Os

First Chosen of Metat Aun

Os was a folk hero who lead a crusade to overthrow the Ecumenical government and install themselves as the sole parochial and state leader of the Aunic peoples. This effort was successful, and brought about the current theocratic regime, the Aunic Ascendency.
All Depictions of Os show them as an unremarkable androgynous figure, and all pronouns referring to Os are not gendered. In fact, most details surrounding Os are vague, further adding to the mysticism surrounding Os and the rest of the Ascendancy's leadership.
Prior to Metat Aun, Aunic religion spawned from the teachings of their priest class, Navigators, who ministered to them their ship-born mythos of The Path. Their teachings counselled the Aun that their journey through space was one of great import; it was not simply a migration from one dying world to a new fecund planet, but the redemption pilgrimage of a penitent people exiled from The Garden. They were blessed-through-exile to wander the heavens in search of the True Path that would lead their people to a metaphysical promised land.
Os was raised in this religion under the tutelage of the Navigators. Os, too, studied the charts and the word of the good book, sought The Path, and lived in accordance with Navigational Doctrine -- for a time.
When Metat revealed itself to them, Os was of the class of Navigators who bore witness to a miracle. The Path, Os ministered, was no longer lost -- it had only been obscured for want of a guide. Metat was that guide, Os declared, and the people began to listen.
Metat showed how its Word was a real power through repeated miracles affected by Os and their followers, as well as Metat’s manifestations. Adherents to The Word -- the Ascendant Path, as Os called it -- began to grow in number, rejecting the Navigators’ teachings of penitent wandering with Metat’s evidence of exultant ascension.