Freia the Eternal, the goddess that defined an era and the world to come.
Ruling for a hundred millennia, Freia was born out of the desperation of mortalkind.
To understand Freia, one has to understand how gods function in this world.
Infinite in nature, each god is a manifestation of a concept or set of concepts and ideas. There can be extensive overlap between certain deities - the Archons rule seven elements of nature that also have had other gods throughout history. Certain gods can rise in reach and power, and the strongest among them ascend to a greate classification: a Greater God.
There have only been four Greater Gods in the Tegarrian Lore. Irkathame the Scion-keeper, an ancient deity of a now-exctint species of octopus-like beings that ruled most of the galaxy millions of years ago; Adam El Asem the First Man, who created all of mankind and whose mistakes led directly to the birth of Freia; and Freia the Eternal, whose original purpose became buried under an epoch of corruption. The fourth god deserves a whole another post, so I won't mention her.
Freia began life as a minor deity, travelling across the world to help mortals with tasks they could not accomplish by themselves. These tasks were usually the vanquishing of monsters and other threats.
She became the Goddess of many things. Goddess of Hope, of War. Of Love and Lust, of Crops and Famine, of Gold and Wealth, of Magic and the Afterlife (just like the irl Freyja), etc. All those concepts she still represents, even after her death.
However, Freia was born in the shadows of a devastating collapse of civilization.
When Adam El Asem's million-year-long Empire came to a close, the very foundations of the world were left in shambles. A war among the Gods themselves raged across the universe, the devastation still felt well into the modern day, 400,000 years after the fact.
After the fact, a huge power vacuum was left open for anyone to grab. A certain Demon Ofnir and his Kingdom of Blood almost conquered half of the world; the Queendom of Sarthes Azura and her two patron deities provided a semblance of order after the First Rapture.
An object, an Artifact of Creation was left unused. The Ring of Life, spread over multiples Runes that control all things living, dead, in-between and beyond. This was up for grabs, and Freia quickly began wielding it.
However, the Ring of Life was all but a trap, for a higher being - the Powers That Be - had corrupted it eons before.
Freia with her daughter Promethea, the Angel of Death
The influence of the Powers That Be was strong. Freia grew distant.
Twenty sons she had with the last of the Fae gods; Dewuulf, the God of the Wild Hunt. Of these, the first of them became corrupted by It as well and had to be excised from history all-together. After this, a certain madness claimed Freia's mind.
Of her original twenty or so sons and daughters, history only remembers seven of them:
Promethea, the Angel of Death, was her Executioner. Godranni, the Weaver of Fate, was her oracle into the future. Aasir, the Red Khan, was her brute-force solution to any problems. Maistorm, the King of the Under-realms, was the only one allowed to perform necromancy. Ulaatan Castellan, the Hammer of Justice, was her perfect general. Kaedriel Mallacht, the Nightbringer, was her soon-to-be successor. Indoral Addarach, the Clockwork Disciple, was the brightest mind allowed to exist.
Everyone else would be forgotten by History all-together.
Ms. Adalgard Lund, Emergency Director of the Dämmerung Foundation.
Freia's Golden Empire would soon crumble too. Driven to insanity by the whispers of the Powers That Be, she would end up shattering the Ring of Life itself. This brought an unpredecented age upon the entire Tree of Life - to the entire multiverse. An Age of Undeath.
The Goldenborn beckon for a bright future, but that will not be possible.
Of thee, only seven will exist.
Faylane, you the Eternal Muse of Mankind, loved and wanted by all mortals, your presence must come to a stop.
Ihnaros, the King of Sands, you have helped the Nightlord settle her lands and establish her rule, and for that I am eternally grateful; for she will forget you.
Oljme, Prince of the Hunt, you who enjoy slaying beasts and protecting the wildlife, I must vanish thee.
You will join your brother of whom you hold no memories, Audwynn, in eternal un-existence.
To fight the war within, I must not falter, ye Forsaken Demigods, for all of Reality depends on it.
READING RELATED TO FREIA THE ETERNAL:
DCA-6000 - The Leytree of Freia the Eternal
DCA-001 - Dr. Elrod's Proposal - The War in Heaven
DCA-5031 - The World Serpent
