Vdesh

The Vdesh are primordial beings and the first lifeforms to ever be formed by the Aaru. They are some of the most powerful beings in WUC.

## Design and Function

The Vdesh are celestial, high-dimensional beings formed from pure Aaru energies as sentries to any perceived threat to the flow of the Aaru. As of the creation of the Valkyr their role has been relegated to preserving the flow of the Aaru, even in the several branches of its great river. The Vdesh, like the Aaru itself, live in the Metaverse, a plane high above mortal comprehension, and exist in a constant state of being called the Riverri-Mind, where their consciousness, free will, and intent reaches beyond their form and links with the Aaru, where they understand what lies at the end of the Aaru river, and the true meaning of the ever-bending cycle as they free themselve completely from causality and fate.

The form that the Vdesh take are often too great and incomprehensible for the mind of a simple being to process, and only high-level Celestial beings, whom derive their power from but a small portion of the full flow of the Aaru, could even begin to understand the forms they take. In the rare case where they must intervene on the lower planes they often take on avatars in order to communicate. The Vdesh rarely express any sort of free will outside of preserving the flow of the Aaru.

## History

The Vdesh were formed from the Aaru when mysterious tremors in the void shook the stream and created off-shoots which created universes, prompting an automated defense mechanism which inadvertedly created the very first lifeforms to be created by the Aaru. Seeing as the Aaru would split into different streams and crystalize into universes, the Vdesh experimented with the idea of creating pseudo-Vdesh guardians for each universe in order to maintain their goal, toying with a concept that at that time they had no true understanding of: free will, in order to understand what that life was. Thus, by granting specific strong-willed individuals a portion of pure Aaru power and granting a single order - preserve life - the Valkyr would eventually be born in its first and most rudimentary form, being named Aldruidt. More Valkyr would come, composing the very first wave.

However Aldruidt's free will had downsides: as he was free to think for himself, he researched into the living beings he was protecting and realized that the sentience they had would eventually result in conflict, war, and death - and if he did not try to stem that, it would only lead to a repeating cycle of death for generations to come. Using his position as Valkyr to justify his position as judge, jury, and executioner, he rallied the other Valkyr to his cause and eventually would come into conflict with the Vdesh because of his radical beliefs, sparking the Precursor Turmoil.

### The Precursor Turmoil

The Vdesh were thrust into war against their own creation as Aldruidt ralled his forces against the Prime Universes and created his horde of ghastly beasts by shaping them from the energies of the Aaru. With the power he amassed from his constant bloodshed he grew to a state where even he would be a formidable foe for the Vdesh, them being unable to strike him from the stream. With all their options spent they had but one chance: to create a Valkyr embued with the power to rend the gods from the skies themselves. This God-Killer Valkyr, with the help of Aldruidt's former general Sparda, waged a one-woman war against the horde of the Beast of War, but even with her power she was unable to truly defeat him, only hold him back. Using this, the Vdesh came up with the plan to seal away Aldruidt and his corrupt Valkyr army in a giant rock and sent into a prison dimension, but not before Aldruidt would vow his return.

With the war over and the true nature of free will fresh on their minds, the Vdesh decided to seal away Aldruidt's teaching and attempted to erase him from their history, designating the First Valkyr as the true prime. They would attempt to make the second line of Valkyr unquestioning, unfeeling sentinels with only the base desire of protecting life to avoid Aldruidt's line of questioning: but their descendants would notably retain some manner of free will.