A few notes from Kardan Verigio

“During those seven days, the others arrived, and each emerged from the darkness separately. Together they numbered Twelve.”

-The Tale of Creation

The Tale of Creation specifies in the beginning chapters that a dozen separate Divines emerged from the darkness, yet by common count, there are only eleven.

Some argue that Jhara-Sune counts for two, however, the Tale specifies that “each emerged from the darkness separately.” While Marath supposedly found the twins with one still trapped by the darkness, could it count for separate arrival?

According to “The History of Time”, which mostly agrees with the Tale of Creation, it has a roundabout answer that a Divine being sacrificed themself to separate the worlds of light and darkness, and “sacrificed their Name, Titles, and even Memory of themselves”. Much of the book was written by Denares the Scribe in the third century of the Empire and included a trove of information collected about the world before the rise of the Empire. Unfortunately, the few copies that did exist are likely lost in libraries wreathed in the darkness of the Curse.

In an even older work which is said to have been penned when Akhera was thriving, referred to as “The Subtleties of Elevated Things”, there is contained within a story that the twelfth Divine was sacrificed by the other eleven, and their bones used to craft the world. Such depictions were obviously blasphemous to the faithful, and I only managed to peruse the book once, as it was held in a private collection that I was only given limited access to.