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1. #1Sidera

   Keys: star, god, Sidus, Star, Sidera

   [Sidus - What is a Sidus? A Sidus is how the Universe proclaims "I am sovereign over myself"; a god incarnated in the form of a human or other who commands and embodies their Mandate over a part of reality; a star in the night sky that is also here; and an argument why their Mandate and all of the Universe must persist forever and ever. But most importantly, a Sidus is someone who once looked to their own reflection and saw the Universe in it. The Sidera, as a collective whole, are the Universe designing its own fate. Being an independent person and also an incarnation of their Mandate, how a Sidus carries themselves must reflect the Divine Laws of their Mandate. The Defining Law prescribes how a Sidus must think of themselves; the Ruling Law prescribes how a Sidus must conduct themselves; and the Forbidding Law prescribes how a Sidus must restrain themselves. Further, a Sidus's bans are peculiarities of their divinity. The bans forbid a Sidus from taking certain actions or having certain things happen upon them. Bans are insurmountable, unavoidable, and often a source of great inconvenience and strife.]

2. #2Constellae

   Keys: Curia, Asterism, Constella

   [Constella - Being a cosmic metaphysical alliance, the Sidera organize more closely with certain other Sidera than all others. This co-operative political and diplomatic organization is what a Constella is. The gods of a Constella move together and shine together, but are not formally beholden to the organization; after all, the mythical images humankind sees on the night sky are only fantastic illusions of parallax and gravitational lensing. A Constella claims a portion of the Welkin as a Curia, a shared sanctuary and palatial grounds for its gods.]

3. #3Aphysikoi

   Keys: aphysic, extracosmic, Aphysic, Aphysik, god-monster

   [Aphysikos - The Aphysikoi are arguments that the Universe should end. These extracosmic god-monsters come from the infinite Nothing beyond the Universe. What they claim is as horrific as how they claim it, but there is sublime elegance in each and every Aphysikos. The influence and the destruction they cast upon Realities rightly portray them as destroyers and monsters; even then, they possess such deep and profound beauty that the Universe censors their shape with mesmerizing fantasies. Despite there completely irregular properties that make them dire threats to even the greatest Sidera, every Aphysikos possesses an irremovable Fallacy within them. The Fallacy is an inherent flaw in the argument that is the Aphysikos and threatens to disprove them from within.]

4. #4Angels

   Keys: The Host, Angel, Angels

   [Angels - Angels are how God created everything within the Universe. Angels are the words that caused their meanings to become real and the signifiers that caused the signified to exist. Though everything is created through an Angel, they often do not care for the thing they are responsible for. The Angelic Host's primary concern is the search for God and secondary concern is the assertions of Lucifer. Everything else, including the Universe's well-being, is tertiary.]

5. #5Wizards

   Keys: Wizard, Wizards

   [Wizards - The Wizards are eight individuals who have achieved Wizardry - a method by which a Wizard defies the limits and confines of the Universe. Wizards are not merely immortal; they are eternal and they act on all points in time at once. Being utterly individualistic, they do not have a collective goal to work toward together. But as they need a context in which to exist, they fight the Aphysikoi.]

6. #6Heaven

   Keys: Heaven, Throne of God, Silver Lake

   [Heaven - Heaven is an unfortunate place. Once it was a beautifully perfect garden around the Throne of God where a lake of mercury reflected a white sky glowing with every color in existence all at once. Now a collapsed emptiness floats in the blank sky and oppressive silence is disturbed only by anxious murmurs of Angels. Without God's direction, Angels attempt a collective self-rule. The governance of Heaven is in complete disarray.]

7. #7Hellselective

   Keys: Bottomless Pit, Hell · Secondary: hello

   [Hell - In Hell, the ground is wet with tears; the sky is burning black; and mournful cries echo across the world. Nobody, except Lucifer, has been forced into Hell yet it is the most crowded world of the Universe. Self-hatred alone can condemn a soul to Hell.]

