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For those who are curious, in my world-building there are multiple "sub-deities" of FirstLife (kinda like Vishnu from Hinduism), and these two are actually worshipped as two of them! (Though, Tridanen is all of the sub-deities combined into one and their own separate sub-deity, if that makes sense). So, in order of their pictures:

FirstLife Genesis (aka Summoner Grey/Tridanel Askiani, daughter of Tridon): Goddess of innocence, adventure, youth, riches, birth, and ludus (playful love). Matron deity of mercenaries, travellers, service workers, lovers, merchants. Genesis, getting her epithet from being the FirstLife in the first stage, is interestingly the only sub-deity(/avatar?) that shows up in only one stage, that being the Brave Frontier stage (which is also the last stage. It's weird, I know). This means that her gender in this stage (female) is her gender period, and she is not ever referred to as a male.

FirstLife Eternium (aka Tridanen/Lord of Athensphere/...): God of strife, justice, death, agape (selfless love). Patron deity of scholars/students, soldiers, judges. I originally had two war gods, with Eternium being one of them, but realized that Eternium was more the actual fighting and strategizing part or war while the other was more about protection. Eternium got their epithet from being the sub-deity of FirstLife that comes out of the stages, sort of like the last one standing.

What I made clear in my notes was that all of the sub-deities of FirstLife are all deities of love, and are all guardians of children, victims and refugees, which puts a nice little contrast on the bad wrap they all tend to get.

Anyway, enough of my word vomiting. If yall wanna see more, let me know.

“Trida? You feeling alright?”

She grunted. “‘M fine.” Her arms were folded across her chest, and she was hunched over.

Tilith put a comforting hand on the female’s shoulder. “Aw, come on, Trida, don’t you like the cold?”

Tridanel sighed, watching her breath float across the icy terrain. “Grey did. I don’t.”

“Huh?” She finally looked up.

“Too many bad memories.” Tridanel trudged on, pointedly ignoring the confused and pitying looks of her companions.

A heavy cloak settles on her shoulders. Tridanel paused, looking at the cloak, then at the owner. Lugina huffed.

Because her Athenspherian nature makes it impossible to summon, the Lord/Lady of Athensphere (Tridanen/Tridanel, Grey's future reincarnation) makes a pact with Grey to give her impossibly powerful summoning powers. As Tridanen likes to brag, "I created the first humans (Athenspherians). And they were better." (More receptive to magic, really. The Six Imperial's humans weren't nearly as receptive, which is why an Athenspherian, with some tweaking involved bc of Karna Masta's "curse" thing, could make a god-like summoner.)

I really like this explanation, because it shows that the MC (Grey, in this story) was only such a great summoner BECAUSE THEY WERE ALSO A WARLOCK/NOT EVEN HUMAN TO BEGIN WITH. Had Grey not made the pact with a god that could alter her DNA at will without Grey noticing, Grey only would've made a powerful soldier/mage in the Summoner's Hall, as her celestial heritage gave her natural magical powers.

L/K: *about to go into a fight of some sort*

T: (very happy/peppy) Have fun, bust a nut!

L/K: I... don't think that means what you-

This shit got me thinking because this is how I was originally gonna answer your ask, @symonynii

Although Athensphere looks actually really pretty (especially before the Athenspherian Civil War and once the Summoners (besides Tridanen himself (who visits mid-war in the Raid Battle storyline)) manage to visit), Tridanen sculpted Athensphere so that the general look of Athensphere is different to different species. For humans, Athensphere looks like an Elgaia that has really good technology (very much taken over by nature post-war). Green grass, green leaves, flowers of all sorts, blue water and sky. The sun never seems to set on Athensphere, though, instead seeming to dim depending on how tired the individual person is (an effect of the atmosphere, as it is different from Elgaia’s). For demons, however, the greens are now blues, the blues are now varying shades of monochrome, and instead of ONE never-setting sun, there are TWO never-setting suns. However, they are extremely dim for suns, and only count as dim light (especially post-war. I like to think that the view was just so different from what Karl was used to when he came to Athensphere that he actually had to take a minute to process what he was looking at). For gods that aren’t Tridanen (normally referred to by Tridanen as “conventional gods” as Tridanen isn’t exactly considered a god), everything’s a pastel nightmare that would give even a blind god a headache. This was so the conventional gods would mess with Athensphere as little as possible. Tilith didn’t really like Athensphere a lot for this reason, until Tridanen did what he fondly referred to as “changing her lenses”, aka letting Tilith see what he could see. There were a lot of arguments between the group when they officially go back to explore (Karl, Seria, Tridanen, Reda, Lugina, Bertz and Tilith) because the humans though Karl and Tilith were on drugs (basically.). Tridanen sat the fuck by and watched this shit happen without saying what he did, the fucking gremlin.

For Athenspherians (and Tridanen) themselves, though?

Athenspherians see blood red grass and leaves, and golden oceans that seems to shimmer like gold itself (though it is water).

And as for the sky?

Now if Ishgrians are demonic beings, they would totally clash, right?

But not in the way of "you're demonic/angelic so I have to kill you".

More like "anything you can do, I can do better".

This doesn't mean Ishgrians and Athenspherians can't be friends, though. It just means there are lots of competitions.

Tridanen: ayo I'm so rich my homies take showers for me.

I gotchu. Get ready for the OOF train.

1. Tridanen is blind in one of her stages, due to excessive torture. This has affected Tridanen's vision so that Tridanen can only see shades of black and white. She has no idea what colors people are (like she doesn't even know that Karl and Lugina have different hair colors).Beyond that, Tridanen actually has a chronic disease that pops up in 80% of her stages called Type A. It's like Alzheimer's Disease, but very fatal, as it eventually destroys the brain stem (the part that keeps you breathing and your heart beating and all that important stuff). The more Tridanen tries to remember stuff that she's forgotten while under Type A, the faster it kills her. It also sends her into fits of madness at random times, but only occurs early in the process. It is what ends Tridanen's bf(2) stage, and is one of Tridanen's few true weaknesses.

5. This is a case by case scenario. If someone, say, Karl, stubbed his toe on a table really badly, Tridanen would be laughing. If he tripped and fell, Tridanen would help him while laughing. If a female friend had period cramps, Tridanen would help them out.But if that pain was caused by another person?Let's just say, Tridanen has many anger-based abilities (bnha stage had a quirk literally called 'Rage', was called 'The Rager' in a couple of stages, etc).

10. Pulling away from bf for a bit, Tridanen was a REALLY POWERFUL demigod in one of her stages (the same one she was blind in). In fact, there was so much power that she had to carry that it caused her to have a personality that would typically switch every hour or so.To put it shortly, Tridanen believes that she is around as stable (whether she believes she is more or less stable is again, case by case scenario) as she actually is.