Althea
Althea was a major goddess in the Thauzunian Orthodoxy, associated with burial, mercy, and the formal treatment of the dead. In pre-Fall belief, Althea did not govern death itself, but everything that followed it. Her domain began where Moruun’s ended: once life had ceased, Althea oversaw how the dead were handled, acknowledged, and released from the living world. She represented restraint, dignity, and closure rather than grief or emotion.
Orthodox doctrine treated burial and funerary practice as civic obligations as much as religious ones, and Althea embodied this responsibility. Proper burial was understood to be an act of mercy toward both the deceased and the living, ensuring that death did not linger as disorder. To deny burial or remembrance was considered a serious violation of order, not because it offended the dead, but because it destabilized social continuity. Althea’s role emphasized that even in death, individuals retained place, name, and recognition.
Althea was also associated with mercy in a restrained, institutional sense. Mercy under her authority did not mean forgiveness or absolution, but measured treatment: the refusal to extend punishment beyond death, the acknowledgment of finality, and the release of obligation once a life had ended. Pre-Fall teachings framed mercy as an administrative necessity, preventing cycles of vengeance, erasure, or posthumous punishment. In this sense, Althea functioned as a stabilizing force within systems of law, memory, and inheritance.
No knowledge of Althea survives into the post-Fall era. There are no remaining references to her name, symbols, rites, or associated practices in modern Vey’Zari society. The Thauzunian Orthodoxy itself is entirely unknown, and with its collapse, all structured understanding of Althea disappeared. She does not appear in contemporary religious belief, funerary custom, or historical reconstruction.
As with other pre-Fall deities, Althea is not remembered, reinterpreted, or symbolically preserved. There is no cult continuity, no degraded folklore, and no acknowledged conceptual inheritance of her role. To modern Vey’Zari, Althea is not a forgotten goddess but an entirely unknown one, her existence accessible only through speculative reconstruction of pre-Fall religious structure rather than through any surviving tradition or awareness.
Orthodox doctrine treated burial and funerary practice as civic obligations as much as religious ones, and Althea embodied this responsibility. Proper burial was understood to be an act of mercy toward both the deceased and the living, ensuring that death did not linger as disorder. To deny burial or remembrance was considered a serious violation of order, not because it offended the dead, but because it destabilized social continuity. Althea’s role emphasized that even in death, individuals retained place, name, and recognition.
Althea was also associated with mercy in a restrained, institutional sense. Mercy under her authority did not mean forgiveness or absolution, but measured treatment: the refusal to extend punishment beyond death, the acknowledgment of finality, and the release of obligation once a life had ended. Pre-Fall teachings framed mercy as an administrative necessity, preventing cycles of vengeance, erasure, or posthumous punishment. In this sense, Althea functioned as a stabilizing force within systems of law, memory, and inheritance.
No knowledge of Althea survives into the post-Fall era. There are no remaining references to her name, symbols, rites, or associated practices in modern Vey’Zari society. The Thauzunian Orthodoxy itself is entirely unknown, and with its collapse, all structured understanding of Althea disappeared. She does not appear in contemporary religious belief, funerary custom, or historical reconstruction.
As with other pre-Fall deities, Althea is not remembered, reinterpreted, or symbolically preserved. There is no cult continuity, no degraded folklore, and no acknowledged conceptual inheritance of her role. To modern Vey’Zari, Althea is not a forgotten goddess but an entirely unknown one, her existence accessible only through speculative reconstruction of pre-Fall religious structure rather than through any surviving tradition or awareness.
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