Tag: WesleyVerse

I do!  😀 Sort of!

I think the best meta description I have comes from this post: 

“In WesleyVerse, all Maiar are given their original bodies by the Vala they chose to serve. The body is crafted, then given the sacred fire/life by Eru, and then filled with the unique consciousness that was drawn down out of the collective consciousness I call the Sea of Maiar, which exists in the Halls of Eru. This is my compromise between the Silmarillion canon, and an idea from the early drafts where the Valar behave much more like the Aesir, and the maiar are their physical children.”

And there’s a brief description of it on this comic page, which I’ll transcribe here because fuck that is a bad font, what was I thinking:

“In the time after the First Music, the choir of Ainur came down to Arda so they might shape it according to their vision in the Halls of Eru– a vision I recall now only dimly. 

For the Valar are they who knelt at the feet of the One, and knew Him, and knew themselves. But we Maiar thought and felt together, a sea of being. We had no discrete self, no will of our own.

That is why we call each other ‘Cousin’ or ‘Brother’, according to our caste, while a Vala is always ‘Master’ or ‘Father’.

“There are two mirrors of abstraction between a Maia and his function: All we know of our purpose comes from the Valar, and the Valar’s knowledge comes from Eru. 

Good and evil were taught us not by example, but by what brought joy or anger to our Makers– and that is true of all the Ainur. 
Only the One knows the truth of all things, for He is the stem of of truth; or so we must imagine, if we are to trust in His designs…

And I did. 
I was a good, and admirable Maia. My happiness was untroubled in the lee of Aulë’s faith. Not a ripple of doubt tested me.”