What followed was one of Realmgard’s most famous love affairs. While poets would focus on the sincerity and depth of the two lovers’ bond, historians would note how most immensely consequential this union would be to shaping the history of both Realmgard and the Wandering Coast.
What exactly spurred Artemio’s change of heart is unknown, and different sources give different accounts: a vision of the goddess Creusa, the castigation of his elderly mother, a debate with a priest, or even hitting his head on a low doorframe.
The Sublunar Realm is the chaotic metaphysical plane of raw currents of magical and element forces said to be bounded by the more concrete and permanent spheres of Terrace and the Moon.
Two of the central figures in the best-known cycle of Aurorean folklore, Sauvaherra and Tulva are depicted as a pair of lovers who must overcome great adversity and calamity before finally getting their happy ending.
Lassflyja’s name is Hrimfaxi for something like “She Who Slips Locks”, referring to the fact that she is constantly portrayed as evading capture or imprisonment by her pursuers.
Aloof and hot-tempered, earthquakes and volcanoes are attributed to Raudfjall one way of another: either the echoing of his hammer sounding on his anvil in his subterranean forge deep in the heart of the earth, or else the outpouring of his fiery temper and indignation.
Perhaps because of his own prolific success where romance is concerned, Bhela is also venerated as the Hrimfaxi god of love and traditional Hrimfaxi wedding ceremonies take place at the feet of a statue in his likeness.
The goddess’ greatest strength is her knowledge of magical secrets not widely known to mortals.
Depicted as a young, hot-headed woman with long golden hair and a large golden axe, Thonadis is said to travel across the sky in a chariot pulled by boars to do mighty battle with the Giants.
Skana and Skata are the goddess of the Sun and daytime, and the Moon and nighttime.
