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houseofstrangeI had a meandering line of thought somewhat inspired by the general theme of one of my MCU ideas (not one I posted here, but I did post it on End Of The Line, about Steve and Bucky being repaid by a Fae princess for rescuing her during WW2, by her abducting them 60+ years later and sending them to a nice protected location).
Part of this calls back to the idea that the Kessír gods have become belief-based arcane manifestations. This particular situation is centered around the Kessír Goddess of Love and Pleasure.
In one of the older cities of the Nightlands, a city that predates Nightfall, and was originally founded by the Kessír, there is a large public garden, which has a large central gathering lawn with a pillar of arcane rose quartz at it's centre. Around this central lawn is a rambling path that meanders through elegantly landscaped trees, and hedges the weave in and out, through a significant plot of land. There is a central pathway through this strolling area, but also lots of secondary paths that branch off it, heading into the hedgery. Behind the hedges are an untold number of comfortable alcoves that people can find privacy in, all known examples of which feature pleasant floral plantings, a small decorative fountain, a semi-hidden bath hut, and a small arcane rose quartz pillar, usually located near the entryway.
These alcoves are the great mystery of the gardens. No one actually knows how many of them there are, any attempts to map the garden have failed as the internal dimensions seem to shift and change once one gets off the main walking path, and sometimes alcoves can appear and disappear from existence.
The reason why things are like this have been theorised by arcane investigators, and the best theory (put forward by Elená, of the Three Sisters) is that it is due to Kessír beliefs giving their goddess of Love life through their beliefs, and through some of the features of the gardens focusing those beliefs until they gained life.
The arcane rose quartz pillar at the centre of the gardens is a piece of Living Stone that stands around 12 feet in height, perhaps 3 feet at ground level.
It is a raw, unshaped crystal pillar of a light pink colour that glows from within with arcane energy, usually also showing small bubble of light floating inside it. This pillar is considered to be the abstract effigy of the goddess. The small uncut pillars found in any of the alcoves, typically (for all recorded examples) being only 3 feet tall and one foot wide at ground level, in turn are also considered lesser effigies of the goddess as well. Analysis by people with Stone-singing ability has revealed that the small pillars are definitely linked to the large one, and seem to channel psychic patterns to the larger pillar.
This seems to be a major way the goddess was empowered by believers, and still seems to be, to this day, long after the city's population had become a majority of humans.
The disappearing alcoves do not seem to be linked to the Fae Realms in any way, and even investigation by a Fae expert (Damián Russélaurë, in fact) showed that they seemed to repel Fae. Instead the alcoves seem to bob up and down, in and out of the Wild Arcane, the untamed in-between that is characterized as existing somewhere beneath the Fae Realms, beyond the Elemental layers, but above the Netherworld. Suffice to say it is the wild part of the Arcane that "Eldritch Entities" are most known to inhabit.
Best conclusion offered for all this data is that the gardens were a place of worship for the goddess in ancient times, and through the arcane crystals used as effigies for the goddess, belief was channeled into the Wild Arcane, eventually causing a catalyst point that brought into existence an entity, shaped by those beliefs. This entity continues to feed on the emotions fed to it through the garden, offering an endless number of alcoves for romantic and sexual assignations, which allow the entity to feed easily.
And sometimes people who enter these alcoves never comes out, vanishing out of the Mundane world, never to be seen again.
And the great pillar in the centre of the gardens gain another mote of light floating inside it.
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(All this to say once in a while a desperate couple who may be star-crossed lovers are saved from their fraught situation by the goddess pulling them out of the world and giving them a blissful, dreamlike existence of love and pleasure, in their hidden garden alcove.)
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26/10/20: So story happened, part is getting it's own post, because it's Networlds/MCU cross, but I am putting the more world-building lore here.
Elená considers it her fault the Temple Gardens someimes absconds with people. A brief glance above says Damián Russélaurë identified what was happeninng, but some time previous to that, very early after Nightfall, Elená visited the city at a point where it was still majority Kessír population and came across a situation.
In the time before Kessír culture absorbed much Quendár influence, the old traditions in their religion still existed, and of them was avatars. A child would be raised by the clergy, indoctrinated heavily with the beliefs, and at an apropriate age (usually in adolescence), would be put through an arcane ritual that would allow the diety to use them as a suitable form to interact with the Mundane world, presiding over ceremonies, rituals and festivals.
