Aurunism

Auranism is a term used by the Children to describe what they saw in their Creators, as each member of The Quartet bore these eyes without question. What these children saw was a "fire" that burned from the eyes of their gods. Though, fire is a strange term, it behaved in motion as fire should, though each of the Quartet's Aurun behaved differently. Vilorlith had eyes like the night sky, with a pale royal purple flame that ate the light. Alnya had pale green eyes that bored through everything she looked at but burned with a brilliant golden hue. While Kyln had eyes like a vast sea, his eyes burned with the light of a rising sun. Syn's eyes were pupil-less and the same color as burning coal more black than red, yet her eyes burned with true fire that shifted colors.

While the Fae spent eons trying to piece apart why the gods had chosen such an ostentatious signifier to their divinity, the gods would reply simply with it wasn't their choosing. The way they had built Namix led to the eyes being more than what they would first appear, and an irreversible design choice that would never be remade. Vilorlith was fond of saying "The eyes are gateways, always pay attention to them." The gods themselves were never noted to be saying what this fire was, only that it happened when anything ascended or was born as a god. A true marker that seemed to play a singular role, anything that processed this trait was unquestionably a potent being indeed.

A seeming reflection of the bearers abilities, or it could be said that it a figment of their personality. Questions raised more than answers, possibly something that will never receive an answer. However, it's not the gods who control this mark, for their Children are more than capable past a certain point or acquiring, and losing, this mark. Anlyth, First Son of Syn had eyes like his mother, yet his Aurun burned with a void like quality. Sucking in not just light, but sound and the ability to feel. Taneth The Navigator had eyes that burned with a golden light that mimicked his Mother's perfectly. A suggestion to what he strove for? An alignment of goals? A genetic effect? No one knows. While Y'vitol had eyes that were in stark contrast to his Father's. Where Kyln could be seen as a rising sun, Y'vitol's burn to this day with the light just before night.

There is another... A fifth brother to the Quartet. The Shadow, not to be mistaken with The Shadows. Vilorlith, after much painstaking question from her Daughter, Ilgor of the Skullbrood Clan, pried from her that his eyes burned blue, a crystal clear cerulean that reminded her of both an endless still sea and a box of mirrors. The same eyes that all The Eight Divines share, a fact that after she had learned it, was not lost on Ilgor or how she discovered the truth of the matter.

This is only seen on the Eight Divines of the current Pantheon, Azu, Azulu, Welkford, Bhal, Xelex, Koroth, Vilroeth, and Kinlith. All ubiquitously share the same eyes regardless of how they are seen, that of their shared origin and their stolen power. This is a feature reserved only for what the peoples of the world view as gods, and very very few individuals have ever displayed these eyes under incredibly unique situations. It should be also said that these instances were also perpetrated by potent Casters of their age.

The Sage of Huron: Emily Von Eule during the First Calphiti war after she consumed an Archon Stone. Old Sage: Atrimir Schafer when he too brought down a mountain range during the War with the Ramach. Mumit when he brought the knowledge of Necromancy into the world. The First king of the Dwarves: Ygul when he consumed an Archon Stone as he attempted to take back the Isle of Mhuzelt for the first time.

One notable outlier is Gjorn Fourth king of Dwarves, as he has never used an Archon Stone. Will display a Golden flame in his eyes that turn his pupils pale green when he is exceptionally angry. While the most recent member of this exclusive club of Casters is Ilgor of the Skullbrood Clan whose eyes burned a royal purple and her eyes changed to that of the night sky when she consumed a number of Archon Stones during the Galcian attack against her people.

Modern Casters have no Knowledge of the source of this phenomena, nor do the "gods" they know. Only that is a mark of prowess, to them at least. The Aurun is nothing more than a mark that denotes a moment in which a mortal is capable of utilizing an immense amount of power that could, if focused, change the fate of history or the face of an entire region. Though, to those living in The Elsewhere, it is a mark of closeness to their creators, a quite literal step toward true ascension.

It has been said by the Casters of learned backgrounds, particularly in Huron, a few points stand out that have no immediate explanation available to Modern Casters. Why the eyes at all? What does it actually signify, surely it isn't a recognition of something greater? Why does it leave a permanent mark along the eyes? Why does this seem to be exceptionally common for those that who capable of utilizing the Archon Stones? Regardless that the Stones are a critically understudied material, why does consuming them in their own unique way grant such power that the eyes of mortals resemble that of the gods?