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SUDDENLY, BANANAS.
THOUSANDS OF THEM
Actually that was blatant false advertising. Nothing up in there but TENEBROUS CRACK-CANON AEON BABBLE *echo effect goes here*.
Starting at the beginning of the Zodiac with Belias and going through to Mateus, and Zodiark on the end.
As usual, stuff in square brackets [like this] represents Kildean that don't quite parse. I'll do my best to explain it.
Now on with the Aeons--
BELIAS: Valendian, Belias the Gigas; Kildean, Belias the [Gatekeeper; this has a connotation of Terror at the Threshold]. Colour: red. Power: fire. Sign: Aries. Mesha Ascendant. He's said to have been created to guard the holy realms; Iocan lore says he didn't receive that task. Kildean lore states that he did. To them, Belias stands as a representation of human fear that a seeker must defeat in order to move beyond the door. If one looks closely at his 'inner' hands (the smaller ones) in Kildean artwork, they'll see that the right one's always making the 'fear-not' mudra.
KHAOS: Valendian; Chaos, Walker of the Wheel; Kildean, same (for once they got it right). Colour: grey. Power: wind. Sign: Taurus. Vrishabha Ascendant. Khaos, according to Kildean lore, is one of the companions of Death. Like Zalera (whom we'll cover in a bit), he's one of the escorts of souls in the afterlife, though Khaos is the one who guides souls into rebirth and back again to death so they can be reborn again, and so on, and so on. He's been through the cycle himself, and on occasion goes through it again. he's not unlike a Bodhisattva in that respect, voluntarily walking the wheel so he doesn't forget what it's like and start to be an ass. He is one of the heralds of the Lady of Chaos (naturally).
ZALERA: Valendian, Death-Seraph; Kildean, Herald of Death. Colour: violet. Power: death. Sign: Gemini. Mithuna Ascendant. Oh, POOR Zalera gets the worst rap besides Mateus. Valendian lore claims he kidnapped a shamaness and symbiotically attached her to his wing. That annoys the Kildeans! Their belief is that the shamaness Korone is his companion, and that she became so by choice. She doesn't care that Zalera is freaky-looking or that he hasn't much of a voice aside scary laughing. They're soulmates and that's all there is to it. Korone is Zalera's voice; if you get a message from him or Death she'll relay it. As for the OH EM GEE symbiosis thing, Kildean art of them depicts her as sitting on one of his lower vestigial wings (being a seraph, he does have six, and the lowermost ones are small and curl around his body) with her long gown trailing down. The Iocans misinterpreted what this was supposed to be depicting. XD
ZEROMUS: Valendian, the Condemner; Kildean, the Invoker. Colour: indigo. Power: gravity. Sign: Cancer. Karka Ascendant. He's a scion of the Lady of Order and usually seen with Exodus. If Exodus is the Judge, Zeromus is the parole officer. While he is the one who doles out punishments (and he DID get carried away in the past, but got the cluebat from his Lady and is better now), he does so with the intent to encourage people not to screw up any more or be consumed by their baser instinct. You could say he's sort of a vehicle of Karma.
HASHMAL/HASHMALIM: Valendian, Bringer of Order; Kildean, Guardian of the Middle Path. Colour: Green. Power: Earth. Sign: Leo. Simha Ascendant. As his name suggests, Hashmalim teaches the principal of 'balance in all things'. Too much order and we stagnate; too much chaos and we have a mess. Too much dark or light and we lose ourselves. The Iocan lore says those shackles on him were a penalty for his rebellion against the gods; Kildean lore states that they're worn voluntarily. He could break them, but he doesn't. Too much strength can destroy. Again, balance in everything.
