Eira Vey
The Unordained Seer
Leaving the Rite House
Eira Vey began as a priestess in training at the Geban capital's Rite House during an era when the institution held enormous religious and political authority. Leaving before ordination meant abandoning one of the most powerful institutions on the planet and forfeiting status, protection, and the certainty of a prescribed life. Any other priestess would have been refused exit or forced to flee as an exile. Prince Ashan'Raeth Vareth, who had known her since youth, supported her decision, and the Rite House allowed her to go without resistance.
On the Expedition
She had no training for violence and no instinct for it. When danger came close she froze. What she could do better than anyone was listen and record. She documented signs of Velcrith and Seraveth mergings in forgotten provinces with precise, unfiltered clarity while on expedition with Prince Raeth, providing records that expanded imperial understanding of Vessel phenomena beyond anything the Rite House's framework could accommodate. Her testimony connected signs of Vesselhood from Thazvaar's deep interior to the remote regions of Kela, tracing patterns that tied back to He Who Allows. She spoke little and wrote often.
Treatise and Legacy
Her treatise, The Parent Preceded The Children, traces the origins of Geba as a world shaped by the Velcrith under the principle of allowance, with the Seraveth as the counterpart that remained within the Infinite. It became Veyan Thought, the most widely accepted understanding of He Who Allows on the planet, and it spread globally without institutional promotion because the source material was stronger than anything else available. The priestess who froze under fire produced the most influential religious document in the planet's history, and her work remains the definitive record of the expedition and what it revealed.