Hrememun
Hrememun was one of the most powerful Eah. He was a being of moonlight, sought parity through life and death, and represented strength. He is associated with Gwerine and Ghul. He died during the events that brought about the Enlightenment.
Perhaps most unusual of all Eah was Hrememun. When he fell, he determined that he was out of place, and, wanting to bring all things to their rightful place, sought to climb back to the Monumidium and take his place among the other Eah. Hrememun's people were the Ifredans, and Hrememun immediately set about instructing them to build towers so that he might find a hole where he could break through the firmament and return to the Monumidium. The Ifredans were smart but lacked strength to create towers high enough, so Hrememun created the giant Hrk'mun to assist them. With the Ifredans providing the coordination and the Hrk'mun providing the labour, they covered the vast flat plains of northern Heruadum with thousands upon thousands of towers, now known as Thousand Towers. Hrememun thought it unlikely that, with so many towers being built, he would not find a way to ascend.
But this would be his bane, for once it was reported that one of his towers—the Tower of Ubrem—had touched the firmament, he gathered his strongest and smartest creations and began the ascent. Ork'luso, his strongest Hrk'mun, climbed with him to help. But Ork'luso never meant to help, for he and the Ifredans acted against Hrememun, not wanting to be abandoned by their god. Ork'luso tried to pull Hrememun away from the Firmament at the last moment, and in the struggle the Tower of Ubrem began to fall. It was this action that caused the Enlightenment and changed the face of Ebdypha forever.
Hrememun's body remained where the Tower of Ubrem fell, amidst a thousand other towers of stone, and those who were directly beneath the divine light became the most affected. Hrk'mun came to be known as Eahsbane, and those who were closest to the light were driven mad by being exposed to the substance of existence, and they fought one another and drove themselves to extinction. Ork'luso's brethren, on the other hand, managed to escape with the corpse of Ork'luso, and they fled eastward and then discovered that Ork'luso's body began to sprout crimson chrystals. These Hrk'mun built a kingdom known as the Hrk'mun Chrystaldom, but it was soon engulfed by the chrystals, and the Hrk'mun vanished from Ebdypha forever.
The Ifredans who had gathered around the Tower of Ubrem were sheltered from the divine light by the shadow of the tower, and in the darkness they gathered around Hrememun's body and Celesvena, where a change occurred within them. Hrememun was not only a Runar of iron, but also helped sustain the balance of life and death, and with his demise these Ifredans were pushed to the brink of life and death itself, losing their humanity and consciousness but continuing to move like living things. These people became Ghul, and this curse became a great plague that exists to this day, wielded by the Damanzur. The Ifredans who were not near the tower saw the divine light most clearly, and they fled from the Ghul and travelled westward to the Hredis Sea, where they became the Mreshans who lived for knowledge.
Hrememun, The Stricken
But this would be his bane, for once it was reported that one of his towers—the Tower of Ubrem—had touched the firmament, he gathered his strongest and smartest creations and began the ascent. Ork'luso, his strongest Hrk'mun, climbed with him to help. But Ork'luso never meant to help, for he and the Ifredans acted against Hrememun, not wanting to be abandoned by their god. Ork'luso tried to pull Hrememun away from the Firmament at the last moment, and in the struggle the Tower of Ubrem began to fall. It was this action that caused the Enlightenment and changed the face of Ebdypha forever.
Hrememun's body remained where the Tower of Ubrem fell, amidst a thousand other towers of stone, and those who were directly beneath the divine light became the most affected. Hrk'mun came to be known as Eahsbane, and those who were closest to the light were driven mad by being exposed to the substance of existence, and they fought one another and drove themselves to extinction. Ork'luso's brethren, on the other hand, managed to escape with the corpse of Ork'luso, and they fled eastward and then discovered that Ork'luso's body began to sprout crimson chrystals. These Hrk'mun built a kingdom known as the Hrk'mun Chrystaldom, but it was soon engulfed by the chrystals, and the Hrk'mun vanished from Ebdypha forever.
The Ifredans who had gathered around the Tower of Ubrem were sheltered from the divine light by the shadow of the tower, and in the darkness they gathered around Hrememun's body and Celesvena, where a change occurred within them. Hrememun was not only a Runar of iron, but also helped sustain the balance of life and death, and with his demise these Ifredans were pushed to the brink of life and death itself, losing their humanity and consciousness but continuing to move like living things. These people became Ghul, and this curse became a great plague that exists to this day, wielded by the Damanzur. The Ifredans who were not near the tower saw the divine light most clearly, and they fled from the Ghul and travelled westward to the Hredis Sea, where they became the Mreshans who lived for knowledge.
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