Arun is the living embodiment of the primal creative element of fire As one of the original Elder Gods, Arun is timeless, knows of no place in time where he was not and has been present since the dawn of creation, just as he will be at the end of it. When the world was made, he created the sun to imbue the world with boundless energy in all shapes.

Arun has always been a withdrawn and contemplative being, whose inclination was to observe rather than act, a suitable counterweight to his impulsive consort Miran whom he has always cared deeply for.

Although he is acknowledged and respected as a primal force in Éran, Arun is very rarely worshipped. He answers no prayers nor does he intervene in the affairs of mortals. Since the time he supported his children against the wrath of Miran, he has withdrawn from the world, weighed down by losing his consort through his own misjudgement. He is resigned to simply watching creation unfold and pass and wait to take an active role when he is once again united with all the other Elder Gods.

Arun is nonetheless not entirely passive. He watches over his favoured creations, the dragons, whom he feels have always stayed true to his vision. The dragons in turn revere him as one of the true deities of the world, considering the young gods little more than impostors, children of creation just as themselves, not lords of it.

The living manifestation of the earth, Enia is the great sustainer.  When the world was made, she created Theras and made it her home. When life was first made, it was she who gave them spirit to animate and come to life. She created the animals of the world to inhabit the earth.

When she discovered her creation was dying in the wake of giving life to the young gods, she borrowed parts of the essence of the other Elder Gods and bound it into herself with a promise to return it when she did and then sacrificed her own life to give life to Theras, so that it might sustain the life already there. When Theras is no more, she will return to life to begin creation anew.

Enia is, in a very real sense, the living earth, albeit non in a conscious way. It is her essence that sustains all life, nurtures all spirit and makes the very earth itself come alive. Though she as not really worshipped, as she no longer exists as a distinct entity, her spirit is revered and received with thankfulness among all who value life.

It is likewise her spirit that imbues the world with magic and thus she has given her creations a gift beyond the control of the other gods to forge their own destiny.

Enia is revered most fondly by the Phaerie who sprang spontaneously from the earth following her sacrifice and in many ways consider themselves the collective manifestation of her person, dedicated to nurturing the spirit of the land she gave her life for.

The primal embodiment of air, Laulas embraces everything, but is likewise possessive and domineering of all. His consort is Enia, whose nurturing nature has kept him in check in the past. When the Elder Gods created the world, he created the vastness of the sky and with it potential for creating all things not yet made. Deep in the sky, he set the stars, so that those who were to come later might know the vastness of the sky given to them and here he made his abode.

In Éran, Laulas is feared above all other gods as the harbinger of doom and annihilation, a god so terrible and powerful, none of the other gods dare stand against him, the one predicted to end the world. For as long as the mortal races have known him, he has worked towards their destruction.

As far as Laulas is concerned, Theras is not only a creation gone wrong, to be undone and remade; it is also a prison for his beloved and missed consort Enia. Theras exists only because the spirit of Enia animates it and he is determined to undo this and return his consort to life again.

Unlike Miran, Laulas prefers to work in subtle ways, weaving his plots and schemes below the eyes of the young gods where possible, and never so openly threatening they might feel compelled to destroy him as they did Miran. When the final day of Theras comes, its fruition will be so insidious that by the time it is discovered, there will be no reversing it.

He still nurtures and cares for the phoenixes whom he feels represent everything that is right in creation and they in turn revere him as their father and creator and likewise still protects the aerial animals of the world, the creations of Enia he gave wings and pledged to nurture when the world was young.

Laulas has a close and strongly ambivalent relationship with the Phaerie. When they spontaneously appeared in the wake of Enia’s sacrifice, Laulas took them under his wing in the absence of his consort and nurtured them as his own creation. Only later, when he grew to see Theras as a prison and not a place of unfolding creation, did he begin to resent the very existence of the Phaerie, whom he now sees as the janitors of Enia’s prison, sustaining and keeping her spirit as it is now.

Though he is the Phaerie’s greatest enemy and has conceived many plots to destroy them, including creating the Unseelie court of the dark Phaerie, the love he once felt for them as his own is occasionally stirred when facets of Enia’s character shines through in them. A Phaerie or Phaerie community has often been saved at the last minute by the unseen and repenting hand of Laulas, often to save them from his own work.

The Phaerie’s relationship with the dedicated annihilator of Theras is generally one of sadness. They acknowledge and respect him for the love and nurturing he once showed them, while also lamenting for the being he has become.

He is worshipped by some Blackfolk tribes, who see themselves as the hand of the rightful sovereign of Theras, the chosen who are to be spared when the world is remade. Laulas sees no reason to dispel this misconception and readily accepts their worship.

Miran is the primal entity of water. She is a volatile and temperous, but also passionate and giving to those she cares for.
When the world was first created, she created the seas to sustain life and the two moons, Mir and Elir, to govern the cycles of life and took the greater, Mir, as her abode.

In Éran, Miran is perceived mostly as a dark goddess. She created the Blackfolk races, lycanthropes and introduced the undead to Theras, all with the aim of destroying the mortal races. The Moon Lady herself abides by no such distinctions. For her, creation is simply a manifestation of her and the other Elder Gods’ being. It is she who sustains it, she who will be there when it is gone and she who will help recreate it. To her, the mortal races are a perversion of her vision of creation, a blight the young gods imposed on her work in her absence to replace her own vision.

Miran is currently a fragmented goddess, as she was ‘slain’ by the cooperative efforts of Astias, Hefastos, Elonis and Harion. Her being was split into three and imprisoned in cages by Baran the Smith and kept in three different corners of the world. One cage was thrown into the deepest ocean, the other on her moon of Mir, and the third was transported to Edras and hidden in a secret place in the God lands, known only to those who conspired against her and in all three places were placed powerful guardians pledged to protect the cages until the young gods are no more.

Despite this, Miran is not dead and though imprisoned, she can still exert her influence on Theras in subtle ways.

She is worshipped by some Blackfolk tribes who see her as the queen of Theras, and themselves fighting for her legacy to destroy the perversions of the young gods and restore Theras to its true order.

Few prayers are heard, but still just enough to let them know that their creator still lives on.