Ædeos
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The Laws of Ædeos
The concepts and symbolics are very often materially visible in the world, e.g., people connected to Ædeos are able to experience the minds of others as if they were visible in the material world. Experience would mean feeling certain emotions, seeing colours, shapes, feeling the size... For many people this can take too much of a toll on sanity, so most choose to keep their mind and experience to the physical world or transfer their mind to Ædeos.
Cosmology
There are two known creational myths, very similar to one another.
The one coming from Saveni - The Awakening of Form:
The second comes from Aškari - Dark Silence and bears many similarities to the general idea but treats each concept as a person. Thus, in place of Primal Æter, Continuity and Distinction appear Chaos, Mother and Father:In the beginning, there was no form. In the beginning there was no Void. There was only Primal Æter - eternal, undisturbed and uniform, the endless sea of evertangled forms.
From within the turbulent waves surfaced the shapes of the preserving Continuity and the sharp Distinction.
Which one is the valid one? They both describe the same thing — it depends on the perspective one takes on the world and the initial set of values.Before the time, the World was still is perfect silence. Chaotic was its form, undisturbed and uniform. Beauty incarnated.
From within the ideal, emerged the Silent Mother and the Separate Father. Their was Chaos, and Chaos was them. Hers was the all uniting Darkness, that calmed the eye, and soothed to sleep. His was the ever-distinguishing Light, the growing day, the individual, the beginning and the end.
Principal Geography & Features
Some places are of special importance/power and are strongly connected with their respective concepts, e.g.,:
- Gáláwá lake is taken by Ithrós of the Depth - falling into it would mean falling deeper and deeper into the Unconscious, and one wouldn't want Ithrós, who inhabits the very lakebed to mess up with theirs...
- Forest of the Spring - crazy, intensely painful (or causing joyful weeping) things will happen when any ideas start emerging; this includes realizing something, remembering, learning, etc.
Initial Active Setting
Two main regions are involved: Saveni and Aškari.
Saveni is further divided into subregions, of which a few are known thus far:
- Tæn - the place where the annual sacred ritual takes place
- Gáláwá - a mountainous region, where the annual sacred ritual was once held in a crystal cavern
- Cymru
- several less important regions
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