Akatoth

Akatoth   Akatoth was the Tarriin who governed a great many powers mainly Death, Law and Order, and he dwelt in the realm of Akati-Nurr to the far north beyond the lands of Emmandell. His governing powers also covered the commencing of various civilisations according to the will of Ytarrii. He was a benevolent Tarriin until he was groomed with greater power and manipulated by Tamamon, who corrupted him, turning him from his prescribed role. However, he never quite lost his benevolence and would, in his earlier years come to the aid of many who worshipped him. This benevolence did not remain for long however, when he started seeing through the folly of the Tarriin and Alingatarriian order. Believing it to being corrupt, he began to shun the will of Ytarrii and instead serve himself and Tamamon, believing his will to be the best for the world. As the First Celéum ended and the final battle took place, Akatoth who had up to this point only secretly served Tamamon, betrayed him and the Tarriin completely and retreated to his realm.   Origins   Originally known as Urrethos, Akatoth was created by Tamamon in Míthrondas alongside the other Tarriin Narwer and Manthar, whose powers were governed in elements and war. Tamamon created them and gave them their power, and Ytarrii bestowed upon them their role, with Urrethos’ being that of law, order and death. Then came the carving and creation of their own realms upon the Pillar of Hatarr, which sat at the centre of Míthrondas. Upon the world he created his realm to the far north, and named it Madarimon “World Ruling” and spent a great many ages perfecting it and shaping it. As a the first and mightiest of Tamamon’s creations, his power and will were great and even greater was his inquisitiveness, and his lust for knowledge. He spent many ages learning from Ytarrii into the power of creation, and Tenelotäs, who taught him skill in craft and the elements. However, it was Forazant who he loved most and through Forazant he learned of the Tarr Stones and their power, as well as many languages and fates of mortals.   Through his creator however, he learnt many more things, darker things that were aligned with his predestined nature, those being deceit, manipulation, corruption and the ability to change his appearance from subtle changes to full body morphing. As his omnimalevolent creator often came and went from the Anornauglûm, Urrethos’ inquisitiveness grew extreme and his love of knowledge became corrupted. He sought to know powers he knew were well below his moral standing, and through his magnificent mind, he learnt them quick.   Descent into Atûm   Alike his Tarriin kin he entered the world, however, Urrethos was the first to enter and he dwelt for a great while gazing over the world, still a barren and desolate place. For an age he formulated a great tapestry for the world, acting somewhat as a plan for his uprising, he wished his will to be followed and thought the greatest form of the world would spring from it.   Urrethos’ virtue lies in his love of order and the flow of time and the effect it has on various things, such as the birth of something, and the progress it makes until death, though he loved gazing upon the world, he grew impatient from the absence of progress made by the other Tarriin. His other virtue was his love of creation and the conception of concepts, that being civilisation or creation itself, a power he thought himself worthy of, considering he was the Tarriin of death also. All this would become an obsession and a twisted formula into his downfall and turn to evil.   Tamamon had sowed in him a seed of evil, meaning he could see the effect of evil, and mostly how it could benefit his designs, this is what the other Tarriin could not see. Thus he began to weave what he thought was good into the tapestry, and in doing so created Señas and Akat, two forms of magical sorcery. Señas was a power of benevolence, but mainly a power of creation which he was not supposed to have, so he withheld it from the other Tarriin. This was his first evil deed, Akat was a power of destruction and evil, and it could be used for many things. As he was the first being in the world, he prided himself as the to-be ruler of the world, and from his designs he created the realm of Emmandell to be a blessed and divine place where he could rule from.   Little to his knowledge, Tamamon had rebelled and attempted a coup to conquer Míthrondas, causing great damage to the universe, a result being the forming of the Minéanumi. In his defeat, Tamamon fled against the authority of the Alingatarr, in his ensuing flight Tamamon disembodied Morf Zinun reducing him to a spirit. Taking much of his power, he fled into the Anornauglûm and entered the world, he then came to Urrethos who gazed over the world and marvelled at the damage his battle had caused. Tamamon sought instead to create Atûm as a greater Míthrondas and for many ages manipulated Urrethos and gave him great control of many other powers, including that of elemental. Tamamon raised the lands of the north and Urrethos ruled them, and he named them Alomar, “Golden Walls” and so the blessed realm of the far north was founded. Urrethos built up the realm and wrought many wonderful creations, using the power of Akat, he built the city of Gardelas and the golden wall that encompassed it, and ruled until the Tarriin came forth from Míthrondas and created the world in the vision of Ytarrii. They shunned the plan that Urrethos had wrought for them and instead only borrowed from it, claiming the borrowed plans as the works of Ytarrii and not Urrethos. When the world was created the Tarriin named it Atûm and the realm founded by Urrethos was renamed Emmandell, “The Cloud Kingdom.”   Urrethos grew enraged at this and fell to malice soon after, doing the deeds that Tamamon ordered, and spying a great deal on the works of the Tarriin. However, at this time his rage was only at the Tarriin and Alingatarr and all of their authority, and he sought instead to create beings that he could govern. This led to his creation of the Vellyr, as well as the creation of the Iasinan in his realm, and they were adorned with radiant light and golden glow due to their originating from Señas. When time came for their departing and governing of Emmandell, they came forth and were adopted into the hierarchy of Emmandell, however, the seed of evil that lived in Urrethos would live in them too.   The Awakening of the Faladin   When came the time for the awakening of the Faladin, Urrethos came to each of them and bestowed great knowledge to the elders of the peoples. He showed them the greatest places to build settlements and cities, as well as the best wood and stone to use and many more things, like fortifications and defensive advantages. He is directly responsible for the founding of some of the worlds greatest civilisations such as Hethna Mida in Arosgalinu, Míthandell and Edalyon in the lands further south named Astium to name a few. He inspired and loved the earlier Faladin leaders in that earlier time, and devoted much of his knowledge to them, in order for them to succeed. He also forged for them weapons of many varieties that they could use to defend themselves from any evils that may lurk in the vast outside world. But even as his benevolence was obvious to the Faladin, and they expected no evil within him, his mind was always set on his plans and his uprising. Though he bestowed his knowledge upon them, and loved them, and gained their absolute trust, he did it with a back thought of malice.   That malice would come in the form of his own strongholds, which he built at each great settlement he founded, and though he built them using the dark powers of Akat, he veiled them in radiance and light. The peoples who loved him came to worship him at these places, but never did they venture in and see his terrible devisings. For many hundreds of years they remained utterly loyal to Urrethos, and held him in reverence as the one god of the world. There cities sprung up in advancement under his aura, and he had shown them many more things when Ytarrii had deemed it necessary, this had been a lack of autonomy that Urrethos hated.