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| The Vaathari people are an elven race native to the continent of, in the mortal tongue of its inhabitants, [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:start|Ethrekas]], a defining landmass inhabited primarily by the descendants of the [[races:humans:ethrekasan:ethetia:start|Ethetian peoples]]. They rule the portion of Ethrekas known by its inhabitants as [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:regions:tradarda:start|Tradarda]], as, in centuries prior, they drove the majority of the human population into the barren and infertile deserts, the barren wasteland being referred to as [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:regions:grecyda:start|Grecyda]]. Because of their location, they were able to continue with the practices of magic which had been gifted upon them by their gods, furthermore enabling the succession of powerful beings which might better rule over them. | The Vaathari people are an elven race native to the continent of, in the mortal tongue of its inhabitants, [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:start|Ethrekas]], a defining landmass inhabited primarily by the descendants of the [[races:humans:ethrekasan:ethetia:start|Ethetian peoples]]. They rule the portion of Ethrekas known by its inhabitants as [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:regions:tradarda:start|Tradarda]], as, in centuries prior, they drove the majority of the human population into the barren and infertile deserts, the barren wasteland being referred to as [[planes:aurius:ethrekas:regions:grecyda:start|Grecyda]]. Because of their location, they were able to continue with the practices of magic which had been gifted upon them by their gods, furthermore enabling the succession of powerful beings which might better rule over them. |
| ==== Origins ==== | ==== Origins ==== |
| The Vaathari race once belonged to the same kind of being as the [[races:elves:neiara:start|Neiara]], who descended from the lesser [[pantheons:class:sephareth|Cephareth]] of [[planes:aurius:arethayn:start|Arethayn]]. In becoming the Vaathara, they adopted worship of the [[pantheons:class:valdaen|Valdaen]], powerful [[pantheons:class:novya|Novyi]] entities who inhabited within the void of darkness that could then preside over the matters of their people as a result of their summoning. Together, the three gods of the Valdaen, which include [[pantheons:deities:moravir|Moravir]], [[pantheons:deities:arovaera|Arovaera]], and [[pantheons:deities:eluvoris|Eluvoris]], taught them to be better than and overcome the darkness, and rather than the primordial absence causing them to slip into death and unknowing, they would instead be reborn within it. Regardless, the unity of thought and culture that the Valdaen instigated among the Vaathara caused them to develop increasingly dominating and persevering personalities who attempted to establish their own rule among the mortal world, and in time, they ejected the mannish peoples from the land which they would call [[:regaayn|Regaayn]] and thereby forcing them to live in the deserts of the west. This transition signaled the beginning of the new people, the Vaathara, who would easily become more common as the members of the Neiara turned to the new gods for sustenance and a more evolved concept of purity. | The Vaathari race once belonged to the same kind of being as the [[races:elves:neiara:start|Neiara]], who descended from the lesser [[pantheons:class:sephareth|Sephareth]] of [[planes:aurius:arethayn:start|Arethayn]]. In becoming the Vaathara, they adopted worship of the [[pantheons:class:valdaen|Valdaen]], powerful [[pantheons:class:novya|Novyi]] entities who inhabited within the void of darkness that could then preside over the matters of their people as a result of their summoning. Together, the three gods of the Valdaen, which include [[pantheons:deities:moravir|Moravir]], [[pantheons:deities:arovaera|Arovaera]], and [[pantheons:deities:eluvoris|Eluvoris]], taught them to be better than and overcome the darkness, and rather than the primordial absence causing them to slip into death and unknowing, they would instead be reborn within it. Regardless, the unity of thought and culture that the Valdaen instigated among the Vaathara caused them to develop increasingly dominating and persevering personalities who attempted to establish their own rule among the mortal world, and in time, they ejected the mannish peoples from the land which they would call [[:regaayn|Regaayn]] and thereby forcing them to live in the deserts of the west. This transition signaled the beginning of the new people, the Vaathara, who would easily become more common as the members of the Neiara turned to the new gods for sustenance and a more evolved concept of purity. |
| ==== Culture ==== | ==== Culture ==== |
| The Vaathara hold in high regard the values given to them by the Valdaen, such that the word of the Valdaen is absolute and must not be disregarded if one wants to be subject to their mediation and transformation into perfection in the afterlife. Specifically, the Valdaen taught them to achieve apotheosis through the conquering of the darkness, and it is through them that their souls may be reshaped and judged so that a perfection may occur. Because of their interweaving of culture with the Valdaen, these Novyi gods are known to sanctify the ancestor spirits of the Vaathara which pass through them and their courts, and thus, ancestor worship is commonplace and prolific throughout their people. Worship of such ancestors is held not simply in tombs that have been constructed from the pure element of dark crystal, but also in residential homes where a body is firstly held before its removal into an ancestral tomb. Upon the removal of the body from the home, there is a ceremony which indicates that the deceased have moved on from the world, and now reside in the liminal space of the tombs that are betwixt the physical world of mortality and that of the world of dark spirits that the Valdaen reside in.\\ | The Vaathara hold in high regard the values given to them by the Valdaen, such that the word of the Valdaen is absolute and must not be disregarded if one wants to be subject to their mediation and transformation into perfection in the afterlife. Specifically, the Valdaen taught them to achieve apotheosis through the conquering of the darkness, and it is through them that their souls may be reshaped and judged so that a perfection may occur. Because of their interweaving of culture with the Valdaen, these Novyi gods are known to sanctify the ancestor spirits of the Vaathara which pass through them and their courts, and thus, ancestor worship is commonplace and prolific throughout their people. Worship of such ancestors is held not simply in tombs that have been constructed from the pure element of dark crystal, but also in residential homes where a body is firstly held before its removal into an ancestral tomb. Upon the removal of the body from the home, there is a ceremony which indicates that the deceased have moved on from the world, and now reside in the liminal space of the tombs that are betwixt the physical world of mortality and that of the world of dark spirits that the Valdaen reside in.\\ |