Mephilista

Mephilista is the third of the Geniersegunda, the children of the children of Genevieve. Mephilista is the daughter of Ao and Iori, who fell in love when Iori was created by Genevieve to retrieve Ao from the underside of Pryiam. Mephilista was an illuminated creature, like her parents, and is often called the Third Light. The remains of Mephilista make up the Ten Constellations that hang in the Void of Sylvieria.

The conception and birth of Mephilista enraged the avatar of Pryiam, Pryma, who was madly in love with Ao. After murdering her son, Aopros, and trapping Ao and Iori on the Bronze Clockwork she fashioned from his remains, Pryma then murdered Mephilista, ripping her apart and scattering her light across the Void. This act of cruelty birthed Anheiros, the Reaper of Cruelty, one of the Four Murders who eventually led to the creation of Anthira, Death Itself.

Where Mephilista's light landed in the Void, there were patterns that emerged. The Mephilyros, the Ten Constellations encircled the Stonestar and roughly marked where the Decaphros, the Ten Wards of the Months, would eventually come into being. The Constellations, being made of the light of the deceased Mephilista, are not imbued with any individual spirit in the way that much of Sylvieria's natural features are. The light of Mephilista, however, is still quite powerful, and acts as the source of Magic in Sylvieria, which is why the stars are often referred to as Sylvieria's soul.

The magic light of the Mephilyros would eventually be used by the manifestations of the Decaphros on Pryiam as guide-wards for the Ten Tribes which the Decaphros founded.

As with the other Geniersegunda, the soul of Mephilista, called Chryssa, escaped from her scattered remains and joined Prymus and Zimri in the Court of Genevieve in the Spiraling Palace atop the Spire.

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