TRINITIES AND ENDLESS CYCLES

Alaksanteri Elithysius

 

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     - We value the Tainting of our beings for it truly freed us from the grasp of the weak, we became enlightened for the touch of the Soulless manipulated our forms and our thoughts so that we evolve to reject imposed dogmas and gain greater tools of understanding. We consider all the possibilities and do not sit on what we think we already know. We do not set ourselves foolish interdictions. The teachings of the Engine of Transformation are based upon self-perfection and construction which makes of us a nation that evolves rejecting false ideas while the other fools stagnate in their mediocrity and they drown themselves into their never ending stacks of lies. -

 

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Index

 

 

IV-Preface

V-The Trinity in the Cosmogenesis

VI-The Outcome

VII- The Fates

VIII-The Role of the Fatalists, who became Nihilists, and the Fates

IX-The Ouroboros of Lord Morgfyre

X-Epilogue

XI- Thoughts from the Dragon God Dracnoris

 

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Preface

 

 

All guilds established in the Basin of Life have a leadership of elected positions transposed upon the concept of a Trinity: a Guildmaster, an Administrator and a Champion. We can extrapolate that this form of hierarchical structure has been in use before even the Cosmic Hope project and what might have been honoured through this. The source of all Trinities reveals what our ancestors worshipped, what they envisioned as a powerful, working society and how they perceived a leadership should rule. While all Trinities are free to choose their own methods of ruling or their own principles, the source of all Trinities might enlighten as to what fundamental roles each one is to fulfill regardless of the teachings they promote. By exploring the historical texts, I have witnessed that the Trinity is an omniscient concept, represented in a multitude of ways, in all texts, all looking very similar and having very much in common. Though the first text, the 'Cosmogenesis', represents this concept of Trinity being created out of the void and clearly embodies the core values of any Trinity for the very first time. What is the Trinity? What does it mean and what representations of it are available, from ancient times to the contemporary era?

 

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The Trinity in the Cosmosgenesis

 

 

The Cosmogenesis stages Yudhe as the first spark of consciousness created from nothingness. He can be compared to the Guildmaster who maintains the whole from a bird's view within another external whole. The one who takes decisions for the better of the guild as well as how it works with this other external whole. He is the one with the insight or consciousness regarding all political activities.

 

Yudhe engenders Dynara and Magnora. Dynara tends to the creation of the First World and creates the Soulless Gods, then the Elder Gods with the help of the Son of Yudhe. Dynara is compared to an Administrator who nurtures, and provides education to the young blood of a guild. The Administrator is responsible for the addition of new members and molds them into representing a certain ideal, as a creator would do. They are the designers behind the education given to their young blood.

 

Magnora makes of the Soulless Her Heralds and she consumes what Dynara creates. She consumes all except the Soulless, that She appoints as Her Heralds to help Her consume. She represents the Champion who protects the ideal of the whole through martial prowess and destroys the ones who stand against the specific purpose of the whole.

 

Yudhe creates a nameless and formless son who gives a soul to the creations of Dynara. Magnora consumes the Son of Yudhe. Yudhe despairs. As the four of the beings are interconnected for They are formed from Yudhe, They all know despair. The Son of Yudhe is not a physical member of the Trinity. He is nameless and formless like the thoughts or the longings. He is a missing part of the Trinity yet He exists and the Trinity must find him. Just as a Trinity of mortals must find a purpose to their lives, without which they would not think and they would not animate their guild with a soul. It is interesting to note that before the arrival of the Son of Yudhe, Dynara could not create life with a soul. Dynara created, then Yudhe gave the creation a soul. In the same vein, there must be the research of an ideal for the Administrator to aptly educate newcomers. The research of a purpose, no matter what it is, animates the whole with a soul and a drive.

 

Yudhe, Dynara and Magnora then leave for the Basin of life looking for the Son of Yudhe. Without a purpose mortals grow restless, looking for a reason to exist, an ultimate truth or a goal to their existence. Without this purpose they will keep looking for answers until their universe can finally make sense once more.

 

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The Outcome

 

 

The Trinity would then be an unity of balance through three different, interconnected entities acting as one, looking for a shared purpose.

