Ao

also known as The Sun - The Sky's Heart - The Heart Sun

Ao is the sun of Sylvieria, a globe of brilliant yellow-white light that creates daylight as it passes over Pryiam on the Pursuit. One complete revolution of Ao, from dawn to dawn, on the Pursuit is a Sylvierian day.

Ao was born when, lonely upon her new Pryiam, in the dark, Genevieve opened her chest, and pulled a sliver from her golden heart and set it above her like a lamp, creating the second of the Genierprymia. And the piece of her heart began to beat overhead, glowing with golden light. The heart sun, Ao, was imbued with the spirit of Genevieve and that spirit would also manifest as the walking Gilded King Apollo. Before the birth of Aopros, the Bronze Clockwork, Ao hung over the center of Pryiam, until Genevieve became enraged by the constant light and sent him below Pryiam. While beneath Pryiam, Ao spoke to the Mouth of Pryiam, and the Mother-Father fell in love with the Heart Sun. While Ao slept, Pryiam as Pryma stole light from Ao and impregnated itself with it. From Pryma's womb came forth the Bronze Man, Aopros the Clockmaker, the first of the Geniersegunda. When the darkness again became unbearable for Genevieve, she fashioned Iori from her own mind, and set Iori to retrieve Ao, to return him above the surface of Pryiam. Iori caught Ao below Pryiam, where they fell in love. Iori became pregnant with Mephilista, the Third Light. Seeing her beloved Ao fall in love in Iori, Pryma became enraged and melted down Aopros with Ao's heat, caging both Ao and Iori in the Bronze Clockwork in the Pursuit. Pryma then murdered Mephilista, scattering her light across the Void.

Ao, as Apollo, can likewise never touch Iori's avatar, Lunabella. Apollo wandered Pryiam, miserable and full of rage, until founding the Golden City at the far edge of the Deathlight Desert. There Apollo declared himself the Forever King of the Golden City and populated it with his mortal creations, The Sun People.

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