Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 1 year ago
Artist: Bruce Pennington

A haloed Damaya hovering over a pool with six candles? This has to mean something. Within Lashunta hagiogrphy, is she a hero-sage or a god?

Devaule of Son was one of the first monastic philosophers in the Fifth Millennium. The Monasticists were originally dissidents under Son's Empire kept under imprisonment in underlevels within the imperial palace on Mt. Eizohu, where they established their ascetic practice and used it to explore their psychic potentials. Devaule was one such prisoner-monk, noteworthy for, though she was locked in a waterlogged, lightless cave, she had mastered her powers to the point of hovering continuously over the water while keeping six witchlights glowing while she meditated.

In 4267 ZS when Old Hanat overthrew Son's empire and laid siege to the city, Queen Dezhathe desperately set the monks free, on condition they use their psychic powers to save the city. However Devaule is reputed to have stolen a cutting of Son's Soul-Tree, based on a vision she had of the city's fall, which was hidden and planted in a gulch upon Eizohu's slopes.

Devaule was recaptured, whereat she was entombed alive within her old cell. When the Hanata razed Son and cut down the Soul-Tree, they broke open Devaule's cell to make her tell the cutting's location. They found her dead body still hovering and surrounded by six witchlights. Fearing bane, they sealed her cell back up. Only when Son was refounded a century later, and the milktree sprig was brought to the site of Greenmother's new temple and planted to become the city's new Soul-Tree, did her psychic dwimmer end, and Devaule at last passed to the World-Soul's peace.