Chapter 14: The past and looking through the future( Mother Rhoyne's POV)

Never have I thought I would have woken up so early after that episode in the long night. The long night was a terrible episode. Humans may have come up with a lot of stories to explain those terrible times some have truth in them others are simply wild fantasies.

The whole world was affected by that catalytic event known as the long night.

The First Men may take the origin of the events as related to the Others. But that's inaccurate, they only had the terrible luck of when the first night appeared the Others were also there to be strengthened by it.

To explain this story I would have to explain what I am or what I was to be more accurate. The mother Rhoyne that the Rhoynars take as holy is only the water spirit. We, the spirits, originate from human and magical beasts magic.

To explain it more clearly humans can use magic naturally, but they need a lot of power to do so, to make up for it humans have catalysts that they use to decrease their cost in using magic.

Humans sometimes use blood magic that uses sacrifices as a catalyst. It is one of the catalysts necessary for the forging of Valyrian steel and Aquamarine steel. The difference is that the Valyrian who are a younger civilization and have more primitive magic techniques use people, while the Rhoynars only sacrifice a fish to forge the metal.

Other times, they use magic beasts as catalysts for example giant wolves for warging and skin-changing magic, and dragons for dragon dreams.

Dragons are another catalyst necessary to make the casting of Valyrian steel easier. Other times, they use extreme natural environment locations as catalysts, like the rhoynar use the rhoyne water network to make their use of water magic easier, though they mistake it for a sort of holy origin for their magic when it was only a cataclysm.

The last catalyst that is used in the forging of valyrian steel is one of the fourteen volcanoes of Valyria. And the last used to forge aquamarine steel is the Rhoyne water network. In fact, Magical beasts usually need a magical birth, or magic to be born so they also use magical places as a catalyst to their birth magic, wild dragons use any of the fourteen volcanoes of Valyria, while the Old Men of the Rivers use the Rhoyne water network as a catalyst.

Magic is related to the soul so being a holy place for the catalysts of magic end up with places developing consciousness of their own, which become the spirits. Although the Rhoynars may regard me as their mother I consider myself the daughter of the Rhoynars.

Usually to us spirits, the people and the magic beast that are our progenitors are quite special and dear.

There is also another kind of weak and short-lived spirit called artificial spirit which is a spirit formed by a human through blood magic, the only example that I know is the fire artificial spirit that the Rhollor priest create through blood sacrifice, and worshiped as a gift from their god.

So the truth, is that the Yi Ti people are right in saying that the Long Night was caused by the Bloodstone Emperor from the Empire of the Dawn, but it has nothing to do with him usurping his sister, the Amethyst Empress, or worshiping a stone instead of the Yi Ti gods.

Because of the Dawn Empire's Faith, which is quite similar to the one the Yi Ti have nowadays they used to worship the Maiden-Made-of-Light and fear the Lion of Night, the shadowlands of that time that is not in the same place as the one from today, was believed to be the land cursed by the Lion, and its people spawn of the Lion or simple demons. They were the Shadow Men.

After usurping the throne the Bloodstone Emperor wanted to subjugate the "demons" to increase his reputation and so he did he hunted them down to near extinction and made the rest his slaves.

The shadow land holds the spirit of the cloud of dust. Clouds of dust are a type of climate from this world that not even I know how exactly came to be.

We spirits have a very limited ability to control our bodies, so causing a cataclysm is the only thing we can do in fact. Being unable to protect its people from the Dawn Empire, the dust cloud spirit became sad, despaired, and pissed, so he exploded himself. Making a fine dust cloud spread through the world. Making the long night, that only ended as the dispersed dust particles slowly regather reforming the dust cloud.

In the past, the Shadow Men were wanders, merchants, and sometimes even bards. They used to travel around the world and only return to others to raise their children and for important events like weddings. As they could crow no crops, they were completely dependent on trade. When the long night came, the Shadow Men were able to perform their magic nearly as strongly as they could in their homeland, while the Dawn Empire was driven to Chaos, so they rebelled, raided, and escaped the empire's control. Nowadays, Shadow Men engage in piracy and reading on the YiTish shores.

But I would never guess that I would have been woken by a soul of another reality that entered this universe.

The soul by itself was able to perform what even a spirit like me couldn't, it worked as a cataclysm that completely distorted the laws of nature, which allowed me from the future to communicate with my past self by woken me up earlier.

So I found out that the Valyrians would drive my people( the Rhoynars that I hold dear) out of my land, while some of the Rhoynars would be able to adapt to a new land and embrace a new culture, some could not have the heart to do so, and would nearly a thousand years in the future call themselves the orphans of Greenblood; my orphans would be far from their mother. It was the first time I considered myself as Mother Rhoyne.

Myself from the future also ask me to calm down, saying that I would probably don't need to destroy Valyria this time. Yes, my future self destroyed Valyria. How? The waters of the Rhoyne are much more them what can be seen in the eye, there were several underground rivers and giant aquifers connected to the Rhoyne, forming a net that passes through even the Red Waste of Essos.

So I only need to forcefully increase the pressure there enough to make all the fourteen volcanoes explode at once. It would surely turn Valyria into an island as well. It would kill fourteen volcano spirits that are much weaker than me even combined, put f*ck them.

The reality took a while to adapt to this mortal soul, which allows for a strong reality warping. The future me might have been quite obsessed and desperate to find out there were other realities, put to come up with using a foreign soul to make the impossible fit of changing reality. it seems that I will have done a deal with this soul as there were sudden changes in reality.

To make the changes possible several things happened. Even I stayed as an observer seeing these changes revealing themselves and tried to guess what was the purpose of all those. First, a royal family got induced and not controlled into naming a princess Kunti.

Then, the appearance of a fake ancient spell. Through a subtle manipulation of fate, ended up being used by princess Kunti. She suddenly has a burst of magic inside her that allowed her to perform the impossible feat of getting pregnant from her to get pregnant from the Sun. The sun before had been turned into a spirit that did not can self-awareness yet.

From the child was born a energy that can only be called divine. With his connection to the Sun, the energy the child emitted, made it suddenly evolve into something much more than a spirit into what could only be called a God.

The Sun God was given a mature personality with a lot of wisdom. With my connection to the child, because of the fake ancient spell that use me as a catalyst, the energy ended up evolving me into a goddess as well. Later the major tributaries of my river network gave birth to my six daughter goddesses:Little Rhoyne, Upper Rhoyne, Noyne, Qhoyne, Lhorulu, and Selhoru. Most kept the name of the tributaries, except Upper Rhoyne renamed herself Upper, and Little Rhoyne renamed herself Nymeria.

The Old Man in the River, the oldest, biggest, and strongest of the Old Men in the River; gained self-awareness and became a minor God. So did the strongest crap beast in my rivers that became a minor god known as Crab King. The other magic beast became demigods.

Now it could be said that my power was sort of nearly equal to that god Surya, but as the god of the sun, he surely would become far stronger than me.

Becoming a goddess I can now use my powers much more precisely and I have a certain ability to predict the future, and I can tell how much time passed with that one named Karna the future is changing in a more favorable direction to the Rhoynars.