Sorres

The god of Moons and Interpretations, the Reflection of Endless Faces, and (in Oenism worship) the "Sundering Half-God", Sorres is one of the most well-known gods along with Oen and Alyu as a result of being connected to the former through holy mythos and legend. Traditionally shunned for corrupting man and steering them away from Oen's vision of perfection in form and spirit, modern reintepretation of faith in the form of the Church of the Celestial Triad has seen a resurgence in respect for the deity, exalting them as a paragon of artistic expression, emotion, and inclusivity via diversity.
Sorresian dogma insists that the Lunar God has no true physical attributes, and that Their appearance hinges solely on the imagination and interpretation of the individual artist or worshiper. Still, over time common symbolism has emerged for the sake of clarity, and and They are most often depicted as a genderless or androgynous figure donning a two-piece mask (representing the two moons orbiting Aeyvis), in white clothing accented by all sorts of dazzling, ever-shifting colors. A more modern trend has been to draw them as if they were a brother or sister of the specific artist, with the same race and physical features - thus signifying that Sorres "could be any and all of [them]]".
While there are certainly a few individual temples dedicated solely to Sorres (mostly in smaller coast or island towns with an artistic scene) Sorres is mostly known for their role in creation mythos and their general relation to Oen and Alyu. In traditional depiction of "The Shaping", Sorres took the Firstborn, the first of sentient mortals carefully designed by Oen to be perfect in form, and fractured them into many imperfect pieces, allowing darkness and evil to seep into the cracks in their bodies. This introduction of evil, along with Alyu's alterations to the Firstborn soul and will, caused them to become separated from Oen's grace and light -- thus causing "The Fall". As a result, traditional Oen worship often shuns Sorres as the birth of darkness and the tempter of human souls, falsifying Alyu's light to misdirect worshippers from His perfection. As a result, for centuries Sorres was by far the least popular and most hated of the three main gods.
However, with the recent emergence of the Church of the Celestial Triad (a.k.a. Selesti), Sorres has quickly gained a newfound reputation as a misunderstood and underappreciated deity that "gifted" upon all mortals the ability to be individuals with imagination and creativity. In Selesti versions of The Shaping, the "fracturing of perfection" is instead depicted as a boon onto the Firstborn, granting them the ability to strive to become more than their designs and to explore the possibilities of the newly created universe beyond what was simply the "best" option. This depiction has made Them extraordinarily popular with worshippers who idolize exploration and artistic expression, and their openness to diversity also makes them popular (or at least tolerable) with those of other races, whom traditional Oen dogma has antagonized or put below humans.
With the advent of planar travel and the discovery of alternate worlds, an increasingly popular belief is the idea that Sorres's encouragement of imagination and creativity extends not only to the imagination of mortals, but to the creation of new realities within the Astral Essence that makes up the world. It is said that when mortals dream They shepherd their dreaming minds to worlds of their shaping, and that They look over those who travel between the planes, They themselves being forced to eternally travel as a result of being exiled from Oen's waking reality.
As a result of these depictions, Sorres is often hailed as being the "face" of Selesti dogma and its progressive ideals. This branding has put them at odds with traditional Oen worship, and Selesti practice is almost unheard of is Ostenhor, the stronghold of old faith and worship.
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God of Moon, Luck, Interpretations, "Trickery", though it has been rumored that they cannot lie as a restriction of living under the domain of Oen.
Eternally following after Oen and reflecting his light, there have been legends and prophecies that he wants to overthrow Oen but it doesn't seem like it -- they appear to be content with giving life to parallel worlds, outside of Oen's reality but still in the astral sea that can be shaped to anyone's content. (This is the equivalent of the astral plane, or the actual astral sea -- and scholars describe it as such.)
Indeed, true to their nature of reflecting realities, Sorres does not make their own reality but simply gives sentient beings an avenue in which to pursue it -- through dreams and imaginations. These "echos" of the waking world can only be accessed outside of the grasp of Oen's mighty light, but their possibilities are as endless as one's imaginations.
In some regions, they are attributed as the patron god of cats. Because those regions believe it to be true, it is true in those regions.

Divine Domains

Moon, Luck, Interpretations, Reflections, Trickery, Cats

Divine Classification

God