The Cataclysm of the Seasons [World of Aurius]

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===== The Cataclysm of the Seasons =====
Legends tell of an era before the god [[pantheons:deities:lyosithar|Lyosithar]] had transcended the boundaries of his divine parentage in order to become a new god of his own being, an era where there existed not a presence of order and stability among the world of chaos that was [[planes:aurius:caskaris:start|Caskaris]]. As Caskaris inhabited within a flux, change was omnipresent, and there could only be found instability in the famine and destruction that perpetuated the suffering of the inhabitants of this world. The [[pantheons:class:vaniel|Vaniel]], who were primordial gods that were occasionally made manifest in the form of a beast or an elemental being, had given their lives to lay down the foundation of this world of a flux, and these gods thus being comatose and incapable of laying affection to the world which they had helped to create. The Vaniel could see then that their consciousnesses had diminished, becoming instead the bones of the world that were particularly inert and yet, lent to the chaotic undertow of sky and wind that flowed throughout all of the world, along with the tempestuous sea and the craggy earth. These spirits were found to be lacking in a divinity which could be explicitly recognized, and their flesh and blood as mana yet flowed throughout the world as though it was without its own volition, having been bound through their finitude and subservience to mortality.\\
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Eventually, it was found that demigods had arisen from the remnants and artifacts that were the Vaniel, vestiges of consciousness and divinity that had since been awoken and realized into a potential: these were the spirit of the summer, who inhabited at the southern rim of the world of Caskaris, and the spirit of the winter, who inhabited at the northern rim of Caskaris. Each demigod was originally one with the Vaniel, though being a spirit that had yet managed to become a physical being, a conscious choice made so that they might directly affect the world. Each demigod tore into the flesh that had made them, fashioning themselves new bodies that were of a might and being of their own choosing, and in doing so, took the divinity and infinitude that had made the Vaniel come into existence in the first place. Thus, the spirit of summer could become [[pantheons:deities:dracelys|Dracelys]], a dragon god of heat and abundance whose essence could be carried along with the wind, and the spirit of winter could become [[pantheons:deities:nyvara|Nyvara]], a goddess of icy substance that yet managed to resemble a humanoid in their being.\\
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Upon these of Dracelys and Nyvara finding that they inhabited in exception to the other, there began a war between the two that would cause the world of Caskaris to fluctuate between the extremes of their elements, their extremities showing as they each sought to freeze or burn the other, though never quite being able to reach the other’s own realm that existed beyond the world of Caskaris. Nyvara sowed her seeds of icy death, animating the ice with undeath so that it might do her own bidding, and thereby calling spirits from the underworld to assist her. Dracelys, meanwhile, bore the feathered dragons covered still with adamantine scales, who breathed a flame onto the land that spelled certain destruction in these spirits who inhabited within ice, though bringing harm to the human inhabitants of this realm through the dragons’ unruliness. The world shook with their battles, and many of our ancestors sought to protect themselves from such spirits through charms and enchantments, dissuading them from accessing areas that were meant to be secure from the war.\\
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From the battles held between Dracelys and Nyvara were born two other demigods of physical form whose existences initially depended on their warring parents. Upon these demigods’ realization into apotheosis as their being was facilitated into existence by the extremes, they found that they too possessed a divinity in infinitude, and they could realize themselves as existing from without the world of Caskaris as higher beings. These newly realized gods were called [[pantheons:deities:joraela|Joraela]] and [[pantheons:deities:asphothys|Asphothys]], and they were beings of flux more so than their spiritual parents. Joraela, then, inhabited within a form of a plant in humanoid shape, her roots twisting to create her very own appendages. Asphothys had become a being like a monstrous animal, bestowed with horns and whose bestial nature was represented through its hunger for sustenance.\\
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These four demigods who had since achieved apotheosis and thereby becoming divinities of their own kind eventually began to war over supremacy over the world of Caskaris, and the world was plunged into many states precipitated by the four gods of a great power and ability. In the time that Nyvara’s emissaries ruled over Caskaris, there could be observed a frozen winter that saw an eternal night existing alongside it, and the spirits of the world were found to be incapable of coming into being. In Dracelys’s time, the world was in an abundance and bathed in warmth, coaxing those same beings to come into existence through the daylight which he had brought. In Joraela’s reign, there could be found a rebirth, and as her rule typically took place after Nyvara’s winter, the world could come to know itself again, the plants blooming as though being born again. When Asphothys usurped power, the world was in decay, and as it took place after Dracelys’s summer, it saw to the entropy of the life that Dracelys had brought about.\\
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As the gods fought over Caskaris, the winds twisted throughout the world, each of the gods having usurped its current and manipulating it to carry their own elemental being. From this unstable wind was born a demigod of the storm, who bore lightning as one of his own powers and was able to contain it within himself so that it might bring punishment throughout the wind. This demigod called himself Lyosithar, and from the demigod came a great strength of ability and potential. Lyosithar, who had been born of the skies above Caskaris, was thought to carry all of the seasonal elements within him, being a fusion that allowed him to act as the bane of the diametric season contained within himself. Thus, Lyosithar sought his own reign over the world, and, seeing that he bore an ultimate power within himself, realized that only he could beat back the four gods whose reigns over Caskaris would last for many years before being usurped.\\
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Accordingly, the young demigod challenged each of the elements within their own throne rooms, and he emerged from each victorious, being as he carried the opposite season’s power within himself and which he revealed in his battle with the gods. In defeating the four gods, he had gained their crowns, and as he retreated into the Aryelic Mountains in order to seek respite from the battles, he found that the place bore the weight of these crowns, the weight building as each crown was taken there. Lyosithar, then, found that the sky began to converge into that mythical place which carried the crowns and, seeing that he was the most powerful of the gods, placed them atop his head and stood at the center of the world of Caskaris atop the [[planes:aurius:caskaris:regions:aryelic mountains|Aryelic Mountains]]. The skies, then, had become fixed once more, and as Lyosithar possessed each crown, they laid heavily there, and it was found that if he bent his knees in weakness, the sky would collapse, and the elements being scattered about in the form of their crowns. Thus, Lyosithar sought to stand with his great strength and bear the entire weight of the sky so that he might retain his power.\\
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As Lyosithar stood, he found that he was able to command the lingering spirits of the beaten gods that resided at the edges of the world, and could banish their essences beyond the rim so that their effects might be lifted for the moment. The god, who had won all of his battles, found that as long as he wore the crowns of the spirits of the seasons, they might remain disembodied and subject to Lyosithar’s very own rule and divinity. Each crown, however, increased their weight manifold for as long as he disallowed the vestiges of soul within it to call forth their element, and thus was born Lyosithar’s compromise and the cycles of the seasons so that the victorious god might continue to bear the weight of the sky and rule this world of mortality and flux.\\
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The spirits of the seasons, then, were known as the [[pantheons:class:itharics|Itharics]], powerful beings who inhabited a space above the original Vaniel but had yet lost to Lyosithar, who had consequentially emerged as the strongest of the demigods who had still been originally born from the Vaniel. The vestiges of the Itharics can still be observed in the seasons, as the winds flow and carry their essences from beyond the plane so that their earlier ascension might be made obvious, as they had achieved apotheosis to inhabit some place beyond mortality. Nevertheless, Lyosithar reigned over the world, and worship of the god became commonplace among our people of Ayoskova such that we revered him as the god which had given our world stability and order.