Tennerinth & The Law of Control
WARNING : This entire article is merely an accumulation of knowledge based on a belief and religious texts dating from eons ago. Whether the Archos' interpretation of the Cosmos was right or wrong, their writings should still be treasured and recorded for the rest of time.
What is Tennerinth ?
It is the rough translation of the Archos word "Aether-Shaper" which was given to beings of godlike power which lived within the Astral Sea. Said beings apparently all had a commonality, the fact that they were "chosen" or "proved worthy enough" to be gifted a sliver of the GodFrame's powers and knowledge through the absorption of a "Shard". A Shard is a fragment of the GodFrame acting as a sort of storage unit containing the building blocks of creation. These godlike beings can somewhat be identified as the 16 Major Deities and the substantially abundant Minor Deities inhabiting the Astral Sea, from there, the religious texts go into deeper depths about how these "Gods" became what they are.
Indeed, it would seem that all of these Deities were once beings with lesser power living in many Outer Planes and/or galaxies all over the Material Plane terrannums (Trillions of years) in the past. Each and every single one of them had to go through the same process in order to "find" a Shard and become a Deity : Accept the Reality that they are nothing but the Product of an entity unimaginably more powerful than they ever will be. While it may sound easy, trying to accept that idea and living your life while keeping to it is incredibly difficult, moreover, one slip-up during their mortal lifetime and they would have ended up "deleting" themselves from Reality. If I were to make a comparison, it would be like a cell achieving self-awareness within your body and actively trying to follow your body's rules while knowing full well how ultimately insignificant and powerless they are. Most of the cells who end up doing what they feel like due to errors in their DNA such as Cancer Cells are usually "deleted".
The first 16 chosen beings who succeeded and reached Tennerinth became the 16 Major Deities while the ones who followed became Minor Deities as the more potent Shards were the ones corresponding to the 16 Outer Planes. While the Deities may have incredible power and knowledge compared to the rest of creation, they are still restricted by the GodFrame's "Law of Control" which prevents them from simply destroying planes and affecting certain parts of the Cosmos directly, thus restricting their actions more than anything.
Now you may be asking, "is it possible for a mortal to become a Deity in today's time ?", and my answer to you would be "more than likely not". That is mainly due to how most of the Shards have now been absorbed by other beings in the past, the ones that remain are both too weak to be god makers or too well-hidden.
As a final note to finish off this article, the "Astral Ship" built and used by the Archos and the Centens to traverse to "another universe" was potentially using a Shard to break the Law of Control and exit the GodFrame. Now it is unclear if it actually worked or if the Archos and Centens ended up deleting themselves by attempting such a thing, but considering the known fact that the Centens were an Extra-Dimensional civilization, it wouldn't be far-fetched to think that they knew how to crack the code and accomplish what even Gods can only dream of.
What is Tennerinth ?
It is the rough translation of the Archos word "Aether-Shaper" which was given to beings of godlike power which lived within the Astral Sea. Said beings apparently all had a commonality, the fact that they were "chosen" or "proved worthy enough" to be gifted a sliver of the GodFrame's powers and knowledge through the absorption of a "Shard". A Shard is a fragment of the GodFrame acting as a sort of storage unit containing the building blocks of creation. These godlike beings can somewhat be identified as the 16 Major Deities and the substantially abundant Minor Deities inhabiting the Astral Sea, from there, the religious texts go into deeper depths about how these "Gods" became what they are.
Indeed, it would seem that all of these Deities were once beings with lesser power living in many Outer Planes and/or galaxies all over the Material Plane terrannums (Trillions of years) in the past. Each and every single one of them had to go through the same process in order to "find" a Shard and become a Deity : Accept the Reality that they are nothing but the Product of an entity unimaginably more powerful than they ever will be. While it may sound easy, trying to accept that idea and living your life while keeping to it is incredibly difficult, moreover, one slip-up during their mortal lifetime and they would have ended up "deleting" themselves from Reality. If I were to make a comparison, it would be like a cell achieving self-awareness within your body and actively trying to follow your body's rules while knowing full well how ultimately insignificant and powerless they are. Most of the cells who end up doing what they feel like due to errors in their DNA such as Cancer Cells are usually "deleted".
The first 16 chosen beings who succeeded and reached Tennerinth became the 16 Major Deities while the ones who followed became Minor Deities as the more potent Shards were the ones corresponding to the 16 Outer Planes. While the Deities may have incredible power and knowledge compared to the rest of creation, they are still restricted by the GodFrame's "Law of Control" which prevents them from simply destroying planes and affecting certain parts of the Cosmos directly, thus restricting their actions more than anything.
Now you may be asking, "is it possible for a mortal to become a Deity in today's time ?", and my answer to you would be "more than likely not". That is mainly due to how most of the Shards have now been absorbed by other beings in the past, the ones that remain are both too weak to be god makers or too well-hidden.
As a final note to finish off this article, the "Astral Ship" built and used by the Archos and the Centens to traverse to "another universe" was potentially using a Shard to break the Law of Control and exit the GodFrame. Now it is unclear if it actually worked or if the Archos and Centens ended up deleting themselves by attempting such a thing, but considering the known fact that the Centens were an Extra-Dimensional civilization, it wouldn't be far-fetched to think that they knew how to crack the code and accomplish what even Gods can only dream of.
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