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Aleph

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“The supreme power who made the angels after Myr Tariniel fell”

Appearance§

Aleph is a voice and a power in Skarpi's tale rather than a depicted figure, and no physical description is given. The only visual associated with him is what he bestows: when he speaks the angels' long names they are wreathed in white fire that dances along their wings, flickers in their eyes, fills their mouths, and finally settles on their foreheads like silver stars.

Description§

Aleph is the supreme power in Skarpi's creation-era tale, the figure the surviving Ruach come to after Lanre and his Chandrian sack Myr Tariniel. He spun the world out of the nameless void and gave everything a name, and is counted among the three greatest namers, alongside Iax and Lyra. Aleph speaks the long names of the Ruach who accept his offer, wreathing them in white fire that makes them swift, lets them see into the hearts of men, fills their mouths with songs of power, and settles on their foreheads like silver stars, remaking them as righteous, wise, and terrible angels with paired wings of fire and shadow, iron and glass, stone and blood. These angels, Tehlu and Andan among them, are charged to go into the world and punish or reward only what they directly witness. Selitos refuses Aleph's gift and founds the Amyr instead. Tehlu is treated as merely the foremost of Aleph's angels rather than a god in his own right.

Relationships§

  • Greatest Namer Naming — Spun the world from the void, gave everything a name, among the three greatest namers
  • Fellow Namer Iax — Counted among the three greatest namers alongside Iax and Lyra
  • Refused By Selitos — Selitos refused his gift and formed the Amyr instead
  • Created Tehlu — Tehlu is the foremost of his angels, not a god in his own right
  • Aids After Myr Tariniel — The surviving Ruach come to him after the sacking of Myr Tariniel
  • Fellow Namer Lyra — Counted among the three greatest namers alongside Iax and Lyra
  • Transformed The Ruach — Spoke the long names of the Ruach who accepted his offer
  • Featured In Tale Skarpi — The supreme power in Skarpi's creation-era tale
  • Created Andan — Andan among the Ruach transformed into his angels
  • Created Angels — Spoke the Ruach's long names and remade them as his angels in white fire

Established facts§

  • Aleph is the supreme power in Skarpi's creation-era tale, whom the surviving Ruach come to after the sacking of Myr Tariniel.
  • Aleph spun the world out of the nameless void and gave everything a name.
  • Aleph is counted among the three greatest namers, alongside Iax and Lyra.
  • Aleph spoke the long names of the Ruach who accepted his offer, wreathing them in white fire that made them swift, let them see into the hearts of men, filled their mouths with songs of power, and settled on their foreheads like silver stars.
  • The transformed Ruach, Tehlu and Andan among them, became Aleph's angels, made righteous, wise, and terrible.
  • Aleph gave the angels paired wings: of fire and shadow, of iron and glass, of stone and blood.
  • The angels are charged to go into the world and punish or reward only what they directly witness.
  • Selitos refused Aleph's offer and chose instead to form the Amyr.
  • Tehlu is one of Aleph's angels, its chief or most prominent, not a god in his own right.

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