Athiére Circle

The Athiére Circle is a political structure between 3 families of scholars collecting and protecting knowledge and lore, established in 262 BS. To them knowledge is currency, and so they collect important relics and ancient information, as well as research the science to explain things. To the Circle, everything has a reason, as well as a consequence, thus if something is left unexplained, you can count on the Circle to find the lost pieces of knowledge.

Roles
Members of the Circle mostly offer their services as advisers, tutors and chroniclers. At times for the sake of the Circle they act as spies and thieves. Sometimes when the Meastre is unable to find a solution in their books, the Circle's intellect will be requested

Beliefs
The Circle has a reasonable explanation to just about anything, for example of how the world came to be: Since there is no denying Alyssa and Ayen exist, the Circle believes they aren't exactly the idea we have of 'gods'. They believe the universe has countless divine energies traveling at a certain speed to keep their life sequence flowing, and that Ayen and Alyssa, two different energies clashed into one another, creating the Sphere.

The "sun" in this world is referred to as the Sphere, a round source of burning energy, acting as a domain for Ayen and Alissa which they reside in. The Circle believes that the Sphere acted as an egg as the world emerged from inside it, and the first surface of the world that emerged was The Great Forest, Which was the reason why the factions of the first children could not leave, not until the rest of the world found its way out.

They believe that the Barrier around Terra is actually a force field created by Ayen and Alissa to protect the forest from the Sphere's flames, and the force field expanded as the world continued its way out of the Sphere. When the world finally found it's way out of the Sphere, the the force field didn't connect on the last bit of surface, thus creating the Barrier around what they call Terra. In other words, it isn't Terra that is surrounded by the Barrier, but actually the rest of the world is.

Sons of Ayen
After Alissa's Sacrifice, Ayen returned to the Domain, he revealed himself to five men of different families, and in respect for his fallen sister, just as she created 8 Overseers, he created the 8 Solarian Relics and given it to the five men who later united their families and assembled the Sons of Ayen. With these relics they created the Metropolis of Solaris, later known as the Shattered Metropolis. Ayen was weakened by creating the relics and was forced to leave the domain once again.