Aleu

So what in Temerant is an Aleu? 
All we can really divine from that sentence is that Aleu is a plural , that they currently reside somewhere above us all and they are fully expected to remain there until the end of time. They have an important association with Names.

"In the beginning... The world was spun out of the nameless void by Aleph, who gave everything a name..."

 My best character match up to that description from the few clues we are given in the books is that Aleph is a shining example of one of the Aleu since He is a non corporeal being who knows the names of all things which effectively makes him a God and thus should be fully expected to always remain an eternal presence across the land. 
Falling nameless from the sky sounds an awful lot like a metaphor for death, but imho Gods cannot ever die, that fate is denied them, and so this line must be talking then about Aleph one day forgetting the names of all things instead and thus setting all things free and for Himself becoming officially nameless. Unfortunately for that thought, imho neither can Gods ever forget, or go mad, or even sleep for that matter in fact they are beings from a seperate plane of existence that is way  beyond the limitations of the four doors of the mortal mind. 
How can there be more than one God? Well that's easy to explain.

The first rule of any universe is that For every action there is a equal and opposite reaction. And that law dictates that if you can magically conjour up one God out of the void then He must always have a twin, usually called the Devil. Why? Because God is light and you cannot create light without also making a shadow in the same instance, and darkness is the colour that this devil wears. Between them these two gods will control everything (except the moon she is a third party anomaly with whom I shall deal with on another day) . This Anti-Aleph twin of God's counterpart or 'the devil' in these books is called Iax. They are two halves of the same being, like the two ends or the same piece of string. You can Think of them variously as light and dark, One and zero. Alpha and omega ...It's all the same thing really. Two gods. Perfectly balanced. But absolute opposites in all ways that matter. If one of them knows the light names of all things, then the other one knows their dark names.
Aleph is the same god who appeared in Perial's dream as a being 'made entirely of fire or sunshine:. Agents of darkness usually appear suitably clad in the colours of the opposition.
How were the Aleu born? Well I imagine that In the beginning there was the nameless void and at that point this void was all there was. 
Now I imagine that to have looked a bit like a vast field of static. Lots of little bits of black and white all jumbled up together. 
That's when Aleph made his grand entrance. He became aware of his surroundings and took all the white bits out of the void  them into 'stuff'
As an inevitable consequence of his actions, this meant that all of the black pieces of 'stuff' were also separated out at the same time. These were the undesirable parts to Alephs desire and thus  chance/choice was created in the nameless void and now ther were two piles of stuff. And therefore by dividing the void Aleph also doubled it and so ex nilho created his own opposite called Iax. Aleph is the Lord of light and plays with white stuff. His opponent is the Lord of Shadows plays with the black stuff. They are like two sides of the same coin. Two halves of the same thing. Two players in the same game
Aleph and Iax, the Aleu. Twin gods
As different as hats and shoes


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