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===== Akbris =====
Akbris is a minor Spirit. She is the Spirit of culture, festivals and celebration, and is also in control of the darker aspects of these such as vice and addiction. Akbris is the patron of a large portion of the
== Devourer ==
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=== Devourer ===
[[File:The void.jpg|thumb|The Devourer, eternal enemy of all Existence]]
The Devourer is the an entity or force of nature which opposed Solaris Erses prior to the advent of light or the creation of Existence. For an inconceivable length of time the Devourer and Solaris Erses struggled between one another: one's nature to create, and the other's to consume. Eventually the Devourer was defeated by Solaris Erses, ushering in the Age of Ancients, the time when the first forms of life and the Four Realms were created by Erses, as the Devourer hid itself away recuperating strength.
The Devourer would return shortly after the Four Realms of Existence were connected with golden sunlight threads and the Exaltatus were created, feeling strong enough to once again pose a threat against Solaris Erses and the now Exaltatus. To rival these new Solar beings, though it was in the Devourer's nature to consume and not create, the entity is rational and calculated, and so created it's own beings to combat the Exaltatus, these would become the Degradatus. Continuing the War for Existence against the forces of Existence, the Devourer would eventually lose after it's Degradatus failed to capture the Flame of Creation, and ultimately were destroyed by the Exaltatus.
Following the War, the Devourer was banished beyond the walls of reality, sent to an endless void of darkness and nothingness, to perpetually be weakened through the lack of consumption and of mass in outside the walls of reality. The Devourer would continue to attempt to undermine the reign of Solaris Erses from beyond the walls of reality, corrupting lifeforms, particularly humans, and manipulating them against Solaris Erses, convincing them to worship false idols and to abandon their faith in Him. In response to this, the Murascaillbach Line was created by Solaris Erses to set the world right, and to restore the rightful rule of Himself over His creations.
It is prophesied that following the millennia-long Age of Peace, the Devourer's influence will have spread subtly and widely enough to manipulate and influence a large minority of lifeforms on Terra, until a "Great Blasphemy" occurs, after which many wars between the Faithful and the Corrupted will follow, until the Corrupted finally commit their greatest transgression, mass sacrifice to the Devourer, strengthening it until it is able to breach the walls of reality. It is after this that the second War for Existence will occur, also referred to as the "Great Consumption", as the Degradatus would be rebirthed and the Consumption seen in the first War for Existence would be miniscule in comparison. The climax of the Great Consumption would be at the remains of Terra, around the Kiln of Creation in the "Proelium Proleliorum" - or "Battle of Battles" - in which the forces of the Devourer, and the Devourer itself would be destroyed and ironically consumed by the Flame of Creation, alongside all of Existence, leading to the rebirth.
=== Degradatus ===
[[File:Degradatus.png|thumb|A single Degradatus approaching Terra prior to the Proelium Proleliorum]]
The Degradatus were, and will be, abominable creatures and the spawn of the Devourer. They were first created during the first War for Existence, and were the main combatants against Solaris Erses and His Exaltatus. Taking hideous forms as colossal creatures with large tentacles, many teeth, and just as many eyes, they would float through the two of the four Realms of Existence, Materium and Antierium, consuming large clumps of mass and material.
The Degradatus are directly responsible for the current state of Antierium - also known as "the End" -, consuming a majority of the material and mass in the Realm, leaving it as the disparate islands it is today. Along with this, they are also directly responsible for the creation and separation of mass in Materium, creating what is known as "Space", or area between two masses - or "Planets" -.
It is prophesied that alongside the Devourer, the Degradatus will be rebirthed during the Great Consumption, and will continue consuming mass and material on behalf of their master. Their ultimate destruction will come alongside the Devourer at the Proelium Proleliorum, at the hands of Solaris Erses and the Flame of Creation, which will entirely destroy the creatures through burning.
== Realms ==
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=== Materium ===
The Materium is the Realm that Terra and all other stars, worlds, galaxies and universes preside in. It is intended as the Realm closest to Solaris Erses and the permanent residence of most of life which has the potential to ascend to Aetherium. Solarian scholars of the stars predict that there may potentially be much life beyond Terra, but that to attempt flight beyond the constraints of Terra without the explicit command of Solaris Erses is a great heresy, as it would bring potentially unworthy close to His Sun. Materium is mostly unexplained and only aspects observed on Terra can be described by Solarian scholars, however, the field of Astrology is gaining more and more attention from the Solar Ecclesiarchy, as many scholars at the bottom of the hierarchy believe that many answers that the Ecclesiarchy seeks may be found in observation of the stars and planets.
Materium is home to many forms of life, though currently only known on Terra including many different types of animals, humans, elves, dwarves and other mammalian people. Prior to the first War for Existence, Materium was lacking in space, the Realm being entirely filled with mass and material, though was consumed by the Degradatus which created the large areas between masses which inevitably became planets, stars, galaxies and universes. Many natural phenomena have been observed and discovered on Terra, though it is unclear whether these phenomena repeat throughout the rest of Materium, or are solely restricted to Terra itself, as these phenomena and events continue to be discovered and unfurl.
=== Antierium ===
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