Elysius, a mythical vassal who prospered in the time of the magistrates of the Arenic Age, resided within the ancient and glimmering west of Caskaris, and who, in his possession of a crown, would come to attempt to ascend beyond the mortal plane, casting his shadow off so that it might exist separately. As a deific power who belonged to the Daevas, he saw himself mirrored in the darkness of the shade that existed beyond and felt repugnance for such a deathly form, and thereby sought to purge its presence from within him so that, instead, he might become unrestricted by the limitations which the being had laid upon him. This deathly entity would be called various names throughout the peoples of Caskaris, and, by the kingdom of Ayoskova, such a god was known as Asphothys of the west, who lay within the earth as a bringer of entropy and decay into the time of winter. Though the shade of holy light that was this being had come to exist in order to haunt at the world’s nadir, the potent order which the Daevas had procured disabled this being from properly escaping from his confinement within the earth. As Elysius was one of the few Daevas who had witnessed the existence of their shadow, it was later believed that the godlike being possessed the burden of premonition and sight of those occurrences of the plane, and could thereby perceive that there existed something beyond the world of entrapped light that might lay affection to its holy being.

As the vassal ruled the ancient world of prosperity and fortune that the Neraics resided within, it was known by his subjects of which the Neraics were that, in his presence, there could be found a luck and advantage such that his underlings would surely prosper, and so Elysius was acknowledged throughout the land as an object and idol of reverence and worship. This luck was rumored to be owed to an ability of prophecy which he possessed, being able to partake in and condone only those acts which would bring about his and his subjects’ fortune. Thus, Elysius was thought to lead his people away from misfortune and calamity, bringing people closer to the sublimity of the heavens so that, instead, they might know the warmth of the light of which his form and shape partook in. Naturally, the god was a vassal to the more selective state of the Garden of Runaral which was aptly ruled over by the Daeva called Runaral, the god who managed to extend his reach among those who existed from immediately without the garden and thereby bringing them closer to his light.

The druidic peoples, who descended from the Neraics and would, in time, come to acknowledge the worship of the powerful beings of the Daevas as being misguided, believed a likeness of Elysius to have degenerated into a more Archonic form, and this extremity of an Archonic form manifesting in a capacity for illness and improvidence. Thus, the Archonic form would come to be identified as the same as the Ayoskovic Asphothys, who had instead usurped power in Elysius’s absence though occupying the same space. Elysius, then, was thought to have abandoned the world of Caskaris, thereby allowing a likeness to emerge that yet merged some aspect of the divine light which Elysius possessed with the shade and shadowy being that had taken hold of the world. Thus, Elysius’s presence was no longer meaningful, and worship and acknowledgement of such a being would mostly be lost to their descendants of the Aetherics and those of the eastern coast, though surviving in myths of warnings for the grandiosity and sublimity of a governmental body.