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| The godlike beings who found themselves facing death, knowing that they would soon pass into the world which they had engineered from the pure energies of Avaerus, put in place the caste system which instilled a certain purity, and passed their crowns to the worthy of their descendants so that they might rule in their forefathers' stead. Then, the Altori Era had come to a close, and it was no longer an immortal world of strict paradise as it once was. One of the kings of the Cepareth, however, managed to retain the presence of Caelarkhe within him, and soon, he was granted the title of [[Araray]], the king of the elven peoples who represented their very own immortality. Thus, Araray began his rule over Arethayn, and sought to preserve the essence of Caelarkhe wherever it could be found.\\ | The godlike beings who found themselves facing death, knowing that they would soon pass into the world which they had engineered from the pure energies of Avaerus, put in place the caste system which instilled a certain purity, and passed their crowns to the worthy of their descendants so that they might rule in their forefathers' stead. Then, the Altori Era had come to a close, and it was no longer an immortal world of strict paradise as it once was. One of the kings of the Cepareth, however, managed to retain the presence of Caelarkhe within him, and soon, he was granted the title of [[Araray]], the king of the elven peoples who represented their very own immortality. Thus, Araray began his rule over Arethayn, and sought to preserve the essence of Caelarkhe wherever it could be found.\\ |
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| This formed the basis of elven theology, where the manifold and numerous Cephareth, who were godlike beings, would eventually pass away, and their descendants being their successors of the world. However, it was not long before other groups of elven peoples emerged; the [[Neiara]] were one such, who had a specific distaste for the caste system which marginalized them, and another were those who worshipped and descended from aspects of the natural world, called the [[Ayenara]], the nomadic people of the sky, the [[Silvara]], the wild people who inhabited the dense jungles, and the [[Undara]], the undulating people who inhabited within the waves. The rulers of these elements of the natural world are [[Aryiel]], who rules the sky, [[Terravis]], who rules the earth, and [[Aecora]], who rules the ocean. They each had become the god-ancestor whose essence had been inherited by their people, with the Neiara instead turning to philosophy as they rejected the ways of their ancestors.\\ | This formed the basis of elven theology, where the manifold and numerous Cephareth, who were godlike beings, would eventually pass away, and their descendants being their successors of the world, and the [[Aenthur]] being those beings of the Cephareth who would sacrifice themselves to establish the laws and stability of the world. However, it was not long before other groups of elven peoples emerged; the [[Neiara]] were one such, who had a specific distaste for the caste system which marginalized them, and another were those who worshipped and descended from the Aenthur, who were aspects of the natural world, and these were called the [[Ayenara]], the nomadic people of the sky, the [[Silvara]], the wild people who inhabited the dense jungles, and the [[Undara]], the undulating people who inhabited within the waves. The rulers of these elements of the natural world are [[Aryiel]], who rules the sky, [[Terravis]], who rules the earth, and [[Aecora]], who rules the ocean. They each had become the god-ancestor whose essence had been inherited by their people, with the Neiara instead turning to philosophy as they rejected the ways of their ancestors.\\ |
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| The Neiara, eventually, would become more and more evolved over the ages, in time becoming two distinct races of elves: the [[Mirara]] and the [[Vaathara]]. The Vaathara pledged themselves before the Novyi gods of the [[Valdaen]], while the Mirara turned to themselves as the ultimate form of divinity, thus founding the council referred to as the [[Aeteri]]. Regardless, they had each turned away from the Cephareth as they no longer felt blessed by them as those who stayed in Arethayn had. Accordingly, the inhabitants of Arethayn are called the [[Arethara]], and they were the elder people who traced their genealogy back to the penultimate Cephareth.\\ | The Neiara, eventually, would become more and more evolved over the ages, in time becoming two distinct races of elves: the [[Mirara]] and the [[Vaathara]]. The Vaathara pledged themselves before the Novyi gods of the [[Valdaen]], while the Mirara turned to themselves as the ultimate form of divinity, thus founding the council referred to as the [[Aeteri]]. Regardless, they had each turned away from the Cephareth as they no longer felt blessed by them as those who stayed in Arethayn had. Accordingly, the inhabitants of Arethayn are called the [[Arethara]], and they were the elder people who traced their genealogy back to the penultimate Cephareth.\\ |
