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"A dance, one says. A dream, cries another. Regardless of form or prose, all still tends to decay, to an ending. Why must it? Why, o grand Cosmoria, do you not wish for eternity? Where all is none, why strain to last at all? If nothing else, leave me behind."

Azurade is the single oldest sapient being in all Cosmoria, and so far uncontested as the most powerful. She is known as the creator of many things, and the orchestrator of events on a scale unfathomable to even most nations. Still, Her relative inaction in the universe has led Her existence to remain unknown or unconfirmed for much time, only theorized by all but the most fervent metaphysicists.

Cosmoria is the Monad's grand dance back and forth through time, evening out to zero through unfathomable amounts of particles. All beings are patterns, routines in this dance. But Azurade's existence cannot be understood through this. Azurade is a Noospheric Disturbance, a class of Spirit formed from the free-floating junk radiation of the Noosphere. Azurade's mind and presence took precedent over the plane that this primal confluence of energy was becoming, subsuming it and becoming something between an Esoteria and a true Noospheric Disturbance, something only replicated later by Azurade Herself. The plane locked up in Her form and mind is that of the principal, the foremost and supreme, the pinnacle, that which thinks and understands. Innovation, learning, and the state of supremacy are interwoven into Her very form, and inform the ways She can and does act.

Azurade's presence and power is so immense as to be able to rewrite Cosmoria's final iteration, "tripping up" the Monad's final motions as it rushes forward in time to "edit in" new matter and energy. This is stolen from the unfathomably dense meta-potential sealed within Her, making a miniscule but definite dent in the ability for Her to do more. The most notable usage of this terrifying ability was the creation of Azurullya, a region which represents a fifth of the total stars in Cosmoria. It is also hypothesized that Hypertryptine, element 129 on the periodic table, has properties imparted by one of Azurade's actions instead of its classically theorized ones.

Appearance

Azurade's visage is one Cosmoria has only borne witness to a handful of times. She much prefers to use as little energy as possible to influence the universe, as despite Her overwhelming presence, She is still finite in nature. Normally Her observances are only visible as distortions in the heavens, a bluing of the stars in the direction She looks from or a dimming and obfuscation of far-off objects. Even these are rare, as Azurade can understand the broad shape of the Universe passively.

When She does manifest in a more visible form, She seems to take a humanoid form, vaguely feminine in shape. Her head is adorned by two wings and long flowing hair that is usually braided and bound by a ring of immense energy. Her face is nondescript save for Her two blazing eyes. Her body seems to contain a cosmos infinitely more vast than Cosmoria itself, stars thousands upon millions twinkling within the azure prism that makes up her body. Wisps of mist form a sort of false linen around Her body, which seem to not be an inherent part of Her form.

Azurade, given the lack of many facial features, does not tend to express emotion. Perhaps such things are beyond Her, or nothing short of a major celestial event can evoke such feelings in Her. She tends, in Her manifestations, to avoid direct communication with any single being, merely projecting meaning on an indirect path to all who may be able to parse it. Her form is massive, usually taking a size no less than a continent and potentially being the size of Gira Gira at its maximum.

Personality

Azurade's personality is known mostly through Her actions and motives of past times. She is meticulous and methodical, though not known to be without failure. Azurullya served as Her testing grounds, a chaotic creation that serves as an alluring haven and dangerous hinterland both. Her interactions with individuals have been limited to the Cerulean Kings, Her direct creations who consider themselves something like Her children.

Azurade's driving motivation in life is a double-edged sword. The blade She points outwards is the dream to create eternity. To defy Cosmoria's ultimate time limit that She glimpsed long ago, to see the concept of 'forever' come to fruition. She would love nothing more than to exist for an infinite and undetermined amount of time, floating amongst the ever-shifting cosmos. The blade that points back at Azurade is fear.A primal fear of death that goes beyond what most mortals could even imagine. Until the universe’s decay began to rear its skeletal head, Azurade had never conceived that things might end. That She might one day cease to exist. The fear that realization struck in Her is a burning, driving core to her actions.

