Six Ancient Gods

The **Six Ancient Gods** or **Primal Forces** were six powerful deities in the Eimarin pantheon. The Eimaranda Celestials and their descendants worship them as the source of all magic and the creators of the universe, but the Novantirnas also add that even the Six Forces were originally from "a greater power in black and white".

They are also worshipped by the Novantirnas, a civilisation influenced by the Celestials' culture.

## Members

All the six gods are male.

* Sarasvas - order. His domain is Hondortha, a realm of needle-like peaks.
	+ His colour is yellow.
* Ævāri - chaos. His realm is Ændoi, a valley of waterfalls flowing in odd directions.
	+ His colour is white.
* Surime - dreams, aspiration, life. His realm is Luxareia, a lush jungle.
	+ His colour is green.
	+ Surime was the most revered by mortals during the Eimaranda Empire, as he protected planets and their inhabitants from being enslaved or tortured by the Celestials. He also tended to inspire artists and seers in their dreams, usually by comforting or warning them.
* Vūrasa - heat. His realm is Vrōhasta, a volcanic wasteland.
	+ His colour is red.
* Axarka - cold. His domain is Surkatia, a frozen wasteland.
	+ His colour is blue.
* Zrūnda - death, silence, oblivion. His domain is Zōrūn, an arid plateau surrounded by darkness.
	+ His colour is black.

In honour of its pantheon, the number six was considered sacred to the Eimares.

Their realms were believed to leak a stream. The six streams of magic were combined at a pool that exploded and became the universe.

## Champions of the Six Gods

Some people are imbued with the powers of the Six Gods, and some people have successfully learned all six lores of the gods' magic. Some of these successful mages were directly used by the Six Gods as their agents, usually to guide powerful civilisations or stop a great threat.

* Hirandea - goddess of the fourth month. She was a dancer.
* Ilarjanda - sun god of the sixth month. He uses a colourful sun or fireball bearing magic from the Six Gods.
* Trimairas - god of the ninth month. He was a powerful sorcerer with a lantern as his weapon.
* Rusaloran - the eighth emperor of the Celestial Empire. He was killed in battle while fighting the mortal civilisation of Kurullun, but rebuilt by the Six Gods as one of their champions.

## Lore of the Six Gods

In the Celestial Empire, young Celestials were taught the Lore of the Six Gods as their basic lessons in harnessing magic. They were taught different spells from each of the Six Streams (respective magic from the Six Gods), to ensure that if they eventually choose one of the Six Streams, the other five will be less difficult to use.

By the time of the Eimarin Civil War, the Lore of the Six Gods has been replaced by two other forms of magic: the Thamunzar Lore, which focuses on machines, and the Hjokkunzar Lore, which distorts reality to the user's will.

Mortals can learn the Lore of the Six Gods, but because their souls have weaker powers compared to Celestials, they may take longer to successfully complete the basic aspects of the Lore. Certain atheistic cultures also practiced the Lore, but without certain rituals to invoke the Six Gods, their spells tend to be weaker.

### Specific powers

* Lore of Sarasvas - earth, metal, lightning, heavens, stars
* Lore of Ævāri - energy, gravity, time, storms, wind
* Lore of Surime - life, plants
* Lore of Vūrasa - fire, lightning, energy, plasma, light
* Lore of Axarka - ice, weather, water
* Lore of Zrūnda - shadow, death, earth

### Nine Lores

Some Celestials add two or three more lores to represent popular deities. Makravalas and Vrinxal represent the precursors of the Celestial Empire, and Odin for the supreme deity of the Celestials.

The Lore of Odin is more difficult to learn and risky, and the most dangerous and destructive of all the Nine Lores, yet it is very popular for being powerful and convenient for the well-trained.

* Lore of Makravalas - storms, weather, lightning
* Lore of Vrinxal - black holes, dark matter, physics
* Lore of Odin - stars, darkness, mind, sanity, dimensions, physics, astromancy
	+ Also known as the Ninth Lore, the Lore of the North Star, the Lore of the Heavens, the Lore of the Stars, the Lore of Midnight
	+ Mages who study under the Lore of Odin, or Eimarin lore by extension, are known as astromancers.

### Later Lores

* Lore of the Hjokkunzar - reality, dimensions, physics, colour, life, death
* Lore of the Thamunzar - machines, engines, metal, light, crystals, minerals

## Terminology

* Eimarin: Hjoxarokai
* Novantirna: Vrûsôraja, Jöksaročä
* Tuxavin: Darei-Surilon (Greatest Forces)

## Trivia

* The Six Ancient Gods were inspired by the Guardians of Time in Doctor Who. The realms of these gods were inspired by Yggdrasil, the world-tree of Norse mythology.
* The Lore of the Six Gods and its different forms of magical powers were inspired by the Lores of Magic from Warhammer. However, mortal sorcerers can also learn more than one lore without dire consequences, although the more a sorcerer uses one lore, the other lores become more difficult to master.

## See also

* Eimarin mythology
* Tuxavin mythology
* Saints of Siangwaan