known to take champions who he invested fractions of his divinity in exchange for their service. Those who recieved these gifts were often driven feral and mad by the raw divine energy pumping through their muscles.