Azurullya's Aberrations, including the Cerulean Kings, serve this ultimate purpose, attempts at finding a "solution" to finitude. They result from an applied intuition for the raw mechanics of that which dwells in the Raqia and the Noosphere, putting bare concepts and planes together like an engineer would assemble a machine. Most of Her direct creations have at least a loose connection to the idea of eternity or longevity. The same cannot be said of those that continued to spawn in Her absence, however. Her tenacity in this endeavor has spanned billions of years, and many subtler experiments dot the emptier regions of Cosmoria proper.

History

Azurade's history began very shortly after the start of the universe, with Her Plane-Disturbance tunneling into the Raqia as Her mind began to form. The young Azurade was foremost only by virtue of being first, still very unaware of the universe around Her. The motions She took with Her immense presence may have been what destabilized the disk of Cosmoria's primeval gas around Chinvat into its turbulent spiral arms. Stars began to be birthed from these eddies, something Azurade took great joy in. They tended towards a beautiful ultraviolet, searing holes in the former darkness of the cosmos.

Azurade was in love with the young universe. Perhaps being made of something so ousic gave Her a yearning for the sarkic stage laid around her. The first form of the galaxy bloomed, blazing with almost pure hydrogen and helium, and every point of light was given a name. She began mimicking the forms she saw, eddies and points of light within, eyes blinking and flickering behind walls of cosmic medium.

But then the greatest star, one blazing hotter than the rest, known to Azurade as Tezcatlipoca, died. In the first supernova, it blasted the medium around it into submission with a shockwave that caused the universe to tremble. Its three planets, blobs of gas that couldn't muster enough to become stars themselves, were gone in an instant. Tezcatlipoca's core remained now as a blackened sphere, accreting matter into itself to never be seen again. At the sight of the first death, the first sign that all would come to an end, Azurade wept. Her tears formed a large ocean world, which itself began spiraling towards the newly formed black hole now called Obsidian. In what would become Zalanthium in time, Azurade stabilized this small ocean's orbit, naming it Atlahua, and gave it a small luminous moon to give it a remembrance of light, shining in the now-lost Tezcatlipoca's spectrum. She visited the grave-world often, staring at the hole to nowhere ripped in spacetime and mourning.

Azurade's grief turned to abhorrence for the temporary. Using Her immensity, She traced geodesics of particles across the universe, trying to divine how much more death must follow this one. The End became clear. Nothing existed at all past a certain time, a certain year. Everything, Herself included, would perish. She saw the curtain call through only a handful of pixel-forms, but knowing the finality was enough. She needed eternity, and would stop at nothing to bend it into reality.

Every new experiment shredded Cosmoria's forming arms and ruined the beauty of creation even more. Azurade loathed these results, especially once life began to take hold on some planets of these new generations of stars. She needed some safe haven to run amok and create true Eternity. A throne above the cosmos was constructed, a microcosm of what she had once seen. Azurullya was born by Her hand.

Its 20 or so stars were held in place by a titanic dark sphere. A nod to Obsidian, the king of order and destruction. Aurumios. Beside it, She placed a structure that would aid her channeling of will in altering the nearby space. A sanctuary of creation and disruptions: the Womb of Chaos. This sky-blue realm that loomed over Aylathiya came to be known by many as Azurullya.

While Azurullya was corrupted and twisted by Azurade’s neverending phenomena, the rest of the universe fell out of her gaze. The true nature of Her toils were uncovered slowly as the Theocracy of Silverstar explored the mostly-unconquered realm.

Azurade’s sapient children, the Cerulean Kings, were made as a set of experiments during Her absence from the rest of Cosmoria. Silverstar, the youngest of the seven, served as a reminder of Her legacy and will before disappearing. With the re-emergence of the Cerulean Kings in the late 9000s CE, Azurade’s existence has been much more knowable and present.

During the Penultimate End, an event that could be either interpreted as the death or evolution of Azurade was witnessed. While a resurgence of Amaranth energies threatened to tear Cosmoria apart, She merged with the very concept and forced it to cease its mindless ravaging of the universe. Though much of Cosmoria was contradicted and overwritten by the rampant objectivity of Amaranth, She managed to temporarily save some of the universe. At this point, She was no longer the Azure Queen. She had become a new being, Amaranth-Azurade.

