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Epherion — The Life-Giver
Epherion is, technically speaking, a star. A yellow dwarf, to be precise — the sun around which Vael revolves, the source of all warmth, all light, all life. Whether he is also a being — conscious, purposeful, capable of care — is a question Vael’s philosophers have been arguing about for centuries, and I deliberately left it unresolved when I began the novel. But the novel had other ideas.
What is not in dispute is his primacy. Every living thing on Vael exists because Epherion gave the planet the seed of life. He is worshipped as the god of fire, light, gold, and purity — and by some traditions, of law and order, the principle that the cosmos runs on rules you can trust. He also founded the Knights Celestial as a direct foil to the Usurper, and extends a thread of immunity through the Wentworth bloodline. Whether that constitutes intention or simply the nature of light — that it goes where it goes and illuminates what it illuminates — I’ll let the reader decide.
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Stephen B. Anthony is the author of Transmigrant, an epic science fiction thriller, available on both Amazon and Audible.