Makravalas and Vrinxal

**Vala Makravalas** (or Makravala) **and Vala Vrinxal** are two gods that existed during the Celestial Age.

## Appearance

Makravalas was a man with purple-green hair and a beard, wearing a golden suit of armour. Vrinxal was a woman with blue-white hair.

Makravalas rides on a golden fish-dragon known as a zandalxas, named Makaravos. Vrinxal rides on a horrific wyvern known as a zrīdalxir, named Kirottal.

## History

As the Celestials settled the Galaxy, a purple star appeared outside the Galaxy, out of which two gods emerged into existence: Makravalas and Vrinxal. The two deities built a pavilion out of dark matter, where they observed the newborn Galaxy as stars lit up its arms. That pavilion was known as the Valararairun, the Million Lanterns.

The two gods fell in love and produced a son, Sulovanda. For five years, they raised their child as he grew into a young men. As they felt lonely, the two gods visited a fleet of Celestials, who trained Sulovanda to be a warrior. Impressed by his magical prowess, they suspected that their student was not a Celestial like them, so they brought him to Heaven, where he and his parents knelt before Odin and Frigga in the palace of Valhalla.

Odin trained the young man for several days: during his training, he was impressed that his student was able to wield so much magical power, so he brought the man before those Celestials, who bowed before the one-eyed god. Odin crowned Sulovanda as the first emperor and leader of those Celestials, and gave him a task: he was to establish a kingdom at the Galaxy to defend it against the monsters of Chaos.

At the same time, Makravalas and Vrinxal had nine other children: four sons and five daughters. Among them were two sisters, Vjarasanda and Virinxala, who contrasted each other by the former's aggression and the latter's emulation of her mother. They were sent to Asgard and Vanaheim to be trained like their brother Sulovanda.

For 129 years, Sulovanda waged many wars against the other sixty-three Celestial nations to unify the Galaxy. His parents were among the many gods who visited his second coronation as emperor of the Galaxy. Decades later, he built a stable civilisation as he led counter-attacks against the horrors of the Void. He wanted to exterminate them, seeking to attain more power quickly, so he conducted a great ritual to turn himself into a god.

Makravalas, Vrinxal, and Odin told him not to do it, as it will eventually destroy him, but he had already finished the ritual. It happened as the gods warned him: the ritual caused Sulovanda to explode, scattering his essence in a great inferno. Grieving from the demise of their son, Makravalas and Vrinxal flew to the western edge of the Galaxy, where an army of monsters and demons besieged and devoured many worlds. They unleashed a great storm, tearing the demons to pieces with their lightning bolts.

Odin visited the two parents with several machines filled with the essence of their son. He instructed the gods to take down the robots to extract their son's essence. After several failed attempts, they instead created four young boys who had no memory of Sulvantharas nor his magical powers. The boys instead embraced the two parents and their brothers and sisters as their family.

As soon as Sulovanda killed himself, his wrathful sister Vjarasanda immediately marched towards the Galaxy and claimed the throne for herself, as she was very angry and disappointed by her brother's recklessness. As empress, Vjarasanda led an army towards the contaminated western edge of the Galaxy, where her forces slaughtered many demons. Her campaign led her to three floating castles, where she slew each of their leaders: the third demonic overlord was torn apart by her bare hands.

### God of the Novantirnas

Many years later, a certain tribe of grifajes venerated Makravalas as their guardian, and Vrinxal was worshipped by one of the Nine Noble Houses of the Celestial Empire. The Nine Noble Houses were obliterated by the Anevondir Empire, and the grifajes were taken away from their doomed homeworld to a paradise planet far away in the galactic northeast. Amused by that tribe's veneration of him, Makravalas visited the tribespeople on a cloud. He laughed, and out of his laughter, a creature was created as his gift: the hirhueh Makaravos the Younger.

Henceforth, for his creation of the hirhuehtre, the other Novantirnas worshipped him as the Father of Dragons, a god of happiness and joy. He is venerated alongside Lumbariz and Odin as one of three popular or supreme deities, the Three Holy Kings. In Novantirna, he is known as "Makrovala" and "Uehtäidra" (Father of Dragons).

## Mythology

Makravalas and Vrinxal are believed to live in a palace underneath a cosmic ocean or an ocean planet.

They are served by various dragons, merpeople, lizards, and sea wights. Various archaic sea and marine deities are considered as their saintly officers, the guardians of the waters and space. Among them include Ömbaikra, the old Sadravaen god of the wind, seen as his lieutenant who leads an army of gulls, wind wights, and dragons.