 

The First Trinity is thus an endless cycle of creation with Dynara, and destruction with Magnagora. When all that is created returns to nothingness, the universe maintains its balance, represented by Yudhe, through the constant renewal of its elements. Trinities nurture newcomers for an end, replacement at their timely demise. A Trinity engenders another Trinity to renew itself, keep balance and avoid destruction from lack of member resources. This way organizations are bound to evolve with the passage of time and minds which forge them. This concept encouraging the renewal of leadership members ensures not only balance but preservation of lore, because through change also comes more lore. This evolution keeps the Trinities from growing complacent or outdated. Life itself needs change, nourishment and renewal of resources to survive and grow. The first Trinity left for the Basin looking for a purpose, their purpose has been to generate life similar to them, other Trinities of mortals, at the end of the chain, where the very last shards would meet the very first creators through their hierarchical structure and their hunger for a purpose. A seemingly, impossible contact but again, this is a cycle and cycles repeat themselves without end. This repeated existentialism, from the Son of Yudhe, bringing limitless possibilities or answers, destroyed then recreated as the wheel turns forth.

 

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 - ‘Oh, I wasn’t the only Primal God left from the ancient times. There was Keph, She of the Many Eyes, and Vrandrac the One, a huge amorphous mass. And, of course, there were the Fates, older even than I, who claimed they came into being when Dynara began her first creation, but who were never themselves created. They were a mystery, I think, even to Dynara. The three sisters often claimed that they existed in every reality where the ripples of creation fanned outwards. Back then, they were as formless as Dynara, simple thoughts that trailed behind her like echoes. They didn’t take form until the Star Gods came into being, and they settled into their shapes now known the Three Sisters of Fate: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. They were easy to forget, these Fates, and Dynara rarely paid them any mind.’ –

The Book of Dracnoris

 

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The Role of the Fatalists, who became Nihilists, and the Fates

 

 

This concept of Trinity was perhaps even more venerated by the ancient Fatalists for they worshipped the Sisters of Fate, who are forming a Trinity as well. Clotho, the youngest, who birthes new mortals to life. Lachesis weaves their threads and adds events to their lives. The elder Atropos cuts the threads, bringing death to the mortals once their thread has been woven. The three Sisters of Fates emulate this exact same hierarchy of a nurturer, an overseer and a destroyer thus perpetuating a natural order offered from the Cosmogenesis. They offered an example to follow for all guilds, but we can only speculate that due to the Fatalists' worship to the Fates, this closeness had a greater influence on them. There is a possibility that they might have been the first guild to notice this structure and adopt the Trinity leadership from the Fates. It was known that the city of Magnagora attracted many travellers who sought to receive the blessings of divination from the Fatalists. The travellers might have later adopted these foreign traditions, of a faith quite similar to theirs. Though this theory is only speculation and would require more evidence.

 

In contemporary times, it is teached to the young Nihilists that, as they embrace the art of Necromancy and learn the ability of rising as archliches, they will transcend the Fates. The Fates control, in their cycle, all of creation except the ones who have seized the power of their own threads, refusing to let their lives at the mercy of an external influence. The archlich Nihilists along with the archlich ur'Guard were birthed by the Fates and lived depending on them until the very moment they have chosen to study Necromancy, separating themselves from any more unwanted influence of the Fates. They have not solely taken their lives within their own hands but they have disrupted the very cycle of life, the balance of the universe, by refusing to be destroyed. Just as youth decides of its own destiny by cutting the thread from their controlling progenitors, the Necromancers have matured and no longer accept the intervention of the Fates. They are learning to push the boundaries always further and they accept the blessings of the Tranformation upon them, in all its aspects.

