#ramuh keeps to the law to the letter

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The Galahkari and the Astrals

celsiahawthorn 

More prompts! Most FFXV things I see have Ramuh as a sort of patron for Galahd, but if you have them as not worshipping any of the Astrals, what is their relationship with Ramuh specifically, and what do you consider to be "his people/place" like Lucis is Bahamut's, Tenebrae is Shiva's, and Accordo seems to be Leviathan's?

This is a fascinating question! Hope you don’t mind if I answer this in the more I’m thinking out loud way.

Lets start with Titan. Titan the Archaean. He, who holds up the meteor that was called down by Ifrit and carries a curse with it and so cannot touch the earth. The earth Titan is sworn to protect because it is his domain. Everybody knows where he is and what he does. Steady as rock and earth and mountain. It’s less that he has a chosen people he decided to favour and more that the people crowded around him. The people that made themselves his are the people of Old-Lestallum and later Lestallum, but most of Duscae considers him theirs.

Ifrit’s people were the Solheimr. They were the people he decided to give jis greatest gift to. Fire. Fire and all that came with it. The good and the bad. Solheim was his place and it was destroyed by a conflict he did not start but carried on until the bitter end. In modern day he keeps his mother’s pyre burning and in turn burns himself again and again and again. Now his nation is but ashes and his people are dead. Nearly no one remembers anymore what it means to worship fire. 

(The Galahkari ironicaly are some of the precious few who still remember part of it. They whisper their stories and secrets into his flames and he hears them all. He hoards them like precious trinkes. Because even if they don’t worship him anymore, the still respect him. Because they remember.

Deep City also has a few of his traditions left. Different ones and less than the Galahkari, but they’re still there. And as long as they are he may be able to scrounge up enough power to do something.)

Leviathan the Hydraean is the waves of the sea, the current of the rivers, the wind that swells the sails. She isn’t water, she is of the water. Always on the move, free and untaimed. Like her people once were. Her people were the first people daring enough to brave the sea. The ones she taught how to sail, to go wherever the winds and the waters took them. To be as wild and free as she was. The ones that would settle onto the islands they would name Accordo. They settled down and began to grow roots and Leviathan was furious. She had taught them, loved them in the way the sea loves anything and they had turned away from her. Still she went to slumber near their shores in the hope they would rememeber. They didn’t.

(Galahkari may brave the sea also and they even did it at first to be free, but back then she still had had her people and so she had ignored these desperate souls that may have wanted to be free but also wanted a place to grow and thrive in. That is something the sea can’t give.)

Shiva went to sleep in the desert as a last nod towards her love Ifrit. She doesn’t have a people per se. At first she hated humans, froze them wherever she went. But then she became the Gentle and still she remained alone because a gentle death is still death. Later, when magic was bound and she sent her consciousness into her messenger Gentiana, she made the Fleurets hers. But only the Fleurets because healing is gentle and needs a gentle hand.

(In Galahd she is the white she-devil. She, who tried to erase the consequences of the Astral’s own decision. She failed. She hates them for it but she can’t do anything because she is gentle and a gentle death is too good for them. At last that’s what she tells herself in the dark hours when she doubts.)

Bahamut resides within the crystal to form and guide its light how he sees fit. He likes to think that the Lucis Caelums, and through them all of Lucis, are his people and they may even think so themselves, but they aren’t. For there are two with an even older and stronger claim that still holds even if it has been forgotten. Eos and Etro.

(He ignores the Galahkari. They are not part of the prophecy. They are not important. They will die soon enough. Oh you poor ignorant soul.)

Ramuh doesn’t have a people or a place he calls his own. He is content with traveling like his storms. This way and that, never in one place for long. In modern times a cult has begun to form mostly made up of enegneers, electricians and researchers. Maybe something will come of it, who knows.

(And his relationship with the Galahkari? He respects their desicion and does not interact with them. He is the Keeper of the Law and Devine Law decrees the free will of humans. They made their desicion and he has to keep to it. But that also means he will not help them if they need it.)