## Worship

### Celestial Empire

Makravalas and Vrinxal were worshipped by the Eimarin Empire as national symbols. The 13th day of the 13th month (the birthday of Sulovantha, his son), and the 9th day of the 29th month, were holy days to these two gods.

Makravalas was worshipped as the more popular of the two in times of peace; and in disaster or war, Vrinxal was invoked. Vrinxal became the patron goddess of one of the Nine Noble Houses, so its captains honoured her by wielding magical scythes into battle.

In some forms of early Eimarin magic, Makravalas and Vrinxal were used as two additional sources of magic aside from the Six Powers, represented by the colours white and black. Makravalin magic consisted of storms and lightning, while Vrinxalin magic consisted of dark matter and black holes.

### Malendor Supercorporation

In the Novantir (or Malendor) religion, Makravalas and Vrinxal were worshipped as the rulers and founders of the Celestials, whom they referred as Imar. In earlier times, monarchs of the Novantir civilisations used to worship Makravalas as the sources of their authority and the magical energies of their realms. The Novantirs refer Makravalas as the Father of Dragons, and Vrinxal as the Mother of Wyverns. In honour of him, many reptilian species - feral or sentient - are venerated and protected in Novantir society as "dragons", blessed symbols of the storm god.

The constellations of Kândandä (Trident) and Sakâhal (Sea Dragon) on Novantir's night sky are holy, as they are dedicated to him. Each of them are represented by a golden hirhueh or a dragon holding a trident in his claws, wearing a pointed crown and with a blazing halo around his head.

Temples of Makravalas and Vrinxal tend to be surrounded by canals or are located near bodies of water. In Rukthaneh superstition, it is considered unlucky for the newlyweds to go swimming on the wedding day, even more so if they defile any holy water, for it dedicates their resulting children permanently to the sea god. Worse (or better yet), the children will turn into dragons!

It was Makravalas who cursed the foolish aristocrat Mimarithsoz with becoming a dragon, his favourite animal that the latter feared very much. But to the sea god's glee, it turned out to be his greatest gift to Mimarithsoz and his whole family, as being dragons allows them to carry a bit of his holy power against the undead that infest the planet's caverns. The undead fear and hate the Razuklanos, so no matter how many Razuklanos they were able to kill and eat, their enemies end up becoming stronger. Each and every hunt undermined the dominance of the undead over Rukthan, making that world a safer place for all virtuous and adventurous mortals.

Millions of years later, the Celestials of the Tuxavins' home universe still worshipped Makravalas and Vrinxal.

## Legacy

Makravalas is not often venerated by the Novantirs, but he is worshipped by the southern Novantirs as Sugalrih.

The symbol of Makravalas is a six-pointed star surrounded by two hirhuehtre, above a trident. The symbol of Vrinxal is an octagonal cloud holding a black orb, accompanied by two scythes.

Vrinxal's sacred steed, Kirottal, became the basis of a sacred harp known as the kïrönti. In Novantirna religion, Kirottal is depicted as a huge black or silver bird with the head of a dragon or lizard.

## Abilities

Makravalas can control darkness, shadows, storms, nebulae, and black holes. He can shoot lightning bolts.

Vrinxal can take away mortals' vitality and shape dark matter. She can also shoot lightning bolts.

## Trivia

* Makravalas may have been inspired by Gamzee Makara from Homestuck, with Varuna and Poseidon. Vrinxal may be influenced by Vriska Serket and Hekate. Makravalas' steeds, the two Makaravoses, were most likely influenced by Adagio Dazzle and fantasy dragons.
	+ Makravalas may also resemble Bahamut from Dungeons and Dragons, as both deities are associated with good dragons, justice, and righteousness.
* Makravalas' title, "Father of Dragons", may have been inspired by the title "Mother of Dragons", which is used for Daenerys Targaryen from A Song of Ice and Fire. Vrinxal's title is instead "Mother of Wyverns".
	+ Amusingly, "Mother of Wyverns" is also used by fans of ASoIaF and Game of Thrones, because Daenerys' three dragons are considered as wyverns because they only have two legs!
* Makravalas' weapon was a trident or a spear, and Vrinxal's weapon was a scythe.

## See also

* Novantirna mythology
* Eimarin mythology
* Eimarin calendar
* Tuxavin mythology
* Loong