Stoirm Gunainm

You live your happy life, with full stomach and no worries. You've no sight of the damage you lot flooded the land with! You've no heart and thought for other than your own!

— Gunainm

Stoirm Gunainm was not the real name of the person. It is but a placeholder for what remained of the memory of the boy leader of Tamers of the Void, who had a hand in shaping the world as it can be seen today. They were the instigators of adding a thirteenth root to the Tanitris in order to make the Tree of Tanitris and the Tanitris more stable and trustworthy. The boy was a true Master of the Void and was able to convince the Master of the Aeter to lend a hand in making the ritual even more accessible and safer. They initially made sure the tree has a thirteenth root. When that happened they unleashed the storm and the tragedy happened.

Background

Several thousand years ago, when the Tanitris was formed in Ædeos the very act of people interacting directly with the immaterial concepts caused the nature itself to adapt. This caused a series of events and in the first decades many casualties were observed. Normal people were not aware of the changes and did not understand them. This caused them to interact with the plants and the animals, previously harmless and eventually finding out that the world they once knew has once again become dangerous and unknown.

He, who brought the storm

One of the few things that remained after the boy was the fact that he stood behind the Stoirm Gunainm conflict, aimed at the destruction of the Tree of Tanitris, the city of Tanitris and cutting the connection between skalds and the Ædean Realm. Although he failed, the conflict addressed a problem that could not be overlooked -- progress cannot undergo at the expense and mishandling peoples lives. The Architect made changes stabilizing the Tree of Tanitris and the Gathering ritual was modified to maximize the influence of the people on the choice of the skalds taking part in the ritual. The boy's name is lost to the history as is his destructive nature. The memory of the deed itself lives, a harmless story, cleaned of all the horrors.

He, who brought the change

Only later, after this boys death with the Tree of Tanitris clinging into the Void and many casualties among the Masters of the Void, was the practice modified. The people chosen for the ritual would be chosen from those, who influence their surrounding the most, so afterwards (after the ritual, when the new knowledge was gained) they would be the source of the new knowledge to those who reverd/looked up to them. The process was much slower but more stable too. Eventually the new system grew on people so much it would be very difficult to shake off. The new concept was deeply rooted within the Sáveni and forms a great part of their culture, irrespective of the tribe.

Alternative versions of the story

The memorable deed

The boy took part in the ritual and killed the sentinels of the void. Then using the Æter, he caused the tree to slowly disassemble the city of Tanitris. He was stopped by the currrent Master Tamer of Æter, who sacrificed the boy and several other people, not only those who wanted the ritual destroyed, who stabilised the decay just enough to keep the Tree of Tanitris stable and alive. It was a long and difficult task to run the ritual afterwards as the tree was rooted partially into the Void and so using the new route was bound to clear the mind of the person entering through it. But even that was eventually overcome. And all that was due to one boy, who wanted to change the world. And change it he did!

He would never be remembered. He would be lost in the entire memory. It is possible to get some information from the Ædeos itself but people are very relluctant to do this as his very name could become a source of the idea and bring it back to life in one for or the other. The idea to destroy the stability.

— A stranger