Amaethon and the Silent Beast

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Amaethon and the Silent Beast

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In a time when the mali’ame were young, but the forests already ancient, there lived two beings.

 

One was Amaethon, the Great Mani Prince of the Cervidae. Amaethon was immortal and ethereal, and ruled over the stags, deer and moose of the land. He had a fondness for the Wood Elven seeds who roamed about his domains, who paid him tribute when they hunted and revered him as a demigod of the wild. It is said that he took peculiar delight in the music the elves produced.

 

One was was a beast named Silence- Lyu. He once had another name, now lost to time, when he was a mortal elf of the Yelvairene Seed. He was an man with no morals, whose violent nature led to the death of his son. He hunted beasts for sport and did not kill cleanly, taking pleasure in their suffering. As a punishment, the Great Mani of Lupines, Morea, cursed him to be among the realm’s first ferals.

 

Lyu was trapped permanently in his wolven form, living as a monster. It is said Prince Morea bound his soul to a sacred tree, which reformed his body whenever he died, foredooming him to immortality, an eternity to devolve into savagery. Lyu would soon lose all the mental cognition he had as an elf, remembering only his hatred for mali kind.

 

On the first Winter’s Solstice after the transformation, the beast named Silence snuck like a shadow into the camp of the Yelvairene Seed, his former kin. There, fueled by his hatred, he killed all of the Seed’s children while they slept. The Yelvairene were distraught, and in their mourning, prayed for a hundred days and nights to the Aspects for answers, to know who would do this to them.

 

The orison of the Yelvairene was answered by Amaethon, who appeared to them in the form of a ghostly stag. Who spoke unto them these words.

 

“That which did this to you was once one of you, but who has become a demon twisted by malice. The Prince of Wolves is the son of the Father, and embraces the death caused by his punishments. I, however, am a child of the Mother. I am benevolent. Play your drums and flutes for me, children of Malin, and I will come to protect you.”

 

It is said that the next year, on the night of the Winter’s Solstice, the entire Yelvairene seed played their deerskin drums about a big bonfire all night, none pausing to rest nor sleep. Amaethon took notice of this, and when Lyu appeared in the shadows once more, a mighty stag with a pure white mane came to challenge him, piercing the monster in the heart with its horns and banishing it back to the tree far away where it would regenerate.

 

This miracle was quick to spread. Soon every wood elven seed had heard of the tale of Amaethon and the Silent Beast. It became tradition among all the tribes to spend the entire night of the winter’s solstice playing their drums and praying to the great Prince of Cervidae, so he would come protect them from Lyu, who they say to this day is still bound to his tree, regenerating every winter’s solstice with malice in his heart, looking to slit the throats of children whose seeds are not protected by Amaethon’s grace.

 

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