Nairmis

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Hair: Long and golden, falling over his shoulders and back 3 9.
• Eyes: Pale blue in his early appearances; described as silver while he watches his followers begin construction 3 5 32.
• Build and features: Slender, fair hands and an exceptionally beautiful face, which he compares to something polished by Chaos over countless ages 3 4.
• Divine bearing: His Emotion Divinity gives him a naturally tranquil presence that adds to his attractiveness 28.
• Early clothing: Initially makes a skirt from leaves and vines; later introduces woven wool clothing for his followers 4 15.

History

Origin and Birth

Nairmis begins as a transmigrated consciousness trapped in lightless, soundless chaos for hundreds of millions of years. Unable to act, he witnesses the emergence of the world and its primordial gods. The emotions released by the devastated earth’s inhabitants eventually converge within him, bringing him to tears and allowing him to proclaim himself Lord of Emotions 1.

His birth immediately attracts Uranus’s killing intent. Nyx intervenes because his existence has disturbed the River of Fate, creating a variable that might offer her imprisoned fate aspect a chance at freedom. After Uranus withdraws, Nairmis recovers fragments of his previous-life memories, including knowledge of Greek mythology’s future events 2 3.

Inventions and First Followers

Determined to soothe the grieving world, Nairmis seeks materials for a lyre. A pool nymph supplies stones, enabling him to make a knife and carve the instrument. His previous-life hobby of collecting musical instruments helps him reconstruct its design 4 5.

His music calms creatures unable to sleep and helps the dead depart peacefully. Hypnos personally thanks him for restoring the conditions needed for sleep and promises to answer his call at night 6 7.

Nairmis accepts five nymphs as followers, names them, and promises that they can become subordinate gods. Their work expands from basic tools to parchment, pottery, weaving, and cooking. When an invisible force prevents him from writing characters from his former life, he realizes that those characters do not fit the new world’s laws of language and turns to painting as a means of recording history 10 11 14 15 17.

Prophecy and Dealings with the Titans

Messages received through his record authority lead Nairmis to conclude that his future self is guiding him. Following one message, he paints Uranus’s defeat and the Titans’ rebellion; Nyx senses fate settling around those scenes. He later completes Uranus’s eyes in one painting at a carefully chosen moment during the God King’s confrontation with Gaia and the Titans 10 19 21.

After hearing Nairmis’s proclamations of wisdom and prophecy, Cronus seeks his help. Nairmis negotiates for Cronus’s Vitality Godhead, then advises him to return voluntarily to Uranus and ask forgiveness. He promises eventual deliverance and kingship, but the godhead is not due to transfer until he frees Cronus 23 24 25.

When Uranus questions him, Hemera claims that she and Nairmis are lovers and future partners. Nairmis does not contradict her, recognizing the protection offered by her connection to Nyx and Erebus. He survives Uranus’s demand for a prophecy by answering that no god can defy him for as long as he remains God King 27.

Proeon’s Growing Community

Nairmis’s reputation attracts spirits born from Titan blood, including tree people, stone people, and flower people rejected for their appearances. He welcomes them, establishes inner beauty as a divine concept, and makes Proeon their home 31.

He fulfills his promise to the original five nymphs by granting them subordinate divinities, then assigns them to lead the spirits in constructing a palace. Uranus begins summoning him to the Sky Divine Domain every morning to play the lyre, turning an initially frightening encounter into a regular obligation 32 34 36.

While recording the confrontation between Uranus and Erebus and the emergence of the Three Fates, Nairmis meets Metis. He offers a prophecy concerning Oceanus and Tethys in exchange for the Sea Faction’s future assistance 37 38 39 40.

Firestorm and Opposition to Uranus

After seeing a vision of Proeon destroyed and its inhabitants dead, Nairmis vows to protect them. His declaration causes severed threads of fate to reconnect. Uranus subsequently strips him of his flame divine nature and throws his unconscious body from the sky; Hemera catches him and returns him to Proeon 42 44.

