| [[races:elves:neiara:start|The Neiara]], as descendants of the lesser [[pantheons:class:cephareth|Cephareth]] of the world of stability and mana that was called [[planes:aurius:arethayn:start|Arethayn]], were marginalized by the caste system and concept of purity that was instated by the [[pantheons:class:elefyr|Elefyr]] of Arethayn and those same who had become intoxicated with apotheosis, and thus would, in time, flee the elven homeland so that they might have a place of their own. As worship of these gods of the Elefyr became commonplace among [[races:elves:arethara:start|the Arethara]], they were thought to have inhabited within a cultural space in exception to this ruling, and instead chose to preserve worship of the Cephareth rather than those gods of the Elefyr born of the flesh. As they rejected this religious practice, they were excommunicated from the temples built in honor of the Elefyr, and thus, the Neiara would eventually settle the lands of the west which they called [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:start|Driayn]] as they fled from their ancestral world. It was in Driayn that they founded the practice of ancestor worship of the Cephareth, and as they were not united through any means of governance or law, many eventually would stray from this worship of ancestors as they evolved culturally and philosophically; from this phenomenon came a freedom of thought and ideation that had never before been seen by the elven peoples, and the Neiara were accordingly thought by themselves to be the pioneers of a new kind of being and existence among the worlds of Aurius. Exploration of magic had become common, and as they held little to be sacred, would eventually diverge into two kinds of elven peoples: [[races:elves:mirara:start|the Mirara]] and [[races:elves:vaathara:start|the Vaathara]]. The Mirara, notably, were born from the echelon of Neiari thought that prized intellect and reason, and saw no reason to hold anything but themselves as sacred; the Vaathara were those who had adopted worship of the [[pantheons:class:valdaen|Valdaen]] by the token of their propensity for reverence of spirits and their great abilities, and they idolized the form of being in the afterlife which the Valdaen had granted upon and promised to them. | [[races:elves:neiara:start|The Neiara]], as descendants of the lesser [[pantheons:class:cephareth|Cephareth]] of the world of stability and mana that was called [[planes:aurius:arethayn:start|Arethayn]], were marginalized by the caste system and concept of purity that was instated by the [[pantheons:class:elefyr|Elefyr]] of Arethayn and those same who had become intoxicated with apotheosis, and thus would, in time, flee the elven homeland so that they might have a place of their own. As worship of these gods of the Elefyr became commonplace among [[races:elves:arethara:start|the Arethara]], they were thought to have inhabited within a cultural space in exception to this ruling, and instead chose to preserve worship of the Cephareth rather than those gods of the Elefyr born of the flesh. As they rejected this religious practice, they were excommunicated from the temples built in honor of the Elefyr, and thus, the Neiara would eventually settle the lands of the west which they called [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:start|Driayn]] as they fled from their ancestral world. It was in Driayn that they founded the practice of ancestor worship of the Cephareth, and as they were not united through any means of governance or law, many eventually would stray from this worship of ancestors as they evolved culturally and philosophically; from this phenomenon came a freedom of thought and ideation that had never before been seen by the elven peoples, and the Neiara were accordingly thought by themselves to be the pioneers of a new kind of being and existence among the worlds of Aurius. Exploration of magic had become common, and as they held little to be sacred, would eventually diverge into two kinds of elven peoples: [[races:elves:mirara:start|the Mirara]] and [[races:elves:vaathara:start|the Vaathara]]. The Mirara, notably, were born from the echelon of Neiari thought that prized intellect and reason, and saw no reason to hold anything but themselves as sacred; the Vaathara were those who had adopted worship of the [[pantheons:class:valdaen|Valdaen]] by the token of their propensity for reverence of spirits and their great abilities, and they idolized the form of being in the afterlife which the Valdaen had granted upon and promised to them. |
| [[races:elves:mirara:start|The Mirara]], a people that had earlier descended from the broader racial classification of [[races:elves:neiara:start|the Neiara]], were those elves who inhabited within the space which they called [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:start|Driayn]], and saw themselves as the ultimate potentiality of divinity. Notably, they occupied both the [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:regions:tradarda:start|lands of fertility]] and [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:regions:grecyda:start|those of a barren air]], and often employed the slavery of [[races:humans:start|humanity]] in order to accomplish their feats of architecture. | [[races:elves:mirara:start|The Mirara]], a people that had earlier descended from the broader racial classification of [[races:elves:neiara:start|the Neiara]], were those elves who inhabited within the space which they called [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:start|Driayn]], and saw themselves as the ultimate potentiality of divinity. Notably, they occupied both the [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:regions:tradarda:start|lands of fertility]] and [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:regions:grecyda:start|those of a barren air]], and often employed the slavery of [[races:humans:start|humanity]] in order to accomplish their feats of architecture. As a unified people, they established a governmental body of Mirari elders and mystics who they called the [[races:elves:mirara:aeteri|Aeteri]], and who were also referred to as the Argent Council. These of the council often professed an interest in the astronomical bodies of the stars, and as they sought to ascend to be one with them, they studied their movements and magical properties still from the bindings of the world of creation that they inhabited. Notably, they were known to entrap aspects of starlight into materials that then possessed a magical and effervescently supernatural quality, and from these were born the talismans of their people. The starlit and blessed items of their kind would become objects of a silver luminescence as they emanated forth, and the elders of the Mirara quickly found that they could be used for the purpose of trapping soul and mana within them. Upon this discovery, the Argent Council proclaimed that they might fuel their research and magic through an entrapment within these talismans, and they thus become a primary fuel source for their endeavors. As these objects could be used as a source of magic and power such that they were no longer restrained by the limited energy that was brought forth from the world and the sun, they could access yet more powerful planar developments, and these could be charged with great power with the potential of expenditure. Thus were born sacrificial chambers dedicated to the entrapment of human souls within and, though they interrupted the natural passage of the human soul into another form, they also found great power and an abundance of charged mana from the many who they sacrificed on these altars. |