ULTIMA: Valendian, the High Seraph; Kildean, the Herald of Awakenings. Colour: white. Power: light. Sign: Virgo. Kanya Ascendant. She is, natch, a Scion and messenger of the Lady of Light. She plays something of a Luciferlike role in Valendian lore. What she represents in Kildean lore is enlightenment in the true sense. You could call her the Herald of RUDE Awakenings and be correct. Ultima's light pulls back the curtain on everything. She illuminates things about us that we wanted to ignore. That's part of what enlightenment is - the true knowledge of, and acceptance of, oneself. That's not all there is to it but that's a core part of it.
EXODUS: Valendian, the Judge-Sal; Kildean, the Forest of Judgement. Colour: orange. Power: aether. Sign: Libra. Tula Ascendant. Valendia claims this guy wanted to reduce the world to nothing. They sort of HEARD WRONG - er, needless caps, beg pardon. He does have that 'attached to nothing' factor, but this is what makes it possible for him to function as an impartial judge. You'll see images of him in Kildean courts, and little shrines invoking his power - judgment without bias, but with compassion. Without attachment to false ideals you find your way to true justice.
CUCHULAINN: Valendian, the Impure; Kildean, . Colour: brown; Power: poison. Sign: Scorpio. Vrishchika Ascendant. This guy is a little odd and you might wonder why the hell he looks so happy if he's a ruler over poison. Well, consider foxglove. Eat it and yer gonna die or get ill. but in a small dose, it's heart medicine. Yeah. Cuchulainn rules over poison and medicine, representing the 'a magus must learn both how to hex and how to heal'. And then there's the issue of Kildean 'illuminating poisons', substances given in precise doses to seekers by their teachers. These are intended to pull back the veil and open the door to Ultima's domain. So yeah. Cuchulainn looks cheery because of this. Discovering that leeches ARE actually medically useful, or that some toadstool can cure a severe illness when prepared right is square in this guy's domain.
SHEMHAZAI: Valendian, the Whisperer; Kildean, the Still Voice. Colour: pink. Power: soul. Sign: Sagittarius. Dhanus Ascendant. Shemhazai gets about as bad a rap as does Zalera. She's called a traitor and worse. What she is, though, is similar to Ultima and to Zodiark in a sense. Shemhazai is your conscience, the soft voice of the divine, your intuition, your higher self. What she whispers about is never a lie, even if you don't want to hear the truth. Shemhazai is the voice of your soul. See how it works?
ADRAMMELECH: Valendian, the Wroth; Kildean, the [Scholar Emperor]. Colour: yellow. Power: lightning. Sign: Capricorn. Makara Ascendant. This guy is more or less straightforward. Valendia thought he led an army of fiends against the divine; Kildean lore states that he actually cluebatted a bucnh of Asura (Valendia assumes these guys are demons but they're really not) into joining his cause and not acting like unkind idiots. See also 'What the Thunder Said'. Yes, he cluebatted humanity and the gods too XD
FAMFRIT: Valendian, the Darkening Cloud; Kildean, the Gathering Storm. Colour: clear. Power: water. Sign: Aquarius. Kumbha Ascendant. Famfrit has no physical form as such, hence the armour. Kildeans like him; he's the bringer of rain, and though when he was young he was silly he almost flooded most of the world (and then went into hiding for ages - hence deserts) he's trusted and revered. You'll see talismans dedicated to him in farming communities.
MATEUS: Valendian, the Corrupt; Kildean, the [Changing; this has connotations of the alchemical work]. Colour: blue. Power: ice. Sign: Pisces. Meena Ascendant. Poor Mateus got a horror story from the Valendian church! It's particularly silly when you consider how similar it is to that of Zalera - both of the double signs deal with an imprisoned woman. Both of these women were powerful in some way. Anyhow - Kidlean lore tells that Mateus is two beings as one - goddess and living armour. They met at their hours of greatest despair - he'd been a being sealed into the form of armour in punishment for a crime he didn't commit, and she'd had all her power stolen from her after being betrayed by someone she loved. They could not move on apart, but together they became more powerful than they ever could have alone. The reason for her appearance is her link to the principles of the Hanged Man of the Tarot - enlightenment and wisdom gained through stillness. if you look at her hands, she's relaxed. She's not fighting. If you look at her head, she seems VERY AWARE. her expression is calm and intent. Because she doesn't see with her physical eyes and he's pened his third eye for her, they can see everything that was invisible before. Because her physical arms are stilled and he's lent her his form, they can fly through any water like it was air and she was a bird. Mateus is a 'they' (if you talk to the esper you'll get "well met; we are called Mateus"); the name itself is made up of the letters their old, lost names had in common. They abandoned these names when they became one.
