Prymus

Prymus is the disembodied soul of Prysius the Stone Giant, the first of the Geniersegunda. Prysius was beheaded by Genevieve in the darkness before the creation of Ao, and his stone body and spine are the great mountain in the center of Pryiam known as the Spire.

When Genevieve slew Prysius out of fear (she was startled by Prysius' anguished howl in the darkness), she was overcome with guilt, and marked herself with a tattoo of a yellow owl's eye on her chest just below her throat. The mark was to remind her of her culpability in the death of the giant.

Prymus escaped the stone mountain corpse of Prysius, and like his sibling Geniersegunda, he felt compelled to climb to the summit of the Spire, and join Genevieve in her Court, there. Prymus was the first of the Geniersegunda souls to make its way to Genevieve and when the World-Queen first saw Prymus in her court, she was overcome with grief and with sadness. Prymus, however, remembered the anguish of his short time in the body of Prysius, a miserable experience, as the Stone Giant's mind was not equipped to handle the constraints and boundaries of being alive. Although Genevieve had slain Prysius out of fear (the first death in Sylvieria and the event that birthed the Reaper of Fear, Thaeron), Prymus viewed his release from the Giant's form as a salvation. He embraced Genevieve and removed the owl eye from her chest, casting it from the tallest tower of The Spiraling Palace, Genevieve's castle atop the Spire. The ink from the tattoo was infused with all of the guilt that Genevieve had felt after murdering her grandchild, and it became Aszwal, a sentient embodiment of guilt in the form of a yellow-eyed owl.

Prymus was able to create rock and stone from the Void, an ability which earned him the title Stonebuilder. To celebrate and mark his forgiveness of Genevieve, Prymus crafted a stone owl from nothingness, with blue sapphire eyes to take the place of the yellow eyes of guilt under which Genevieve had suffered. He presented the stony owl to Genevieve as a gift, and his kindness imbued it with life. Aszwal gained a brother in Zyrthes, the blue-eyed owl of absolution.

Prymus served as the Stonebuilder of Genevieve's Court, helping her sculpt mountains and hills and cliffs into the surface of Pryiam from his vantage point high atop The Spiraling Palace. His sibling Geniersegunda souls, Zimri, Chryssa and Cozbi eventually joined him in the Palace and lent their powers to Genevieve's work of building the world.

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