 

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The Ouroboros of Lord Morgfyre

 

The Trinity of universal order and disorder is presented in the philosophy of Lord Legion. The leadership of His DisOrder, while not a Trinity, teaches the Tenets of this Trinity and shows His higher understanding of all things of creation better than most Divines. His tenets are Hunger, Inspiration and Change, represented by the Ouroboros biting its own tail. This Ouroboros embodies the teachings of Lord Legion and they are teachings of life itself, but applied to the individual. Morgfyre thus bestows a Trinity upon each individual instead of one aspect of this Trinity per being. He strives to make His followers completely independant or self-sufficient. If each mortal has the potential to be a complete Trinity in themselves, they no longer require to be intertwined with others, or co-dependant. If they are no longer interconnected, they shall not feel the despair of anyone else. They shall remain their own unlike the despair felt by the Trinity of the Cosmogenesis at the loss of the Son of Yudhe. He breaks the natural order of creation and provides the means to empower oneself in all aspects. When creations of nature are weak just like all other things of creation for they are interdependant, Lord Morgfyre warps this concept and desires to have complete individuals who rely upon their own selves to find strength and purpose;

 

Hunger is the consumption of all which might make us more powerful. It is an instinctual Hunger to acquire and consume, before the intervention of the soul, just as the Soulless before a soul was instilled to their being. This is an instinct of life and growth, the means to sustain oneself. To strive for sustenance is essential or your body might wither and die. To learn, in order to adapt and understand your universe, makes you powerful through your knowledge. One can desire to become an apt fighter, a sensitive artist, an influential politician or anything else of their own desire once more basic instincts have been satiated. It is the craving for everything, not just one facet of existence, which empowers a mortal beyond the others. All beings must grasp the concept that the possibilities before them are endless, if they are acknowledged and seized.

 

Inspiration is creation, intuition and thought. It is the imagination of an artist or a strategist. It represents the means employed to fulfill one's aims. It is pure originality and the individual character unaffected by the judgements and values of the others surrounding them. It is the ability to question what others expect from the self, be they society, family, laws, social conventions, traditions and rely on our own judgement when we are interacting with the universe, then come up with creative answers.

 

Change is the alteration of the external world through the combined forces of Hunger and Inspiration working towards one's true aspirations. It is the accomplishment of one's Hunger, Inspiration and the momentary contemplation of the completed deed. Momentary I say for the cycle is bound to repeat itself with another Hunger very soon, then another, endlessly, forever warping and shaping this world. Only the innovative ideas which rely on critical thought and questioning of things in existence will truly bring progress and Change. It is our duty to question, to destroy what holds us back and to create new principles and structures. This cycle of creation and destruction within oneself would be a manner of maintaining inner balance. Balance is movement and growth while stagnation is eminent death.

 

It is interesting to note that Lord Morgfyre physically devours Gods to make His own strength greater and regardless of most other Divines, He is said to be of Unknown Circle amongst the other Elder Gods. Other noticeable beings of Unknown Circle are the Fates, the now missing first being Yudhe, Dynara and Magnora Who have merged to form Estarra. They are slightly similar from the point of view that they strive to become complete beings through all teachings of the Trinity cycle, they do not solely venerate one simple facet of creation, They are much more complex and possess a more complete insight of what exists. From this perspective, Lord Morgfyre would also devour the lore, facets of teachings and thoughts of all other Divines Who venerate one simple facet of existence. If They are denying Their followers other experiences, They are limiting Themselves and are incorporated in His evolved philosophy of the Ouroboros.

 

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Epilogue

 

We can define the most ancient sources of hierarchical structures as the Trinity presented in the Cosmogenesis, and in the following creations, including the Sisters of Fates. They then had a great influence on the organization of the guilds dwelling within the Basin of Life. The representation of this Trinity in the ruthlessly transformed lore of the Nihilists and well as in the Ouroborian teachings of Lord Morgfyre are also importantly changed visions of this concept. It embraces all life striving to survive as an endless cycle, wether it is acknowledged or not, and this from the very moment consciousness appeared from nothingness, unless said life has given up slavery and jesting for the Fates in order to grow, learn and better itself without ending.

 

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- 'It is funny how the Fates came in three, just as Yudhe’s offspring came in three: Magnora, Dynara and the Unnamed Son. It is as if that number is the template of creation: two opposites and a point of synthesis. Ah, but my mind is wandering again, and there is the stirring that I feel, and I should, perhaps, give warning to my fellow Elder Gods.' -

The Book of Dracnoris