Dawnbreaker/Lore

Valora the Dawnbreaker is the living weapon of the Children of Light, forged from the purest elements of a young star and infused with the essence of her gods' breath. Entrusted with and inseparable from the Brightmaul that once lit the darkness of space with celestial flame, this shining automaton is compelled to see to the tasks of her creators who had wished to continue the Bright Rider's quest against darkness and chaos, while spreading their inner glow to the very ends of the cosmos.

A great tragedy soon befell Valora and her masters, leaving her virtually lifeless and inert in the cold black space between the stars and the planets. Her uncontrolled course through space brought her into the planet where the Nemesis Stones crashed upon, laying dormant for aeons until a star in the far reaches of space revived her with its spark. She rises now from her dark sleep to witness an unfamiliar world beset by the same chaos that her masters yearned to oppose.

After many years of inactivity, the stakes of the fight before her have not changed, and so she wields her Brightmaul once more to bend chaos to order and shine brightly upon the darkness, honoring the memory of her beloved masters.

Creation
Among the progeny of the Keeper's first sun, there was the Children of Light, a constellation among the many stars born from the crucible of its supernova who bore witness to a world beset by the chaos that chased after their ancestor's maker. Taking up the Keeper's abandoned mantle, they continued his work in bringing light and order to the realm, while establishing their own goals to purge the cosmos of every creature of darkness.

To aid them in their endless endeavors, they molded a warrior from the elements in the heart of a young star and animated it with their golden breath. This golem would soon be known as Valora, the Dawnbreaker, who would become the sole owner of the Brightmaul, a hammer capable of lighting the dark vacuum of space with celestial fire. The shining herald of the majesty of order and light, Valora's sole calling was to join the Children in spreading their glow to the darkest corners of the universe, initially oblivious to her own sense of self.

Missions
Although the Children of Light's goals of spreading light seemed righteous, there were some among the vast lineage of stars who refused to align with them and rebelled. True to their dedication to order, the Children sent their enforcer Valora to break the opposition—either by destroying them or intimidating them with a demonstration of their power to join their cause. Time after time, she was tasked with more missions, each one more daunting than the last.

One such task was the purging of the creatures of primordial night, of which Balanar was once a member of. On the dawn of the First Day, all the night creatures perished save for the one we know as Balanar. She also joined Ares in a century long campaign against the forces of The Continuum, which resulted in Ares' and Valora's forces toppling them.

None of these missions were as daring and high-stake as their final mission to obliterate all aspects of darkness and chaos forever. In spite of the foreknowledge that their failure was invincible should they choose to partake in it, they dispatched Valora to seize an unobtainable power to bind chaos forever—the power of a Fundamental, whose charge binds all of existence together.

For the first time in her ageless life, Valora and her hammer finally met with failure. The spark within her masters was obliterated, and Valora, having a life link connected to them, shared the same fate for her complicity on their attack against Io. Without the Children's spark to animate her body, she was left adrift in the vacuum of space as she faded into a dark sleep for untold aeons, until her aimless course was caught in the pull of an unfamiliar world.

Reawakening
Somewhere in the cosmos, the star that gave the form of Valora had turned into a cold neutron star. This star was among the many things that were left abandoned by the late Children of Light, such as the abandoned solar energy forge of the Children that was buried beneath a blowing red waste (possibly a nebula given the description) somewhere deep in the cosmos. A young wandering star who inherited the spark of her masters gave it fuel to ignite its spark once more, bringing the Dawnbreaker back on the verge of consciousness and restoring an infinitesimal portion of her former powers.

But Valora did not fully awaken just yet. Even after she reestablished a link to her old source of life, she still did not arise from her slumber, spending her time in the darkness of sleep dwelling on her failures and lamenting the loss of her masters. But she would soon realize that the world could still use her light, and she woke up to a world beset by the chaos her creators attempted to stop. With the Brightmaul in her hands to accompany her in this unfamiliar world, she wields her newfound powers to finish what her masters started.

Personality and Mannerisms

 * Hailing from a time where powerful, ancient beings were once commonplace, Valora looks down on the world that she sees nowadays, seeing its inhabitants as weak and lesser things. She doesn't relate with the mortals and modern gods that she meets, because she has been around much longer than them with her expansive perspective on existence and greater combat experience with creatures and entities much more powerful than the ones today.

Family
Valora belongs to a vast lineage of stars dating back to the first sun to ever exist in the universe, created by their great grandfather. The progeny of this sun included her creators the Children of Light, who forged her body from the elements of a young star's core and gave her life with their golden breath. As their most powerful enforcer, she carried out their tasks without question, which would soon cost both of their lives in their final mission. After deep reflection on the things she did in service to her masters, she feels regretful on what they made her do, but continues to honor their memory.

The Solar Goddess is a descendant branched from the lineage of the children of the Keeper's first sun, hinting at a very distant connection between and her goddess with Valora's kin.