A meeting with his future self in the river of time restores Nairmis to consciousness. Anticipating danger, he sends the spirits to shelter in a cave before Uranus unleashes a rain of fire. The stolen flame divine nature still recognizes its original master, allowing Nairmis to reclaim it and extinguish the catastrophe 45 46.

Although he survives Uranus’s renewed hostility through carefully worded professions of loyalty, the destruction ends his willingness to wait passively for history to unfold. He accepts Gaia’s invitation to cooperate against Uranus and takes the Bottle of Life to heal the scorched earth. His limited divine power, however, allows the artifact to produce only a thin mist rather than Gaia’s abundant restorative breath 47 48 50.

Personality

Nairmis is compassionate toward vulnerable beings without treating weakness as a reason for contempt. He responds to the world’s sorrow even though his divine duties do not compel him to intervene, accepts unprotected nymphs, and welcomes spirits rejected for their appearance. After surviving Uranus’s killing intent, his first concern is healing his injured followers rather than examining his own new power 3 11 19 31.

His kindness coexists with pragmatism. He understands that granting divinities rewards loyalty, creates capable administrators, and gives other followers a reason to work toward a future with him. He also negotiates tangible compensation from Cronus and political support from Metis rather than relying on gratitude alone 24 32 40.

Privately anxious and frequently self-deprecating, Nairmis uses etiquette, flattery, and carefully limited truths to survive stronger gods. His apparent courage before Uranus initially begins as an act intended to reduce his punishment. After Proeon burns, however, protecting his community becomes a reason to take an active role against the God King 16 26 47 48.

Abilities & Skills

Emotion Authority

• Senses emotions and, where his strength permits, identifies their direction and source 3 30 50.
• Converts emotional feedback into divine power; richer and more intense emotions become increasingly important as his divinity advances 6 29 46.
• Sends soothing music along emotional connections to distant creatures 6.
• Initially cannot safely absorb the emotions of powerful gods. Even the aftershocks of Gaia’s anger threaten to destroy his consciousness 3 12 13.
• His innate Emotion Divinity is the foundation of his growth and must advance with him rather than being discarded or replaced 29.

Crafts and Invention

• Reconstructs technologies remembered from his previous life, including tools, musical instruments, parchment, pottery, and a loom 5 11 14 15.
• Gains intuitive knowledge of materials and construction, such as wood grain, cutting angles, and the relationship between instrument shape and resonance 6.
• Creation-related divinities grow through making, using, and spreading their associated crafts 9.
• Can separate subsidiary authorities from the Craft Divinity to create subordinate gods while retaining access to those authorities himself 32.
• His Craft Divinity could pass to another god who surpasses his accomplishments in craftsmanship 32.

Music and Healing

• Uses a lyre strung with his own divine hair and infused with emotional power to soothe listeners 5 6.
• Combines music and healing authority to mend burns and stabilize injured followers 12 16 19.
• Healing power activates automatically when he injures himself separating craft essence 32.
• His music has almost no healing effect on gods at Gaia’s or Uranus’s level 35.

Records and Prophecy

• Preserves witnessed history through paintings, causing depicted gods to sense that they have been remembered 17.
• Records future scenes as prophecy; painting Uranus can draw the God King’s attention 19 20 21.
• Governs the future that can be recorded, rather than claiming unrestricted knowledge of every future event 23.
• Uses fragments of previous-life mythological knowledge alongside divine prophecy when assessing threats and opportunities 3 24 48.

Wisdom and Inspiration

• Governs sudden understanding and moments when inspiration resolves confusion 23.
• Applies this authority to invention, negotiation, and analysis of his other divine natures 15 27 32.
• Intensive use consumes divine power and can leave him with aching temples and mental fatigue 32 33.

