#Lore questions about Desert Pantheon X Necromancy X First Age

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Hi guys, sorry if it looks off topic or random. But after playing Beneath Scabaras' Sands, I've got a long shower and getting some showerthoghts, looks like some questions remain unanswered in the lore relating the Desert Pantheon, Necromancy and First Age lore. gnomechildblush 🏜️
We already know that guthixians and menaphites divine figures have some parallels: Rasial (former Misalionar) and Death, Amascut and Icthlarin. Both pantheons had relations with underworld and both have their roles in it.

But here goes the questions:

What EXACTLY is the Underworld? Is it a physical part of the world (maybe connected to the core, the Heart of Gielinor)? A pocket dimention inside the worlds anima? A mental state when a soul communes/connects/dies and goes to the underworld?

Did Elidinis and Tumeken knew about the Heart of Gielienor entrace located in the desert?
Maybe that's why Zaros wanted to invade the region in first place?

What was the real role of Elidinis in the Underworld and how is her connection to it?
How and why did she cared so much with the Underworld to the point that she created the Sanctum? How did Death reacted to this, considering that his role in it predates Elidinis' ascendence? (there's a litterally massive inverted pyramid near the City of Um)

What is the connection between the moon (Zanaris), Elidinis and the Underworld?
The moon that orbits Gielinor has a deep lore with Guthix, the Elder Sword and the fairies. Its a deep Guthixin place indeed, but how did Elidinis became the "Goddess of the Moon" in the Desert Pantheon? Does Zanaris has some necrotic/magical influence on the underworld/elder gods magic/anima mundi?

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What is and how were the moonstones created?
After the recent desert quest we can assume that the moonstones have a great role in the desert pantheon, as it was created by Elidinis herself. Theses stones act like an counterpart to the black stones: both stones have connections with the dead, souls and necrotic power, but looks like the moonstones are not related to Erebus at all. Did Elidinis knew about the evil of the blackstones? Moonstones are modified/cleansed blackstones? WTF are they?

How was the relation between the menaphite human groups and the old guthixian traditions?
As we know, the firts menaphites started to live in the desert since the begginig of the first age. So, they have roots in old guthixian druidism or at last a littler guthixian origin. And its important to mention the presence of the soul altar in Menaphos, and we can imply that the first druids (maybe V?) visited the desert and created the altars there. But how this relation occoured?

What is the race/species of Tumeken?
The presence of a crystal (the kharid-ib) makes me think that he maybe was a mahjarrat, but its just a personal theory with low to nothing to fortify it. But who was this guy? And how he and Elidinis where so powerful?

hard path
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Re: Moonstones, Tumeken and the Underworld

In the Elidinian Mysteries we're told Elidinis ascended from a "sliver of moonlight", so I think Tumeken ascended from a similar sliver of sunlight since we're told when they meet that

The radiance of the sun
emanated from his being, just as she shone with the silvery glow of the moon.

Just like there are moonstones associated with Elidinis, we also know that there are sunstones associated with Tumeken - The Eye of Het is forged from one. The Eye could ressurect people so there's a death connection there too.

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As for their origin, my theory is the sun and moon slivers came from the Font of Spirit, one of the "prime elementals of death" formed from the spirit element mentioned in [[Grave Records]]

The Font of Spirit was the first to form. Born into pain and longing, it searched for another like itself but was met only with the emptiness of the underworld. Unable to bear the longing, it tore itself asunder. The beings longed no more, but with their actions, spirit flowed from within. Torn apart yet together, they were lost beneath the waves that escaped their form.

So it split into a sun fragment and a moon fragment, which Tumeken and Elidinis got, and it gives them underworld powers since it derives from the underworld's spirit element - and creepily it's maybe also the reason they're drawn to each other in the first place.

Tumeken then divides his essence mainly into the lesser gods, while Elidinis divides it into moonstones and the gate.

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