The Mind of the Deols : Unavo and Oleris

The younger pair of the created Deols, Unavo and Oleris, are the final Deols and beings who are based in the ether. Unlike the relationship between Ällora and Yevassë, which I would liken more to that between a husband and wife, Unavo and Oleris are more like close siblings. But these two siblings, while sharing a strong bond, are as unlike as night and day in almost every respect. Unavo and Oleris represent my story's embodiment of duality.

I'll be using the broad terms masculine and feminine to describe Oleris and Unavo respectively. I understand that masculinity and femininity have been associated and re-associated with many other facets of life by countless cultures and thinkers, but at least within this sub-universe, this is how they will be aligned for now. The idea of masculinity and femininity has less to with gender than with a certain side of a spectrum of life's experience. Please don't let this inflame feminist or chauvinist ideals here, I'm not in anyway suggesting that women or men must embody these characteristics. Just like how romance languages have genders assigned to nouns, it's not supposed to be related literally to the male and female.

Unavo

Alright, Unavo is a representation of the feminine side of the duality. She is social, emotional, beautiful and vibrant. She is extroverted and prefers the company of groups. She enjoys getting to know people and learning more about them; their dreams, fears and motivations, and she shares information about herself freely and openly as well. In that sense, Unavo is demonstrative with her emotional wellbeing and highly empathetic. She draws comfort from the wellbeing of others more than from her own, in addition to her connection to her creator, Eleyon.

Her thought processes are fluid and intuitive, mental bridges between thoughts that share subtle nuances instead of logical highways. Unavo is what some people would call the "right brain", the powerfully creative, imaginative and sometimes random part of the mind. She is however distinct from the creativity of Ällora, he has more of a powerful curiousity. Ällora's creativity is directed at fulfilling potential, bringing out the best in what he sees around him. Unavo's creativity is undirected. It is wild, untamed and spontaneous, with no particular end in mind.

Similarly, Unavo's beauty is organic and difficult to pin down. The beauty of an impressionist piece of music or painting. A sublime experience that escapes beyond the rationalisation of words and postulates of logic.

Unavo was the being who made the spontaneous decision to investigate what would happen if ether was knotted and coiled far beyond anything Ällora and Eleyon had ever cared to attempt. It was an intuitive leap, which lead to a major discovery, energy.

Oleris

On the other hand, Oleris is the left-brained, masculine side of mental existence. He is closed, logical, steady and sharp. Even among the company of the five Deols, Oleris would attempt to seek solitude and quiet, very unlike Eleyon at a first impression. However, Oleris does understand the value of relationships, he is committed and loyal, just that a group tends to be rather overwhelming for him. He prefers communing individually, deeply and quietly. It takes awhile for Oleris to express his emotions and person, but it is not to say that he lacks an interesting personality. Oleris finds his value in his creator, Eleyon, and delights in his own existence.

Oleris thinks in a highly structured and organised manner, he won't act unless he has good reason to. He is extremely quick with logical puzzles, powerfully deductive, and can express his reasoning with unparalleled clarity and succinctness.

If Unavo is an impressionist nocturne, Oleris is a baroque fugue. If she is a sunset by Monet, he is the hard geometry of the Platonic solids. He has his own manner of beauty, the complexity of mathematics and structure. From the simplicity of arithmetic to the esoteric operations of quarternion numbers, Oleris is representative of beauty that is crystalline, consistent and precise.

While Unavo may have been the one to make the leap to energy, Oleris played an integral role in identifying patterns and identifying possibilities in the nature of energy. He tells Yevassë, inadvertently, that a logical extension of Unavo's experiment might be possible. This leads to Yevassë's discovery of matter.

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To me, Unavo and Oleris also represent another spectrum of thought and expression. They are distinct from the spectrum personified in Ällora and Yevassë, but complementary in many ways. Ällora is the curious visionary, Yevassë the reflective actualiser. Unavo is the unbridled artist, centre-stage, Oleris is the solitary philosopher, comfortable in his own corner of the world. Yet all of the Deols have a close relationship with their creator, Eleyon, and from that they find their value and value in the existences of each other.

Unavo and Oleris are two sides of the same mind, the mind of Eleyon, and to some extent, of every thinking being in existence. Once again, they are forces within our minds that, if working in harmony, can be of great mutual benefit to each other. If they are severely skewed, we are losing out on the variety of experience that the world has to offer. Every individual has a place along the Älloran - Yevanian scale, as well as the Unaven - Olerist scale, but to make the most of your gifts and quirks, Eleyon represents the God who coordinates each being to work harmoniously within the whole.