The Gods of Taluma

The Dawn of the Gods

Sezsezkya - the Great Old One - was the first, the sleeper in the darkness, the aether. It thrived in the dark, as it slumbered and dreamed its dreams became reality. It dreamed of children and thus were made Tryysta and Kjoldre, the bright ones to illuminate the darkness, the Luminaeries. Awakened by the light of the Luminaeries, Sezsezkya was crazed, its mind was not conducive to wakefulness. Seszsezkya in his mania would attack his own creations. They would hide from their creator, but then it would sleep and dream and manifest new things that often were chaotic and abominable.
Eventually, the Caelestine had a child, a daughter named Eosta. To protect her, the three continued to hide until she matured. In order to watch over Esota and keep the of Sezsezkya at bay, they split their time, apart from each other except when they would pass protection to the other, creating Day and Night: Tryysta’s and Kjoldra’s shifts respectively. During that time the aether became a realm of pure chaos. Along with Eosta, Tryysta and Kjoldre began to fight back, to try to make a home for themselves, a space of peace in the swirling chaos. They realized that though Sezsezkya was dangerous when awake, at least it did not dream. Tryysta and Kjoldre had three more children, in whom they the power of light and they were the sun, moon, and stars. These, together with Eosta, were the Caelestine, illuminating space so that not only day, but night is not fully dark.
Each Caelestine evoked a different energy, weaving the chaos of the aether into energy that matched their personality and created the four elements They gathered their element into sphere which became the celestial bodies. Eosta, queen of earth created Eost. Luna, queen of water, created the moon. Sol, king of fire, created the Sun. Stel, king of air created the Star. To create a home, Eosta invited her siblings to add their elements to her sphere of Eost: first adding weather (rain, lightning, and rain) then creating living things including plants and animals.

With the aether lit with the illumination of the Caelestine, Sezsezkya no longer had sanctuary there. It found it though on Eost, where pure darkness exists in the Deeps of the earth and the sea. Its minions followed, becoming beings beyond evil: the eerie, the ghastly, the alien things of the deeps that horrify mortals. Thus Sezsezkya became lord of the underworld and the depths of the sea.

The Luminaeries

The Luminaeries are a trinity of deities, two of which represent day and night, plus their youngest son. Tryysta and Kjoldre, day and night respectively, were the first beings created by the dreaming of Sezsezkya, the first divine beings from which all the rest of the immortals and mortals came from. They represent the many pairs of the world. They are called the Allemater and Allepater.

They had four children who were the Caelestine, and one more after. While the Caelestine represent the four elements, their last child is the fifth element - a new personification of the aether that was Sezsezkya’s realm. He is unnamed but is known as the Scion, the favored of Tryysta and Kjoldre. Together, the three form a trinity worshiped by most humans of Taluma above the Caelestine.

The faith of the Luminaeires is called Luminism. Many parishes honor both of the divine couple, but some parishes devote themselves to one or the other. For most of history, the Scion did not have his own parishes devoted to him, but in recent decades chapels in his name, singularly devoted to him have been founded.

Eosta

Eosta is the Caelestine of the element of earth and Eost, the planet. Her color is green.

The Domains of her priesthood are Nature and Grave.

Time: Dusk
Mineral: Stone
Plants: Roots & Fungi
Beasts: Mammals
Storm Aspect: Ice (hail, snow)