Time and Fate

• Receives messages from his future self through his record-related power, but his early attempts to reply fail 10 19.
• Possesses time-node and fate-related divine natures whose development he has not yet mastered 24 32 33.
• His future self uses a fissure in the river of time to reach his past consciousness and awaken him 45.
• Exists outside fate’s original predetermined course. His choices can disturb that course, but the power of fate also attempts to correct the resulting deviations 2 18 42 44.
• Initially avoids deliberately developing fate authority because he fears appearing to challenge Nyx’s domain 33.

Flame Authority

• Reclaims his stolen flame divine nature because it remembers him as the one who brought it into the world 46.
• Gains Second-Class authority over flame and declares that new flames require his consent 46.
• Extinguishes the fires spread across the earth and later preserves divine flame in torches recovered from Proeon’s ruins 46 49.
• Can produce fire for illumination, but remains overwhelmingly weaker than Uranus despite his advancement 47 48.

Courage, Inner Beauty, and Flight

• Courage: Steadies his consciousness under pressure and eases the fear of nearby creatures 26 42.
• Inner beauty: Establishes moral virtues as forms of beauty deserving regard alongside physical appearance 31.
• Flight: Discovers that divine power can slow his fall and sustain flight after Uranus throws him out of the Sky Divine Domain 35.

Equipment / Items

• Stone knife — His first manufactured tool, made from a sharpened black stone flake and used to carve the lyre 4 5.
• First lyre — A wooden instrument with strings made from his divine hair; serves as the medium for his soothing and healing music 5 6 19.
• Parchment and painting materials — Used to record history, depict future events, and distribute construction plans 17 19 32.
• Divine-flame torches — Recovered from Proeon’s ruins and filled with his flame after the firestorm 49.
• Bottle of Life — Gaia’s artifact, entrusted to him to restore the burned earth and potentially improve his Healing Divinity. Its primordial power places a heavy burden on his divine reserves 48 49 50.

Relationships

• Acenoe — Water nymph, first helper, and devoted follower. Supplies stones for his earliest tool and later becomes his subordinate goddess of weaving 4 11 32.
• Dryope — Tree nymph and early follower; becomes the subordinate goddess of making 11 32.
• Antheia — Flower nymph and early follower; becomes the subordinate goddess of musical instruments 11 32.
• Hylea — Forest nymph and early follower; becomes the subordinate goddess of tools 11 32.
• Oreas — Mountain nymph and early follower; helps locate sheep for parchment and becomes the subordinate goddess of pottery 11 32.
• Proeon’s spirits — The community he shelters and organizes. Their acceptance gives him a sense of belonging, and their safety becomes central to his opposition to Uranus 31 35 42 48 49.
• Nyx — Saves him at birth and watches his development as a variable outside predetermined fate. Her interventions are constrained by the laws and fate itself 2 18 44.
• Hypnos — Grateful ally who promises to hear Nairmis’s call at night after his music restores sleep to grieving creatures 7.
• Hemera — Secret admirer and protector. Claims they are lovers to shield him from Uranus and later catches him after his divine nature is stripped; Nairmis has not agreed to the partnership she announces 9 24 27 44.
• Uranus — Tyrannical superior and principal threat. Alternates between threatening Nairmis, compelling musical performances, stealing his flame divine nature, and destroying Proeon 1 27 34 36 44 45.
• Cronus — Bargaining partner. Nairmis promises freedom and eventual kingship in exchange for the Vitality Godhead, with payment contingent on securing Cronus’s release 24 25.
• Metis — Fellow wisdom deity and Sea Faction contact. Promises friendship and assistance in return for his prophecy concerning her parents 39 40.
• Gaia — Initially supplies powerful emotional feedback to his music; later approaches him as a prospective collaborator against Uranus and entrusts him with the Bottle of Life 6 48.
• Future self — Sends guidance through time and restores his consciousness with a golden pen. Present-day Nairmis treats these interventions as evidence that he survives into the future 10 19 33 45.

Notable Quotes

“I am Nairmis, and I shall be the Lord of Emotions.” 1

“No one here will be driven away for looking different. As long as you do nothing to hurt others, this will be your home.” 31

“Now, all flames, heed my command. Go out at once.” 46