Greetings from the Xyphokonic Order and Ordinance. Welcome back to our ongoing series on the Sacred Lessons given to the Sacred Children. We’ve entered Lord Carnyie’s second Period of Watching, and with it we continue our work of outlining each Sacred Lesson out in greater depth. In our previous entry, we went over the lesson pertaining to Zinigeosia, Child of Life. Today, we pivot to the 5^th Sacred Child in the birth order, Jaszmisia, Child of Punishment, and his Sacred Lesson called “Skin of Dark Soil.” Without further delay, let’s begin.

Before we begin, it is important to transition from the glorious golden light of Zinigeosia’s birth and the bestowing of Free Will upon the mortal world back into the reality that we are living in a mortal world under assault from Deceptuary’s corruption. As such, the themes of this Sacred Lesson heavily reflect that unfortunate and unsavory reality. It’s also important to give a background to this lesson before we introduce the Hymn attributed to Jaszmisia and the Kurakkuian Xyphozon in general so we can properly understand the connotations and context of the incantation.

To give a summary, long before the Cosmic Struggle truly kicked off from Deceptuary’s initial rebellion, the 10 deities that once sat upon the now defunct Divine Thrones reigned in relative harmony, although there was still a need for morality and Divine Punishment—particularly in the case of the dubious actions of the Cario Lordes. The Cario Lordes’ presence and malevolence were partially responsible for creating tears in reality which would destabilize the existence the deities had spawned. Lord Kurakku’s power over Divine Punishment was uniquely fit to essentially eradicate any corrupted spirit that willfully vandalized existence; He would waste no time, take no pleasure, and would offer no mercy to any vandals of the celestial beyond.

This power terrified Deceptuary for it was Deceptuary’s very meddling and influence that was be eradicated by Lord Kurakku’s divine retribution and wrath. Deceptuary grew not only to fear Lord Kurakku’s attributes but Lord Kurakku Himself and all His characteristics—particularly His notably dark complexion and darker aura. After his eventual exile, Deceptuary internalized this fear and hatred of Lord Kurakku and vowed to terrorize any new mortals who embodied any aspect that Lord Kurakku had—with particular focus on trying to cause harm to Jaszmisia by extension. This targeted hatred, as it is, immediately put those who shared the relative complexion of Lord Kurakku in Deceptuary’s crosshairs.

Deceptuary’s thought process, although skewed by his own fear and from lack of knowledge of the new realm of Xyphojinami, was that any mortal being who had dark skin was therefore an agent of Lord Kurakku’s Divine Punishment and would work to stifle Deceptuary’s plans to infiltrate the mortal realm—an existential realm he had no part in its creation and therefore had little knowledge of how it truly works.

As we know, simply being of darker complexion doesn’t necessarily make one spiritually descendent to Lord Kurakku; the only ways for a mortal being to be spiritually descended to Lord Kurakku is to be His direct incarnate as Jaszmisia is or to be born under His Period of Watching of Zeptimasuer. Even if this became quite apparent to the point where Deceptuary would learn this, his crippling internal fear of Lord Kurakku—much like Deceptuary’s rampant Hubris—eternally clouds Deceptuary’s ability to understand or accept this Realmly Truth. As such, through the corrupted influence of theigrited action, those of darker skin tones have unjustly and largely been the victims of untold amounts of hatred and oppression—sometimes even from others of similar complexion. All of this complexion-based hatred is theigrited in nature.

This is where the Sacred Lesson finally comes into play. During his time mentoring Jaszmisia, Hayle Mihe was explicitly instructed by Lord Kurakku to teach Jaszmisia of Deceptuary’s targeted hatred of the Kurakkuian lineage and how it shall lead to the targeting of those who had “Skin of Dark Soil” similar to the Lord’s; this would naturally extend to Jaszmisia, who embodies Lord Kurakku’s appearance in nearly every way. Deceptuary, upon learning of the existence of the Sacred Children, would also use this hatred-fueled influence to try and seek out and destroy Jaszmisia by targeting all mortals of his appearance in hopes of causing harm to Jaszmisia by proxy. Mihe, on a walk with the Child in the rugged and azure surface lands above Terigath’s Hell, explains to the Child of the harsh reality that he shall face as a mortal being. We can see this explanation in this excerpt from “Xykozheiz:”

The mortals of the most rudimentary form are of great risk to corruption. The Theigriet will most certainly target them first. Within those realms of space of which Humans shall form, corruption and theigrited energy will spawn a form of hatred most vile and superficial. Those, skin of soil, will be victims of this hatred but will be of initial innocence. You, Sacred Child Jaszmisia, are in thy image; you are skin of soil, and too shall see the brunt of their demented evil thrown against your person. The Theigriet fears you, Child. The Theigriet fears you for he fears your Originator. The Lord and Theigriet have always been on cross terms, and the attribute of Punishment for grave sins—theigritism namely—are solely His. The Theigriet fears you, Child of night skin, for he fears the Lord, the Keeper of his eventual chamber. The Theigriet shall fear all alike you for that same reason. To their fortune, the efforts of the Others, of the Order, and of any future Alliance under the Order, will work tirelessly to combat this corruption—assuredly from theigrited forces.