ZODIARK: Valendian, Keeper of Precepts; Kildean, Precept of Shadow. Colour: black. Power: darkness. Sign: Ophiuchus. Ashlesha Ascendant. Zodiark is sort of Ultima's complement. If Ultima is like the Magician, Zordiark is like the High Priestess. He's all about the unconscious mind, the shadow. Ultima reveals the things about us we don't want to see; Zodiark teaches us that these shadows reside in all things. We cannot run from them or they will catch up to us and drag us down. We cannot seem to command them or they will control us. What we must do is accept and embrace them. Zodiark is the emissary of the Lady of the Dark, naturally.
There's more to all of these guys, I know, but I wanted to get what I had down before expanding on it. Yay!
As a bonus, some ruling signs -
Ansem - Zodiark
Kefka - Zalera
Marin - Mateus
Ira - Adrammelech
Skye - Khaos
Thaeron - Zodiark
Tarik (Ansem's father) - Shemhazai
Artimisia (Ansem's mother) - Ultima
Lazul - Hashmal
Braig - Zeromus
Dilan - Khaos
Even - Mateus
Aeleus - Hashmalim
Ienzo - Exodus
Isa - Shemhazai
Lea - Belias
Demyan - Famfrit
Rould - Zeromus
Aralium - Zalera
Erlena - Adrammelech
Teehee.
Actually that was blatant false advertising. Nothing up in there but TENEBROUS CRACK-CANON AEON BABBLE *echo effect goes here*.
Starting at the beginning of the Zodiac with Belias and going through to Mateus, and Zodiark on the end.
As usual, stuff in square brackets [like this] represents Kildean that don't quite parse. I'll do my best to explain it.
Now on with the Aeons--
BELIAS: Valendian, Belias the Gigas; Kildean, Belias the [Gatekeeper; this has a connotation of Terror at the Threshold]. Colour: red. Power: fire. Sign: Aries. Mesha Ascendant. He's said to have been created to guard the holy realms; Iocan lore says he didn't receive that task. Kildean lore states that he did. To them, Belias stands as a representation of human fear that a seeker must defeat in order to move beyond the door. If one looks closely at his 'inner' hands (the smaller ones) in Kildean artwork, they'll see that the right one's always making the 'fear-not' mudra.
KHAOS: Valendian; Chaos, Walker of the Wheel; Kildean, same (for once they got it right). Colour: grey. Power: wind. Sign: Taurus. Vrishabha Ascendant. Khaos, according to Kildean lore, is one of the companions of Death. Like Zalera (whom we'll cover in a bit), he's one of the escorts of souls in the afterlife, though Khaos is the one who guides souls into rebirth and back again to death so they can be reborn again, and so on, and so on. He's been through the cycle himself, and on occasion goes through it again. he's not unlike a Bodhisattva in that respect, voluntarily walking the wheel so he doesn't forget what it's like and start to be an ass. He is one of the heralds of the Lady of Chaos (naturally).
