Essences of the Elements

A small journal written by Volkhard of Presia.

This journal was read by Beatrix Qiroris on her return to Gerdulburg in Crossroads Season 2. She was able to copy a section of the journal shining some light on the Italti.

What Beatrix copied was verbatim and reads as follows:

## Meeting Urozio

"I met Urozio of the Jade Fox in Gerdulburg, a meeting I highly anticipated. This unique individual traveled with an impressive cadre, something for which I was not prepared as the two bodyguards had to wait outside of my small rented flat.

Her claim was that she was able to receive, or overhear as it were, thought forms from other planes of existence. One of her entourage stated this is because of her shamanic (sjamansk) mastery of the elements of Sun and Air, something Sta'abrian's cherish in their spiritual leaders.

Urozio claims she had a vision in which eight entangled serpents acted as roadways for those who would walk among them. On these eight serpents strode eight ancients who often shouted to each other in anger while others ignored what was being said. Some of the words shared between them, claimed Urozio, dealt with terms like Air, Sun, et cetera. Urozio claimed these referred to the elements and the discussion was of an argumentative nature.

In a subsequent vision, these individuals re-appeared and Urozio, with the help of their Sa'jai, was able to discern their identities:

* One spoke in a tongue of the Burgeis, the predecessor of modern Tunbrian and Aiglean. This one was called Meiqir by one of the others. Meiqir walked a black snake.
* Another screamed at a child, one of the eight, who was studying a soul 'wrapped in a black veil' and asked it questions. The screamer shouted in Old Ivirian 'in a distinct accent'. Urozio was able to reproduce the accent. To my ears, this was a south central dialect of Kal'Kyr of the Tor Ava'ri region, now present day Avar. Urozio said the child, called Domanaris, spoke to the other, calling it Melirix and told it to go back to Agasxi.  This is undeniably referring to the italti founder of what is now Avar. Melirix was said to walk a red snake.

During one of the seer's many rests, one of Urozio's assistants informed me these snakes were representative of the "Paths of the Snaking Elements", the Sta'abrian concept of reality being a ball of intertwined snakes who increasingly feast on the tail of another. Each snake represents one of the eight elements and those walking on them were attempting to ride them as one would ride and control a horse.

* The child, Domanaris, was sitting on a gold snake with orange eyes.
* A snake made of shadow mist wove in and out of the ball in response to each of the others' movements. The one who rode it was called Gred'Ghul and was chastised by another on a light blue snake. To my surprise, this one was called Sidrahele who may be the same oracle who is said to have entered Sythlia's mind.
* Two others, Starix and Gors Hylt, were astride a green and a white snake respectively. They maintained distance from the others according to Urozio.
* Sidrahele referred to the last one as Vuraelagus who was on a snake made of water and was told to intervene. Vuraelagus refused to be involved with many of them. This angered Melirix who frequently attacked Vuraelagus, but the latter was able to rebuke its attacks.

In the final words of the meeting, I gathered the following:

* Sidrahele, Starix, Gors Hylt, and Vuraelagus worked with each other in a positive fashion, sharing their "invested" elements.
* Meiqir, Gred'ghul, and Melirix grew jealous of this, claimed this was not of their original agreement and used Domanaris to record everything said. They also reviled each other.

Lastly, the corresponding elements according to the Sta'abrians:

* Meiqir - Void
* Gred'ghul - Moon
* Domanaris - Sun
* Melirix - Fire
* Sidrahele - Air
* Gors Hylt - Spirit
* Starix - Earth
* Vuraelugus - Water

It should noted the last four, presumably due to working together in some capacity or due to some arrangement, were able to walk each other's snakes.  What I've reported here was the current vision and it was explained these four have walked the paths of the others previously.

Lastly, Urozio assured me these eight are, in fact, italti and are quite active in the present.  She was also able to see tendrils in one of her visions that extended in one way or another from each to something or someone--a people or servitors perhaps--that suggests each are working with (or controlling) modern mortals. This is most disturbing to me.

When I inquired where these mortals may be found, I was disturbed to hear Gred'ghul 'reeked of the bloody earth'.  I asked if this was Mütvia and the seer nodded.  Most others are in their own demiplanes according to Urozio's entourage, this last piece as Urozio slept."