Desiderium (Concept World & Characters)

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Character names from left to right: ELZRERR, ZHOUGUANG, AELLIA

Character at the back: DOMINUS.

KEY ART

Dominus is the One whom hands shaped the world and breath brought life to it. He saw that all His creations were beautiful and called the continent Paradiso. All the blessed beauty Dominus built and yet He saw that they lacked guidance.

And so He created three entities from His own most noblest and exalted image to lead the world He made. A handful of most fertile dirt, another of the freshest water, and a drop of light plucked by His fingers right when the sun shines the brightest, thus born the three godly personas : Fortitudo, Temperantia, and Iustitia.

Fortitudo, whom He tasked to lead the western land of lush and lively forests which will later be known as Mirthrall. Iustitia to lead the southern part of the world full of hills and chasmic gaps that became the foundation of Haidian. So is Temperantia to lead the northernmost region, mountainous with rivers running amidst the lands as if it were veins, which will be known as Aedren.

Dominus is referred by the people as The Creator, while his three personas are hailed as Trinitas Sanctum or Holy Trinity.

AELLIA, High Priestess of Aedren.

She is one of the Trinitas Sanctum alongside Zhouguang and Elzrerr, but unlike Emperor Zhouguang whose title is passed down through blood, nor General Elzrerr who left his Godhood and became the Supreme Leader of his people, High Priestesses are the direct representation of Goddess Temperantia, chosen by the "Spiritus Sancti" or the Holy Spirit of Temperantia herself.

When a High Priestess dies, the Spiritus Sancti will leave its dead vessel and find a new body it deems most noble and pure, in the form of a newborn girl. High Priestess is the ruler of Aedren, a mountainous region northernmost of Paradiso Continent which has unparalleled political, philosophical, religious, and scientific advancement. She rules alongside The Five Cardinals.

MAP OF PARADISO, BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR OF THE HOLY TRINITY