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-<blockquote>''"A dance, one says. A dream, cries another. Regardless of form or prose, all still tends to decay, to an ending. Why must it? Why, o grand [[Cosmoria]], do you not wish for eternity? Where all is none, why strain to last at all?  If nothing else, leave me behind."''
+<blockquote>''"A dance, one says. A dream, cries another. Regardless of form or prose, all still tends to decay, to an ending. Why must it? Why, o grand [[Cosmoria]], do you not wish for eternity? Where all is none, why strain to last at all?  If nothing else, leave me behind."''</blockquote>
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 *Galvyria|author=CosmicSmoothie|chronological_age=*~6.5 Billion Years (Cosmoria)
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 *Almighty Creator
 *The One Who Watches|sexual_orientation=N/A|homeland=Noosphere|height=Indeterminate|body_color=Azure|eye_color=Azure|general_demeanor=Withdrawn|core_values=Preservation of the Universe|goals/aspirations=Protect Creation|fears=Entropy, Finality|date_of_birth=~6.5 Billion BCE|place_of_birth=Noosphere|fate=Presides over it|current_residence/last_whereabouts=Omnipresent|marital_status=Single|occupation(s)=Protector of all Creation (self-proclaimed)
-Deadbeat mom|most_well_known_for=Creating [[Azurullya]]|greatest_achievements=Silverstar Ravenfogg Azurade|relationships/affiliations=[[Mars]] (unknown)|lineage=*[[Cerulean Kings]]|sworn_enemies=Passage of Time}}</blockquote>
+Deadbeat mom|most_well_known_for=Creating [[Azurullya]]|greatest_achievements=Silverstar Ravenfogg Azurade|relationships/affiliations=[[Mars]] (unknown)|lineage=*[[Cerulean Kings]]|sworn_enemies=Passage of Time}}Azurade is the single oldest sapient being in all Cosmoria, and so far uncontested as the most powerful. She is known as the creator of many things, and the orchestrator of events on a scale unfathomable to even most nations. Still, Her relative inaction in the universe has led Her existence to remain unknown or unconfirmed for much time, only theorized by all but the most fervent metaphysicists.
-Cosmoria is the [[Cosmoria#End of Chaos|Monad's]] grand dance back and forth through time, evening out to zero through unfathomable amounts of particles. All beings are patterns, routines in this dance. But Azurade's existence cannot be understood through this. To say she takes up the most of the Monad's dance is to simply say she is made of the most particles, which is false. Her influence is more akin to the woven patterns of a dream. Awakened and enlightened to the nature of reality, she fears and resents the universe for ending. Though she did not realize it until the first star died, Azurade's dream is to experience the ever-elusive concept of forever.
+Cosmoria is the [[Cosmoria#End of Chaos|Monad's]] grand dance back and forth through time, evening out to zero through unfathomable amounts of particles. All beings are patterns, routines in this dance. But Azurade's existence cannot be understood through this. Azurade is a [[Noosphere|Noospheric Disturbance]], a class of [[Spirits|Spirit]] formed from the free-floating junk radiation of the Noosphere. Azurade's mind and presence took precedent over the plane that this primal confluence of energy was becoming, subsuming it and becoming something between an Esoteria and a true Noospheric Disturbance, something only replicated later by Azurade Herself. The plane locked up in Her form and mind is that of the principal, the foremost and supreme, the pinnacle, that which thinks and understands. Innovation, learning, and the state of supremacy are interwoven into Her very form, and inform the ways She can and does act.
-Azurade's meddlings in Cosmoria have been many, all to keep entropy at bay and to preserve the state of the universe. Certain uniquely odd beings or objects within Cosmoria proper have been attributed to her creation as an answer for their otherwise unclear origins. Most of the phenomena Azurade creates, however, are confined within her grandiose realm [[Azurullya]]. It's sometimes said that Azurullya's host of Aberrations are all experiments by the Azure Queen to create some concept that can reach her dream.
+Azurade's presence and power is so immense as to be able to rewrite Cosmoria's final iteration, "tripping up" the Monad's final motions as it rushes forward in time to "edit in" new matter and energy. This is stolen from the unfathomably dense meta-potential sealed within Her, making a miniscule but definite dent in the ability for Her to do more. The most notable usage of this terrifying ability was the creation of Azurullya, a region which represents a fifth of the total stars in Cosmoria. It is also hypothesized that Hypertryptine, element 129 on the periodic table, has properties imparted by one of Azurade's actions instead of its classically theorized ones.
