Annals of Time: Patric Diaphan's Codex III

    We try to understand the darkness surrounding us, yet we stand to ignore the incomprehensible void within our being.  

     Sleeplessly I stare at the sanguine star which lights my path of dreams.  It emanates a dying glow and fades as I draw closer to its diminishing warmth.  The darkness everlasting melds together with the deepening red and within its amalgamation of bleeding black do I see a single orb of grey.  It lies there, cold and forgotten within that solemn emptiness, wrapped in a shroud of twilight.  

There it is! Our treasure that we have long searched for within the ebon sea! It is revealed to me at last!

     We have long forgotten the way and have since lit inside our wandering bastion, a new flame.  Forged in starry solitude by way of dreams, our path lies through interpretation of ancient texts, left behind by the starfathers who came before the first dawn of our time.  

 We have come claiming the birthright that is to become ascendent-being in all the glory that is deemed ours.

This is Eonara.

Dyr'Dvannon, Patric Diaphan, Navigator, Eonar

Annals of Time: Patric Elder's Codex I

The Fifth Echo

      We are within the Fifth Echo of time and space eternal.  Our existence is one of six totalities.  This is known to us.  All else is shadow to us.  These are our annals of time as we have come to know it.

Ar'Gganis Anosar, Patric Elder, Prime Keeper, Eonar

The Coming of the Grand Aegon Illuminate

     The Verse was chaosborne.  There is no balance to it- only insanity.  The truth of the Verse cannot be known to us for it would undo our very essence.  What is known however is the arrival of the Grand Aegon Illuminate, the beings of chaos which would shape the world to come.  As each Echo began as nothing, the Illuminate shaped the entirety of darkness into a state of being.  Naught of this is known to us, but the shaping of the Fifth Echo and those of the Illuminate who were involved.

The Mind of Four: The Starfathers

     There was no first.  There was no last.  There were simply four pillars of light, bearing seeds of creation unto the solace of night.  There were the Aegon Starfathers.

La'ridah of Twilight Being

Insha'hir of Midnight Being

Jahan'gir of Destruction Being

Nurru'daan of Creation Being

The Shaping of the Worlds

     From the depths of the great beyond, came four slivers of silver, spanning great and distant lengths.  These were the pillars of the Aegon and from them, emerged their tools of creation.  La'ridah gathered swarms of spectral dust and wove the stars into the tapestry of shadow.  Jahan'gir wrapped each burning sphere in a void of utter hunger and thirst, their desire pulling anything within the twilight into their swallowing midst.  Nurru'daan shaped spheres of living earth that would circle the ever-hungry stars, out of reach of the devouring flames that brought warmth and light to their celestial kin.  Covering the land in lush skins of green and blue, the brightness of the stars shone down and brought forth light.  Insha'hir slowly turned each living world away from the hunger of the high flames, allowing a blanket of cold and steady darkness to cover half of each world.

     Thus, the Verse was no longer barren.  The Aegon had formed it to their desires, to contain their touch where nothing once was.  Though their task was to be complete and allow chaos to flourish, the Mind of Four were bothered about the lack of life on their creations.  Against the missives of the Aegon Illuminate, the Mind of Four chose to create their own touch of life and stray from their ostentatious delegation.

Eonarii: The Starchildren

     As the Verse is chaosborne, so is life itself.  To alter the course of life is to alter destiny itself.  The Aegon chose to follow this path and allow the ripples of evolution to echo throughout the Verse.  The Mind of Four challenged this idea and proposed a new constant of thought.  Whether the Illuminate allowed such action, it is not known.  The Eonar were born from the dissonance of introducing fragments of order into the chaos that was life.  As quickly as they appeared, did the Aegon vanish from the Eonarii.

     From within the confines of the Third Echo did they emerge and shape their own fate.  Although barred from interfering with their natural evolution, the Mind of Four left behind fragments of infrastructure and technology that would allow the Eonarii to evolve as the Aegon willed it.  This subtle manipulation however, could not prevent the eventual collapse of an entire species.  The Eonarii, too reliant on knowledge not of their own making, destroyed one another in pursuit of the stars above.  Only with the emergence of the Presence, did the Eonarii rise together- but it was too late.

     Were it not for the discovery of the Shard Ship, the Eonar would have been consumed along with the entirety of the Third Echo.  The Shard Ship, designated Kalid Valirus- The Black Eternal, could only take but a handful of the Eonar.  Kalid Valirus was the largest and most functional of all Aegon artifacts.  Escaping from impending extinction, the black shard pierced through the fade of the Third Echo and began the Great Transformation.

The Presence

     The Presence is shadow to us.  It is ancient, beyond the time of the Third Echo.  We do not know its purpose or desire.  It simply invades.  The Third Echo has been lost to the Eonar.  The Verse shall fall into a state beyond chaos and control- one of utter displacement of existence.  All calculations left within Kalid Valirus confirm the inevitability.  We will all perish.

La'ridah Avatarim - Part I

La'ridah of mortal being was born a child- or better said- created as a child, from a single hint of twilight-infused essence of La'ridah of Twilight Being. Forged in the citadel of Tier Shabbeth, Calus attempted to enfuse the essence with that of another Shafiri chosen- Sharil. Realizing that the Eonar, Ganis of Storms, had become a threat to her land, she was unable to face him directly due to ancient pacts.

After the falling of Arcos, Calus was alone once more. Set to finding a second herald, she chose another ancient native of Califran. Locating a lone isle within the southern shard of Facundas Fatum, Calus chose one for her cause. Unlike Arcos who had been formed to her will, Sharil had a sentience of her own- a conscience that Calus hoped would not be tainted, as had been the first of the fallen. Infused with Calus' own essence as one of the Shafirii, Sharil acted as Calus' herald for millenia.

Desperate for a champion that could stop him, she acted with impulse to infuse Sharil with the only remnant of the ancient Aegon, La'ridah. Hoping to empower her chosen with the strength of the Aegon with a promise to allow Sharil to return to her land, Calus acted quickly to fuse the two within the citadel of creation. However, her underestimation of the Aegon remnant led to unanticipated events.

She had not taken to account that her herald had already been infused with the essence of herself- an Eonar. To infuse yet another essence- especially one of greater ascent was to delve into the erratic and unknown. Instead of a familiar herald, Calus found a child- a baby boy at her feet. Sensing Sharil's essence within the child, she attempted to free her herald with a touch, only to fly back in pain, drained of strength and mind.

With what little strength remained, Calus managed to wrap the child with a cloth and set him adrift in the endless sea, pushing him north towards his destined lands. As he grew distant, Calus could no longer sense Sharil, as the child had taken a great deal of strength from her. Lost in the sea from all, the boy continued to float north, until he would land at the shores of Argorath.