Gaea (Or Gaia) is one of the many names for the Earth Entity, the Being that is in charge of all life on Earth, or maybe that is composed of all life on Earth. Or something. The human mind boggles at the concept and takes refuge in words.
During the time of the Five-Fold Court, the central court was Gaea's.[1]
She had seven daughters.[1] The first four "ruled the Center Court in their Mother’s stead." [2]
Daughters[]
Descriptions of the four first daughters were found in an abandoned Artificer's Forge:
- She looked around at the edifice, a monument to creatures too powerful for the world to fully contain, and saw the many forms of Gaia’s daughters, for the first time, cut into statuary and murals in the walls of the massive edifice.
- They were beautiful, they were terrible, they were literal monsters and gods all at once. Each one of the cathedral walls, ceiling and floor told the tale of one of the four great beings who ruled the Center Court in their Mother’s stead. The scenes on the wall changed and shifted with each glance, each told a different story of the lives of the four great beings, and in the end, how they were murdered for their power.[2]
- Terra-Valeria, Firstborn - Depicted on the left wall of the Forge: “Mother of the Mind, giver of life, the aspect of the Court from whom all natural life came.” [2]
- Terra-Verdanis, Secondborn - Depicted on the right wall: “The shaper of the world, mother of the plants and the natural order of the world.”[2]
- Terra-Kashaly, Thirdborn - Depicted on the Forge floor, the "odd one": “The aspect of force, she was the glue that held the court together, representing the forces that held the world itself together.”[2]
- Terra-Nocturne, Fourthborn - Depicted as an alternating figure of light and darkness, apparently on the ceiling: “She seems to be the light and dark, good and evil, idealism and pragmatism, like a coin flipped. She represents duality.”[2]