As an aside, I have come to the name Celanyi for the goddess.
The situation Elená came across was a conflict between the clergy of Celanyi and the avatar of the time, a girl name Melethiriel (a name that showed the early inflence of the Quendár), who had been inducted as Celanyi's avatar some years previous had hidden herself away in a magically blockaded garden alcove, along with a Morin Agar Kessír (Blood Elf of Black Elf race) who Melethiriel had seduced and and claimed as consort, eventually falling in love with him.
(Aside note: Mental image for Melethiriel - A Telpín Kessír with extremely rare rose pink coloured hair. This is the primary feature that resulted in her being chosen to be raised as Celanyi's avatar, since rose pink is Celanyi's key colour. As she was put through the avatar ritual in early adolescence (aproximately the equivilent of 14 - I haven't really settled on aging pattern for the Kessír, but I'm loosely placing them at 100 is adulthood, equivilent to 20-21 - so Melethiriel was likely around 70), all her following physical development was influenced by Celanyi, resulting in her growing to be enchantingly beautiful, with long wavy jewel-bright hair and of a very shapely figure, quite buxom, round-hipped and plump-bottomed for a Kessír.)
As Elená looked closer into the situation, she found out that Melethiriel had grown dissatisfied with her life, as being the avatar of Celanyi involved a lot of sex (an obligation to take the high priest as consort, various ritual and festival sexual relations) but very little love, at least for her, and her childhood had always been filled with tales of Celanyi blessing people with True Love.
When her new Morin consort had entered the Temple Gardens (he was part of an Agar invasion force in a recent conflict with the Morin Empire - this being during an era before the Agar had freed themselves from the Morin Empire), she had exercised the power of Celanyi to draw him in and keep him from hurting anyone, but as it turned out, he was a very young warrior and harboured doubts about both the Empire and the Agar, and the softness and pleasure offered by Melethiriel quickly made him reconsider the value of his loyalty to such cruel and harsh traditions.
Melethiriel utterly refused to return to being a public sex toy, and Elená, willing to help her, negotiated with the eldritch entity that was Celanyi and pulled the alcove Melethiriel and her love were sheltering in into Wild Arcane, creating the first of the pocket realm alcoves.
What Damián came to find a few centuries later is that Celanyi had been repeating that action when a couple who truly fit her mytho-mass came to the Temple Gardens. She particularly favoured star-crossed lovers situations, but also would take particularly passionate partners.
When Damián consulted with his aunt, she came to negotiate with Celanyi and an arrangement was established that Elená would make periodic visits and audit the couples Celanyi had absconded with to see if there were some particularly important people the goddess had grabbed. Elená's agreement was that she would not take all of Celanyi's "rescues" away from her, as some were legitimately safer in their arcane love nest, and being an eldritch entity formed and sustained by thoughts and emotions shaping teh Wild Arcane, these "rescue" cases help sustain Celanyi.
In the end, despite occasionally stealing away the occasional couple, Celanyi is predominantly a positive presence amongst the Eldritch Mytho-Entities of the Nightlands, and as the mistress of her own Eldritch mytho-mass, Elená has become a researcher into the nature of the cycle of belief and magic that they represent.
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ETA 18/4/21: An idea that came to me while once again thinking about the Nightlands Stucky fusion plot, is that after the first time Elená intervened in the Garden Temple and made an arrangement with Celanyi, she took a few small pieces of Celanyi's arcane rose quartz and ended up going to see her sisters. In the discussion over what Elená dealt with, the decision was made hat the three of them would spread around some of the crystals, because Celanyi needs a bit of a balancing influence, and exposure to longstanding marriages would give the mytho-mass of Celanyi a thread of what romance and love can be in a slower, more settled form.
However Losá also comes up with another idea to add onto that, opening a portal to the Sisters' hidden vault and coming back with a small grain of golden crystal. Losá's idea is that to grant Celanyi an even better understanding of the emotion she presides over, she should also have an understanding of it's sadder side, and to give her that, Losá will plant of of Celanyi's crystals at Andrel's tomb, with a small piece of Andrel's meteor crystal, so the avatar of Love can always understand what grief from lost love is like, so she may know better what she wants people to not experience.
