Tjeva

The Tjeva are the ancestral Flameborn, the first to honor the Sacred Flame as a living triad:

• Oujeva (Ousujan) — Dark Flame, the veiled, shadow-keepers.
• Kajva (Khijan) — Light Flame, the radiant, masters of illumination.
• Tsuvaj — Heat Flame, the consuming, wielders of fire’s transformative force.
• Jivaj — Hearth Flame, the rooted, guardians of sacred earth-fire.

Together they formed the Harmony of Flame — shadow, light, heat, and hearth in divine balance. Over time, fractures emerged: Khijan became dominant, Tsujan militarized, Ousujan were marginalized, yet Jefue endured as a spiritual counterweight, preserving fire’s nurturing role.

• Sacred Fire as Whole — flame is not only weapon or light, but healer, guardian, revealer.
• Communal Flamekeeping — fire belongs to the people, not rulers.
• Cycle of Renewal — fire devours, yet makes fertile.
• Balance in Opposition — shadow/light, heat/hearth, always in dialogue.

The Tjeva pioneered firecraft and light-tech: obsidian forging, radiant crystal towers, lava-ink script, and resonance fire crystals. Jefue added flame healing and harmonics: ash-medicine, dreamfire rituals, and magma-resonance wards.

• Never extinguish another’s flame.
• Entering a home, offer a spark or ember.
• In Jefue lands, one must cross an Ash Glass Bridge barefoot to purify the soul before entering sacred space.
• Offerings are burned before acceptance.

• Oujeva wear shadow-silks and ember dyes.
• Kajva favor prism-threaded whites, silvers, and golds.
• Tsujan clothe in molten reds, obsidian armors.
• Jefue wear volcanic cloth infused with ashvine smoke, adorned with fire-scribed glyphs.

All Tjeva carry flame tokens—obsidian shards, fire-crystals, or vajroot charms—linked to their hearthline.

• Triadic Flame Temples (Dark, Light, Heat altars).
• Fire-caves with obsidian veins and radiant glass mosaics.
• Jefue’s Javutef (“Temple of the Everburning”), a lava-carved sanctuary with molten canals feeding the Eternal Hearth.
• Music is often resonant flame tones from magma-speakers and crystal-harps.

• Fire hoarding (keeping flame from community).
• False illumination (using light for unjust deception).
• Disrespecting eclipse rites (Dark Flame sacred time).
• In Jefue: spilling sacred ash or water near Vajren pools.

• The First Flame — birthed shadow and light, bound by heat, rooted by hearth.
• The Solar Bloom — prophecy that when all four Flames unite, the Sacred Flame will return in harmony.
• The Ash Covenant — Jefue’s pact with Mount Vajren, ensuring flame heals before it destroys.

Vajira the Flame-Seer — prophet who foresaw the fourfold harmony.

Suthan of Tsujan — weaponized flame, beginning the schism.

Eruja of Jefue — flame-healer who revived the dying with vajroot fire.

Avaril of Khijan — illusionist of radiant mirrors.

Tjamor of Ousujan — shadow-weaver who balanced flame and night.