Long ago, when the world was still cooling, the Ere All showed it to his servants. Some of these grew enamored of Erenth and sought to dwell upon it. But in as much as they did so, the Ere All warned, they would become subject to its forces. They would age and be changed. Their knowledge and their power would diminish and the celestial city of Solenth they had known would become a distant and discarded memory.
But still these few Aenire
longed to leave their first estate and live upon the face of the world that had
been created. So some left Solenth and crept down to join themselves to the new
creation. And when they were noticed gone, still others raged calling them the
Departed and themselves the true servants. Then great efforts were made by they
to bring the Departed back so as not to despoil Erenth.
But the Departed would not
return and war was joined between them and the rest of the Aenire. And it was
this war which wounded the face of the world most, tearing mountains asunder
and uprooting whole forests. Until at last, the Ere All himself intervened
saying, "Let those who wish to remain on Erenth surrender their estate in
peace. Let those who wish to be of the Celestial City remain there.
And Baere was among those who
returned to Solenth at his word, but she was approached by the Ere All and
asked if she wanted to live on Erenth.
"I did," Baere
admitted, "But my place is in Solenth, and here I will await the
revelation of the master work of which you promised. For I know that the world
I have seen does not compare to the world I will know when your work is
complete."
Then the Ere All asked her to
return to Erenth and heal that which had been wounded by the battle of his
foolish servants. And though you will be of this Erenth, unto you I shall give
the gift to escape the ravages of time; and the joy to witness first-hand my
master work."
So it was that Baere walked to
and for across Erenth. Wherever she set foot flowers bloomed and trees grew.
The hurts of the world were healed, and some became as scars, but all she
draped with the foilage and fountains that her power could provide. And Baere
herself did not age, for she had the gift of the Ere All, which preserved her
from time's passage, as if she had never left Solenth of the Aenire.
She is considered the greatest and most powerful of the Aeniresa. She ceaselessly roams Erenth, still untouched by the ravages of time, and the delight of her being is in preserving the master work of the Creator.