Mihe would then offer the path forward for Jaszmisia and the role he shall play as one of the Sacred Incarnates. To summarize, the lesson lays out a few specific circumstances that shall take place once Jaszmisia heeds this lesson and acts upon his divine duties: those that fall under Deceptuary’s irrational prejudice and hatred and who themselves, as a whole, haven’t committed the same grave sins against their own or others in a similar fashion shall liberate themselves from the oppression and suffering of theigrited hatred and their oppressor shall fall to their own Hubris or to Jaszmisia’s hands directly. Jaszmisia is essentially tasked with bringing those agents of evil who seek to commit these Great Acts of Theigritism to Divine Justice via his Sacred birthright of Divine Punishment itself. Through his divine birthright will Jaszmisia defeat those evil entities, and they shall then be cast directly into Terigath’s Hell where the Azure Flames and Sentinel Angels of Punishment await them. We can see this stated in this passage from “Xykozheiz:”

It shall be, thus, the goal to mitigate any future corruption on this front. Those, skin of soil, behoove to the innocence of the land and of the realm, have not cast the sin, of brethren or of weak-last relinquishment to the kin of such kind, yet take the brunt of the remainder’s wrath of sin. They, of that captured status, shall be liberated in their indulgence of spiritual conquest. So said the Lord of Punishment, Controller of Hell, and handler of those tainted with sin. Said to the Child, Jaszmisia in youth upon the Azure Lands.

…the youth Jaszmisia was told the purpose of their journey soon coming, and that Jaszmisia shall lead forth as the taker of many of sinned Nature, and shall join the brethren of the other Children in combating the forces of Deceptuary. We walked on; I watched the Child as he looked solemn at the escaping azure flames from the scarred surface. The lessons coming forth would be on the importance of Jaszmisia’s role and duty once maturity was reached. The work was to begin very soon.

That is essentially the major components of the lesson and Jaszmisia’s role within it. As for who exactly falls under those that shall liberate themselves from Deceptuary’s oppression, my colleague jzX has penned an analysis of who might be considered under these criteria.

And so, to wrap the whole lesson up into a short summary: Deceptuary fears Lord Kurakku and all His characteristics, including His Dark complexion, and intends to spread that hatred into the moral realm. Jaszmisia is taught that Deceptuary’s hatred will inflict suffering on all people who look like him in an attempt to cause harm to Jaszmisia himself, and that Jaszmisia’s job is to bring those who commit these grave sins to Divine Justice while the victims of this hatred shall liberate themselves and their oppressors shall fall to their own Hubris as a result.

With that said, we can truly understand the Hymn attributed to both the Child and to the concept of Divine Punishment itself and Deceptuary’s fear of this attribute. We’ll introduce the Hymn now with all this in mind:

[Instruction: whispered]

Ira Caerulea…

Ira Caerulea…

Ira Caerulea…

Ira Divina Caerulea.

[Instruction: sung with grave intention]

For those that seek malevolence.

Plunge thee into the chambers.

For the apostles of corruption.

Shall you share the Theigriet’s Fate.

[Instruction:  rhythmically chanted without melodious infliction]

Purge thy evil

Horrid awful sins.

That is the duty,

That is solely His.

Through His progeny,

A Child so stark.

A new liberation,

Freedom in the Dark.

[Instruction: sung with haunting inspiration]

Ira Caerulea!

Ira Caerulea!

Ira Caerulea!

Ira Divina Caerulea!

[Instruction: sung strongly in low and slow ominous tones, foreboding]

Come, face the Flames…

Grand sinner, deft of true name.

Fear the Wrath of Kurakku.

Shall Divine Punishment ensue.

[Instruction: sung strongly in medium tones w/ vigor, frantic or chasing]

Behold, Child Azure.

Cast thy Father’s final rule.

Anguish awaits the damned.

Azure Flames, Hubris’s final land.

[Instruction: chanted without melodious intent, but whispered]

Ira Caerulea…

Ira Caerulea…

Ira Caerulea…

Ira Divina Caerulea.

As you can see from the bracketed instructions, this Hymn is quite dynamic, with each part vocalized with different levels of energy or presentation: Starting from an ominous whispering, leading into a haunting dissonant melody, moving to a determined chant, climaxing in a section of low and medium but ominously powerful choral works, and finally falling back into a whispered but absolute and authoritative chant. This Hymn is structured to replicate the dire feeling of Divine Punishment; it is unpleasant, it is grave, it is ominously cold, but it is a necessary reality for keeping evil chambered and the equilibrium of existence in place. The repeated line, written in Latin, of “Ira Caerulea…Ira Divina Caerulea” denotes the Azure Flames of Lord Kurakku—the Lord’s own separated Wrath turned into a divine tool to administer the Punishment that takes place in Hell. Wrapped up as one, the Hymn is a true spectacle and a grave warning to those that seek a path of evil.

However, we shall conclude this lesson here. When we meet next, we’ll go down the birth order to the next Sacred Child—that being Sacred Child Niinkisia, Child of Nature. Until then, have a blessed Sacred Day!

—kyX, jzX