'Era of
Awakening'
'Concieo'
Concieo was the first Era of intelligent species, chronicling the creation, and awakenings of the genera/genuses known as Ellearn, and Man.
The Progeny
of the Dreamer.
Ancient History
-25,999 to -21,758
Creation of the numerous Seed.
Section I.
With the slowing of the tectonic plates, the volcanic
eruptions of molten rock (magma,) onto the surface of Cor'Terrae decreased,
alongside the volcanic gases such as sulfur dioxide that would break through to
the surface through vents. The climate that had been remained cool from the
glacier period, would begin to warm as early as 25,670
Concieo,
and the atmosphere would become drier.
This aridity had increased partly because
of the
mountain-building tectonics of the last era, which saw the rise of the four
named ranges: 'The Ankara Mountains,' of the northern most tips of the
continent, 'The Styrka Skedja Mountains,' at the lands center, then the icy 'Sivy
Vrch Summit,' that separated the grasslands and the perpetual snow-lands
in the south, and lastly the 'Zayu Mountains' that blocked Jaitalla,
the ice bridge, east.
This mountain-building had favored the expansion of
grasslands, and savannas. Rain forests gave way to pine forests, and areas
where open vegetation, such as tundra, savannahs, and grasslands expanded into,
diminished forested areas. Extensive vegetation of steppes begins to appear,
and many wild grasses become abundant. These open vegetation systems saw to the
migration of countless animals across great distances.
Section II.
i. Verse
The Lady & her Lord reveled through the boundless sky,
showering down the light from their waltz of myriad colors.
New buds emerging widen into leaves upon ancient timber,
as deep in a skylight cave the Dreamer shapes the grove.
The raindrops fall into airy chambers where roses climb,
and trees cascade their leaves and petals aurora dyed.
Whispers quietly caress the inspired organic frames,
but the first children are devoid of spirit and divine fate.
Enchanted is Sila Vor with the Dreamer's newest creation,
so the sky-clad galaxy reaches far down with flowing fingers,
and streams of northern lights spark the divinity of life.
Astriferous.
These beings carved from the bark of prosperous groves,
the bearers of the night stars within their folds.
The Celestial Queen most glorious,
would show these newborns the path.
To drive the darkness from their eyes,
the twilight beats within their hearts.
Love spread across the heavens,
did the Ellearn witness earliest.
Anak Detska.
The first children of the Trees.
Consciousness awakened,
spirits newly fashioned,
by stardust destinies.
Life eternally,
beyond mortality,
moving shades,
of flowers,
and seeds.
~
ii. Text
Ieldun is the cave system in the middle mountains that houses what will come to be referred to as the Ancestors
or The Ellearn, (elder trees.) This cave-system was created
long ago by river water eroding away the limestone underneath the mountain. Where the limestone was weak, the ceiling collapsed creating huge skylights, allowing not only a forest, but an entire ecosystem to develop within these caves. Airy chambers sprout life where the light enters from above, creating a jungle within its own little world.
Up until this point, both the Dreamer, and its Divines were made of mists, and
energy, lacking proper physical form. In this way, they were ever changing, and
there was no concept of sex or gender, as conception was done by Corchorum,
'the complete one.' As the hub of creation, Corchorum
was a hermaphrodite, reproducing asexually, the Divines coming
from aspects of itself. The Heart World will be the matter in which the Anak
Detska are made from, but it will be the essence of the Divines that will
bring any, and all to life on the mortal planes. These first children are carved
from six great trees deep in the Ieldun caves, and it is
Sila Vor's swirling dance
that they see earliest, as it is she who reached down with streams of night-time
silver, stars caressing the hollow, wooden forms. The shaped timber prior to
this had no spirit, and no destiny, but with the blessing of the Queen of the
Heavens they became Astriferous. These sentient beings would bear
a kindled star within their breast, this stardust awakening their consciousness,
and their spirits were made of her twilight.
Section
III.
At the point of the first
children,
the most sagacious was conceived.
A mind so vast that none can fathom it,
known most absolute in action.
To a select few did they grant,
a piece of themselves to eat.
Those who chewed would gain,
unknown magics to keep.
Personified Holy Wisdom
He'ar Namin
Oh, Lofty One,
Embodiment of Knowledge,
Please help me open my mind.
