Velotta, the officiant

Wedding Officiant Name Velotta Pantheon Liabo Deity Imaera Gender Female Race Sylvankind Title High Sister of Imaera's Circle

Velotta is a Wedding Officiant that performs wedding ceremonies for those that purchase a wedding package from the Simucoin Store during Rings of Lumnis, Duskruin, Rumor Woods, or Ebon Gate.

Description

You see Velotta the High Sister of Imaera's Circle.
She appears to be a Sylvankind.
She is lithe and tall and appears to be in the flower of life.  She has limpid beryl green eyes and freckled pale golden skin.  She has waist length, vivid strawberry blonde hair worn in a pair of elaborately silk-bound tresses.  She has a lean, oval face with angular features.  She has small fans of delicate ivory feathers tucked behind her tall, sharply pointed ears.
She is in good shape.
She is wearing a long strand of gold and green amber prayer beads, an ankle-length pale bronze gossamer overrobe, some formal sage green chainsil robes with softly pleated bell sleeves, a supple golden doeskin herb satchel, and a pair of calf-laced tanned leather sandals.

Ceremony

In a soft voice pitched to carry, Velotta announces, "We gather here to witness the union of GROOM and BRIDE.  Today they stand as saplings.  Though they have grown tall, they yet waver in the wind.  Tomorrow, bound together, they will share the broad-limbed strength of the oak."

Velotta begins to pace a small circle around you and BRIDE, stopping at each compass point to face outward and deliver a few brief words.  "We are born in spring, helpless as the newly hatched chick in its nest.  We come of age in summer, marveling at our own strength as we stride the earth beneath its fierce sun.  But in autumn, the air turns chill, and the leaves that once sheltered us grow brittle."

Velotta pauses, gesturing behind herself at you and your betrothed.  "In that season of Imaera's grace, we come as BRIDE and  have done, to see we cannot always stand alone."  With a rustle of chainsil and gossamer, she takes the final steps to complete her circle.  "And the seeds of passion we sowed in our youth, if we are as fortunate as they, bear fruit as love that keeps us warm through winter's coldest days."

Velotta's expression grows more serious, and she takes several steps forward before spreading her arms wide to encompass the gathering space.  "But marriage is more than a binding of two loving individuals into one.  It is a joining of two households, a creation of one family from all those who nurtured GROOM and BRIDE from birth until this day.  Without roots, an oak will tremble, no matter how sound its trunk."  As she speaks, she slowly draws her hands together, until on the last word her fingers entwine.

Velotta turns to face you, "GROOM," she says, raising her voice so it can be clearly heard, "do you take a solemn oath to walk with BRIDE, together in sorrow and joy -- for no life is complete without both, as no year is complete without both summer and winter -- from now until your final passing?"

Velotta turns to face BRIDE, "BRIDE," she says, raising her voice so it can be clearly heard, "do you take a solemn oath to walk with GROOM, together in sorrow and joy -- for no life is complete without both, as no year is complete without both summer and winter -- from now until your final passing?"

Success

After a single nod, Velotta reverently lifts the prayer beads from her neck and twines them twice around BRIDE's outstretched hand, then repeats the gesture with yours to bind the two of you together.

"GROOM and BRIDE," Velotta says, once again raising her voice so it can be clearly heard, "by coming forward today you have taken a solemn oath to walk together in sorrow and joy."

An ethereal white doe appears off in the distance; it takes a few steps before bounding away and dematerializing.

"With Imaera's blessing, may your union grow stronger in each year to come," says Velotta with a smile.

Velotta unwinds the prayer beads from your hands and returns them to her neck.  Leaning forward, she kisses each of you lightly on the brow, then moves back.  With a brilliant smile that sharply contrasts her earlier, solemn expression, she tells you, "You may now kiss," then quietly steps away.

Rejection

Velotta's face turns solemn in its appearance, "It is best to know now if one cannot weather the summer, or the winter, that will assuredly follow.  Do not be too disheartened.  Go out and tend the seeds of love wherever they fall.  The time will come when they are ready for harvest.  May you both find joy and beauty in this life."  She turns and quietly leaves.