 ==Appearance==
+Azurade's visage is one Cosmoria has only borne witness to a handful of times. She much prefers to use as little energy as possible to influence the universe, as despite Her overwhelming presence, She is still finite in nature. Normally Her observances are only visible as distortions in the heavens, a bluing of the stars in the direction She looks from or a dimming and obfuscation of far-off objects. Even these are rare, as Azurade can understand the broad shape of the Universe passively.
-Azurade rarely shows her face in Cosmoria proper, preferring to subtly influence things from an almost imperceptible point. She may create distortions in the stars similarly to [[Mars]] with her presence. When she does manifest in a physical, or at least visible, form, she takes on the form of a humanoid woman. Her royal azure body seems to contain the cosmos within it, and wisps of nebulae form a sort of silky cosmic linen around her torso. With only vibrant blue eyes on her manifested head, not much expression can be seen. Though perhaps attributing mortal sensibilities of expression onto Azurade is unfair to such a being.
+When She does manifest in a more visible form, She seems to take a humanoid form, vaguely feminine in shape. Her head is adorned by two wings and long flowing hair that is usually braided and bound by a ring of immense energy. Her face is nondescript save for Her two blazing eyes. Her body seems to contain a cosmos infinitely more vast than Cosmoria itself, stars thousands upon millions twinkling within the azure prism that makes up her body. Wisps of mist form a sort of false linen around Her body, which seem to not be an inherent part of Her form.
-Azurade's affections for the inhabitants of Cosmoria appear in her form as well. On multiple occasions, her gaze has been directed at populated worlds, followed by her appearance shifting slightly to match some fashion of that world. Most often, she appears with braided hair bound by a ring of energy and a robe reminiscent of Azurulleyan fashion with her nebula clouds.
+Azurade, given the lack of many facial features, does not tend to express emotion. Perhaps such things are beyond Her, or nothing short of a major celestial event can evoke such feelings in Her. She tends, in Her manifestations, to avoid direct communication with any single being, merely projecting meaning on an indirect path to all who may be able to parse it. Her form is massive, usually taking a size no less than a continent and potentially being the size of [[Gira Gira]] at its maximum.
-The wings protruding from Azurade's head appear to serve no function beyond her own whims. Some witnesses claim that they serve as outlets for her emotional expression, while others argue that they are for hearing things beyond normal sound. Whatever the case may be, they have created an iconic depiction of Azurullya's creator that is recognized even in some remote parts of Aylathiya.
 ==Personality==
+Azurade's personality is known mostly through Her actions and motives of past times. She is meticulous and methodical, though not known to be without failure. [[Azurullya]] served as Her testing grounds, a chaotic creation that serves as an alluring haven and dangerous hinterland both. Her interactions with individuals have been limited to the Cerulean Kings, Her direct creations who consider themselves something like Her children.
-Azurade’s personality is a rather minor factor in terms of interactions with others. She only speaks directly to the [[Cerulean Kings]] outside of a few rare occasions, instead preferring to keep her focus on her own works. This said, Azurade’s standalone personality is obvious from her actions in Cosmoria.
-Azurade’s driving motivation is her double-edged sword of a motivation. One blade of it is her dream to create eternity. She wants more than anything to see the concept of forever come to fruition, to just exist for an infinite time. However, the blade the cuts her hand is fear. A primal fear of death that goes beyond what most mortals could even imagine. Until the universe’s decay began to rear its skeletal head, Azurade had never conceived that things might end. That she might one day cease to exist. The fear that realization struck in her is a burning, driving core to her actions.
+Azurade's driving motivation in life is a double-edged sword. The blade She points outwards is the dream to create eternity. To defy Cosmoria's ultimate time limit that She glimpsed long ago, to see the concept of 'forever' come to fruition. She would love nothing more than to exist for an infinite and undetermined amount of time, floating amongst the ever-shifting cosmos. The blade that points back at Azurade is fear.A primal fear of death that goes beyond what most mortals could even imagine. Until the universe’s decay began to rear its skeletal head, Azurade had never conceived that things might end. That She might one day cease to exist. The fear that realization struck in Her is a burning, driving core to her actions.
