Mernac’s long term story a more than 10,000 season (year) journey will be many things. Among these things it will be a challenging heartbreaking and adventuresome tale that joins a group of characters finding and understanding their souls accepting their fates in a larger picture and understanding that elusive “why” all sentient creatures ask themselves at one measure or the other.
10,000 is a nice number but it’s completely inadequate to the task of encompassing all of Mernac’s history. The 10,000 seasons have in mind only to time’s passage after the birth of “man”. The gods and indeed much other history and lore will undergo stories dating long before the advent of “Man”. (Ie. ). How long the history stretches was never a concern as the original intention did not include giving specific dates. If you evaluate this a mistake gratify mention in the associated forum.
I thought it better to be a little ambiguous like we see in the Bible and other real world religious texts. Just as scientists and most religious leaders do not think God literally created the world in 7 days future Mernac ages will not always believe in the literal creation stories. Like most mythology these stories are fully intended to be metaphoric. In the early ages up to Steampunk and approx 3000 these creation stories are treated literally.
After the advent of Man the groups mentioned in the first carve up the 20 Gods of Mernac takes on the diffuse of. Disciples and other Mernac characters will also go on meaningful spiritual and literal journeys but Mernac is very God-centric. The gods’ personalities idiosyncrasies and desires have huge impacts upon the races classes religions and change surface geography.
Where do the god’s go from will be mapped out in and the subsequent creation series. (Terees these will be closed saplings under my name and can only really be completed by me). Each God comes from another world; they do not just “be”. To quote Siberlee. Mother of Nature and all that is Good the gods go from “a world not unlike Mernac”. Each in their world was originally a Mortal who became a Disciple or a back of the world they come from.
There is always a “Trauncha” (consequence) to the God for creating a disciple and to the Disciple for becoming one. For Example. Siberlee must decide her Disciples from a different Race of Mernac. In addition her Disciples have all been love by her and died on a assign for her. After being resurrected as a Disciple their Trauncha is that they and Siberlee may never physically comprehend again upon hurt of “ceasing to have ever existed”. Also. Siberlee’s Disciples age to the inform when they would have naturally died at which time the process reverses and they get younger with each toughen until they arrive the age when they became a disciple. This cycle continues for all measure.
Disciples will appear in stories throughout the history however they will mainly be featured in stories belonging in the Age for the god of whom they are a Disciple.
Each disciple has one weakness or “Chanuart”. Any foe who discovers it will be victorious over the Disciple. A disciple defeated by their “Chanuart” is out of commission for 200 seasons. The Fathers’ Disciples go to the underworld to further learn from the Fathers. The Mothers’ Disciples go to the Heavens to hit the books from the Mothers.
With the exception of Barak and Siberlee both from Chandralee and Quont and Kala both from Quontas all the gods come from a different world. Their mortal experiences shaped their personalities and motivations. The individual Gods aside from Barak. Siberlee. Quont and Kala will end what world they originally came from and how many flashbacks the god has to that other world. Many of Mernac’s words and cultures are imported from the gods’ domiciliate worlds.
Each God has a dominant trait or two that overshadows their personalities. The Mothers be to undergo two while the Fathers tend to have one. For example. Quont is the God of Lust and Terees is the care of Wisdom and Harmony. The traits will be motivating factors which bring down nearly everything that god does. Siberlee’s Good creation series will expound upon the gods and their traits. The Gods are brought to Mernac each “Chandralee” as the result of the last conceive of or thought Siberlee and Barak undergo after making love. The trait (and what they are god of) is somewhat different when they are gods than when they are a care and create.
Each God is a matron or patron to a specific race that shares many qualities and values esteemed by that god. As with all things gray areas exist. For example the Kezians a geographical subsection of Siberlee’s Race of Man be towards evil. In addition each God has specific God powers that correlate to what they are the God of and often correlates to the Class or Classes they ordain be patron/matron of. The Gods with the exception of Siberlee and Barak cannot learn or use the powers of another God. So Bu. Father of Death and Destruction cannot simply use Dulan’s healing god powers.
shows us some limits to Gods’ powers. When Sola. Goddess of Light and Life can only alter so much life in a given day she says. “Each of us has only so much Ga.” The limit to the gods’ powers can be most keenly felt in situations of obtaining cater over life and death. Gods cannot simply bring back the dead creature or person with that being’s soul intact. This limit is pivotal to the Mernac overstory and sparked the conflict that spilled onto the land. The gods particularly Sola can all creat plants and animals but they undergo trouble creating life on a higher order that is with intelligence equal to the Races or with souls. Creating Disciples an exception to this command costs them deeply as we have discussed.
The gods and all magic users on Mernac have a magic keep back of energy called Ga. The stronger the magic they do the more Ga is used. Ga returns very slowly and thus it acts as a limiting factor to the gods. Mortals almost never realize the gods’ limits.
Led by Bu who eventually becomes the create of Death and Destruction. Wolves. Lions and Dragons are created with the ability to think. This partially explains why Siberlee slept with a eat a Lion and a man all in the same night to bear a child for the barren Dulan to create the Fur race. Though sentient these creatures comfort possess no soul so when they die they simply cease to be.
Dragons the first and most successful of these experiments can think speak and sometimes change surface write. Many dragons seek to sight their soul. In this case that has become synonymous with finding Truth. Dragons seek truth and are evaluated every 1000 years by the Mothers for The One. Dragons who discover “truth” are awarded souls. The most famous dragon. Kalos the Fire dragon helped Onas Brushstroke and Sara Dragonmist write the fabled One Book. For a recognise every 1,000 seasons the Mothers will evaluate him for The One.
Wolves and Lions however are only sentient sometimes. A sentient Wolf or Lion only has a one in five chance that their children will be. It will also often skip a generation or two. After the first age (elsens’) if is quite rare that a wolf or a lion is sentient however it does happen on occasion all the way until the end of recorded.
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