Infinity Starsage Zeruiah

Lore

The life of mortals is like grass--they flourish like a flower of the field. As the decades became centuries, Zeruiah grew to realize how fleeting human life was. She became colder and disillusioned with forming relationships with humans. She turned her attention away from the petty politics of the warring mortal civilizations, and focused on the scholarly pursuit of otherworldly artifacts and space-time anomalies. The mystical Vale in the North adopted isolationism, with ancient wards and Fae illusion magic keeping out all but the most determined and magically adept intruders. Between meditations within the heart of the majestic World Tree, Zeruiah studied and observed other planes of existence as well as the intricacies of dimensional Stargates. It was through this that Zeruiah discovered the otherworldly deity called Juno-Seto. Their worlds connected through extraordinary circumstances, and their fateful encounter led to a series of historical events culminating in the cataclysmic crisis known as the Void Rendering. For the first time in a thousand years, Zeruiah was overwhelmed by conflicting emotions--her reluctance to expose the Vale and her people to peril, her guilt for indirectly endangering her world, her concern for Juno-Seto, and her uncertainty of victory over the Voidborn. Nevertheless, the sudden memory of the human girl she had saved long ago sparked her resolve, and Zeruiah marched her Fae to war. After a long campaign, countless hard-fought victories, and with the mortal civilizations allied, Zeruiah finally drove the invaders back into the Void. The turning point was without a doubt Juno-Seto's tremendous sacrifice of relinquishing her own divinity to seal Ensa-Taya. Even as the celebrations of victory erupted all across the world, news and rumors of Zeruiah's aid and Juno-Seto's sacrifice spread like wildfire, inspiring many pilgrimages to the towering Crystalline Spire for people to pay their respects. As for Zeruiah, she re-opened a portion of the Vale that eventually became the greatest center of Research and Academics in the world. To this day, her legendary feats during the Void Sundering and beyond are still sung in ballads, with one particularly interesting account from a renowned poet describing how the meadows around the World Tree bloomed pale pink and lavender iris fields sprung from the earth overnight.