Part of this calls back to the idea that the Kessír gods have become belief-based arcane manifestations. This particular situation is centered around the Kessír Goddess of Love and Pleasure.
In one of the older cities of the Nightlands, a city that predates Nightfall, and was originally founded by the Kessír, there is a large public garden, which has a large central gathering lawn with a pillar of arcane rose quartz at it's centre. Around this central lawn is a rambling path that meanders through elegantly landscaped trees, and hedges the weave in and out, through a significant plot of land. There is a central pathway through this strolling area, but also lots of secondary paths that branch off it, heading into the hedgery. Behind the hedges are an untold number of comfortable alcoves that people can find privacy in, all known examples of which feature pleasant floral plantings, a small decorative fountain, a semi-hidden bath hut, and a small arcane rose quartz pillar, usually located near the entryway.
These alcoves are the great mystery of the gardens. No one actually knows how many of them there are, any attempts to map the garden have failed as the internal dimensions seem to shift and change once one gets off the main walking path, and sometimes alcoves can appear and disappear from existence.
The reason why things are like this have been theorised by arcane investigators, and the best theory (put forward by Elená, of the Three Sisters) is that it is due to Kessír beliefs giving their goddess of Love life through their beliefs, and through some of the features of the gardens focusing those beliefs until they gained life.
The arcane rose quartz pillar at the centre of the gardens is a piece of Living Stone that stands around 12 feet in height, perhaps 3 feet at ground level.
It is a raw, unshaped crystal pillar of a light pink colour that glows from within with arcane energy, usually also showing small bubble of light floating inside it. This pillar is considered to be the abstract effigy of the goddess. The small uncut pillars found in any of the alcoves, typically (for all recorded examples) being only 3 feet tall and one foot wide at ground level, in turn are also considered lesser effigies of the goddess as well. Analysis by people with Stone-singing ability has revealed that the small pillars are definitely linked to the large one, and seem to channel psychic patterns to the larger pillar.
This seems to be a major way the goddess was empowered by believers, and still seems to be, to this day, long after the city's population had become a majority of humans.
The disappearing alcoves do not seem to be linked to the Fae Realms in any way, and even investigation by a Fae expert (Damián Russélaurë, in fact) showed that they seemed to repel Fae. Instead the alcoves seem to bob up and down, in and out of the Wild Arcane, the untamed in-between that is characterized as existing somewhere beneath the Fae Realms, beyond the Elemental layers, but above the Netherworld. Suffice to say it is the wild part of the Arcane that "Eldritch Entities" are most known to inhabit.
Best conclusion offered for all this data is that the gardens were a place of worship for the goddess in ancient times, and through the arcane crystals used as effigies for the goddess, belief was channeled into the Wild Arcane, eventually causing a catalyst point that brought into existence an entity, shaped by those beliefs. This entity continues to feed on the emotions fed to it through the garden, offering an endless number of alcoves for romantic and sexual assignations, which allow the entity to feed easily.
And sometimes people who enter these alcoves never comes out, vanishing out of the Mundane world, never to be seen again.
And the great pillar in the centre of the gardens gain another mote of light floating inside it.
***********************
(All this to say once in a while a desperate couple who may be star-crossed lovers are saved from their fraught situation by the goddess pulling them out of the world and giving them a blissful, dreamlike existence of love and pleasure, in their hidden garden alcove.)
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26/10/20: So story happened, part is getting it's own post, because it's Networlds/MCU cross, but I am putting the more world-building lore here.
Elená considers it her fault the Temple Gardens someimes absconds with people. A brief glance above says Damián Russélaurë identified what was happeninng, but some time previous to that, very early after Nightfall, Elená visited the city at a point where it was still majority Kessír population and came across a situation.
In the time before Kessír culture absorbed much Quendár influence, the old traditions in their religion still existed, and of them was avatars. A child would be raised by the clergy, indoctrinated heavily with the beliefs, and at an apropriate age (usually in adolescence), would be put through an arcane ritual that would allow the diety to use them as a suitable form to interact with the Mundane world, presiding over ceremonies, rituals and festivals.