ZALERA: Valendian, Death-Seraph; Kildean, Herald of Death. Colour: violet. Power: death. Sign: Gemini. Mithuna Ascendant. Oh, POOR Zalera gets the worst rap besides Mateus. Valendian lore claims he kidnapped a shamaness and symbiotically attached her to his wing. That annoys the Kildeans! Their belief is that the shamaness Korone is his companion, and that she became so by choice. She doesn't care that Zalera is freaky-looking or that he hasn't much of a voice aside scary laughing. They're soulmates and that's all there is to it. Korone is Zalera's voice; if you get a message from him or Death she'll relay it. As for the OH EM GEE symbiosis thing, Kildean art of them depicts her as sitting on one of his lower vestigial wings (being a seraph, he does have six, and the lowermost ones are small and curl around his body) with her long gown trailing down. The Iocans misinterpreted what this was supposed to be depicting. XD
ZEROMUS: Valendian, the Condemner; Kildean, the Invoker. Colour: indigo. Power: gravity. Sign: Cancer. Karka Ascendant. He's a scion of the Lady of Order and usually seen with Exodus. If Exodus is the Judge, Zeromus is the parole officer. While he is the one who doles out punishments (and he DID get carried away in the past, but got the cluebat from his Lady and is better now), he does so with the intent to encourage people not to screw up any more or be consumed by their baser instinct. You could say he's sort of a vehicle of Karma.
HASHMAL/HASHMALIM: Valendian, Bringer of Order; Kildean, Guardian of the Middle Path. Colour: Green. Power: Earth. Sign: Leo. Simha Ascendant. As his name suggests, Hashmalim teaches the principal of 'balance in all things'. Too much order and we stagnate; too much chaos and we have a mess. Too much dark or light and we lose ourselves. The Iocan lore says those shackles on him were a penalty for his rebellion against the gods; Kildean lore states that they're worn voluntarily. He could break them, but he doesn't. Too much strength can destroy. Again, balance in everything.
ULTIMA: Valendian, the High Seraph; Kildean, the Herald of Awakenings. Colour: white. Power: light. Sign: Virgo. Kanya Ascendant. She is, natch, a Scion and messenger of the Lady of Light. She plays something of a Luciferlike role in Valendian lore. What she represents in Kildean lore is enlightenment in the true sense. You could call her the Herald of RUDE Awakenings and be correct. Ultima's light pulls back the curtain on everything. She illuminates things about us that we wanted to ignore. That's part of what enlightenment is - the true knowledge of, and acceptance of, oneself. That's not all there is to it but that's a core part of it.
EXODUS: Valendian, the Judge-Sal; Kildean, the Forest of Judgement. Colour: orange. Power: aether. Sign: Libra. Tula Ascendant. Valendia claims this guy wanted to reduce the world to nothing. They sort of HEARD WRONG - er, needless caps, beg pardon. He does have that 'attached to nothing' factor, but this is what makes it possible for him to function as an impartial judge. You'll see images of him in Kildean courts, and little shrines invoking his power - judgment without bias, but with compassion. Without attachment to false ideals you find your way to true justice.
CUCHULAINN: Valendian, the Impure; Kildean, . Colour: brown; Power: poison. Sign: Scorpio. Vrishchika Ascendant. This guy is a little odd and you might wonder why the hell he looks so happy if he's a ruler over poison. Well, consider foxglove. Eat it and yer gonna die or get ill. but in a small dose, it's heart medicine. Yeah. Cuchulainn rules over poison and medicine, representing the 'a magus must learn both how to hex and how to heal'. And then there's the issue of Kildean 'illuminating poisons', substances given in precise doses to seekers by their teachers. These are intended to pull back the veil and open the door to Ultima's domain. So yeah. Cuchulainn looks cheery because of this. Discovering that leeches ARE actually medically useful, or that some toadstool can cure a severe illness when prepared right is square in this guy's domain.
SHEMHAZAI: Valendian, the Whisperer; Kildean, the Still Voice. Colour: pink. Power: soul. Sign: Sagittarius. Dhanus Ascendant. Shemhazai gets about as bad a rap as does Zalera. She's called a traitor and worse. What she is, though, is similar to Ultima and to Zodiark in a sense. Shemhazai is your conscience, the soft voice of the divine, your intuition, your higher self. What she whispers about is never a lie, even if you don't want to hear the truth. Shemhazai is the voice of your soul. See how it works?
