EE-knock, Rhymes with “Sea Block”
The Fallen Grace, The Chthonian, Former Empyrean to Qati
God of Chthonic Magic
Enoq, at one time, was the discoverer of the arcane energy that radiated from Qati. Before all the Emanations, before all the Graces, Enoq found and set out to study the primordial Qualia that was beginning to coalesce from the mixing of Soul and Thought after the war between the Archons and the Demiurges. Enoq is thus, perhaps, the only being to see the true face of Qati before her light was refined by the emanations. Enoq would help Qati craft the emanations. Although they now are placed in the Qayyim, the Tree of Life, like fruit on a branch, at one time they took a different form now considered heretical. Enoq was the primary scholar on the beginnings and evolution of Arcane Magic, so much so that many of the founding principals he put into place are still standing, even after everything that went down. Already mentioned was his role in the creation of the Emanations as a method of refinement, but he also placed in each of these emanations a Grace to rule over it. The Graces were devised to relieve some pressure off of Qati, to allow the Graces to manage some of the less important roles that came with being a Goddess and allow her to take on higher level duties. He also formed the schools of magic that are still taught to this day and tied them to an emotion to conquer, as well as a color to represent it. He is often represented by a prism for his efforts in separating the schools of magic out of Qati’s light like a prism separates the colors from white light.
However, it was this familiarity with the inner workings of magic and the Emanations that allowed Enoq to so easily corrupt the spheres and their Graces into following him in abandoning the tree when it came time to. He found a vital flaw in the plan that he devised with Qati, that anyone would be able to access magic, even the lowliest slave. Enoq believed that only the strong should be capable of mastering, or even learning to begin with, the magical arts and sciences, and set about to implementing measures that would make it so. However, Qati put an end to his plan and did not see it as a flaw that anyone would be able to access the magic of her light. Enoq would use his knowledge of the inner workings of the plane of magic to turn the emanations and graces against Qati, leading to a bitter war between the two which ended in Qati burying her once loyal advisor deep beneath the ground of the plane of magic. Along with him she buried the emanations and built everything from scratch, following much of the same framework, but this time in the now-familiar form of the tree of life, which allowed much more communication between the emanations, with one another, and with Qati, and produced a much more harmonious system.
Enoq now resides deep beneath the ground and though he was put into a deep slumber, her is far from dormant. His dark, cold chthonic energy emanates in a similar way to the light of Qati along the roots of the tree of life. The emanations and former Graces, now known as Furies, also reside deep underground, luring in overly-ambitious mages to descend the roots of the tree instead of climbing its branches. The former students who had found themselves in the emanations when they were cast down, willing or not, became the first of the beings that would be known as Yugoloths, also known as Qthonians or, more commonly, the Nefilim. These Nefilim would serve as dark messengers to tempt mortals with untold powers into becoming Qthonians.