Aebaster

The celestial bodies created by Ácolitus at the beginning of Olûn, the era of darkness, did not take form nor mature for centuries after their birth. They were bright bursts of energy in a great blanket of darkness. The Creator was pleased with his creations and dwelled among them and their beauty. Over the course of centuries, they matured, growing with energy and intensity. One day in history beyond recording, one of the celestial bodies became to crack and fissure, pulsing with raw energy and threatening to break. Ácolitus observed this with interest and was amazed to see the light collapse into a swirl of raw, golden light. It did not dissipate into the Void, however, but hung there in the air. In infantile born, Aebaster had emerged, the first of the Eshan and eldest among the Alor’eshan.
As the eldest child of Ácolitus, Aebaster took on an undeclared leadership role among the Eshan. They gathered around him, both Alor’eshan and Ebal’eshan, and sought his wisdom.
Following the death of Atûn and triumph of Corgastor Ghedelon in Everos, Aebaster perceived his role in Qadal as complete. His eternal rival was utterly defeated. The empire the Etayen created under Atûn’s guidance lost ground across the world, receding back to the shores of Etal from whence it originated. With their demise, the great struggles of Aemarda initiated during the Awakening and Ascension seemed settled forever after. The race would survive. Aebaster reflected upon his tribulations with great weariness, and suddenly became acutely aware of his lingering discontent with the machinations and intrigues of the Eshan. His time was passed and his generation exhausted. The time arrived for another bearer to carry the banner of Aemarda, and no being in existence seemed for fitting than Corgastor. The Eldest Eshan greatly wished for the victorious leader to assert his claim over Everos for Aemarda, but the wisened Corgastor rebuked him. Nassarus demanded that no great realm of Aemarda be wrought from the Etayen war, and this trust Corgastor wished to maintain, lest the continent slip into further warfare between Etayen and Aemar. The All-father was disappointed, certainly, but bitterly aware of what might come from further war. He allowed Corgastor to retire in peace in the Trident, knowing there was no alternative. However, Aebaster devised personal aspirations for Corgastor, so that he might succeed him as master of Aemarda. It was for this reason that when Corgastor died in 43, Aebaster offered vast quantities of Eshara, saved over millennium, to the departing soul. He therefore elevated the essence of Corgastor to the heights of Eshan, though weak among them and at tremendous personal cost.
With the ascension of Corgastor by his will, Aebaster chose to retire himself from the tumults and intrigues of the world. No longer did the world so carefully wrought by Ácolitus and populated by the Eshan appeal to him. It was lost and wild. The Aemar he suffered to create now honored numerous spirits, idols, and cults, numbering among them all only a small cadre of faithful. In truth, the memory of Corgastor and his triumph stood better chance to garner followers than any latter-day efforts by ancient Aebaster! While one eye was kept toward --, the heart, mind, and spirit of the Eldest Eshan turned toward the Void and peace. Only isolated pockets of ardent worshippers maintained Aebasterian ways, and they became a embattled population in the bloody Weeping Era world.