Huhuman, "The Children of Grinneal"

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Happens during the Third Aeon

There were the First Aosda. They referred to themselves as "Children of Grinneal".

First Aosda lived for 20'000 years, then vanished. Then was rediscovered as the Second Aosda 6'000 years after. Then it survived 5'000 years into the Danaan Era to the appearance of the Tuatha de Danaan, then vanished again. Even Hy-brasyl knew nothing about that.

This story comes from a volume about Hy-brasyl folk tales in Loures Castle Library, it was written in Aosdan by Jaalyn Sarag in the hopes that the knowledge of the first civilization could live on.

Foreword written by Jean (the story is translated by him)

1 - Discovery

This story takes place in Comhal capital of First Aosda central of the central continent that made up Grinneal.
Luathas is a thief during those times. He got caught.
Partner with Harlan
They knocked out the guard that caught him.
Communicates with a hammer and a mallet with his partner.
Harlan is caught
Luathas flees.

2 - Repentance

There is a Palace of Justice in Comhal built at the start of the Second Aeon. An Adjudicator would be the judge for those who broke the law. Often a scholar picked by the Aosdic Council who themselves were the most sage scholars. Led by a Grand Scholar. This Council is revered cause it's thanks to them this society even exists. They held meetings in the University.
They are the two most important buildings in Comhal
No one killed ~={orange}(or it was always hidden)=~ but those who broke the law exiled to northern region of Kadath. They never returned.

Adjudicator garbs : "orange robes adorned with intricate gold trim and, over the top, a grey overcoat with a high collar. In his left hand he wielded an iron sphere roughly the size of a fist, embossed with a trader’s scales – the symbol of his office."
The Adjudicator of this story is at least a few hundred years old.

Harlan gets sentenced to exil to Kadath and is sent to the catacombs
He doesn't snitch on Luathas his friend

3 - Ascension

Luathas and his friend had stole a book apparently mysterious from the pawnbroker. Harlan supposedly had been given the intel by a trusted source.
“To you who have found this tome, know that alongside the path to ascension is the path to madness.”

4 - Premonition

Current Grand Scholar Finach at the time of this story wants to try Ascension to exchange exp and knowledge for power. Unnamed Previous Grand Scholar only one to have tried it before ~={orange}(they have no way to know tbh)=~ and failed miserably, his mortal form annihilated and mind lost to darkness. Finach thought the more knowledge and discipline would give him the best chances to keep Kadath at bay. He also foresaw himself winning.
Finach is an Augur, a person gifted with the gift of foresight, small visions who guided him to this point.
Wants a last vision before the ritual. He burned smth
Dreams of the fall of a golden city ~={orange}(which one i wanna ask)=~, then sees eight figures ~={orange}(the eight gods certainly)=~ fighting against darkness.

5 - Premonition

The book's name is The Tome of Ascension. last third of the book incoherent ramblings full of madness. Probably cause the guy attempted Ascension.
The ritual is as follows : going to the peak mountain of Kadath, making a sacrifice to the Earth-Sea Gods of Kadath, then if found worthy, they would be granted powers from their accumulated experience (toiseach), and be reborn with more powers, "a god in their own right".
A name of the god is a word of power. The ascendant with be granted a god-name, etched on the altar of their rebirth. "It is this name through which supplicants may invoke the ascendant’s power, and which forms the basis of their status as a deity."
Then warned of Kadath and fell into its darkness.

Luathas was reading this book at Cthon, northernmost city before Kadath. He was going to search for Harlan
Finach also arrived there, wanting to become a god of wisdom and logic. His man-at-arms Laidh accompanying him.
Finach had resigned his position of Grand Scholar
He ventured on his own to Kadath
Highest peak name : Kedarnath
Apparently great winter wolves live there.

6 - Fiosachd

Wagon where Harlan found destroyed by lightning (a lightning storm was brewing for a while)
Trail to Kedarnath is said to have been built by the first Earth-Sea Gods ascending
Fresh footprints from the trail. One with a walking stick
Found Harlan and his gaolers walking in unisson side by side Thin shadow envelopping them as a whole
Laughter can be heard
Couldn't be moved, slowly advancing

On the top is an altar. Finach sacrifies in it a purple hair ~={orange}(succubus hair?)=~
Luathas arrives, Finach gets thunderbolted and ascends. The name Fiosachd appears on the altar. Then he gets thunderbolted too.
Orbs form atop the altar, and the new god rebirths from that.

7 - Luathas

Harlan and the two other drapped in darkness tried to merged with Finach
Fiosachd realises his true name.
The darkness retreated face with two new gods.
Finach takes the name of Luathas
Fiosachd encases the three in crystal and puts them in his pouch. Luathas talks about his vision of the eight of us against Chadul whose name echoed from the darkness. They leave.

8 - Epilogue

A century passed in the blink of an eye.
Confirms Aosdan have long lifespan
the Adjudicator from before became Gramail