Following the passage of the Divine Mandates and the acquiescence of the Eshan thereafter, tenuous peace reigned in the Void, Qadal, and Voryndal. The power of Ácolitus was curbed and the ability of the Eshan to access both the Void and the mortal world was destroyed. Order was born from chaos. Yet, the universe Ácolitus formed from the Eshor remained unstable. It was a silent but well-known truth among the Eshan that the will of Ácolitus barring intimacy was commonly ignored. Aebaster, Mesian, Ámilus, Zelai and others entertained relationships which born children. In these cases, the life of the new spawn depends on whether their parents present them before Ácolitus and the Divine Mandates. Those who survive the ordeal become Ebal’eshan and thus live unhindered among the Eshan. However, those new borns hidden from the Mandates and Ácolitus risk their lives. They are known as Nith’eshan, or --. Eshan of that description exist outside of Ácolitus’ knowledge and have the compelling benefit of bearing the power of an Eshan without the stipulations of interacting with the mortal world. They can thus hide themselves among mortals and become great among them. It is the will and wrath of Ácolitus that such Eshan be slaughtered or submit to the Divine Mandates, lest the horrors of the First Feud return.
The melancholy existence of such forlorn and disdained beings is tempered by the silent burden of choice which they carry. It is a decision between freedom and danger or security and isolation. A Nith’eshan might surrender themselves to Ácolitus and Kovûnkal, but in doing such resign themselves to callous separation from the mortal world. Intimate love, soothing music, delicious meals, and natural beauty are lost to them, left to be witnessed from afar. For outcasts such as Ebisadra and Ikonos, the unrelenting fear of destruction was insufficient threat to drive them mortality. They remained in Qadal for centuries, transient yet powerful and wise among mortals.