Setakkaari

Setakkaari is an prospective event of Saaramurya whereby the kelte beleive their land shall play host to an almighty war that will destroy their province. The belief is brought about by the turbulent relationship between the empyreans Torvonyyn and Kaastenmui, whom share their patronage. Their ethereal quarrels have in the past led to their influence spreading to Lamaria, and attempting to divide the kelte. Whilst the apocolypse imagined has never come to fruition, it is the dread of many a kelte that come to see a time where their empyreans drive them against their kin.

## Lemaarin

The Lemaarin (with roots in kelte words for *fight, quarrel,* or *challenge*) are events in Saaramuryan history where evidence has been witnessed of a rift between the two empyreans. There have been two types of Lemaarin- Sul and Kar. A Sul Lemaarin is where the feud or schism effects the kelte and brings the people to action, whereas the Kar Lemaarin is something that witnessed that does not escalate to the Plane. There have been three Sul Lemaarin, and two Kar Lemaarin

### Sul Lemaarin

#### The Vaahnetiin (March of the Vaahne) - 1450

Torvonyyn felled the eye of the helix to fall flush with her valleys to place a new order of peoples, and to make site for a capital. These peoples are the first kelte to be considered royal. This angered Kaastenmui, whose ridges she had flattened for this goal. 1450. She touches every kelte still residing on the ridges and offers instruction to attack the capital. Most disobey, believing it wrong, but some attack. Torvonyyn gathers her own forces- who are much more willing to help defend the royals. There is a short battle, followed by quick surrender of kelte following Kaastenmui. The defending kelte make to execute those survivors who had marched on the royals, but Kaastenmui, as reward to those faithful, placed her mark upon them, and they were spared. In reconciliation, Torvonyyn allows Kaastenmui to raise the Pillar in the centre of a land, and to name it: Vaahneheim, land of Heimul and Vaahne

#### Ilvaan i Kaltilvaan Synnen (Night of the Midnight Suns) - 1874

Torvonyyn gazed out to lands west, lands that were left barren by the Vande, and decided to lead her people out onto the peninsula to grow. She descended above the Plane, and shone in the sky, a beacon to kelte, and the kelte saw he glimmering in white, and they followed her star. But Kaastenmui had watched the conquest of the Vande with more interest, and more disgust, and upon realising the plans of her sister followed, and as midnight broke, a second star lit up the Saaramuryan night, blue as sapphire, above the city in which she had raised her pillar. The kelte began to divide, choosing an allegiance of their own, for their heriatage of ridge or valley was largely bred out and forgotton. Two peoples assembled, the Volklitorn (the Blue Army) and the Ullit i Skrykers (Peoples of Skrykers). Though the kelte were not present when Lamaria fell to the hands of the Vande, they knew the word Skryker to be profane.

What followed in the days to come was known as the Heryyn Voldder (The Silent War), for to army met to lay blow upon the other, but the blue and white sun grew brighter, and as they did, more kelte stepped towards it, and as the other grew brighter still, kelte swayed the way of it instead. After three days and nights, both the Volklitorn and Ullit i Skrykers cowered, for their eyes could not bear the sight of the sky, and Kaastenmui realised this. She descended further, and beneath Torvonyyn's radiance her peoples glowed blue, and they screamed as one as Kaastenmui showed them the pain caused by the Skrykers, and they realised they wanted nothing to do with such a place.

#### The Helkalaaka Riksu (The Leviathan Conflict) - 2257

During the Leviathan Cataclysm, the goddesses were at conflict once again when Torvonyyn wished her peoples to go and aid Lamaria in felling the beasts, whereas Kaastenmui, seeing the great monsters, deemed it too dangerous. Upon overhearing Torvonyyn descending to the Pillar to instruct an army go and aid against the Kaloth-Aer, the Scorpion, in Nard-Assa, Kaastenmui descends and wraps a barrier across the Velgen Pass to prevent kelte passage in order to protect them, for she wishes only for their safety. The kelte however, imbued by the words of Torvonyyn, attack the barrier, and with darts from the blessed Lylypaivan Iosa manage to harm the empyrean so that it relinquishes its ward. When the kelte reach Nard-Assa, however, Kaloth-Aer has already been dealth with.

Angered by her people laying arms against her, Kaastenmui falls upon the travelling faction, and as punishment revokes their gift of bearing children. This leads to the formtaion of the Torvonyyn Murin, the Church of Torvonyyn, that actively reveres the White Lady and dennounces Kaastenmui. This is formed by those cursed by her, and by close relatives who take it upon themselves to continue to church, since the founders cannot bear heirs themselves.

One kelte by the name of Laurila goes to petition to Torvonyyn that he was cursed by following in her name, and requests the gift back that Kaastenmui took. Torvonyyn says he must return to the Murin and request it is closed, for though her and her sister have disagreements, she wishes no harm upon her. Laurila returns and states the church must be closed, as it is going against Torvonyyn's wishes, too. It is discovered he went alone to petition before the goddess at the Pillar, and they imprison him.

### Kar Lemaarin

#### The Erovolk Synilvaan (The Blue-White Star) - 1502

It is unknown whether feud or embrace, for no word of such events were ever transcribed to the kelte. On the point to the spire that was the Pillar of Saaramurya a glow descended, and it spun and glimmered with a speed and energy never before seen by the kelte, and so fast it whorled that the sapphire and silver were barely percievable as serperate elements. so large it was that it filled the sky above the Mariaahne, and above Vaahneheim, and from the far reaches of the Iosa it could be seen. But linger only an hour, it did, for then it reascended towards the Heavenlands, and as it reached the ceiling of night, the twins were flung free, and each fled into glimmers to retake their place alongside the empyreans.