Towards Ezalor, she has many mixed feelings. While humbled by the presence of the creator of all her creators, she expresses her regret about Ezalor not remembering things, like the grim fate of the Golden Lords (who were his descendants) and him not knowing how to "set this all to rights", indicating something wrong with their lives. She is also angry at him for abandoning his descendants.

Eons after being put out of commission, Valora was infused with new life when the light of ignited an ancient Solar Forge that gave her new life. Because of this, she is grateful to the young star who revived her. This gift of life has stimulated in her a deep respect for Phoenix that she would have regarded the young star as her master, were she still bound to such concepts. In an unknown point in time, long before she was made dormant, she used to be lovers with back when he was still known as Ares. Together, they toppled the Continuum in a campaign that lasted for centuries. They broke up soon after for unknown reasons. To Mars, he calls her by the name Valor.
 * Phoenix carries an echo of the Children's spark within him, which means that they were his solar ancestors, and that Phoenix and Dawnbreaker are connected on a deeper level of familial ties.

Acquaintances
As an ancient being, Valora seems to be quite familiar with a number of other ancient beings like herself: gods, eldritch creatures, ancient beings, etc. Before her decommission, she lived in a time where ancient beings were commonplace, hence her familiarity with these entities.

For the gods and deities that she is familiar with, Valora seems to know who the Dead God is, having known him before he was killed. She remembers in a time before he took on a form that made him look old, but never met him personally. She is one of the few who seems to have partial knowledge on what the Omniscience really is. She also knows.

Valora seems to be oblivious to the fact that is the last of his kind, hinting that she knew his race before they dwindled in numbers. On the other hand, she seems to know the people of Claszureme and the Weavers, two extradimensional beings beyond time.

Her masters have connections with 's master, and they almost agreed to help his furious master find the missing elemental until more pressing issues arose, forcing them to drop the matter.

Enemies
Valora was made to see to the goals of the Children of Light. That includes purging the universe of every creature of darkness, which includes the likes of. But her and her masters' true enemy was the, who they sought to bind as part of their master plan. They dispatched Valora to seize the power of so that they may use it to bind the chaos, but Io retaliated by extinguishing the spark of both her and the Children.

In the first moments of her reawakening on the planet where the Nemesis Stones crashed upon, she wanted nothing more than to take revenge on Io for destroying her masters. She has sought absolution after pondering on her masters' true motives and no longer bears any negative feelings towards Io for their demise.

Structure
Valora's body is forged out of celestial materials—the purest elements found in the metal-rich core of a young star. This empty metal shell was animated by the breath of its creators, forming the life essence that came to be known as Valora. Before her demise, she drew endless life and power only from the spark of the Children, an irreplaceable source of energy that no other star can provide, much like the compatibility between a blood donor and a blood recipient.

Although she had lost her very source of life and power, she would soon find the same source of light once again from an ancient solar forge that also belonged to the late Children of Light, which came to life when it was ignited by a young star that inherited the same spark of the Children. She returned to life in a vastly weakened state with most of her powers restricted due to the young star's spark being diluted by the dwindling power of his lineage, but what matters to her the most is that she has found her long-lost life again.

Valora implies that she once had the ability to see through invisibility before she lost her masters' spark.

Powers
Besides its effects in gameplay, doesn't have much lore to it since it's just a simple hammer technique.

demonstrates the strong bond between Valora and the Brightmaul, allowing her to recall the hammer to her hands whenever it leaves her grasp. The trails of fire left in its wake is but a shadow of what it used to do under the spark of the Children, back when it was able to light the cosmos with its heft.

is an interesting metaphysical ability. She can create "order" from the "chaos" that resides in each battle to recharge herself and nearby allies who are in the battle with her, restoring their essence at the cost of her enemy's.  is a mere remnant of her restricted ability to fly through space at the speed of light. In her weakened state, she can no longer afford cosmic flight as a luxury, so she uses this sparingly and only in defense of her allies who may beckon her during times of need.
 * This process seems to be the same ability that cosmic entities like Enigma utilize to reform their existence.  She doesn't seem to use it like them, however, only being able to manipulate order and chaos via mundane combat.

Friendships and rivalries
Allies meeting Dawnbreaker Enemies killing Dawnbreaker Others
 * vo_hoodwink_hoodwink_ally_300.mp3  Where do you find the time for all this?
 * vo_mars_mars_ally_141.mp3  Together again. This time will be different, I promise!
 * vo_mars_mars_ally_142.mp3  Where does the time go, my dear? You've been away too long...
 * vo_hoodwink_hoodwink_rival_300.mp3  You think you're special or something?
 * vo_mars_mars_rival_168.mp3  After all I've done for you!
 * vo_mars_mars_rival_170.mp3  I cannot see your wounds for the tears in my eyes...
 * vo_snapfire_snapfire_rival_300.mp3  Guess your mettle don't match your steel.
 * vo_void_spirit_voidspir_rival_200.mp3  Too ruled by fear and emotion to choose the winning side.
 * vo_mars_mars_attack_14.mp3 vo_mars_mars_attack_pain_14.mp3  For Valor!
 * vo_mars_mars_death_04.mp3 Valor, my love... I've failed you.