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Varunel

Realm	Terasil
Aspect	History and Memory

Varunel is an Ascendant Spirit associated with history and memory. Revered primarily within Terasil, she is often depicted as silent, faceless, and draped in layered robes.

The Duranthi, the stone-skinned human lineage of Terasil, revere her as a force to be endured and honored through accurate record keeping, the maintaining of oral histories, and traditions..

Nature and Influence

Varunel embodies the powerful concepts of history and memory. Her influence allows those to accurately remember the past and preserve it for the future. This has influenced those who dwell in her lands, particularly that of the Duranthi, who as a consequence are both tied to the past and stuck in it. The Duranthi, who are also heavily influenced by Oras, have near perfect memories as a result;lt of Varunel's presence.

Vanule's influence can also calcify and her aspect often fosters stagnation. As a consequence new ideas and innovations among the Duranthi are few and far between.

Realm

Varunel’s lives in Terasil, which she is said to have entered following the elemental convergences and the stabilization of Orethil.

Symbolism and Iconography

Varunel is depicted as a statue.

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 {{Ascendant Spirit Infobox
 |Name=Varunel
+|Image=[[File:Varunel 01.jpg|center|frameless]]
 |Realm=Terasil
-|Osia=Varunisa
+|Aspect=History and Memory
 }}
 {{Ascendant Spirit Sections
-|Introduction='''Varunel''' is an [[Ascendant Spirit]] associated with the domains of history, memory, and the burden of continuity. Revered primarily within [[Terasil]], Varunel is not a spirit of nostalgia or narrative, but of exact recall and structured preservation. She is often depicted as silent, faceless, or draped in layered robes etched with symbols that no longer require reading. Her presence is marked by stillness, delayed echoes, and the sensation of being watched by unseen records.
+|Introduction='''Varunel''' is an [[Ascendant Spirit]] associated with history and memory. Revered primarily within [[Terasil]], she is often depicted as silent, faceless, and draped in layered robes.
-Varunel is not considered compassionate or reactive. Her domain is the impartial archive—the memory that does not fade, even when it wounds. To invoke Varunel is to offer one’s words to permanence. The [[Duranthi]], the stone-skinned human lineage of Terasil, revere her not as a personal protector, but as a force to be endured and honored through accurate recordkeeping, ritual reenactment, and stone-carved recitation.
+The [[Duranthi]], the stone-skinned human lineage of Terasil, revere her as a force to be endured and honored through accurate record keeping, the maintaining of oral histories, and traditions..
+|Nature and influence=Varunel embodies the powerful concepts of history and memory. Her influence allows those to accurately remember the past and preserve it for the future. This has influenced those who dwell in her lands, particularly that of the Duranthi, who as a consequence are both tied to the past and stuck in it. The Duranthi, who are also heavily influenced by [[Oras]], have near perfect memories as a result;lt of Varunel's presence.
-Worship of Varunel is quiet and formalized. Priests and archivists aligned with her aspect wear veiled symbols and speak only in structured cadence when within memory halls. Her sigils are often placed upon ancestral tablets, oath-stones, or ritual instruments intended to preserve names and events beyond living memory.
+Vanule's influence can also calcify and her aspect often fosters stagnation. As a consequence new ideas and innovations among the Duranthi are few and far between.
+|Realm=Varunel’s lives in [[Terasil]], which she is said to have entered following the elemental convergences and the stabilization of [[Orethil]].
-In spiritual cosmology, Varunel is said to dwell within the *Stone Between Years*—a metaphysical construct that records all uttered truth and all truths suppressed. While she is not believed to intervene in mortal affairs, she is said to receive and hold all things offered in solemn intention.
+|Symbolism and iconography=Varunel is depicted as a statue.
-|Nature and influence=Varunel embodies the static axis of time—the point at which all memory is held in stillness, awaiting the moment of rightful acknowledgment. She does not judge nor forgive, but endures as a presence of continuity. Her nature is neither merciful nor cruel; it is exacting, immutable, and absolute. Varunel receives only what is offered deliberately and retains it without transformation.
-In Duranthi thought, she is not a source of divine comfort, but a spiritual force akin to geological pressure—shaping identity not through will, but through unrelenting permanence. Her influence governs not events, but their retention: it is said that nothing committed to stone under her aspect can be undone, and that even the most forgotten name remains marked in her domain, awaiting its return.
-Her presence is strongest in rites of archival sealing, oath preservation, ancestral affirmation, and the silent transfer of authority. Lorewardens often invoke her before inscribing civic rulings, and her emblem may be placed beneath memory-steles where names are not meant to be spoken aloud, but only seen.
-Though Varunel preserves order and meaning, her influence can also calcify. In excess, her aspect fosters stagnation—an overcommitment to precedent that resists renewal, and a reverence for the past so unyielding that it silences necessary change.
-|Realm=Varunel’s realm is [[Terasil]], which she is said to have entered following the elemental convergences and the stabilization of [[Orethil]].
-|Significance and worship=Varunel’s influence can be felt in Duranthi stone law, [[Orasian]] memory-rites, and the architectural silence of Terasil’s cities. Her aspect reinforces the realm’s spiritual inertia: to move forward, one must first reckon with the full weight of what came before.
-|Symbolism and iconography=* The unblinking eye
-* The spiral archive
-* The silent seal
-* A hand with no mouth
 }}
+[[category:Terasil]][[category:Duranthi]]