Enlighten my intelligence,
and ponder deep.
Convene and dissolve the assembly of the gods,
perceive, know, and give good counsel to all.
Please, judge us none to harshly!
Section
IV.
Beneath
an evening sky,
two Divine sisters spin,
upon a loom of fate.
Sila Vor and Wan'an'iena
Delicate webs of gossamer lace,
a precious stone is placed.
Within this gem is a flicker,
a soul dances to its destiny.
Ellearn lives predetermined,
free will all but abandoned.
Constrained by necessity,
beheld through divination.
Section
V.
Anak Detsk
would come in time to be called Ellearn, called so for
the Ancestors or The Ellearn, (elder trees.)
Up until this point the Ellearn have foraged for what food they
required. However with a growing population, gathering wild plants was no longer
enough. Some began to note and recognize the behaviour, tracks, and signs of the
animals that lived in the caves. Trackers must be able to recognize and follow
animals through their tracks, signs, and trails, also known as spoor. Spoor may
include tracks, scat, feathers, kills, scratching posts, trails, drag marks,
sounds, scents, marking posts, the behaviour of other animals, habitat cues, and
any other clues about the identity and whereabouts of the quarry.
Coordinating hunting parties and stalking prey, the arn are the first to create a 'signed language' using manual communication instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns. Alongside this new language, the Ellearn use spears and darts to begin hunting barking deer. This new unspoken language is understood by all Ellearn and is and is used in situations where speech is undesirable, such as in private communication, across distances, while ill, or for subjects that require a special reverence or respect. Many also use signs as an accompaniment to speech. It was acquired from birth by the hearing population as the folds and tatters of the outer ear could cause hearing loss, involving a reduction in sound level or the inability to hear faint sounds.
Section
VI.
i. Verse
Like that of pottery the Dreamer forms,
man from the dust and clay of the savannah.
The secondborn stand like silent statues,
they are devoid of spirit or divine fate.
Delighted
is Reinn Anon with the Dreamer's newest creation,
so the light of grace reaches far down with glory bold,
and revelation illuminates the divinity within its folds.
Ventiferous
Those beings shaped from the earth of pottery,
the bearers of the winds within their chests.
The King of Paradise most pure
would show these newborns the path.
To drive the darkness from their minds
the holy light rests within their breasts.
Love spread across the heavens,
did the Humans witness second.
Ukomu.
The second children of the world.
Consciousness awakened,
spirits newly fashioned,
by windswept destinies.
~
ii. Text
Corchorum the Creator gave the Ellearn a thousand years in the caves
before it would create intelligent life once again.
It
was from the mud and the clay that the Creator made mankind, shaping the hardy
Second Born and Reinn Anon, Spirit of Winds blew the first breath of
life into the Eternal ones creations. It was Reinn Anon, Lord of Light that took
most to the Second Born and they called him the King among the Gods as he in
their inception filled human children with luminous innocence. So all mankind
would be bathed in his unclouded light. It would be Reinn Anon who would
Sheppard
them, who would feel the gravest sorrow and outrage at their betrayal.
Mankind was created with two sexes, permenant in their intention. Split apart
but able to become one with another.
The
second people would in time come to call themselves Ukomu.
i. Verse
Section
VII
Once a living man,
betrayed by his fellows.
The man was buried alive,
and was the first to ever die.
Born as Death from his demise,
he cursed his human fellows.
Mortality was their just reward,
as Death became the Mortal's God.
Sjel'Nnharma
Oh Judge of Souls
Do not judge us so harshly,
Do not seek us too quickly,
and allow us our true ends.
Give us our time of sorrows,
and bear our heavy burdens.
Grant all their eternal sleep
or their reincarnation.
Mankind,
Life for a duration,
given but a moment,
silt upon the earth.
He Who was Buried Alive.
'Chained to a throne in a mantle grown,
all the while still a man, but now completely stone.
Years of misery, and the horror of wailing souls,
within reflections of despair, his numbness only grows.
What became of that mortal bound by shackles cold?
Despair; despair, for the Lord of Death was forced to
bear witness to our crimes, and he cries no more.'
