Xulas

Xulas, or The Dark One, or Spirit, is an unknown heavenly being referred to extensively in the Fifth Dawn of Whispers. Aelona produced numerous accounts of visions and conversation of and with Xulas. The figure, however, is separated from the concept of Taleldil, whom is mentioned by name as a figure in heaven, and of Redeemer Avetas, referred to in both the corporeal and ethereal sense as a rival of Aelona's. In Fifth Dawn Xulas is presented as an observing heckler of Aitah and the Light. Xulas supposedly played the Satar board game Kalis with Aelona, but never defeated her.
There are many interpretations in Aelonist theology on the nature of Xulas. The majority of theologians of the religion pass the being off as unknowable, for Aitah did not know, and thus potentially related to one of the many Path endings to the Faith. Few theologians promote the theory Xulas is a being known to foreign death cults, yet to be described by the civilized world.
==Etymology==
The being's name is never directly given. The word Xulas, from the root Xul, the Satar word for black, means Being of Blackness/The Dark One. As Whispers is written primarily in the Satar script, many names given to heavenly beings use simple Satar naming conventions.
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