Aeturan ave Greed

Child of Diamonds

  The third son, taking the form of living diamonds, and tasked with the intricate, delicate task of maintaining the world's stability, while protecting the lesser beings which inhabit it. A true enough task. He saw the beauty in this world and saw it as something to be protected. For a time, he served his purpose diligently, seeing his power as something to be given to the lesser beings in the form of his protection. Protection from that which they are not yet ready to know or harness. For a time, he believed he was giving his power freely, as a gift to the lesser beings, and was glad to do so. His siblings did not see it this way.   His eldest brother saw their protection as its own servitude to the lesser beings, and argued that because they were the greater beings, they should be the ones served. He saw his elder brother's logic, and after a time shared his views. It was he that named these lesser beings "Mortals," and now looked upon them with disgust.  

The Living Hoard

  He and his brothers presented themselves to the mortals, demanding they bend the knee and pledge themselves to the Aeturan. The mortals rejected the Aeturan, claiming Ymerah was greater. Outraged, the Aeturan sought to destroy the mortals. But the eldest brother tempered them, claiming there must be a greater deal of precision involved here. He watched his elder brothers craft and take the name of their sins, and decided he'd do the same.   His sin would give the mortals a desire to endlessly hoard beyond any measure of satisfaction. This would turn the mortals against each other, and incite violence, and destruction towards one another. It is this violence that would cleanse his world. This sin was named Greed, and this is the name he took for himself. In sowing the seeds of sin, and warping the hearts of the mortals, he warped his physical form. The diamonds which made up his body clouded, turning dark green, and erupted in green flame. Ashamed of what he had become, he created for himself a cloak that would conceal his face.   His father eventually returned to his world. When he did, he saw the destruction that engulfed the Aeturan's world, and the wicked forms they now take. Before their father could ask why they did this, the two eldest brothers lashed out at him, and Greed would follow, along with his younger siblings. All of them were banished to the next realm, the next void.  

A New World

  Like most of his siblings, Greed was furious when he was cast into the next void. However, when seeing how calm his eldest brother was, he became curious. Pride told Greed that this realm is identical to the void which was the previous realm before their father crafted his world. Because this void is identical, they can seek to replicate it. Pride demonstrated this by crafting two spheres of stone and fire, One larger, the other orbiting the larger one from its south to the north. His next elder brother, named Wrath pulled mountains from the surfaces of both spheres. Greed would fill the crusts of these spheres with gem, jewels, and metals that would alter the physical properties of many different places on these spheres.   His younger siblings would all contribute to this world's completion. Once they all had finished, they all looked upon their world's near perfection. The only way it could reach this perfection was if they again left their world for awhile, and let it flourish on its own. This is exactly what they did. When they returned, they saw the same mortals that infested their previous world infesting their new world.   He and his siblings look to their father, demanding to know why the mortals now infest their new world. Their father told the Aeturan how the sin they sowed grew into a hyper-destructive force that rotted the previous world from the inside out. He explained that no world crafted with love can withstand that much sin. As the Aeturan turned their gaze back to the mortals, their father sealed them off from direct interaction. He was their father, and he had this power over them. However, before their father could strip the sin away from the mortals' souls, the Aeturan sealed their world off from their Father's direct interaction. This was their world; their domain, and as such they had this power.   The Aeturan would implement methods of containment, preventing the mortals from expanding to the rest of their world, and planted seeds that would turn the mortals towards the Aeturan, as if the mortals actively sought the Aeuran, they could reach them. Likewise, the father of the Aeturan would indirectly interact with the mortals. A whisper in their minds that would turn them away from the Aeturan, and towards himself.   It is this great division that starts the War of the Aeturan. Both sides would have champions, and religious orders waring against each other. It is this war, and the sin that it creates that feeds the Aeturan.