Patet-Aspectu

Lady of Truth

**Patet-Aspectu**, (pronounced /pɑːtɪt-ɑːspɛktʌ/) the deity of Truth, she is seen as a very neutral being. A passive observer of life and the world, attempting to not influence the world. She is the twin sibling of the God, Mendacium the God of magic and change. Though they are constantly at odds. She is most famously worshipped at the Vitryme Wall, an ice mirror that reveals the truth.

They are often represented as a humanoid female figure of sublime beuaty, however they are never represented with definitive facial features, usually leaving a blank face. Often in the north of the continent this is depicted streaked with tears. In most depictions and present at their shrines is usually a large mirror. Supposedly this represented the untarnished reflection of the truth of the world. Shrines to this seity are often decorated with writings of history, poems and stories, in books and scroll. Often dedicated shrines have preists singing memorised tunes and reciting writings, some with their true understanding lost to time.

## Key Mythology

### The Birth of the Twins

The gods Patet-Aspectu and Mendacium became part of the world at the same time, often described as conjoined twins, that seperated later in life. Both the product of the continuous battle between Astifinun and Finitus. Though born at the same time they have very different veiwpoints. Patet-Aspectu famously fell in love with the world, wanting to see all it's parts, stories, songs and sights. They sought to preserve all the worlds parts in their memories, some say she perserves them in the glass of their mirrors. In sharp contrast, Mendacium despises all the imperfections present in the world, and resloved themselves to change the world and create perfection. In order to do so he forged the first ways to change the world, an art that is now known as magic. Patet-Aspectu despises this worldview and her brothers attempts to change the world and thus started the feud between the siblings that supposedly continues to this very day.

### The Vitryme Walls Creation

It is said that the wall was forged in tragedy. When Patet-Aspectu was brought into existence by the conflict of Finitus and Astifinun, it is said that she looked at the world, falling into and out of substance, and fell in complete love with it, wanting to know every aspect of it's beautiful form. They would spend their time from moonrise to moonset conversing with all the other beings of Cavea Nocturna, gathering their stories of the world. One day she came across a being that knew many things of thee world, a creature with 5 closed eyes. They told her of the beauties of the ice to the north of creatures so magnificent. In a flurry Patet-Aspectu went further and further north, looking for this wondeful land described. They navigated the world once and tried again looking and looking for this land of beauty. After searching for this land for decades, she came to the realisation, that there was no land up north of beauty, it did not exist. SHe was broken by this lie, crushed by the truth that only she could see, and soon she began to cry, and as her tears fell, they froze forming land, that expanded from her, expanding out into a beautiful frozen landscape, right where she'd fallen to tears there was a lege group of the ice, tears that held the realisation of the truth had frozne into a steep wall, a wall that would forever know the truth.

*"The crystallisation of tears upon the tragic truth, shall tell the others of all tragedies, if they are to look for them" - Text from an old scripture*