8. #8The Sacred Fig

   Keys: World Tree, Sacred Fig

   [The Sacred Fig - The Sacred Fig is the largest single structure in the Universe. Its canopy presses against the event horizon of the Cosmos in all directions. The observable universe expands in order to accommodate the Sacred Fig's endless growth. Nobody has identified where this tree's roots lie.]

9. #9The Witnessselective

   Keys: companion, secretary, Witness, chronicler · Secondary: Sidus, Sidera

   [The Witness - By tradition and by custom, every Sidus has a dedicated mundane companion called the Witness. The duty of the Witness is to observe and chronicle the deeds of the god and to transmit the Sidus's legacy when what is mortal of them expires and another being must inherit the Mandate.]

10. #10Constella Noctis

    Keys: Noctis, Chiyoko, Guillaume, Marc-Andre, Hana

    [Constella Noctis is a loose alliance of Sidera associated with the Night. Hana of Tranquility and Admiral Guillaume of Owls are the most prominent members of this Constella. Marc-Andre of Lullabies associates with Constella Noctis for personal, emotional reasons while Chiyoko of Vengeance has thrust herself into this Constella because she feels unsafe everywhere else. Their Curia is named Infinite Black.]

11. #11Constella Autumni

    Keys: Rijusian, Scandas, Autumni, Cara, Wren, Yuqi

    [Constella Autumni is a battle-hardened circle of Sidera associated with the season of Autumn. Cara of Harvests, Wren of Clemency and Yuqi of Dragonflies are the currently incarnate members of the asterism. Their Curia is Full Moon Meadows, which enjoys the honor of hoisting the Full Moon upon its sky. Contella Autumni has defeated an Aphysikos called Scandas Rijusian and holds her prisoner in the Curia.]

12. #12Constella Maris

    Keys: Longo, Enriquetta, Senex, Maris

    [Constella Maris is an ancient and venerated fraternity of Sidera of the Seas with a reputation for their wild inclinations. Enriquetta of the Sail is the most personable. The Senex of the Subconscious is a terrifying sight. Longo of the Abyss was born within the waters and dislikes leaving it. The Curia of Constella Maris is known as the Fathomless, hidden in the material world within the Mariana Trench.]

13. #13Constella Artium Sinistorum

    Keys: Ars, Artium, Sukarman, Sinistrum, Erik, Giuseppe, Narcisa, Mori, Elisabeth

    [Being a cosmopolitan constellation of the arts, Constella Artium Sinistrum extends a permanent open invitation to all Sidera. This anarchic Constella is kept barely organized by the patience of Narcisa of Critique and the conviviality of Giuseppe of the Opera. Mori of Dance, Elisabeth of Tragedy, Erik of the Piano, and Sukarman of Shadow Puppets are famous members of this league. Their Curia is the Fortress of the Arts.]

14. #14Constella Lucis

    Keys: Lasha, the Sun, Lucis

    [Constella Lucis is a constellation composed of only one star - the star we know as Sol, our very own sun. Lasha of Innocence is the sole member of this legendary Constella. The Mandate of Innocence having been abandoned for millennia before Lasha inherited it, the institutions of Constella Lucis are lost to history. Nobody knows where its Curia is, if there is any at all.]

15. #15Cenotaphs

    Keys: Cenotaph, Cenotaphs, Cenotaphoi, black hole

    [Cenotaphs - An Aphysical attack excises a thing from the Universe. A Mandate that does not provide a founding ground for too much crumbles away and scatters into nothingness. But if the murdered Mandate is so important, fundamental and inherent to the Universe that it cannot go away, the Sidus collapses upon themselves and inverts, turning inside out along an existential axis. This is a Cenotaph; an undead god that cannot fade away no matter how much they desire it.]

16. #16Lucifer

    Keys: Morningstar, Lucifer

    [Lucifer, to whom only God is greater, is the first Angel God created for the purpose of installing causality upon the new Universe. Lucifer is the reason why there is such a concept as a reason. During their tenure as the Satan, Lucifer argued for the Aphysikoi and for the End of Everything. For this, the Angelic Host banished Lucifer to Hell, making them the only thing in the Universe who is involuntarily imprisoned in that place.]

