Deity (Role)

The role of the Deity is to keep the Wellspring balanced and full. Over the years, the Deities have learned and advanced different techniques to help them with this cause.

Abilities
Each Deity is taught through the ethereal prints left by the previous Deities. They then leave their own to help teach what they knew, created and expanded upon. Because of this, there is more than a lifetimes worth of knowledge handed down to the Deities.

Ethereal Prints
How all Deities learn of their duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Each prints contains knowledge, with only a few being vocal prints (Which teach Deities about who they are and how to absorb psychic prints), and the rest being a psychic print, that is imprinted on the mind and learned almost immediately.

Wellspring Reading
Each Deity knows how to read the Wellspring, which grants them a form of foresight. They use this technique to help understand how the world functioning around them, where significant portions of the wellspring are being used, and when it is likely the next Deity will be needed.

Callings
Some Deities are chosen as direct successors, but when a Deity has no need to a successor, they leave a calling. By reading the Wellsprings, a Deity will have an idea of the next time the Wellspring will be in turmoil and when a Deity will be needed again. They leave a calling, which will attract the most appropriate candidate to be the Deity to Mt. Untivia.

Pulling the Wellspring
The most basic and simple of methods to handle an over exertion on the Wellspring, and also the most utilised. The Deity can try and draw power back into the Wellspring, similar to a tug of war. If the person using it is too powerful, or there are too many people using it, this will have little effect, as more will be drained than is being pulled back.

Bottle-necking the Wellspring
A hard and taxing technique. The Deity meditates on the Wellspring and bottle necks it. This means only a certain amount of magic can be drained from the Wellspring. The Diety can lose focus on their own, so this is more effective when apostles help with this. The more there are, the easier it is. The bottle-neck only lasts as longs as it is constantly being channelled.

Artificial Wellspring
Because of all the Tellurium residing in Mt. Untivia, the Deities have created a "False Wellspring" that can be released back into the Wellspring in order to top it up. This is a one time thing as it take five decades to fill up from empty.

Known Deities
These are the currently known Deities

The Deity (3499 BA - 3427 BA)
The first Deity, who discovered the Wellspring and shaped the magic of the world. This Deity taught the first Apostles, who created the seven schools of magic taught across Avendele.

Second Deity (3456 BA - ???)
A direct successor of the first Deity. He advanced the technique used to read the Wellspring, making the calling idea of the first Deity much more effective. He also caused the Wellspring to drain when dealing with the first Black Soul Revolt. Realising this is what caused the Black Souls, he read the Wellspring to find out which souls he could help heal. Leaving a Calling, he went on his way, repeating the names of all all the children whose souls he could heal. He became known as the "Babbling Nomad". A legend still referenced to this day.

Third Deity
Heading the warnings of the second Deity, the third Deity discovered that Tellurium was excellent at storing magic, and expelling it. With this knowledge he created the false Wellspring.

Fifth Deity
Being a direct successor to fourth Deity, she realised that the Ethereal Prints were becoming too many and taking to long to listen to. So she advanced the technique to create a print that would speak straight to the mind. This cut the time it took to listen to a print. She then rearranged the print, leaving the introduction by the first Deity, and leaving each Deities' personal introduction. She also created the Untivian library, and placed each Auditory Ethereal print in it.

Eighth Deity
The Deity that was called too late. Due to wars being on small and localised affair up until now, it was hard to read the Wellspring around big wars. Due to this, the Eighth Deity was called a decade to late to prevent a war. During this time, the Wellspring had almost drained three times, trying to keep the Wellspring full became almost impossible until the Eighth learnt how to drain the "False Wellspring". The war fared for half of a century, by the end of the war, the Eighth Deity became a master of reading the Chaotic ripples of war, which helped predict when the Wellspring would be low, and the Deity and Apostles could bottle-neck it.The Eighth Deity is the only Deity to have completely mastered the reading of the Wellspring, and has made predictions that still haven't had the chance to come true yet.