Ovo

Ovo, or the Mother of the Denues, or the First Prophet, is a legendary figure in Villager Lore, and honored by members of some modern religions, namely Makerism/Gonfism and The Sunite Faith. She first appears in a series of ancient stories called the Player's Book, namely in one story called the Awakening of Wisdom and Her Visions. She supposedly appears in another, now lost, text called the Librarian and the Gold Snake Irodrial; also once featured in the Player's Book.
She was a Villager (also called Testificates) and lived in a time before Players came to inhabit her world, or at least were very few in numbers.
She is sometimes revered as the first ever prophet of the God of Makerism/Gonfism, or of the Gods in Villager Lore. She is featured prominently in the Codex Aetherni and in the Sunite Marhs. Her story was first written by StoneyStoner.
=== Stories ===
==== Authorship ====
The original author of Ovo's tale is unknown. It is said that enslaved or kidnapped Villagers were made to either transcribe ancient texts or tell their oral stories to their captors (who are typically identified as Rathnir's first Players), and this is where the story of Ovo comes from. It is said that in at least one ancient city, there was a stone pillar which featured the story of Ovo.
The first ever copy of the story in book and quill was made by StoneyStoner, the server's primary owner.
==== Awakening of Wisdom and Her Visions ====
She was a Villager who - according to legend - was blessed by a God (or the God) at conception. She would live a humble life as a servant girl in an unidentified tribe and town in a temperate area. The village is described as being at the foothill of a mountain where a temple lays. At a young age, her village would be attacked by another tribe called the Lightning Boys, who would kidnap the women of her tribe; including Ovo.
In the story, Ovo is then brought to a mesa (presumably where the Lightning Boys originate) and held captive before she tricks a young girl or baby who was part of the Lightning Boys tribe into setting her free by promising the child a golden apple - and Ovo is often written as killing the child thereafter.
After roaming for a long time in an attempt to find her homeland, the emaciated Ovo is taken by a wandering trader (who original texts call "Almighty's trustworthy palm") to a distant land for her to recuperate called the Pine tribe where she is sold to be the wife of a stonesmith. Ovo ends up escaping from her captivity in the Pine tribe after nine-hundred days by making a poison (presumably by finding a wither rose) and either killing the stonesmith outright or poisoning a horse - who then stampedes and kills the stonesmith in the process.
After escaping the Pine tribe, Ovo wanders the world for one year, specifically original literature says she wandered "sixty-nine biomes" in hopes of finding her homeland. She eventually finds the temple mountain near her home, where she finds an "old temple man" who was from her tribe, and presumably one of the few remaining there after the tribe's annihilation and enslavement by the Lightning Boys. The temple man instructs her to meditate and engage in various activities. One of these involved washing in a pond at the top of, or along the temple mountain. She does this, where she either falls into a trance or falls into the mountain, and meets a God (or the God) who forces Ovo to live the lives of all creatures and shows her how the world is divided. 
Specifically, original Villager Lore and modern Makerism/Gonfism divide the world into Twelve Heavenly Spheres; though in original texts about Ovo they are called "realms". By the end of this, she learns how to live a happy life and presumably learns how to "ascend", meaning that in death all peoples are judged (presumably by the/a God) and can either ascend or descend through the Heavenly Planes in accordance to the good-nature of your decisions and what you have learned in this life. Specifically, Earth (including Jagdas, Rathnir, and Eldham) are typically identified as being in the dead center of the Twelve Heavenly Spheres, with the Aethers being the dominions at the top where holy beings and where the God calls home, and the End being the lowest of the dominions and being where the most demonic creatures are forced to roam in punishment.
At the end of this, she tells the old temple man of all she had learned, specifically the story she told the man is a poem retrospectively called the Last Ways to Live. Some of these tenants include not judging others, living without fear and anxiety, not dwelling on "idle thoughts", eliminating material desires, accepting the subjectivity of your own mind, not comparing yourself to others or to God, not obsessing or addicting, forgiving others for it is not our job to judge; it is God's, and service to others. It is widely believed that by living these as part of your reality, one has the ability to ascend to the higher Spheres.
The old temple man then dies in the story, where Ovo buries him under a tree with berries and arrows. She told her story and the lessons she had learned from God (called the Almighty in the texts) to all people who would listen, had children, and gave good fortune and gifts to those she met as she traveled the world once more. When it was time for her to die in old age, she returned to the temple mountain where she meditated and "evaporated to dust"; likely implying that she had ascended.
==== Lineage of Denues ====
At the end of Awakening of Wisdom and Her Visions, it tells a bit about the genealogy of Ovo. It is implied she had more than one child, but her firstborn child was born in or from the Pine tribe and was named Delil. Delil's gender is unclear, but he would have at least one son named Galil, who in turn would have at least one son named Deneem.
It is said that the children of Deneem are "Chosen", and that this lineage would be called the Denues. Original scripture says that the Denues would go on to be the greatest scholars and rulers of the known world.
=== Location ===
The location of where the story takes place is controversial, but most people identify the legend as taking place in Rathnir. This means that most likely Ovo lived in Ummarnu, specifically in the plains and forests to the Southeast of the Ummarnu Mesa, near the modern city of Ubbercut. Furthermore, the mountain featured prominently in the story is most likely the mountain at Blyth Yanren. It is also likely that ever Ovo is held captive, she was brought to the forested cliffsides to the Northwest of the modern city of Ardat. This would also place the location of the "Pine tribe" as most likely being in Haven. Furthermore, the Denues likely led significant chunks of Ummarnu, and ownership over the Ummarnu Mesa may have made them very wealthy, contributing to the story's narrative that they would become great scholars and rulers.
File:Ovostory.png|Map made by Arika Ronango'O to roughly depict where the locations of Ovo's story would likely be given scriptural evidence; assuming the Rathnir hypothesis is true.
File:2022-04-09 11.01.28.png|The mountain at the foothill of Blyth Yanren, where some adherents of the Rathnir hypothesis believe Ovo - in ancient times - met with God and received their knowledge. This is also where the mountain pond and ancient temple would have been located in Ovo's story.
File:Ummarnu.png|Depiction of the Ummarnu continent, Ovo's story would likely take place to the Southeast of the Ummarnu Mesa in the small scattered temperate forests and plains should the Rathnir hypothesis be true.
Some have argued that the story instead takes place in Jagdas however, but this interpretation is unpopular as original scripture specifically makes mention that Ovo's dust upon ascension flew throughout Rathnir. If the story did in fact take place in Jagdas however, the mesa identified in the story is almost certainly the Redlands, in the East of Jagdas. This would place Ovo’s tribe in the region near the former cities of Bountwerk, Rovina, and Dunat; in the mountains and forests to the East of the Amir Desert and to the Northeast of the Redlands. This is also very near to where Crab Season would reside and controversially execute G0NF, who knew of and preached the Villager lore; those who favor this interpretation have argued that Crab Season may be the descendants of the Lightning Boys mentioned in Ovo's story. Furthermore, the site where Ovo was kidnapped to by the Lightning Boys and killed a young girl belonging to the tribe would likely be the region surrounding the former cities of Hashkee and Rovina in the Redlands. The Pine tribe would therefore likely be on the far East of the subcontinent/island where those towns reside.
File:JagdasMAPTheoel.png|Map depicting Jagdasian cities
File:2020-08-22 07.49.00.png|Image of the Redlands in Jagdas, where the Lightning Boys may have been based if the story took place in Jagdas.
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