+Azurullya's Aberrations, including the Cerulean Kings, serve this ultimate purpose, attempts at finding a "solution" to finitude. They result from an applied intuition for the raw mechanics of that which dwells in the Raqia and the Noosphere, putting bare concepts and planes together like an engineer would assemble a machine. Most of Her direct creations have at least a loose connection to the idea of eternity or longevity. The same cannot be said of those that continued to spawn in Her absence, however. Her tenacity in this endeavor has spanned billions of years, and many subtler experiments dot the emptier regions of Cosmoria proper.
-Azurade’s creations may seem random, but they have a great deal of thought behind them. Each Azurulleyan Aberration, every Cerulean King, and even the wandering phenomena in greater Cosmoria were all the result of the Azure Queen putting concepts together like engineers fitting metal pieces into a device. However, it would appear that like many engineers, she considers most of her creations failures or junk, despite their mind-boggling properties.
 ==History==
+Azurade's history began very shortly after the start of the universe, with Her Plane-Disturbance tunneling into the Raqia as Her mind began to form. The young Azurade was foremost only by virtue of being first, still very unaware of the universe around Her. The motions She took with Her immense presence may have been what destabilized the disk of Cosmoria's primeval gas around Chinvat into its turbulent spiral arms. Stars began to be birthed from these eddies, something Azurade took great joy in. They tended towards a beautiful ultraviolet, searing holes in the former darkness of the cosmos.
-Azurade’s history began during the unparalleled inferno of Cosmoria’s beginning. Like a sleeping person first entering a dream, she was unaware of almost everything. Locked within the [[Noosphere]], she peered into the Cosmos via her [[Pylons|pylon]]. This gateway allowed her to view the physical universe. With time, she could even enter Cosmoria, endlessly roaming its swirling gasses and clouds of dust. It was unnerving to see most of the spirals coalesce, replaced by the first stars.
-As Cosmoria cooled and coalesced into fields of stars, Azurade fell in love with the young universe. Perhaps it was something instinctual, a form of love for the interconnected cosmos that made her as well. The first form of the grand galaxy bloomed with many colors of light, and life sprouted across much of it. As it grew, Azurade started to mimic the strange automata. It was a game of sorts to her.
+Azurade was in love with the young universe. Perhaps being made of something so ousic gave Her a yearning for the sarkic stage laid around her. The first form of the galaxy bloomed, blazing with almost pure hydrogen and helium, and every point of light was given a name. She began mimicking the forms she saw, eddies and points of light within, eyes blinking and flickering behind walls of cosmic medium.
+But then the greatest star, one blazing hotter than the rest, known to Azurade as Tezcatlipoca, died. In the first supernova, it blasted the medium around it into submission with a shockwave that caused the universe to tremble. Its three planets, blobs of gas that couldn't muster enough to become stars themselves, were gone in an instant. Tezcatlipoca's core remained now as a blackened sphere, accreting matter into itself to never be seen again. At the sight of the first death, the first sign that all would come to an end, Azurade wept. Her tears formed a large ocean world, which itself began spiraling towards the newly formed black hole now called [[Obsidian]]. In what would become Zalanthium in time, Azurade stabilized this small ocean's orbit, naming it Atlahua, and gave it a small luminous moon to give it a remembrance of light, shining in the now-lost Tezcatlipoca's spectrum. She visited the grave-world often, staring at the hole to nowhere ripped in spacetime and mourning.
-But then the first star died. The worlds around it burned and the ecosystems it held in orbit vanished in the blink of an eye. In what would become Zalanthium, Azurade wept at the sight of the blackened starcore and shattered worlds. Her tears, which were something she did not know she could produce, became the ocean world Lapisgrief, filled from its core to its navy surface with all manner of strange exotic marine life. She placed the young ocean around the graven star, now named Obsidian. A shimmering sphere of light was given to Lapisgrief as an orbiting moon and artificial sun, named Eulogy by Azurade.
