To Suffer and Succor

Sin and Suffering

The gift of Thana'Tomos was considered by the children of the gods as a blessing. Those made of the Material and the Astral could now find rest after years of dedication to the expanse of Lumis and to the gods. However, not all was considered to be joyous by the children. The gift of Death made them fear for their short times upon the Material. Soon they found themselves at the mercy of the elements, of the Land and Sea. They found themselves being slaughtered by the great beasts of Cor'Neas, or swallowed by the violent waves of Meri'Diana. The children would pray to the gods, to guide them and protect them, but with the gift of Thana'Tomos, and their promise to the dead god, they found that they could do very little. 

"Our children plea for us to aid in their suffering, but we can do little," spoke Stell'Arya, the shinning goddess of the stars. "Watch them now, as their numbers grow, they collect into groups that create false lines from their own brothers and sisters. They collect themselves and cast large divisions amongst themselves like the very stars I anchor and move across the night sky. What drives them to do so, they do not realize they are all stars themselves."

The wild god, Cor'Neas, spoke up to this, and shared his cruel thoughts with his mother. "These "children" have found themselves at arms against each other. They have taken the gifts we have given to them and corrupted them. See as they take the blades made from the Fires of Osto'Ronius and cut down their own kin. See as they take and take from the Land and Sea, and still, it is not enough, they ransack the wild places and pollute the waters that they so desperately need. The crop is no longer enough for them. They have turned the bounty of the Material and perverted them to create dangerous things with which they twist their minds and bodies. They have taken the gift of Wine, that my lover, Calust'Rea, made and turned it into a curse on their numbers. Look at them, they all pray for us to turn on those they do not like, they lack empathy and have falling into a twisted darkness...They are turning to Sin."

The gods argued back and forth on this matter most dire. They no longer had the guidance of their lord Thana'Tomos, and they shared in their collected sorrow of watching their children turn to violence, war and other sorrows. It was Stell'Arya that spoke first amongst them amidst the silence of their worries, and said,

"We who have watched over the Children find ourselves powerless now to aid them in their time of need. When first, the children called for mercy and we watched our father give his life so that they may know death with him, we thought their troubles quelled. We have brought unto them more sorrow, however, by allowing them to use our gifts with little guidance."

It was Osto'Ronius, god of the forges, that answered,

"You wound our pride, mistress of the stars, we do our best to guide the children. But we cannot directly intervene as was the decree of our lord, Thana'Tomos. What would you have us divinities do if we cannot guide the children?"

To this question, it was the mother of magic, Aes'Thera, that spoke up and answered,

"Then we know what we must do as the divinities that care so deeply for the children, we must allow them to take matters into their hands and guide them to seek amongst themselves a sense of direction, moral, justice, honor. Our children are many and they have all but outgrown us whom may only interact with them through the Veil we call the Heavens, that which separate us from the Material. But, if we were to teach our children to harness within themselves the sense of guidance they need in other to return to the grace they have within them as both mortal and divine, then we may save them yet."

Eris'Neas, wise god of the fields, responded to the lady of magic,

"You would allow the children to manifest amongst them the ideology of guidance and justice, of honor and civility. I would be honored in guiding their hands, I have helped them in their fields and in their farms, they know how to make community through me."

Meri'Diana also spoke up, and said,

"I also wish to guide the children in this vision, for to navigate my great waters, they must learn to depend on each other, they learn to value the lives of all on board of their boats and what is life if not a ship to sail through treacherous waters with others."

One by one, the gods decided that they would all aid in this most important matter. Even Cor'Neas, the bitter god of the wild, admitted that in guiding the children towards a more graceful way of living, would allow them to be wiser about how they manage the land they live in. 

It was Calust'Rea, the beautiful goddess of mysteries, that had fear, and said,

"We cannot wipe the darkness that has for so long now plagued our children. We do not bind them to any sacred oath of fate as we bonded to ours. We made them to be free and live as free beings, and so, with their freedom comes their boons and sorrows. We cannot make them like us, we cannot make them inconsequential when they are so powerful. We must remember this, that we may guide the children and the children may guide themselves...but they will always know an intimate relationship with sin, and other horrors born of their great minds, ambitions and gifted abilities."

The gods fell silent once more at this thought, and finally, Aes'Thera spoke once more, and said,

"We shall bring onto to the children hope and succor, and the means by which they may learn to manifest their guidance, so be it." 

The gods were then in agreement, and Stell'Arya marked this day in the movement of the stars. 

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