"I must concur with the Truth-bringer. What shall be, shall be. Regardless, I must continue my duties, smith-king."
Leaving his fellow member of the House and the eccentric smith-god, the Tutelospera scanned the surface and composition of the Second and produced an exact replica in its place. The Third. It did not have the time or desire to compose something 'unique' or 'original'. After all, the Third was but a tool for the Sacrament and other future endeavours rather than an end in itself. However this did not mean that the essence of the Third was the same. While the Third did indeed possess an internal source of magic, it could also produce yet more by absorbing the heat energy emitted by Luar and through an intricate system of machinery in the Third's mantle, was able to turn it into yet more magic. This synthesised magical energy was not used in the monthly Sacrament but rather, to institute seasons upon the First.
During the course of the year, the winds of magic would be controlled through the divine magic of the Third. Not at all equal to the seasons of nature, the five seasons of magic were obedient not to the turn of natural winds, the sun or the orbit of the First, but the lunar orbit around the First. Rather than oscillating between moon phases in the span of a month, the Third only completed its rotation around the planet once a year. In effect, this meant that each moon phase lasted 45.625 days, each ushering in a new season of magic. They are as follows:
Kleisto/New Moon: The moon is not visible from the surface, being completely enveloped by Luar's shadow. The winds of magic are extremely weak, the storms dissipated; what winds remain are but a small breeze. All attempts to cast magic is made more difficult and constructs of magic/reliant on magic are more prone to malfunction.
Imikleisto/Waxing Crescent: A slither of the moon is visible. The winds of magic are calm and benevolent. Magic motivated by Love is stronger at this time.
Misianoikti/First Quarter: Half the moon is visible. The winds of magic are of average strength.
Fotismos/Waxing Gibbous: Most of the moon is visible. The winds of magic are strong.
Kataigida/Full Moon: The moon is completely visible. The winds of magic are terrifyingly powerful. Magic is more intense and difficult to control at this time. Magic motivated by Glory is stronger at this time.
Kleisimo/Waning Gibbous:The moon is mostly visible. The winds of magic are strong.
Misianoikti/Third Quarter: Half the moon is visible. The winds of magic are of average strength.
Defteros Imikleisto/Waning crescent: A slither of the moon is visible. The winds of magic are calm and benevolent. Magic motivated by Desire is stronger at this time.
This completed, the Tutelospera wrought together yet another Sacrament, this one being that of the Firsts and Thirds. Identical to the prior sacrament, it differs in that in calms the storms of magic. Whereas the previous sacrament made use of only the moon's own essence, this Sacrament also borrowed some of the winds of magic to create the arcane spheres, which were the prize of the Sacrament.
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In the opinion of the godsphere, the Third was complete. It turned its focus towards the First and observed. The others had focused their efforts solely on the isles of Pleasure and while the first mortals had been tested, they had also grown. It was pleased. However, the Isles were not fit for the purpose desired by It. It looked at the empty skies and the empty surface, where the storms of magics blew endlessly in currents of air and mana. This would not due.
In its inner bowls, the Tutelospera began building. Great constructs of every element, natural and divine. Of metal of arcane, of carbon and helium, of liquid and gas. These great crafts were to be the godsphere's first tools upon the First, its first mortals. Giant artificial constructs that were seemingly organic, the great creatures were levianthan-sized whales that inhabited the skies of the First, feeding on the magical storms as they travelled in their pods. The magic they produced powered their inner machinery, allowing them to grow. Unlike actual organisms however, these beings could direct their own growth by mentally willing it. Why limit one to the plan divined by the godsphere, when such a being desired great wings or legs? Indeed, in their generic form, these beings seemed to be whales that seemingly swam through the aether skies. Of course, being as large as they are, they could not control magic itself, nor participate in the Sacrament. No, the Tutelospera had another purpose in mind. While the creatures lived and grew, they would produce excrement, both of magic and of their inner parts. This excrement would drop onto the surface of the First and begin producing life. By processes conducted in the belly of the creatures, the excrement would contain the sufficient spells to begin producing assortments of life suited to the climate and location of the area, most of which included either being resistant to the winds of magic, or by utilising the winds in their own adaptations. The same would occur if the corpse of one of these beasts fell upon the world, although, such a fall would produce an ecosystem of much greater intensity, size and personality; the very spirit of the fallen beast would become infused in the environment as a kind of genus loci, able to project its own ghost and communicate in the locale.
These beings would known as Falaenites. While the Falaenites were not the Chosen of the Tutelospera, they would carry out its will, in due time. As such, It saw fit to grant them knowledge of the arcane, the divine, the ability to read the Obelisk and the understanding that despite all this, one maxim remained true:
ALL GODS ARE BASTARDS, BAR NONE.
The Tutelospera did not see a reason to hide the truth of the matter, especially to a species that was in the end, but a mere tool.
Act: Create The Third, a moon that is an exact copy of the Second and orbits around the First. It ushers in the seasons of magic, as described.
Act: Create the Sacrament of the Firsts and Thirds. Completely identical to the prior Sacrament, but rather than strengthening the magical storms, it calms them somewhat as it condenses the storms into usable arcane spheres.
Act: Create the mortal Falaenites, as described.