On the Origin of the Seven Moons: An Excerpt from the Gwehelyth Commentary (part 2)
The following is an excerpt from On the Lineage of the First: A Commentary on the Gwehelyth, compiled in the third age of the long peace. Translated for the Archive of Anora by order of the High Priestess.
A Note on the Capital Itself
Students sometimes ask whether the capital planet is also a moon, whether there was a seventh Aspect who settled there rather than departing. The question is reasonable, but the text does not support it. The Gwehelyth describes the place of first existence as distinct from the worlds the Aspects created for themselves. The capital belongs to no single Aspect. It is the place where all of them once were, before the departures. The origin point, not the destination.
This is why it contains all six energies in equal measure. This is why it holds the memory of all of them, the balanced resonance of six beings who once existed here together, in what the Gwehelyth calls, in its only moment of something approaching sentiment, a harmonious world.
That harmony is gone now, or at least its authors are. But the energy remains. And where the energy remains, so does the light.
A Note on the Seventh Moon
The attentive student will have counted six moons in this account and noted that Khromie has seven.
The Gwehelyth does not speak of a seventh Aspect. It does not speak of a seventh moon at all, not to deny it, not to explain it, simply not to mention it. The original text accounts for six creatures, six departures, six new worlds. The seventh moon hangs in the sky as it always has, further from the capital than all the others, and the Gwehelyth offers it nothing. Not a name. Not a verse. Not even a dismissal.
Scholars have posed the obvious question for as long as there have been scholars. If the moons are the homes of Aspects, what Aspect settled there? And if no Aspect settled there, why does a moon exist at all?
The answers proposed over the centuries are numerous, creative, and uniformly unconvincing. The most common interpretation, accepted largely because it is the most convenient, is that the seventh moon is simply an anomaly of formation, a remnant of the capital's own coalescence, a geological accident dressed up in proximity. No particular energy signature calls the moon its own. Whatever faint traces of magic cling to its surface have long been identified as residual bleed from the six surrounding moons, nothing native, nothing coherent, nothing that suggests a source. There is no heart to speak of. No trail. No life that any expedition has found worth recording.
The moon exists. That much cannot be disputed. What it signifies, if anything, the Gwehelyth declines to say.
Most have taken this silence as an answer.