Cleo Rainard

"'When I die give what’s left of me away to children and old me that wait to die. And if you need to cry, cry for your brother walking the street beside you. And when you need me, put your arms around anyone and give them what you need to give to me. I want to leave you something, something better than words or sounds. Look for me in the people I’ve known or loved, and if you cannot give me away, at least let me live on in your eyes and not your mind. You can love me most by letting hands touch hands, by letting bodies touch bodies, and by letting go of children that need to be free. Love doesn’t die, people do. So, when all that’s left of me is love, give me away.'""― Epitaph by Merrit Malloy"Cleos Philopator Rainard is the oldest child and daughter between distant cousins Andromache and Thesues Rainard and is the older twin sister to Juli.

Cleo was married to Vanossa of Ardiyas and her concubine was Roman Minola, and she has three daughters Adriana, Katherina, and Bianca. She died from childbed fever after giving birth to Bianca.

Natural Abilities
Witch - Animancer Physiology - Cleo in life was a very powerful Animancer seen when she created Hoogie, Ozkar, and Boo to protect her daughters in case she wouldn't live long enough to protect and see them grow when Cleo couldn't.


 * Eye-Color Shifting - The main trait common with Witches is the ability to change their regular eye color to their more true eye color, it is unknown what her true eye color is.
 * Animancy - Cleo is an Animancer meaning she possesses the magical abilities revolve around manipulating life itself. Some of her abilities connected to this is restoration, healing, life-force manipulation, fertility manipulation, and life creation. She can create new forms of life, grant life to the lifeless, animate things, manipulate the life force of the universe and those connected to it.
 * Creation - Cleo could create organic or inorganic matter from nothing, either as finished objects or simply unfinished elements.
 * Golem Creation - Cleo was able to create golems: a magically animated being created entirely from inanimate matter. This power can be used with anything so user can have an army of super powered creatures at anytime and anywhere. Note that the exact power each golem has depends on the element(s) they were created from. This was how Hoogie, Ozkar, and Boo were all created.

Etymology

 * Cleos is derived from κλέος (kleos) meaning "glory, pride, fame" in Greek. Philopator meaning "father-loving", was a common royal epithet among Hellenistic monarchs. Her name together means "pride of a father's love".
 * Rainard comes from the Germanic name Raginald, composed of the elements ragin "advice" and wald "rule". The Normans (who used forms like Reinald or Reinold) brought the name to Britain, where it reinforced rare Old English and Norse cognates already in existence. It was common during the Middle Ages, but became more rare after the 15th century.

Trivia

 * Cleo was named after the last Pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra.
 * She and her twin are fraternal.
 * Cleo deeply loved her daughters; but she was specially close to Katherina.
 * She kept several snakes in her old room and her daughters often associate her with that of a snake both a deadly yet a source of healing.