The Time of Bright Sun and The Dark: Though there is a full pantheon of Wylding Entities, there was also a time before Claw and Branch, the “Time of Above and Below”, of “Sun and Dark” – when the Elemental Dualities were the primary Wyld Entities alone on Helca and helped shape its surface happenings.
Though there is a full pantheon of Wylding Entities, there was also a time before Claw and Branch, the “Time of Above and Below”, of “Sun and Dark” – when the Elemental Dualities were the primary Wyld Entities alone on Helca. It was a time when an ancient fued between two elder species caused war across the land – before the time of the Blood of Saemon. One race thrived during the warm day hours, and the other thrived in the cool dark.
In the uncounted “Time of Above and Below”, the Elemental Dualities sided with once race – those that preferred the cool dark places, the Druunad. They came to take all places on the surface, and drove those that loved the sun under the earth into refuge.
They became subordinate to the all-mother Gaia and all-father Darupet when their powers were needed in times of crisis. They have few real direct adherents in these times – mostly they are offered to as part of the larger Wyld Faith.
Rangers of Helca have a niche faith of the ‘Essential Wylds’, and make and preserve many shrines throughout the realms for them.
The elemental powers rose from the woken world, and the Druunad were the ones who revered them as forces of nature. As their own culture progressed, and they harnessed technology, they suppressed the male side of the dual entities, harnessing their “consorts” on the female side to better control the energies of the world around them. The progress of time and the changes on Helca eventually allowed them to re-merge with their male counterparts, though the merger would never be healthy or stable again.