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 ===== The Neiara, the Forgotten Race =====
-The Neiara are an ancient, forgotten race of elves that were neither exceptional in their pursuits of science nor spirituality in contrast to both of their successors of the [[races:elves:mirara:start|Mirara]] and the [[races:elves:vaathara:start|Vaathara]] respectively, and instead, they called upon the wisdom of philosophy and the rejection of the instated caste system of [[planes:aurius:arethayn:start|Arethayn]]. Notably, some of the Neiari people were thought to be like leaders of a perceived clan or family, though there existed no formally recognized government or state that could provide a certain homogeneity among all of their elven people. These elven peoples were far from being a wholly unified race, and oftentimes, their worship of spirits was predicated on these spirits’ ancestral relation to the Neiara such that each bloodline recognized [[pantheons:class:cephareth|Cephareth]] that were thought to be like lesser siblings to the same Cephareth that the [[races:elves:arethara|Arethara]] strove to emulate. Thus, as the caste system favored these supposedly greater ancestor spirits, worship of other Cephareth fell out of favor in the eyes of the law and was eventually outlawed by the theocratic authorities of Arethayn, otherwise known as the [[pantheons:class:elefyr|Elefyr]].
+The Neiara are an ancient, forgotten race of elves that were neither exceptional in their pursuits of science nor spirituality in contrast to both of their successors of the [[races:elves:mirara:start|Mirara]] and the [[races:elves:vaathara:start|Vaathara]] respectively, and instead, they called upon the wisdom of philosophy and the rejection of the instated caste system of [[planes:aurius:arethayn:start|Arethayn]]. Notably, some of the Neiari people were thought to be like leaders of a perceived clan or family, though there existed no formally recognized government or state that could provide a certain homogeneity among all of their elven people. These elven peoples were far from being a wholly unified race, and oftentimes, their worship of spirits was predicated on these spirits’ ancestral relation to the Neiara such that each bloodline recognized [[pantheons:class:cephareth|Cephareth]] that were thought to be like lesser siblings to the same Cephareth that the [[races:elves:arethara:start|Arethara]] strove to emulate. Thus, as the caste system favored these supposedly greater ancestor spirits, worship of other Cephareth fell out of favor in the eyes of the law and was eventually outlawed by the theocratic authorities of Arethayn, otherwise known as the [[pantheons:class:elefyr|Elefyr]].
 ==== Origins ====
-In ages past, the elven people who would become to recognize themselves as the Neiara fled Arethayn, the mythical homeland of the elves, to begin a new era of peace and prosperity where elves lived freely and not bound to any caste system, the reason for their departure being the persecution of those who refused to bow before either the purest of the Arethara or emulate the greater Cephareth. Those purest of the Arethara were known as the Elefyr, and as they had achieved apotheosis through the preservation of Caelarkhe and the emulation of the greater ancestor spirits, they had become the icons to be worshipped throughout the land of Arethayn.\\
+In ages past, the elven people who would come to recognize themselves as the Neiara fled Arethayn, the mythical homeland of the elves, to begin a new era of peace and prosperity where elves lived freely and not bound to any caste system, the reason for their departure being the persecution of those who refused to bow before either the purest of the Arethara or emulate the greater Cephareth. Those purest of the Arethara were known as the Elefyr, and as they had achieved apotheosis through the preservation of Caelarkhe and the emulation of the greater ancestor spirits, they had become the icons to be worshipped throughout the land of Arethayn.\\
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 As the Elefyr had become regarded as the chosen of the original Cephareth, it was stated by these new rulers that the Cephareth had abandoned the ancestors of those who would become the Neiara. The schism between the Neiara and the Arethara was furthermore revealed as they both inhabited Arethayn alongside the other, and as they entered into an era of conflict with the Arethara, the Arethara eventually ousted them from the elven homeland, instigating a diaspora of the Neiari people. Thus, many of the Neiara entered the lands to the west of Arethayn, in time calling this land of mortality [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:start|Driayn]].
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 The arts of magic practiced by the Neiara would come to be very diverse, and this furthermore allowed for their two racial progeny to develop their own kind of magic independent from the strictures professed by the Arethara. As this was the case, there existed no limitation to surpass or profanity to achieve, and this granted them a free reign over their practices and abilities that they would come to possess. Thus, there were much more able and apt to discover the intricacies of magic and the ways of the world as dictated by its binding, and they found that there existed many exceptions to this binding. This was in contrast to the Arethara, who professed a fear of the instability that existed from without Arethayn as they sought to organize themselves in agreement with the primordial entity of [[[pantheons:deities:caelarkhe|Caelarkhe]], the source of stability and life among creation.\\
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-The Neiara, who who would come to contest Caelarkhe as the primordial and primal force of the world, instead believe that there existed the [[pantheons:class|Aya]] before Caelarkhe, and from the Aya there could be found a pure potentiality that might be realized into anything. Thus, the Neiara naturally transitioned from the worship of their ancestor spirits of the Cephareth to the alpha of the universe, seeking instead to transcend the categorizations of the Arethara in their development of a new kind of being. Accordingly, the Neiara could then become distinct in their being so that both a people that sought after truth and one that practiced worship of even elder spirits than their ancestors could be found.
+The Neiara, who would come to contest Caelarkhe as the primordial and primal force of the world, instead believe that there existed the [[pantheons:class|Aya]] before Caelarkhe, and from the Aya there could be found a pure potentiality that might be realized into anything. Thus, the Neiara naturally transitioned from the worship of their ancestor spirits of the Cephareth to the alpha of the universe, seeking instead to transcend the categorizations of the Arethara in their development of a new kind of being. Accordingly, the Neiara could then become distinct in their being so that both a people that sought after truth and one that practiced worship of even elder spirits than their ancestors could be found.
 ==== Biology ====
 The Neiari race, which constituted the vast majority of those elves who did not pledge themselves before the ascendant rulers and developing caste system of Arethayn, were known to still possess the golden features which were most reminiscent of the golden light of Soryi blood. These features were still present within the Arethara, as a result of their shared ancestry from the divine Cephareth. The Neiara, who were the first to diverge from the perceived grandiosity and virtue of the Arethara, yet managed to retain most of the characteristics of the Cephareth as the Arethara did, and this being distinguishable from those of the [[races:elves:undara:start|Undara]], the [[races:elves:ayenara:start|Ayenara]], and the [[races:elves:silvara:start|Silvara]], who each came to inhabit within a different form than that presented by the original Cephareth.\\