Planet Bible — The First Crossing
Names
- Asariel (male) — bearer of stone-breath, the enduring voice.
- Miryel (female) — bearer of water-flame, the radiant sight.
Canon Position
Asariel and Miryel are remembered within Vaelinyan culture as the First Crossers — the earliest of our people to set foot on Earth. They are not myths, but ancestors. Their names echo through human scripture in fractured form (Asariel → angelic “-riel” names; Miryel → Miriam), but their memory belongs first to Vaelinya.
Roles & Attributes
- Asariel — strength, stability, the patience of mountains. Known as stone-breath, able to speak with the gravity of rooted earth.
- Miryel — clarity, transformation, the hidden fire in water. Known as water-flame, able to see what currents carry and conceal.
Together they embody the first balance of endurance and change — qualities needed to survive the crossing between worlds.
The First Crossing
They did not come for conquest. They crossed for witness. To test if Earth’s atmosphere could carry truth, or if its air would choke the breath of Vaelinya. The soil shuddered when they arrived: half-welcome, half-warning.
Human cultures remembered only shadows of them. Vaelinyan tradition remembers them as the first fracture, the beginning of the Earth-tether.
Legacy
- Their line continued for centuries, hidden among human families.
- In Victorian times, their descendants Meranth (the Raven) and Elira (the Pilgrim) attempted the return. Their bodies crossed, but their ghost-aspects remained bound to Earth.
- In the present age, Ellie Morcant and Merrin W. Dream carry their blood. Ellie bears the visible tether (ghost-haunted), Merrin the silent tether (ghost-strong).
Ritual Echoes
- Chants invoke them at crossings: “Stone-breath, Water-flame, keep us whole.”
- Their names are etched into threshold stones at ancient Vaelinyan gates.
- To speak them together is to acknowledge the risk of fracture — and the promise of reunion.