ADRAMMELECH: Valendian, the Wroth; Kildean, the [Scholar Emperor]. Colour: yellow. Power: lightning. Sign: Capricorn. Makara Ascendant. This guy is more or less straightforward. Valendia thought he led an army of fiends against the divine; Kildean lore states that he actually cluebatted a bucnh of Asura (Valendia assumes these guys are demons but they're really not) into joining his cause and not acting like unkind idiots. See also 'What the Thunder Said'. Yes, he cluebatted humanity and the gods too XD
FAMFRIT: Valendian, the Darkening Cloud; Kildean, the Gathering Storm. Colour: clear. Power: water. Sign: Aquarius. Kumbha Ascendant. Famfrit has no physical form as such, hence the armour. Kildeans like him; he's the bringer of rain, and though when he was young he was silly he almost flooded most of the world (and then went into hiding for ages - hence deserts) he's trusted and revered. You'll see talismans dedicated to him in farming communities.
MATEUS: Valendian, the Corrupt; Kildean, the [Changing; this has connotations of the alchemical work]. Colour: blue. Power: ice. Sign: Pisces. Meena Ascendant. Poor Mateus got a horror story from the Valendian church! It's particularly silly when you consider how similar it is to that of Zalera - both of the double signs deal with an imprisoned woman. Both of these women were powerful in some way. Anyhow - Kidlean lore tells that Mateus is two beings as one - goddess and living armour. They met at their hours of greatest despair - he'd been a being sealed into the form of armour in punishment for a crime he didn't commit, and she'd had all her power stolen from her after being betrayed by someone she loved. They could not move on apart, but together they became more powerful than they ever could have alone. The reason for her appearance is her link to the principles of the Hanged Man of the Tarot - enlightenment and wisdom gained through stillness. if you look at her hands, she's relaxed. She's not fighting. If you look at her head, she seems VERY AWARE. her expression is calm and intent. Because she doesn't see with her physical eyes and he's pened his third eye for her, they can see everything that was invisible before. Because her physical arms are stilled and he's lent her his form, they can fly through any water like it was air and she was a bird. Mateus is a 'they' (if you talk to the esper you'll get "well met; we are called Mateus"); the name itself is made up of the letters their old, lost names had in common. They abandoned these names when they became one.
ZODIARK: Valendian, Keeper of Precepts; Kildean, Precept of Shadow. Colour: black. Power: darkness. Sign: Ophiuchus. Ashlesha Ascendant. Zodiark is sort of Ultima's complement. If Ultima is like the Magician, Zordiark is like the High Priestess. He's all about the unconscious mind, the shadow. Ultima reveals the things about us we don't want to see; Zodiark teaches us that these shadows reside in all things. We cannot run from them or they will catch up to us and drag us down. We cannot seem to command them or they will control us. What we must do is accept and embrace them. Zodiark is the emissary of the Lady of the Dark, naturally.
There's more to all of these guys, I know, but I wanted to get what I had down before expanding on it. Yay!
As a bonus, some ruling signs -
Ansem - Zodiark
Kefka - Zalera
Marin - Mateus
Ira - Adrammelech
Skye - Khaos
Thaeron - Zodiark
Tarik (Ansem's father) - Shemhazai
Artimisia (Ansem's mother) - Ultima
Lazul - Hashmal
Braig - Zeromus
Dilan - Khaos
Even - Mateus
Aeleus - Hashmalim
Ienzo - Exodus
Isa - Shemhazai
Lea - Belias
Demyan - Famfrit
Rould - Zeromus
Aralium - Zalera
Erlena - Adrammelech
Teehee.
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I need to expand on some of these guys really. Famfrit needs more to him, for example. And Zeromus's seems sparse to me too. All these guys have STORIES like Mateus and so forth but I just don't quite have them down yet XD So I plan to think on this more!