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Aelrith

Aspect	Mist, Memory Drift, Concealment, Thresholds
Osia	Aelrithia

Aelrith is an Ascendant Spirit born from the union of Jala and Oras, encompassing all mist, fog, and atmospheric veilings. She embodies the presence of suspended transformation—hovering between visibility and disappearance, memory and forgetting. Revered in [[Urth-Kelai]] her presence is marked by atmospheric distortion and the softening of boundaries, both physical and metaphysical.

Nature and Influence

Aelrith can be seen within the mists themselves. She gathers in hollowed spaces, cloaked ridges, and mist-covered paths, where form becomes uncertain and reflection is possible.

Relationship with Other Elements

Aelrith is born of Jala and Oras and exists at the interstice—where substance becomes vapor.

Realm

Aelrith does not dwell within a fixed realm. Instead, she is said to move constantly through the mist and fog in the liminal space between realms. Certain sites—like Urth-Kelai or mist-thick passes in the Murazkar Range—are believed to brush against this space, enabling temporary communion with Aelrith’s essence.

Osia

Practitioners who attune to Aelrith use breathforms and vapor inscriptions to access nascent spirits of mist and fog. Aelrithia is also used to confuse enemies or render spaces unreadable.

Significance and Worship

Aelrith's cult is the strongest in the Murazkar Range, but holds deep reverence among those who dwell in other mistbound regions.

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 {{Ascendant Spirit Infobox
 |Name=Aelrith
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+|Image=[[File:Aelrith.jpg|center|frameless]]
 |Aspect=Mist, Memory Drift, Concealment, Thresholds
-|Osia=Aelrithia
+|Osia=[[Aelrithia]]
 }}
 {{Ascendant Spirit Sections
-|Introduction=Aelrith is an [[Ascendant Spirit]] born from the union of '''[[Jala]]''' and '''[[Oras]]''', encompassing all mist, fog, and atmospheric veilings. She embodies the presence of suspended transformation—hovering between visibility and disappearance, memory and forgetting. Revered in <nowiki>[[Urth-Kelai]]</nowiki> Aelrith is invoked during moments of spiritual transition, dissolution, and threshold passage. Her presence is marked by '''a'''tmospheric distortion, forgotten tones, and the softening of boundaries, both physical and metaphysical.
+|Introduction=Aelrith is an [[Ascendant Spirit]] born from the union of '''[[Jala]]''' and '''[[Oras]]''', encompassing all mist, fog, and atmospheric veilings. She embodies the presence of suspended transformation—hovering between visibility and disappearance, memory and forgetting. Revered in <nowiki>[[Urth-Kelai]]</nowiki> her presence is marked by atmospheric distortion and the softening of boundaries, both physical and metaphysical.
-|Nature and influence=Aelrith does not take form in the traditional sense. She is not seen, but sensed—a shifting awareness at the edges of perception. Her nature lies in dissolution and concealment, shaping how travelers experience space, memory, and identity.
+|Nature and influence=Aelrith can be seen within the mists themselves. She gathers in hollowed spaces, cloaked ridges, and mist-covered paths, where form becomes uncertain and reflection is possible.
+|Relationship with other elements=Aelrith is born of Jala and Oras and exists at the interstice—where substance becomes vapor.
-Her influence is strongest in moments of threshold transition—when one leaves a place, role, or name behind. She gathers in hollowed spaces, cloaked ridges, and mist-covered paths, where form becomes uncertain and reflection is possible.
+|Realm=Aelrith does not dwell within a fixed realm. Instead, she is said to move constantly through the mist and fog in the liminal space between realms. Certain sites—like Urth-Kelai or mist-thick passes in the Murazkar Range—are believed to brush against this space, enabling temporary communion with Aelrith’s essence.
-|Relationship with other elements=Aelrith is born of Jala and Oras and exists at the interstice—where substance becomes vapor, and where memory slips from form.
+|Osia=Practitioners who attune to Aelrith use breathforms and vapor inscriptions to access nascent spirits of mist and fog. Aelrithia is also used to confuse enemies or render spaces unreadable.
-|Realm=Aelrith does not dwell within a fixed realm. Instead, she is said to move through and as transitions—manifesting only in the shifting spaces between resonance and silence, presence and memory, form and forgetting. Scholars of mysticism describe her presence as tethered not to a plane, but to states of passage.
+|Significance and worship=Aelrith's cult is the strongest in the [[Murazkar Range]], but holds deep reverence among those who dwell in other mistbound regions.
-What some call “the Veil” is not a true realm, but a condition: a liminal phase where identity thins and echoes begin to unravel. It is experienced, not entered. Certain sites—like Urth-Kelai or mist-thick passes in the Murazkar Range—are believed to brush against this phase, enabling temporary communion with Aelrith’s essence.
-She cannot be summoned or sought in fixed space—only encountered in movement, in dissolution, in drift.
-|Osia=Aelrithia is the [[Osia]] through which Aelrith’s influence flows, where sound and self dissolve into layered mistforms. It is neither harmonic nor dissonant, but continuously drifting. Aelrithia is invoked in rituals of threshold unbinding, memory release, and identity veiling.
-Practitioners who attune to Aelrithia train to navigate silence rather than impose tone. They use breathforms and vapor inscriptions to access her field. Aelrithia is also used to confuse enemies, render spaces unreadable, or safely dissolve personal attunements.
-It is considered one of the most unstable forms of Osia, accessible only during deep fog or high memory saturation states.
-|Significance and worship=Aelrith is not widely worshiped in formal temple cults, but holds deep reverence among those who dwell in mistbound regions.
-|Philosophical interpretations=Philosophers describe Aelrith as a mediator of impermanence. She teaches that clarity without transformation is stagnation, and that memory must sometimes dissolve for new resonance to form. Followers often adopt a path of intentional forgetting, non-attachment, and meditative drift through meaning.
-|Symbolism and iconography=Aelrith is rarely depicted directly. Symbols associated with her include:
-* Three descending waveforms, often in silver or water-ink
-* The half-veiled face motif (seen in cloaks, carvings, and mist masks)
-* Polished obsidian circles with faint condensation trails
-* Breath-etched glyphs, visible only in fog or steam
-Her presence is often represented by absence—a missing figure, an empty alcove, or a faded inscription.
 |Nature and Influence=Aelrith is not a spirit of form, but of transition. Her influence is most potent in spaces of concealment and ambiguity—fog-shrouded paths, fading memories, echoing caverns, and spiritual waystations. Travelers report her presence as a feeling of being watched gently, or as glimpses of graceful motion just beyond vision. Her touch is said to cause silence to deepen and memory to blur or soften.
 |Relationship with Other Elements=While not directly aligned with a single elemental quadrant, Aelrith’s domain overlaps with Vapor, Unformed Echo, and Tonal Dispersion. She is considered the transitional counterpart to spirits of stone, order, and fire, such as those worshiped in [[Kar-Thal]]. Aelrith’s domain softens, erodes, and veils rather than constructs or resists. She does not oppose form—but delays, obscures, or transforms it.
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 Her presence is often represented by absence—a missing figure, an empty alcove, or a faded inscription.
 }}
+[[Category:Orethil]]