~
ii. Text
A human named Sjel is betrayed and murdered by those he trusts, the very first
Human to die. Buried Alive. As the Divines do not understand Death they force
him to become the Divine of Death. Sjel creates an Outerplane called the 'Halls
of Awakening.' Here the other Divines chain him to his throne so he cannot
escape the responsibilities laid upon him. It is here too that Ellearn and
Humans come to be reborn and where Sjel listens to their stories and judges
their souls. Bearing witness to the crimes of the living and the dead. Here with
time Sjel'Nnarhma grows numb and merges his flesh with his throne, becoming like
stone. It is said he cries for no one or nothing anymore.
Section
VIII.
It is at this point that the
fourteen Divines begin to
decide how they will appear on the world's surface and before the eyes of the
Ellearn and Humans. Some take such a form so
they may walk the world's surface. They choose between Ellearn and
human, between male and female and these are the forms that the people
of both species would worship even if the Divines were
truly neither and all. Seven took the female
form Vil'or: Naik'Lea, Sila Vor, Wan'an'iena, Enayla Eelm, Meiva, Tin Du'hil, and
Rina'Lin. While six took the male form Vil'nor: Reinn Anon, Nanqa, Nau'ar, Shyr'Vaero,
Al'shae Oaris, Jhes'Khasti. Lastly, He'ar Namin would decide to remain in a
sexless form, having an Ellearn form of
neither sex. In refusing to
be either sex or gender, He'ar Namin was Vil.
As the Divines walked the world, they discovered how empty it continued to be.
The Divines would look after their realm and in each segment the world grew.
Spirits that would become known as Elementals were
created where they fit best. Fire beneath the surface, wind in the clouds, earth
in the trees, and water within the rivers and lakes. Yet even with these spirits
the lands and seas remained largely empty beyond where humans and Ellearns
called home. So in the skies the winds took the
form of birds to fly, the waters took the form of fish to swim and the earth
took the form of even more four legged beasts to explore the wilderness.
Section
IX.
i. Verse
They who crossed the neither tirelessly,
now is the Heart of the universe.
They who control all from within.
Fulfilling deep seated dreams of life,
The Heart is where inner feelings originate.
That love is inside this very planet,
where the outside is the body of the world,
internal to the core is this very Heart.
It holds the earth in unison.
Love is embodied in the sphere.
This Heart is the heart of the world,
always dancing at the nub.
Love can do no wrong, therefore,
Love fulfills the Heart.
Thy Sacred Heart,
Who art Infinite Love,
Grant us Understanding,
and your endless piety.
Corchorum!
ii. Text
As both the Second and First Born began to flourish
and Corchorum saw that the world was filling with vibrant life, it made the
decision to enter the world's core. For everything came from this creator, known
as the Dreamer. It's Consciousness created Dreams from all possibilities and
illusions. It awoke to create the shell that is Cor'terrae, the planet as it's
body is the physical properties of matter. It then placed its spiritual
consciousness at the center of planet. To become the Heart that dances in the
nub to keep the world spinning. Corchorum echoed one last thing before it
settled, it gave one law that was large enough to contain all lesser laws and
considered the ground on which we walk. The the law of love. 'Love and be
loved in return.'
"For I am one with my all my children, and I am everything there is. I am the physical and spiritual realities and all I ask is that love spread across this universe of my creation."
Section
X.
With the departure of the Creator, the embittered Lord
of Fire, Nau'ar, who had been unable to return to Alasse Cir with the
loss of powers waited in hiding for the one who had played such a ruse upon him.
For in the creation of the Universe, the Divine of
Chaos had tricked Nau'ar into throwing his fire deep into the Void where it
became the Sun.
Unsuspecting Jhes'Khasti, Spirit of Trickery and Luck
was ambushed by Nau'ar in these years and taken from the Laughing Fox was his
left eye to forever scar the beautiful and 'Fickle Fortune' for the power and
deed done which Nau'ar would never forgive.
The ensuing duel was only halted
by the Lady of Justice and the Lord of War who took up
Jhes'Khasti
into the heavens. There the Divine of Trickery instead
of healing the wound upon his form, kept it so all would know what Nau'ar had
done.
Section
XI.
