To the oldest cults of Rhaedwyn, the Endless Night is not counted among the sung Gods. It is named as the one who did not cross, the presence that refused the call when mortals first raised their chants at the Shardspire. The priests of Mythrael call it an absence that learned to speak. The Darksworn call it the only truth that was not born from the Wellspring, but stands outside it.
No one agrees on what the Endless Night is. They agree on what it offers.
Where the four Gods ask for responsibility, patience, craft and endurance, the Endless Night offers release. The end of burden. The erasure of limits. Power without the cost of discipline. A world where nothing binds forever, because nothing endures forever.
“Endless Night” is a Rhaedweny title. It is not its only one, just the most popular, and in various sources from throughout Eryndor, it is also called:
- The Unlit
- The Sleepless Void
- The Other Voice
- The Black Current
- The Devourer of Songs
- The Rest-That-Is-Not-Rest
Dwarven fragments mention an Oathless One, which is about as harsh a title as a Dwarf can use. Throughout Eryndor, many scholars argue endlessly about whether the Endless Night is:
- A god that never answered the first great Song at the Shardspire.
- The shadow of the Wellspring itself, the part that recoils from form.
- An intruder from beyond the known cosmology, older than the sung Gods and not bound by their rules.
The orthodox Mythraeli position in the late Age of Magic was that the Endless Night is the Wellspring turned inward. The Wellspring holds infinite potential. The sung Gods persuade it into pattern. The Endless Night tempts it back into undifferentiated stillness, where nothing hurts because nothing exists as itself.