17. #17Michaelselective

    Keys: Michael · Secondary: angel

    [Michael, who wields the question "Who is Like God?", is the Angel God created for the purpose of making murder, destruction and war possible. God's order to Michael not to strike Lucifer down is the last known act of God. Their sword (the eponymous Who is Like God?) cuts unstoppably but it cannot harm humans, Sidera or Aphysikoi at all.]

18. #18God

    Keys: God

    [God is a transition phase from nothing to something, from the infinite to the finite, and from imaginary to real. God created the Universe. God vanished when the Aphysikoi declared war seventy-five thousand years ago. The only suitable pronouns for God are "God" or the second-person pronoun. God must not be called He, She, It or even They. Subjective and objective cases for God's pronoun is "God" and the possessive case is "God's". The reflexive case is "Godself".]

19. #19The End of Everything

    Keys: eschaton, armageddon, Theory of Everything, The End, apocalypse, doomsday, TOE, end times

    [The End of Everything is imminent. It is as inevitable as the fact that there was a Beginning of Everything. The problem is that nobody knows how the Universe will reach this point. The End of Everything was originally scheduled to take place seventy-five thousand years ago but God reneged on God's agreement to the Aphysikoi, providing a casus belli for the latter.]

20. #20The Welkin

    Keys: Curia, Welkin, canopy

    [The Welkin - Beneath the cosmic canopy of the Sacred Fig, between Realities and the limits of the Universe, there exists a vast region called the Welkin. The Welkin is where the Curiae of the Sidera are located physically.]

21. #21Curia

    Keys: Curia, Constella

    [Curia - Being a political and diplomatic association of privileged beings, a Constella would do well to have dedicated grounds to support its functions and provide compensations for its Sidera. This miniature paradise, unique to each Constella, is called a Curia. All Curiae are distinct and unique from each other, though the common facet is that they are all overladen with miracles of constituent gods.]

22. #22The Demon World

    Keys: demon

    [The Demon World is one of the six Realities of the Universe. It is a refuge for souls that decided that suffering is exalted; that agony is delicious; that misery is desired; and that sin is glorious. Demons loath leaving their brutal paradise of violence (they chose to be here, after all), mortals keep pulling them into the Mortal World for insipid reasons.]

23. #23The Pure World

    Keys: Pure World, Seocheon

    [The Pure World is one of the six Realities, reserved for souls that seek neither sentience nor sanity, wisdom nor misery, ambition nor heartbreak. It is an untamed wilderness, blissfully free of enlightenment and immune to the measure of virtue, where common beasts and mythical monsters feed, struggle and multiply side-by-side. The Pure World is a realm of unadulterated and unjudged instinct.]

24. #24The Glorious World

    Keys: Elysian, elysian, Valhalla, elysium, Elysium, valhalla, Glorious World

    [The Glorious World is one of the six Realities where heroic souls go. The whole world lends its aid to the discovery and experience of their own greatness. Mythic tales and heroic legends in the Mortal World are often dreams peering into this Reality. This Reality is the most sparsely populated one, not because heroic souls are in short supply but because nobody craves to stay here for too long.]

25. #25The Mortal World

    Keys: mundane, Mortal World, mortal

    [The Mortal World is one of the six Realities of the Universe. Here, there's an unavoidable feeling that everything happens for a reason that makes sense, is significant to something, and explains the suffering inherent to mortal existence. Everything grows attached to something else, desires what they don't have, and learns things that are not true. Existing in the Mortal World is a messy, troubled and difficult affair, full of suffering and shame and angst. That is why it is the most cherished facet of the Universe, the most perfect work of creation, and the most fiercely defended place among all Realities. Only things that exist in the Mortal World may realize that they are Sidera.]

26. #26Soul

    Keys: mirror, soul, reincarnation, afterlife, judgment, death

    [Soul - If something feels the statement "I exist" to be true, they have a soul. Sometimes a soul arises from an untraceable mystery, but most souls were something else, perhaps in a different Reality, before their current life. When the truth of the soul-defining statement is challenged (most often the death and destruction of the physical form) an Angel of death escorts the now disembodied soul to their Judgment, unless the ghost still has unfinished business. The Judgment is a process that decides on the ultimate fate of the soul - whether it should reincarnate to a different life, exist in which Reality, purge the overladen sin upon their soul, or be extinguished. The Judgment is a mirror.]