An Ellearn body is found desecrated; contaminated with rot and illness
and deposited in jagged pieces in the river within the Ieldun cave system, which
fed water to everything within it. So it is that Lake Danau is poisoned. With
skin of bark, ears of leaves, and hair of vines, the Ellearn were created from
the ancestor trees to be near trees themselves. Humanoids in form, the first of
a kind, were plant-like in nature. Their consciousness was awakened, and their
souls were created from stardust. They soaked up the sun and drank from the
waters of the river and lake and thusly began to perish with its defilement. For
the First Born were not created with such immunities.
Cries went up as thousands died but those who called out to the Gods were struck
down. For those who had planned the plague did not want the Divines, who were
not omnipotent, to know who had done the deed. So they butchered those who gave
up cries to the Divine, those they believed would tell the truth, murdering the
most faithful, only caring for their own skin. Those Ellearn who perished from
illness or murder were enveloped by the cave around them, and those bodies of
the dead took root, planted by the cave's earth, and would become true trees.
For you see The Ellearn were created as fully functioning hermaphrodites, able
to self produce children like all plant-life in which they were based upon. Yet,
in a moving, sentient species this spelled disaster. Procreation without love or
sex was devastating as it produced supremely self-centered beings who treated
each other with utmost indifference, if not animosity.
The Divinity of Water Al'shae Oaris came to the caves. In great wrath, Al'shae
Oaris demanded to know the cause of the catastrophe which the Ellearn could only
answer in part for they did not know who had defiled the river, only how the
deed had been done. Sila Vor Lady of the Stars plead for her people and Naik'Lea,
Lady of Compassion beside Sila Vor spoke that the Ellearn had been punished
enough by the death toll and that Al'Shae must purify the lake and rivers or all
of their creations would die and they would all be failures in the Creator's
eyes. Al'Shae Oaris moved by the words of his brethren would purify the lake and
rivers only once he was promised that the Ellearn would be punished for the
poison.
Shyr'Vaero Divine of War and Vengeance walked among the eldest trees. He could
not feel as acute the suffering of others as Naik'lea could, but he could
instead feel the rage, and the trees bristled and fumed at the fate of their
children. Shyr'Vaero opened himself to the forest and he followed the trees, and
soon the sound of fighting was heard by him. Still, the Ellearn fought amongst
themselves to hide their shame and Shyr'Vaero would summon his blade of bone
before jumping into the fray. Finishing the fight, Shyr'Vaero looked upon the
destruction and the deaths with fury growing stronger in his breast. He let
forth a howl of his rage and battle lust through the Ieldun caves where the
beasts and the trees fell silent to his roar. He would take with him far away
the survivors of that battle, hiding them. Upon a chain of islands to the
boiling north the Spirit of War, Vengeance, and Battle gave them a new home and
made them his own. To forget the disturbing days these Anak Detska, 'First
Children' took the name Eerbloe, 'First Bloom' in 22,978 Concieo and would begin
anew.
The Ellearn who were defenseless and slowly dying, both physically and
emotionally begged the Goddesses, Sila Vor, Queen of the Stars, and Tin Du'hil,
Lady of the Moon, to help them as there was no cure in sight. Together the
Ladies of the Night created a countermeasure to the illness, this however was no
cure. The mushroom when eaten could keep the effects dormant for a time until
more was obtained. Away these Anak Detska were whisked by Tin Du'hil to an
island to the east where the continued consumption of the 'Muriew' had to be
sustained or these mortal Ellearn would waste away from disease and sickness.
For beneath the moon's rays grew the Muriew in glades hidden from the sun by
Sila Vor who gave this island an extended night and shortened day.
Those that began the awful work and continued it still by the slaughtering of
their brethren would be exiled to another cave system far to the north. These
caves however were different, as they hardly had skylights. The Ellearn were
left in this darkness to survive in this unknown environment or to die. These
Ellearn would become three separate groups: the Silvelksh 'Goblins,' the Kuchael
'Ashen Ellearn' and the Abanisuael 'Ebony Ellearn.' The rest of the Ellearn were
banished from the only place they had ever known, the Ieldun caves, the Gods
deposited them in the plateaus of the same mountain range. Having been taken up
and away, they were separated from their Ancestors, the Elder Trees. They were
too separated, no longer being both sexes in one. In exchange, Ellearn could
switch between the sexes at will. This was a bid to ascertain the co-dependence
of the Ellearn species, as being a fully functioning race of intersex people
they had little concern beyond them-self.