#### The Cladless Twins - 2470

Upon the Ero Iosa Torvonyyn places a huge statue of Kaastenmui, naked and humiliating. People of the nearby cities Laarkenkiin Avi and Porivuulu come to see, and word spreads, and soon people flock from all over Lamaria to see cladless statue, for it is carved by a goddess beyond the skills of kelte, and is most lifelike.

As retallation, Kaastenmui erects a statue of her own, a frivolic and temptuous depiction of Torvonyyn outside the city of Syyneheln Tul in the heart of the Lylypaivan Mountains. The valley has a rich mining community and is a well of uneducated people and lowlives, and it is a slight greater than the first statue that she should be exposed before such people. There is much confusion about why these statues have been carved, but the kelte wish not for another Sul Lemaarin. So before events can escalate, an order is sent for both statues to be torn down. They were both shattered, save the heads, which were mounted side by side inside the Mariaahne palace.

It is unknown what caused the conception of the initial statue, but the event is referenced much by historians and theologists about how the maturity of men and women can transcend that of their gods, and the tale is used as a parable to promote humility.

## Nature of Setakkaari

There are six main ideas prophesised about what form Setakkaari will take when it comes, and what sort of apocolypse the Twins will deliver to them.

#### The Great Drought

One of Tovonyyn's greatest prides is the beauty of the lakes and rivers that fall into her valleys. It is theorised that if Kaastenmui becomes adequately destaught, she will drain or move them and rid Torvonyyn of her joy. There are other things that either goddess value more, but the adbsence of a water source would have the most devastating effect on the kelte.

#### The Irresistable Kinslaying

As was evident in the Vaahnetiin- the first of the Lemaari- the goddesses have to influence to be able to mould and movve the wills of peoples. In the Vaahnetiin, the kelte were split and set against each other. There is a fear of this occurring on a much larger scale, on which the two armies would wipe each other out.

#### The Earth-Shattering

It is told of in the very beginning how Torvonyyn felled the valleys and Kaastenmui raised the ridges in complete harmony, and ever after each has considered their work their realm, or portion, of Saaramurya. It is told by scholars that to destroy such an understanding would be to destroy that which the understanding stood for, and by extension, to destroy the terrestrial forms created before the first kelte was placed. It is told that Saaramurya would be transformed into a sea in a storm, the ridges and valleys thrown into tumultuous waves of soil and rock as each sough twin fought for dominion over that valued by the other.

#### The Arena of Gods

There will become conflict so great that the goddesses will war with each other. They will descend to Lamaria and Saaramurya will become their battleground. The kelte will be innocent bystanders and engulfed in the collaterol as the empyreans clash with no restraint, with eyes of only the fury against their foe.

#### The Death-Pickings

An idea that individuals favoured by one goddess be brought to harm or slaughter by the other. The effect of this would be to trigger a neverending retalliation which would see the favourites of both empyrean caused premature end by the other. This would grow from individuals, to cities or culture, with the death-hand falling upon whole townships at once. Philosophers believe this would result in kelte renouncing the gods and removing themselves from society in the hope they would fall in rank of populatiry amongst the gods, something that is likely to anger the twins more, and turn them even more volotile. But even if many survive by abandoning the values and civilisation of the kelte, it is still seen as a long way back to rebuild a fallen land without the help of the empyreans.

#### Empyreal Arbitration

The idea that the Empyreal pantheon will grow concerned that the actions of the Twins will endanger their people, not just the kelte, and will therefore isolate them from the Plane. Though not an apolcolypse, it would still be seen as the end of days in Saaramurya, for despite the incidents caused, there is still a strong love between the kelte and their goddesses, and still a dependance on them.

Lost World was first thought to be Empyreal Arbitration by some, before it was learnt that all the people's patrons had vanished.

## Records and Literature References

#### Teaching sof Civilisation, Solvid - 1920

*"We die only when our brains no more thread ideas like beads onto a string. And we do not truly die then, for those ideas are given to our children, and our kin, and they take our thread and they tie it into a knot, and only when their hands can no longer pull and their fingers no longer twist do they die. But their offspring will sieze the knots, and they will observe and judge them, and only when they can no longer tell the bad knots from good do they die. And the next generation will take the good knots, and they will start hanging them, hanging them on a monument they will not live to see fruition of. And then others will come, and they will climb higher, and they will place more knots, and the monument grows. And it will keep growing, on and on, until the plates of the earth are lifted from under our feet and every thread our anscestors strung with beads are blown back into oblivion....*

*And then another comes. Another always comes. And they will take a thread. They will find a bead."*

#### Battlecry of Tollin, Captain of the Leviathan Army - 2258

*"Relinsquish your hold of us! You have no say in our allegiance. Surrender the pass, surrender our passage, for we are not your prisoners. Nor are we many, nor battle-hardened. But yield not, and we shall strike you and your barricade til our shoulders scream. We shall strike til our blades fall from their handpieces. We shall strike til we are plucked from this world by your reckless carnage and the Setakkaari comes crashing down! Let us pass!"*

#### Queen Avuude - 2745

*"A plan is time spent sculpting but a version of what is to happen. And why waste the time when the Twins are to be done with us anyway?"*