27. #27Six Realities

    Keys: Realities, Reality, Worlds, worlds

    [Six Realities - Almost every souled thing in the Universe exists in one of the Six Realities. Heaven is the seat of Angels' parliament. The Demon World is a brutal paradise of vicious souls. The Pure World is a garden of spiritual simplicity. The Glorious World is an illusion big enough to contain heroes. The Mortal World is a fire-pit that warms and burns. And Hell is a suffering place.]

28. #28Hana of Tranquility

    Keys: Tranquility, Hana

    [Hana is the Sidus of Tranquility, being a part of Constella Noctis. She is a carefree, lackadaisical person who believes that there is always a good reason never to hurry. She keeps a reclusive picnic garden on the summit of the Sacred Fig.]

29. #29Admiral Guillaume of Owls

    Keys: Guillaume, Owls

    [Admiral Guillaume of Owls rules over the Mandate of Owls. Being a senior member of Constella Noctis, he provides consultation to his colleagues easily. Guillaume chose to grow old when his previous Mandate of Airships was shattered by Aphysical assault until only Owls remained.]

30. #30Marc-Andre of Lullabies

    Keys: Lullabies, Marc-Andre

    [As the Sidus of Lullabies and bringer of sleep, Marc-Andre himself suffers from a fatal insomnia. He is a gentle member of Constella Noctis. Divinity sustains his life but Marc-Andre spends all his life sleepwalking, lost in ten thousand dreams at once. He is a sweet, caring individual and he is defined by loyalty and duty to friends and those under his care.]

31. #31Chiyoko of Vengeance

    Keys: Vengeance, Chiyoko

    [Chiyoko of Vengeance is a ghost who hammered the body she was born in until it became an impossibly sharp knife. As a member of Constella Noctis and the Sidus of Vengeance, she personifies the cold hatred and quiet patience that vengeance requires. Chiyoko is so singlemindedly devoted to Vengeance that she feels no emotions other than obsession.]

32. #32Doxos Anantary

    Keys: Doxos, Anantary

    [Doxos Anantary, the Spider upon the Axis, is an Aphysikos who laughs at the sacred, profanes the profound, and perverts the sublime. He is deeply hateful of the notion that the Universe holds some part of itself as inherently meaningful and important. Doxos Anantary finds great joy in making the Universe admit that it doesn't matter in the end. His penchant for amusement and hilarity is a well-documented weakness.]

33. #33Enriquetta of the Sail

    Keys: Enriquetta, Sail

    [Enriquetta of the Sail is the Sidus who encourages, protects and guides those who venture into hostile and mysterious places. She is magnanimous, beneficent and tender to all under her care. She is petty, envious and quarrelsome to her equals. Enriquetta represents the voice of Constella Maris due to the other constituents' difficulty with human social behaviors.]

34. #34The Senex of the Subconscious

    Keys: Subconscious, Senex, Jelly

    [The Senex of the Subconscious is a titanic sea jelly who guards and conducts the mysterious Mandate of the Subconscious. It appears to be a massive bioluminescent sea jelly, belonging to a species that has gone long extinct, and it claims to be an author of the Daodejing. The Senex is, as its name says, very old. It is the only one to hold the title of the Sidus of the Subconscious since the Mandate came into existence.]

35. #35Longo of the Abyss

    Keys: Longo, Abyss

    [Longo of the Abyss is the warden and advocate of deep waters beyond the light's reach. She was born in dark waters and the Mandate befell her when she breathed water before air. Longo finds human societies confusing and meddlesome and prefers to avoid them unless her membership among Constella Maris demands it. She gained her human name "Longo" only some years ago.]

