Auvra is the Veyndra power of boundary, proportion, sequence and consequence, and of promises that remain true tomorrow. The fragments are careful to say that she did not create obedience. She created the conditions under which an action could have a lasting result.
What she made
Before Auvra, nothing was near or far, before or after. She separated self from other and cause from effect. Those who remember her in visions describe a tall, composed figure with silver-black hair, severe layered robes and a cord marked with five deliberate knots. Near her, edges grow sharper, and footsteps, shadows and spoken words seem to fall into order.
The oldest hidden accounts claim that time itself began as her emergency answer to Varka, the Name-Eater. If unmaking had to move from one moment to the next, it could be resisted. In the War of the First Dawn she is said to have held the frost side of the great Gap, raising walls of rime layer upon layer, each layer a moment that could no longer be undone.
Her quarrels
Her virtue and her flaw are the same: she believes every lasting world needs limits. Kharun accused her of loving order more than the lives that order served, and loved her, and fought her more bitterly than anyone. Sael kept breaking her perfect designs so that free beings could surprise their makers. Auvra called it sabotage, and also the correction she could never have made herself. Before the war, Varka was her closest companion of the mind.
Where she is now
Some texts say Auvra became time and can no longer step outside it. Others say she sits at the final boundary, measuring whether creation has kept enough of its first promise to deserve going on. If so, no one knows what else she guards there.
Something of her lingers in the Æsir traditions of oath, law, ward and costly rule, especially in tales of Tyr and some of Odin, though neither god is Auvra in disguise. Her signs, scratched into a few old stones: a cord with five knots, a circle left deliberately open, the pause between an oath and its answer, frost tracing an edge no one can see.