The Ellearn were also given empathy for all intelligent peoples and species.
Having such a thing forced on them drove some to complete insanity, and others
to complete apathy toward all living creatures. The Ellearn were not afraid to
twist nature in whatever form they had need of, in such a manner as tree and
rock shaping as they could not feel them. They found it difficult to learn how
to tune out and control this innate empathy, growing too, for a length of time;
hate the Gods for a punishment they saw as far outweighing their crime. But the
separation of the sexes, instilling within them a great empathy for all living
things and an immunity to poisons and diseases was done in hopes that no such
catastrophe would happen again to the Dreamer's First Born children.
Section
XII.
Those
Ellearn who
had been sickened,
called the Muriew
had
learned to live with the illness in their veins as it steadily decreased their
lifespan.
On
their island in the east they ate the mushrooms of the moon filled glades and
these gave them a mortal's lifespan. Due to the illness their
birthrate had been cut in half and most babies died at birth. The first
plague born child that
survived was seen as a miracle and a sign that they could live on as a people
even with the illness. This child would be made King
of the
Murieael (Moon
Ellearn).
Section
XIII.
The Spirit of
Storms, Reinn Anon, could see that there was
still much to be done
upon Cor'terrae and the
Divines were tiring in
their attempt to create and form everything on the planet. So he took of himself his Mana, essence, spark and
life and created first six High Guardians; Grapheal, Wirual, Eirdandril,
Tardrael, Zarol, Tie'iel. They would come to be called Arch-angels.
Reinn Anon after creating these six for himself took up once again his Mana
and mixed it with the Mana of the other
Divines to create for them their own
High Guardians.
For each Divine he created three High Guardians except
for Na'aur, Spirit of Fire and the Sun. His power was the Sun itself and he could
not reach it from Cor'terrae.
It is also
through this act that it was found by the
Gods
that Reinn Anon Spirit of
Holy
Light and Nanqa Spirit of Darkness
could not create between them High Guardians. Their Mana could not be mixed, for
they were true opposites. This
disturbed the other Divines; and Reinn Anon began to look upon Nanqa
with
distrust and suspicion.
Section
XIV.
Nau'ar had been tricked by the Spirit of Luck, Jhes'Khasti,
losing the essence of his power deep in the Void of Space, having used it to
create the Sun to warm the planet and help it grow. Because of this he could not
have his own High Guardians. Nanqa learning this told the Divine of Fire, who
lived on the mortal planes, that he would bring back a spark of the others
power. So into the Void the Spirit of Darkness trod with no fear, and many
centuries it took for him to return, but he returned with the prize, in his
hands he held the flames of the sun, burning himself for his brother, so Na'aur
he could have his own High Guardians. Quickly Nau'ar took Nanqa, who was in
great pain, to Reinn Anon and the Spirit of Storms and Guardians created for
Nau'ar two High Guardians, one of flame and one of the Sunrise. They would
become to be called Fusixin, Phoenixes. Tin'Duhil, Spirit of the Moon
brought one of her High Guardians to Nau'ar and she offered him the female, so
then Nau'ar had three High Guardians, like the others. Thosial, Arch Angel of
Flame, Mue'Voriel, Arch Angel of SunRise, and Mue'Pyriel, Arch Angel of SunSet.
Section XV.
He'ar Namin, Divine of Knowledge would take up residence in
their own Outerplane called Saape Morum along with their archangels.
Here they would
record history, apart from the other Divines, always watching, always writing.
They would come to be called the 'Historian.' He'ar Namin who lacked gender and
sex did not ask the Dreamers creations for temples only that they learn and
never stop learning. They do not involve them self in the affairs of man or
Ellearn, always neutral. It is from He'ar Namin that the first letters are
given to by mankind and the Ellearn who create their first and
different alphabets.
Section
XVI.
Humans travel south from the Dirian plains in need of new
lands for their animals they have domesticated. Through the mountain pass into
the southern wilderness.
