Epona(Goddess of Knowledge)

Epona is the goddess of knowledge, born of the union of Ova(Goddess of Beasts) and Ocarus(God of Dreams).When the world was young, Esai lacked a collective memory. For all their power, the Gods quickly lost track of their vast experiences. They were omnipotent, but not omniscient. Seeing the disorder their relative shortsightedness wrought upon the world, Epona's parents danced across each of the Gods' domains and over the vast lands and seas of Esai. The vast swathes of divinity they generated captured the detail of each moments and object. When their dance ended, a complete history and record of the universe was created, and from this "Record" the goddess of knowledge was born.

Epona's realm consisted of a vast library, in which a copy of each piece of recorded knowledge ever made. This is not limited to books and scrolls. Even the recorded memories of each creature are recorded in these archives. Acolytes of Epona have been said to travel through their dreams to the Record, having been granted an opportunity for a fleeting glance at the endless fonts of knowledge available to them. Only one rule is ironclad. Any being, God or mortal, is forbidden to view the memory records of any individual. Such a transgression is typically penalized with the records of their memories erased, which leaves the offender incapable of recalling any information, and incapable of forming new memories.

Epona was never a fighter. Violence was never a solution for her. But when she saw the disorder and destruction wrought by human expansion, Epona immediately filed rank behind Sifor in his attempt on Zavan's life. She dipped into her vast sums of information about the land, the weaknesses of her enemies, and into centuries of war tactics and strategy. Serving alongside Vodon, the armies of Sifor struck with vicious aim, gaining an early advantage. In the end it was Atuna, the God of Magic who dipped into the supreme power of the Weave, drawing power from each spellcaster on the planet to form a Wish the likes of had never been seen. In an instant, the entire Record was removed from existence, and Epona died with it.

The mind of Epona sprung forth many creatures, though the creation she was most proud of was a living brain that acted independent of a body. It was with this form that other entities grew from, sharing a single hive mind imbuing them with psionic might. The Illithid are forces to be reckoned with, but none have been seen since the Godswar.

Notes: Temple in Siegelind