Those That Murder
The Shaelarin realm follows the words of no spirit more fervently than Fea, though often her words are some of the vaguest of any of those that remain. Often her words take many years between her people to ruminate, though when events have come to their ends, it always seems that the strings Fea layed out had lined up perfectly. So goes the Kin of Mythricide, though its strings are yet unresolved. In its entirety, which is currently unknown, it is referrered to as the Mythricidian. The word derives from the aforementioned "mythricide", the act of "killing" mythral. The Shaelarin consider mythricide to take place when mythral is broken from the interior walls of a geode, or even disturbed. To the Shaelariin, the mythral curse is considered a spiritual reprimand or otherwise divine punishment for attacking and killing the stone.
"A dusk shall shadow the vibrant breath of the living crystals. Its approach is steady, born unto a kin that dissuade their very nature, siphoning their essence to the benefit of their own. The crystals twist and writhe to the craft of their murderer, until at last they are no more, and so will be born at last the Kin of Mythricide." -Fea, the First Utterance of the Mythricidian
The full extent of the myth itself is unknown, but these first words were recorded when Fea was more coherent than at current, some time during the last years of the Age of Mythral, when Fea guided the shaelarae from their early forms to their permanent homelands in the southern dunes.
Mythology & Philosophy
The myth is one of the few that comes directly from the mouth of a spirit, this one applying to Fea. As she is intrinsic to the culture of the shaelarae, of the all the races, most certainly the most involved directly in their past and current culture, the myth has become something of a dominant worldview of her children. The shaelarae have taken to see that the Mythricidian is taught to all of the citizens of Shaelarin, and it is instilled that one day, the Scourge of Mythricide shall begin, and that the end of mythral, and perhaps of Virosia, shall follow.
These beliefs are not held in their entirety by all shaelarae, at least not to the extent of the eldest of their species who have seen many atrocities against mythral in their extensive lifetimes. The fjorans are the most commonly attributed to being the Kin of Mythricide, those capable of Sin, as they are seen by the shaelarae to match all of its descriptions. Many accusations fly towards them, and within the highest and eldest circles of the Qenaaran political circles, they are seeing the plans of the Kin forming in the fjorans. The Scourge of Mythricide is inevitable, and the shaelarae wish to stop it, or at least delay it for as long as they can, so that they can be ready for its arrival.
This, by the other realms, is seen as a main source of the prejudices from the Shaelarin to Fjorlosia. Though the desert-realm is relatively isolationist to everyone, this is no more extreme than when dealing with Fjorlosia. Seeping into nearly all of their discourse and political agreements, the Mythricidian has effectively caused a schism between the two realms that would take centuries to reconcile by the Fjorlosians, and even with the perfect action done to ease the qualms of the shaelarae, it might still be futile. Thus, the two realms have waged far more consistent and bloody wars than any other realms or previous countries on Virosia.
In fact, before the establishment and general widespread world knowledge of Fjorlosia, the Shaelarin people had many less isolationist tendencies. They would frequent alliances for trade at the very least, if not military agreements if the cause was right, as it was for the Yrchin Scourge. Since the formation of Fjorlosia, and the first cracking of a mythral geode, Sequan, by them in the Age of Towers 599, the Shaelarae have receeded into themselves, seeing all other peoples as potential threats to the entirety of Virosia, and to be treaded with lightly.
The Myth in Full
Components of the Mythricidian have been assembled over the centuries as the meanings of what Fea has stated have been reassembled and assessed. Each stanza was an independent sentance, with decades between them, and they were not always uttered in chronological order, though this assemblage is the current order of the Mythricidian as it appears most logical and spiritually correct.
A dusk shall shadow the vibrant breath of the living crystals. Its approach is steady, born unto a kin that dissuade their very nature, siphoning their essence to the benefit of their own. The crystals twist and writhe to the craft of their murderer, until at last they are no more, and so will be born at last the Kin of Mythricide.
A sin does not exist without a god to deem it so, and for it to be sin against. In repetition, Virosia herself has proven she is adherent to no god but the forces that are. The pull of her earth, her glowing skyline in shades ichorous: the very breath of her Veil. And in this she has but that ultimate vulnerability; her ties to the children of her air are one and all, and therein her weakness resides. Those capable of Mythricide, the Sin.
The Sin is beyondness of wisdom. One must see great spans not in distance of land, but of time: the ichor, the breath.
The Kin of Mythricide are incapable of else, for it their very nature, the assurance of Akathia. The corpse of the crystal is their marble block, inspiration, a gift of Vulkjornn. Korvyre's touch is distant to them.
They shall be sequestered, and in their hiprocracy, their sculptures of Sin shall be paraded and flaunted for the world. Their bodies shall be warped, for mythral is not without volition of its own defense.
In their age, they shall become ravenous. The Sin shall consume them wholly, restraint for mythricide shed.
The Scourge of Mythricide will be their final masterwork.