Man
in
exploration
divided themselves, by color, by language, by the Gods they put on high. But
violence was avoided as populations were small and with
The development of the throwing-spear, together with ambush
hunting techniques, violence between groups
was
very costly. Groups
of Man moved far apart from each other to alleviate the need of resources. Still
tribal warfare begins as the The Ukomu (mankind) fracture into the many
different groups, needing land and natural resources.
Section
XVII.
The Ellearn who were banished from their caverns and now live in the
valleys and forests above those same caverns. They begin to spread out far
through the lands they would come to call the Melimidisiel. Initially
wandering hunter gathers, the Ellearn would find themselves driven back into the
Mellimdisiel by sedentary human people. Lacking domesticated animals or
the wheel, they were unable to win against the humans in combat. Groups of
Ellearn flee back into the mountains.It is these Ellearn who gain the upper
hand, taught by their fellows how to train the domesticated yaks as mounts.
Ridden
into battle,
the beasts fill their enemies with fear from the sheer size of the
animals. With this they gain an upper hand and humans do not try to enter the
Mellimdisiel again for many years..
Section
XVIII.
But with battle came many more deaths, deaths before
their time, and at Nanqa's behest Reinn Anon took the essence of those who died
in honor to create more Guardians. Lesser Guardians, for these were not beings
made entirely of Reinn Anon's Mana. These souls of man and Ellearn were bent and shaped
so that they could be housed by the form of a Guardian. Those humans who died an honorable death were taken up
to become Telemnar, Angels, and those otherwise clean entered the Halls
of
Awakening to be reborn. But still their remained those on the
Material plane as
many
ghosts, unable to reconcile their violent deaths,
filled with rage and despair. Reinn Anon refused those who were trapped on the
Material plane, he could do nothing for them,
for
they were unworthy of Paradise and Sjel
Nn'harma
could not judge them if they were not in the
Halls of
Awakening. These crushed shades would fight Ashriel
when the High Guardian tried to take them, so a Vil'or, the Spirit of Music
Rina'Lin played her violin for them so they would fall into a trance and follow
her to the Halls of
Awakening.
Section XVIV.
Nanqa defied The Eternal One in asking why the humans
should suffer mortality and the Ellearn do not? They deserved
immortality as well or the very least they deserved
immediate access to the afterlife.
The Spirit of Darkness and Honor is impatient with constant assurances of his
brethren and being told that they must all trust the
Dreamer's plan. This was despite the
pain and suffering of life and death.
Angered Nanqa criticized Corchorum. Nanqa accused
their parent and the
other Spirits of lacking vision and benevolence, and that he would find
a way to help these souls in need as no one else seemed to care.
But
The Spirit of Suffering
did care and she
came to Nanqa on the Material plane
to abate Nanqa's rage. They tried
through
dreams
to
find
a way to help these languishing dead.
In such a dream did she see a solution.
The Vil'or, Naik'lea told him that he must prepare the lost souls, and
that they must be forgiven by not only Reinn Anon, Lord of Alasse Cir but by
themselves
before they could move on. Determined the young, unshakeable
Nanqa
creates his own
Outerplane in good faith below the Material plane of
Cor'terrae called Kazcas.
This would become the planet's mantle and what people
would call Hell. A place where people who had in life not
earned their entrance to Paradise or could not go on to the Halls
to be reborn
would be
purified through discipline
and love
until they understood the joy of creation and were ready for either Paradise or Rebirth.
Section XX.
Nanqa required assistance in the punishing and purging
of the souls that entered Hell, to which he created his own
servants,
the
Hen'ei
that would come to be called Demons. From his Mana, his essence he created seven
Devils, Lords of Hell, and he embodied within
each of them, one of the cornerstones
of mortal sin, the reasons that mankind could not go onto Paradise or be reborn.
Those things a person could not forgive themselves for. These were
the Devils: Lust; Kowa'Yoku, Pride; Jijo'yuta, Envy; Suretoru,
Greed; Kiyoku, Gluttony; Kadoa'hin, Wrath; Karikura'iru and Sloth;
Eimis'sui.
