Veré

Veré, a female character in Futhork legend, was said to be deeply in love with a man named Set. In 22 BBY, two lovers, Padawan Anakin Skywalker and Senator Padmé Amidala, used their names to elope. This hid news of their matrimony from the Jedi Order so Skywalker would not be caught breaking its tenets on attachment.

History
Veré was a female figure from a Futhork legend, in which she was the eternal lover of a man named Set. In 22 BBY, immediately after the Battle of Geonosis, these names were used as aliases by Senator Padmé Amidala and Padawan Anakin Skywalker, respectively. Knowing matrimony to be against the Jedi Order's belief that such an attachment, through passion, brought one close to the dark side of the Force, the young lovers used the archaic monikers to anonymously marry, not even allowing their pastor, Pontifex Maxiron Agolerga, to know their true identities. "Set" and "Veré" were blissfully wed and Agolerga was instructed to tell no one of the ceremony, ensuring the only record of the short procession would be a scroll in his Brotherhood's archives. When Agolerga eventually learned who they really were, he informed Amidala's niece, Pooja Naberrie, of the union.

Behind the scenes
Veré was mentioned during the What's the Story? campaign on StarWars.com, where Hyperspace members were allowed to author back stories for various background characters from the Star Wars films for inclusion in the Databank and canon. The particular entry, written by Tim Veekhoven under the handle "Sompeetalay," covered Agolerga around the time he was solicited to officiate the Skywalker/Amidala unity seen in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, establishing Veré and Set as legendary characters in its text.

The eternal lovers' motif was borrowed from a famous work of J. R. R. Tolkein related to his Lord of the Rings series, a distant prequel entitled The Tale of Beren and Lúthien that described a mortal man named Beren's romance with an Elf-maiden, Lúthien. Veekhoven chose the name "Veré" for the character because it was pre-established as a common name on the planet Naboo.