The Alpha of the Void

The Aya, those spirits who inhabited within the beginning time of before the emergence of Caelarkhe, and who were notably without identity or shape, are believed to be the antecedent of all of the elements and forms of the world, and it is from them that all ideas and being originates from. These spirits were formless, without nature or characteristic, and struggled to incarnate as the later Aurya did. From this world of the intermixing between opposites and a lack of clarity in regards to identity, there was nothing that could exist, no stability from which being might arise from. In this world of before matter, before shape and identity, there was not found the presence of opposites that could be identified and observed, as these were inextricably bound together and unable to emerge in divergence from the other. The world was composed of a soft, impenetrable grayness rather than disparately held poles of a strictly black and white nature, and thus, nothing was knowable and could be formulated, the later poles instead being combined into one that lay in the center. Without a stability or mediator of the flow of the Aya as they swirled shapelessly within the void, there was only observed a chaos that yet had all aspects of later being contained within it, a pure potentiality that all objects of the world could emerge from, if only they had been able to become. Eventually, from this chaos was born the principle of Caelarkhe, and from the singularity of this principle was born multiplicity, a natural exclusionary device that clove the worlds into two poles and essential being.

Some of the Aya had become bound to Caelarkhe’s stability and light, becoming then the Sorya, spirits of an effervescent stasis that were immutable in being and shape, and could only be acted upon as an agent rather than being causally affected as a reagent. The Sorya thus took after Caelarkhe, and from Caelarkhe were the traits of presence and abundance of eternal energy rather than the ephemeral shapes of which the Aya knew in their existence. The emergence of Caelarkhe thus initiated the founding of the immortal plane of Avaerus, a plane where objects resided in a suspended stasis and yet, were fully actualized and unable to grow further into other forms of being. The Sorya, then, were understood as belonging to a quintessence by our ancestors of the Cephareth, and it is from them that their ideals of purity emerged from. The Sorya were once acknowledged as the divine intent, the shape and form by which all beings ought to achieve. The Soryi blood of Caelarkhe that birthed the worlds of Aurius was thus sought to be preserved, their given shape and form being enshrined in a thicket of religion and theocratic authority. Thus was born eventually the Elefyr, those of the elven people that had previously become living gods through apotheosis, and instated a caste system which sought to achieve the virtue of purity.

From the exception of Caelarkhe was born the void of Exitius, a place that knew eternal change and inconstant being and yet, was composed of a dark energy that was so unlike those living, shining energies of the Sorya. These dark energies are referred to by our people as the Novya, and from them, came the bleeding of the Sorya such that Aurius might incarnate. Because of the stability of Caelarkhe, and those who had fractured in the cloven duality from the original Aya to become the Sorya, the Novya were formed, though the Novya were the other of the multiplicity that Caelarkhe had facilitated into being. Because Caelarkhe had divided the world, there existed now beings that were not like Caelarkhe, and these were the dark spirits of the Novya. Many of the Novya professed a demeanor against Caelarkhe, and accordingly, they sought to destroy the Sorya, who still were immutable in being. Thus, the Sorya bled, and then was born Aurius from the pools of blood that gathered beneath Avaerus.

Caelarkhe, then, is understood by our cousins of Arethayn as the alpha of the universe, the first being that came into existence and allowed for other beings to exist in relation to it. This is, however, ignorant of that causally affecting force which caused the Sorya to bleed, as it existed previously in the original world of the Aya such that its chaos could be observed, though its existence being without a quintessential format and a shape by which potentiality ought to emerge into. Thus, potentiality was the alpha and the first being from which everything arose, rather than the being of actuality that is Caelarkhe and which facilitated also its absence.