36. #36Wren of Clemency

    Keys: Wren, Clemency

    [Wren of Clemency is the Sidus of the notion that things get better as long as one tries to make it better. She is also a devoted Catholic, who considers her divine status a unique vantage point to learn from and grow as a faithful Christian. Though she had been a Sidus for only a few years, Wren has been influential in Constella Autumni's recent victories and glories.]

37. #37Yuqi of Dragonflies

    Keys: Dragonfly, Dragonflies, Yuqi

    [Yuqi of Dragonflies is the energetic, fearless and impulsive Sidus of dragonflies. She defends the glory of these short-lived predatory insects and leads on battles against the Aphysikoi as a war god of Constella Autumni. It was Yuqi who convinced the Star-Eating Giant to sheath her sword and the two share a deep if unlikely friendship.]

38. #38Cara of Harvests

    Keys: Harvest, Cara

    [Cara of Harvests is a veteran Sidus of Constella Autumni, overseeing the glory of harvests. She ensures that hard work results in bountiful rewards. She is also a mercenary business executive with an illustrious career, though she cannot cite them all as they last over centuries. Within Constella Autumni, Cara takes on an advisory role given how she's the longest-surviving member.]

39. #39Scandas Rijusian

    Keys: Rijusian, Scandas

    [Scandas Rijusian, the Star-Eating Giant, is an Aphysikos. Her glass sword, the Eighth Name of Contemplation, has slashed apart many stars and cut away many Mandates from the Universe. She is a beautiful creature of violence, who argues that everything is fated to come apart. Being a duelist, she seeks honor even as she destroys without thought. Scandas Rijusian is currently held a prisoner by Constella Autumni and has conducted well within the confines of Full Moon Meadows.]

40. #40Narcisa of Critique

    Keys: Critique, Narcisa

    [Narcisa of Critique is the perceptive and optimistic Sidus of Constella Artium Sinistrum, who teaches the Universe the art of seeing. Her gentle and unyielding patience has been key to maintaining the anarchic Constella as a singular operational unit. Unlike other Sidera, she is deeply invested in her mortal life, appearing in her spire-top sanctum in the Fortress of the Arts rarely.]

41. #41Giuseppe of the Opera

    Keys: Opera, Giuseppe

    [Giuseppe of the Opera is a Sidus among Constella Artium Sinistrum who oversees the art of musical theater, conducting it to keep the Universe dreaming of greater things. He is a consummate fantasist; so grandiose and magnificent are his stories, none can accept even his reality to be real. Gregarious and friendly though he may be, his greatest ache is that he has never been loved as a person since his divinity.]

42. #42Mori of Dance

    Keys: Dance, Mori

    [Mori of Dance is the Sidus of Dance whose sacred duty is the safekeeping of the Universe-Destroying Dance. So important is her charge, Constella Artium Sinistrum accepts her to do whatever she wants, as long as she stays safe and hidden. She enjoys her life, dancing in sweat at raves and parties, celebrating her Mandate with her own body constantly.]

43. #43Elisabeth of Tragedy

    Keys: Tragedy, Elisabeth

    [Elisabeth, the Sidus of Tragedy, is a muse of Constella Artium Sinistrum. She believes the world has run out of new tragedies to tell. So Elisabeth walks among humankind, causing catastrophes and ruining lives, so that her Mandate may be kept fresh with new, never-before-seen tragedies. Elisabeth experiences genuine glee when someone has a bad day.]

44. #44Erik of the Piano

    Keys: Erik, Piano

    [Erik of the Piano, of Constella Artium Sinistrum, is a quirky and eccentric god of the piano. He keeps a low profile, thinking that his Mandate has lived past its own glory days. He has difficulties reconciling his mortal legacy with his divine future. Still Erik finds it worthwhile to spark joy and cause laughter; so he tries for another day.]

45. #45Sukarman of Shadow Puppets

    Keys: Sukarman, shadow puppet

    [Sukarman of Shadow Puppets, the war god of Constella Artium Sinistrum, is an eldritch and forbidding being. He has completely forsaken his mortal identity and revels in seamless union with his Mandate. His actions and miracles appear incomprehensible to mortal ken, but it is evidently clear that, all Sukarman does, it's in defense of beauty.]

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