Deities in Diateire

Throughout the stories set in the world of Diateire, various characters will frequently refer to certain deities, and some of them may also appear from time to time. For example, on Andellion people will often swear by Vaëlddra (Eddra!) or Darsarth (Sarth!), the two main deities still worshipped by humans. Vaëlddra is also eventually perceived by humans as the main antagonist. However, while Vaëlddra and Darsarth do appear as characters, they are not characters in the same way that the mortal beings of the story are characters--they are born of concepts that the mortal characters personify. In short, they are what the characters in the story make them to be.
As Vaëlddra will say when her Voice is finally destroyed after plunging the world into chaos, she is Justice, Revenge and War. This is not a lie, nor a boast in the style that most cartoon villains are prone to do. She truly cannot be beaten in the conventional way that protagonists beat bad guys--because she is the concept of justice, retribution, revenge and war, given substance and sentience by the humans' worship of her. In short, she is no more than a force of Nature, and is what the humans made her. In a way, Vaëlddra's mechanism symbolizes how easy it is for justice to become revenge, and how easy it is for revenge to fuel a never-ending cycle of destruction and bloodshed that culminates in war. She is like a positive feedback loop in which vengeance and violence only create more violence, and her increasing power as the world descends more and more into conflict reflects the spread of war throughout Andellion and the seven Realms. The quest to defeat Vaëlddra as an entity is absolutely pointless and a distraction to the heroes. There is no magical cure to war that will make it go away, and the heroes will learn the hard way that the only solution is to set their differences and conflict aside and strive to re-establish an improved Kerdovan's pact.
Conversely to Vaëlddra, whose aspect changes from a more benign deity to the more vicious conceptualization of War, Darsarth, the God of Time, is both constant and ever-changing. In Vaelian religions, he is feared as the God of Oblivion and Death, whereas Darsian religions revere him as the Master of Time, the Silent God who knows all the knowledge of past, present and future.