Iori

(also known as The Mindsphere, The Mind's Eye, The Eye of Genevieve)

Iori is the moon of Sylvieria, the third of the Genierprymia, the First Children of Genevieve. Iori follows Ao on the Pursuit of the Bronze Clockwork, rising on the Dawnside of the Pursuit as Ao sets at the Duskside. The ten hours that it takes Iori to cross the surface of Pryiam is the night of a Sylvierian day. This time is also sometimes called Iori's Run.

After banishing Ao below Pryiam because of the constant light and heat, Genevieve became cold in the newfound darkness. Genevieve reached into her own brain and pulled out a piece of it, a glowing white bit that she hung above her in the Void, in the darkness, to keep her company and to light the darkness with her soft, white light. Genevieve named the light from her mind "Iori." After a while in the cold light of her mind, Genevieve demanded Iori find Ao below Pryiam and return him to the surface. Iori did as Genevieve wished and when she found Ao below Pryiam she fell in love with the Heart-Sun. Iori was impregnated by Ao, and gave birth to Mephilista the Third Light. Pryiam, however, was also in love with Ao, and seeing Iori with the sun, Pryiam as Pryma went mad and murdered the child she had with Ao, Aopros the Clockmaker, melting him with Ao's own heat and forming him into the Bronze Clockwork. Then with the force of her madness, she imprisoned Ao and Iori on the piece of the Clockwork called the Pursuit, ensuring that Ao and Iori could never touch again. Pryma then murdered Mephilista, tearing her asunder and scattering her light across the Void. Then Pryma, as a male, impregnated Iori, fathering Celeda. Pryma took the infant Celeda to the surface of Pryiam, slitting the child's throat, her blood filling the cracks made in Pryiam when Genevieve beheaded the giant Prysius and his skull smashed into the Stonestar.

Pryma's torture of Iori devasted the moon, causing her to mourn, monthly, with a black veil, moving it across her face over the course of her travels on the Pursuit. The veil blocks out varying amounts of her white light in five day phases. In every month's three day weeks, Iori goes through six five day phases.

Iori also manifests as the white skinned, black haired woman Lunabella. Because of her imprisonment on the Pursuit, however, she can never touch Ao's avatar, Apollo. Like her solar counterpart, Lunabella walked Pryiam miserable and full of rage until she founded the city of Lunesteyri at the far end of the Nightglimmer Plains on the Moonspire. Lunabella declared herself the Forever Queen of Lunesteyri, and she fashioned her own mortal beings from Iori's moonlight. The Moon People, the Children of Lunabella, populated Lunesteyri and became Lunabella's followers, and worshippers of Iori.

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