As an aside, I have come to the name Celanyi for the goddess.
The situation Elená came across was a conflict between the clergy of Celanyi and the avatar of the time, a girl name Melethiriel (a name that showed the early inflence of the Quendár), who had been inducted as Celanyi's avatar some years previous had hidden herself away in a magically blockaded garden alcove, along with a Morin Agar Kessír (Blood Elf of Black Elf race) who Melethiriel had seduced and and claimed as consort, eventually falling in love with him.
(Aside note: Mental image for Melethiriel - A Telpín Kessír with extremely rare rose pink coloured hair. This is the primary feature that resulted in her being chosen to be raised as Celanyi's avatar, since rose pink is Celanyi's key colour. As she was put through the avatar ritual in early adolescence (aproximately the equivilent of 14 - I haven't really settled on aging pattern for the Kessír, but I'm loosely placing them at 100 is adulthood, equivilent to 20-21 - so Melethiriel was likely around 70), all her following physical development was influenced by Celanyi, resulting in her growing to be enchantingly beautiful, with long wavy jewel-bright hair and of a very shapely figure, quite buxom, round-hipped and plump-bottomed for a Kessír.)
As Elená looked closer into the situation, she found out that Melethiriel had grown dissatisfied with her life, as being the avatar of Celanyi involved a lot of sex (an obligation to take the high priest as consort, various ritual and festival sexual relations) but very little love, at least for her, and her childhood had always been filled with tales of Celanyi blessing people with True Love.
When her new Morin consort had entered the Temple Gardens (he was part of an Agar invasion force in a recent conflict with the Morin Empire - this being during an era before the Agar had freed themselves from the Morin Empire), she had exercised the power of Celanyi to draw him in and keep him from hurting anyone, but as it turned out, he was a very young warrior and harboured doubts about both the Empire and the Agar, and the softness and pleasure offered by Melethiriel quickly made him reconsider the value of his loyalty to such cruel and harsh traditions.
Melethiriel utterly refused to return to being a public sex toy, and Elená, willing to help her, negotiated with the eldritch entity that was Celanyi and pulled the alcove Melethiriel and her love were sheltering in into Wild Arcane, creating the first of the pocket realm alcoves.
What Damián came to find a few centuries later is that Celanyi had been repeating that action when a couple who truly fit her mytho-mass came to the Temple Gardens. She particularly favoured star-crossed lovers situations, but also would take particularly passionate partners.
When Damián consulted with his aunt, she came to negotiate with Celanyi and an arrangement was established that Elená would make periodic visits and audit the couples Celanyi had absconded with to see if there were some particularly important people the goddess had grabbed. Elená's agreement was that she would not take all of Celanyi's "rescues" away from her, as some were legitimately safer in their arcane love nest, and being an eldritch entity formed and sustained by thoughts and emotions shaping teh Wild Arcane, these "rescue" cases help sustain Celanyi.
In the end, despite occasionally stealing away the occasional couple, Celanyi is predominantly a positive presence amongst the Eldritch Mytho-Entities of the Nightlands, and as the mistress of her own Eldritch mytho-mass, Elená has become a researcher into the nature of the cycle of belief and magic that they represent.
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ETA 18/4/21: An idea that came to me while once again thinking about the Nightlands Stucky fusion plot, is that after the first time Elená intervened in the Garden Temple and made an arrangement with Celanyi, she took a few small pieces of Celanyi's arcane rose quartz and ended up going to see her sisters. In the discussion over what Elená dealt with, the decision was made hat the three of them would spread around some of the crystals, because Celanyi needs a bit of a balancing influence, and exposure to longstanding marriages would give the mytho-mass of Celanyi a thread of what romance and love can be in a slower, more settled form.
However Losá also comes up with another idea to add onto that, opening a portal to the Sisters' hidden vault and coming back with a small grain of golden crystal. Losá's idea is that to grant Celanyi an even better understanding of the emotion she presides over, she should also have an understanding of it's sadder side, and to give her that, Losá will plant of of Celanyi's crystals at Andrel's tomb, with a small piece of Andrel's meteor crystal, so the avatar of Love can always understand what grief from lost love is like, so she may know better what she wants people to not experience.