+Azurade's grief turned to abhorrence for the temporary. Using Her immensity, She traced geodesics of particles across the universe, trying to divine how much more death must follow this one. The End became clear. Nothing existed at all past a certain time, a certain year. Everything, Herself included, would perish. She saw the curtain call through only a handful of pixel-forms, but knowing the finality was enough. She needed eternity, and would stop at nothing to bend it into reality.
-Azurade’s pain at the loss of Obsidian’s former system grew into her abhorrence for the temporary. She loathed the slow destruction of everything, and pulled with her immense influence knowledge of the Monad's end. The point at which it turned back the clock every time. Cosmoria would not last for eternity. Azurade needed eternity.
+Every new experiment shredded Cosmoria's forming arms and ruined the beauty of creation even more. Azurade loathed these results, especially once life began to take hold on some planets of these new generations of stars. She needed some safe haven to run amok and create true Eternity. A throne above the cosmos was constructed, a microcosm of what she had once seen. Azurullya was born by Her hand.
-The chaos that each experiment with her power caused only ran holes in Cosmoria’s spirals. Azurade grew ever more pained at the state of things. Watching empires grow from nothing was only a brief respite from the festering madness. The Azure Queen needed a place to create eternity safely. Somewhere to sit above Cosmoria and search for a way to save the universe.
-The rings of cerulean light formed from cosmic ash, the Monad’s own dance being tugged at to form a new structure. Something around 50 stars to play with, held in place by a titanic dark sphere. A nod to Obsidian, the king of order and destruction. Aurumios. Beside it, she placed a structure that would aid her channeling of will in altering the nearby space. A sanctuary of creation and disruptions: the Womb of Chaos. This sky-blue realm that loomed over Aylathiya came to be known by many as Azurullya.
+Its 20 or so stars were held in place by a titanic dark sphere. A nod to Obsidian, the king of order and destruction. Aurumios. Beside it, She placed a structure that would aid her channeling of will in altering the nearby space. A sanctuary of creation and disruptions: the Womb of Chaos. This sky-blue realm that loomed over Aylathiya came to be known by many as Azurullya.
-While Azurullya was corrupted and twisted by Azurade’s neverending phenomena, the rest of the universe fell out of her gaze. The true nature of her toils were uncovered slowly as the [[Theocracy of Silverstar]] explored the mostly-unconquered realm.
+While Azurullya was corrupted and twisted by Azurade’s neverending phenomena, the rest of the universe fell out of her gaze. The true nature of Her toils were uncovered slowly as the [[Theocracy of Silverstar]] explored the mostly-unconquered realm.
-Azurade’s sapient children, the [[Cerulean Kings]], were made as a set of experiments during her absence from the rest of Cosmoria. Silverstar, the youngest of the seven, served as a reminder of her legacy and will before disappearing. With the re-emergence of the Cerulean Kings in the late 9000s CE, Azurade’s existence has been much more knowable and present.
+Azurade’s sapient children, the [[Cerulean Kings]], were made as a set of experiments during Her absence from the rest of Cosmoria. Silverstar, the youngest of the seven, served as a reminder of Her legacy and will before disappearing. With the re-emergence of the Cerulean Kings in the late 9000s CE, Azurade’s existence has been much more knowable and present.
-During the [[Penultimate End]], an event that could be either interpreted as the death or evolution of Azurade was witnessed. While a resurgence of [[Amaranth]] energies threatened to tear Cosmoria apart, she merged with the very concept and forced it to cease expanding outwards. Though nearly half of Cosmoria was subsumed by the monolithic sphere of Amaranth, she managed to temporarily save some of the universe. At this point, she was no longer the Azure Queen. She had become a new being, [[Amaranth-Galvyria|Amaranth-Azurade]].
+During the [[Penultimate End]], an event that could be either interpreted as the death or evolution of Azurade was witnessed. While a resurgence of [[Amaranth]] energies threatened to tear Cosmoria apart, She merged with the very concept and forced it to cease its mindless ravaging of the universe. Though much of Cosmoria was contradicted and overwritten by the rampant objectivity of Amaranth, She managed to temporarily save some of the universe. At this point, She was no longer the Azure Queen. She had become a new being, [[Amaranth (Galvyria)|Amaranth-Azurade]].
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