u/Future-Union-4551

Yeah, its a sick feeling to be on the desk putting in the hours while your peers go out and you cancel the plans. At this point I'm starting to hate this process although I'm blessed with supportive parents. But idk how am I supposed to say this but it's heavy... Yeah I love sciences and 've always wanted to get into research and I still do. There's one side of me who wants to go out and live and leave everything but on a contrast there's also a side of me who wanna fight. Fight for that ambition.

Among the gods of Aetherya, Aurthis is perhaps the most difficult to define—not because he hides what he is, but because definition itself weakens in his presence.

Where other gods embody forces that can be clearly understood—change, action, connection, stillness—Aurthis governs something far more unstable:

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He is not the god of truth in its absolute form.
That role belongs closer to Serein, whose philosophy seeks unity beyond distinction. Aurthis instead concerns himself with a more unsettling realization:

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To Aurthis, perception is not merely a way of observing reality—it is an active force that shapes it. No being sees the world fully. Every thought, belief, memory, fear, culture, and desire bends understanding into a different form. Thus, no perspective is entirely complete, but neither is any perspective entirely meaningless.

This makes Aurthis deeply paradoxical.

He challenges certainty, yet does not deny knowledge.
He questions reality, yet never claims reality is false.
He dismantles arrogance, but offers no final answer in return.

Because of this, many consider him the most intellectually dangerous of the gods.

Aurthis rarely opposes others through force. He does not dominate conversations, nor does he seek worship through fear or devotion. Instead, he destabilizes foundations. In the great conflict among the gods, while others argued over truth, meaning, and separation, Aurthis observed the hidden assumptions beneath their words.

When Serein spoke of absolute unity, Aurthis questioned the perspective from which such unity was being observed. When Yavira defended emotional connection, he asked whether emotion itself alters perception. When Thaer pushed reality into manifestation, Aurthis examined how expression changes understanding. He does not attack conclusions directly—he exposes the lens through which those conclusions were reached.

This is his duality:

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To followers, Aurthis is both liberating and terrifying. Devotees do not pray to him for comfort. They seek him when certainty begins to crack—when they realize the world may be larger, stranger, and more layered than they once believed.

His teachings encourage observation without attachment to ego. His scholars, seers, and priests are trained not to defend beliefs blindly, but to examine how those beliefs were formed. In Aurthis’s temples, mirrors, reflective metals, still water, and asymmetrical geometry are sacred objects—not because they reveal perfect truth, but because they distort depending on angle and position.

His symbol reflects this philosophy: overlapping geometric forms surrounding a central eye-like sigil. The shapes almost align, but never perfectly. Followers interpret this as the eternal incompleteness of perception. Truth is never denied—only recognized as partial.

Aurthis’s appearance mirrors his nature. His robes consist of layered fabrics and woven structures that appear different from every angle. Reflective fragments stitched into his garments fracture surrounding light. Even his expression feels subtly asymmetrical, as though different aspects of him are perceiving different realities simultaneously.

To stand before Aurthis is not to feel judged.

It is to feel observed beyond your own certainty.

And that is what makes him so unsettling.

will do at least 10 or if possible 12