The Divine of Darkness
spoke silk in the ears of Reinn's Archangels. Filled with
resentment of Reinn Anon he whispered 'Come to me.' Nanqa voiced his intentions, 'Use your powers to
punish man so they can come to peace'. They were the first to Fall from
Grace, their
bodies twisting
in agony and wings turning ebony as they descended into
Hell. They became Zelamanara, 'Banish'ed', the Arch Angels of Nanqa: Eirdandri, The Accursed, Tardraes, The Absolute,
Amuburiel, The Slave, and Marthei, The Watcher.
Section XXI.
Still seething with envy Nanqa watched the Spirits be
revered, loved and respected by the First and Second Born
wheras they were being taught to fear and malign him. The Spirit of Darkness moved to his own Outer plane, as Alasse Cir was
becoming uncomfortable, the light all the stronger and Reinn Anon more
judgmental. Creating Demons and watching them grow Nanqa wanted more, he wanted
peoples that would be his own like the other spirits had the First and Second
Born. He told his peoples to go above, to the Material plane and bring back
First Born so he could transform them, akin to what Reinn Anon had done to the
dead to create Angels. Ellearn were dragged, panicked into Hell.
Watching them Nanqa realized twisting them while they still lived would not be
easy, for even though the minds of the First Born were weaker then the minds of
men, they being alive would prove a challenge. Their were many failures before
the demons perfected their craft of
distortion, and for time
unknown, Elllearn who did not belong within that Outer plane were pushed to the
brink. Those whose minds did not shatter from the abuse, remaining intact,
became
something more,
bloody spirits let back onto the surface world where they possessed
mankind transforming them into vampires. A disease born of the blood of half
crazed
Ellearn.
Section XXII.
The Hen'ei whilst they stole away the First Born
from the Mellimel'disiel grew curious, intrigued by those that lived on the
Material Plane, and the Devils watched the humans they tried to change through
punishment and told the Demons to go to the surface. Learn of the first and
second born they were told,
tell us about them so we can understand and be better disciplinarians for it. Demons who could, disguised themselves as the surface
dwellers and moved among them learning, sharing and fighting with
and beside
them.With the birth of Hen'ei Paelil, Half Demons,
Half Humans, and the manipulations of fearful minds and weeping hearts Reinn
Anon stood tall in the room of white marble thrones in the Alba Turris.
'Enough!' The Spirit of Light proclaimed, his voice of thunder and great
winds, 'Our Father's peoples have been hurt enough by the lies and
manipultions of Nanqa.' Calling on He'ar Namin, all of the Spirits save
Nau'ar and Nanqa sat upon their marble tall backed thrones, a world of white
surrounding their many different forms. He'ar Namin stood from it's throne and
spoke in the voice of both, the song of a woman and the huskiness of a man,
saying that the council of the Divines would have to
decide Nanqa's fate. Reinn Anon with a gauntleted fist to his heart told the Spirits there was
no more fitting end for The Spirit of Darkness but the void, an expanse of
nothing, left to the Darkness he seemed to so dearly love.
So Reinn Anon told his brothers and sisters what Nanqa had done. Starting with
openly defying the Dreamers, their Father's, plans. Twisting Reinn's Archangels
and many of the Ellearn into darkness and blood. It was not difficult to gain
the understanding and judgment of most of the Divines. However, Naiklea, Lady of
Suffering and Compassion had worked beside Nanqa and seen why he had defied
Corchorum, the Dreamer. She would leave the council without making a decision,
asking for time to think about Nanqa's fate. She sat at her Lacus Lacrimis, (A
Lake of Tears) uncertain. Years would pass and Reinn Anon finally came to her,
and would headstrongly explain himself once again. Determined to make her
understand Nanqa's many wrongs he asked her about the Ellearn who had been
twisted in mind and soul and how much suffering they had gone through because of
Nanqa's experiments. Reminded of their overwhelming pain and anguish, Naik'lea's
tears fell harder into the lake. What Nanqa had done was awful but... She
pleaded for more time and Reinn Anon gave it leaving her, saying as he left that
both Hell and Nanqa's Demons created great fear and suffering for mankind who
often did not believe themselves worthy of Paradise. Watching his back as he
walked away Naik'lea sobbed into her hands as she agreed that the suffering
Nanqa had created was ample reason to exile him. Knowing she was the deciding
vote.
i. Verse
Section
XXIV
Thus ended the Era of Awakening.
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