Elu

A mythical figure. According to legend, the Cielcin High King who first brought its tribe from its homeworld, Se Vattayu, through space to the planet Eue. Blessed of MIUDANAR.

—Its mate, AVARRA, sacrificed to MIUDANAR according to Cielcin legend.

—Their offspring, UMNA, the First Aeta.

—Its followers, among the first Aeta, and the progenitors of various lines of Cielcin succession:

—DUMANN

—IMNUN

—ZAHAKA

—INUMGALU

According to this account and their own legends, the Cielcin were delivered from their homeworld, Se Vattayu, to the planet Eue by the High King, Elu, who with its adherents, the thirteen Aeta, constituted a kind of Cielcin Empire on the far side of the galaxy. After Elu’s death, the various Aeta turned on one another, their armies fracturing into tribes. Each Aeta, or clan-chief, could at one time trace its lineage by blood or conquest back to one of the original thirteen. By Hadrian’s day, those thirteen had fractured to more than a thousand different clans, each calling home a fleet of interstellar ships, some large as moons, and all distributed across the galactic volume in the Norman Expanse and the farther regions beyond the galactic core.

Kingdoms of Death, Dramatis Personae