Name: Eta Carinae/ Admonition and Grace
Type: Binary Star
Appearance: 
Compressed FormEta Carinae, like the picture suggests, has to take on a compressed humanoid form in order to roam the other realms. It should be apparent why a Star can't emerge in its native form on one of the other planes. The Sea of Stars is the only place Eta Carinae can be a Star. However, they can compress and decompress to whatever extent they wish. If they want to be 30 meters tall and crash through the wall of a stronghold, they can, or they can compress themselves to be 5'9" and speak with a humans face to face. This ability simply relies on how they compress their energy in their Star Body.
Personality and Drive: Admonition and Grace are two halves to the whole that is the Binary Star Eta Carinae. Their very being is the representation of balance, Yin and Yang. Admonition is the masculine, he is the side that delivers cautious counsel to his subordinates in an effort to cultivate their strength. The bigger of the two and more dominant force, he is also the aspect of control, composure, and repression of the fires of his own essence so that it does not overpower his beloved Grace. He is the understanding of power and passionate drive.
Grace is the candid and playful, an honest expression of joy. She is the feminine, the aspect of love and compassion, containing within her make the knowledge of birth and nature. Although weaker and more recessive than her brother, she is the epitome of trust, faithful that he would never overcome and consume her in his flames.
Together they make the powerful being Eta Carinae, head of the Gemini Sigma stars, leader of the Host of Angels, and first Ascended among the powerful Firefly race. With the knowledge that Demon Hordes from the other planes may seek to whet their appetite for destruction and domination by conquering the Mortal Lands via the approaching Planar Conflux, Eta Carinae seeks to serve its role as the Great Benefactor to Human Kind and aid in its defense.
History: Early on in the expansive history of the Sea of Stars, strife and struggle were as much apart of life as equilibrium and peace. Admonition and Grace were born on the terrestrial body Eon, along with the rest of their native race, the Firefly. Humanoid, and able to ignite themselves into intense flames and even take flight among the cosmos, the Firefly were the most powerful of the various terrestrial races inhabiting Thul Ithílíá. Despite this inherent power, a rogue Star named Vehoja used his immense energy to bring the Firefly under his dominion, utilizing them to take over other terrestrial bodies governed by other Stars, while he engulfed smaller Star clusters to expand himself. He wanted to rest at the center of the Sea of Stars and subjugate the entire plane to the Flow of his Ego. It was this Ego that he utilized to take over Admonition, the most powerful of all the Firefly. Admonition was so great that he could take on a singular Star by himself without being an Ascendant.
Oddly enough, there was only one Firefly that could resist Vehoja's control. The meek and humble girl Grace, sister of Admonition.
Her resistance came from her access to the Ebb, or the Void, the force that was the opposite compliment to Flow, the emergent force that gave Stars and Thul Ithílíá breath. Ebb was nothing, recession, the Abyss on the outer reaches of the Sea of Stars, a concept that not even the oldest Stars understood. Mintaka, head of the Alpha Aquarius, a beautiful dark blue sequence Star, beckoned Grace for her help in defeating Vehoja so that Thul Ithílíá could once again find balance. She granted Grace the command of a Host of Angels to combat her brother and the other Firefly. However, she understood that the Angels could not defeat them. In commune with the Ebb, Grace knew what to do.
In a decisive battle that was meant to be forfeit, Grace ordered the retreat of the Angels so that she could approach Admonition alone. She knew the only way to defeat Vehoja was to release Admonition from the clutches of the Star's Ego. A fearsome confrontation ensued among the siblings which ended with Admonition impaling his sister on the end of his blade. With her last act she implanted her own Flow within his Ebb, the spaces between his being, lurking in the edge of his subconscious. Using her influence on the inside, unbeknownst to her brother, she released him from Vehoja.
The tragedy of being able to recognize the murder of his own sister was enough to push the capacity of his power past its limit, and it fueled his campaign of vengeance against Vehoja. In time, however, the rogue Star of Ego, at this point, had already completed his goal, resting at the center of Thul Ithílíá with the whole plane and other Star constellations under his subjugation, now calling himself God. Admonition burned with the fire equivalent to a White Dwarf when he confronted God, bringing other rebellious terrestrial beings including the whole Host of Angels to bring him down. In a battle that was said to have lasted an entire year, Admonition lost his entire battalion, being the last standing against God. From behind the scenes, and unknown to everyone, Grace was collecting the Flows of Admonition's fallen comrades from the embrace of Ebb and storing them within the body of her brother, giving him fuel to keep on burning and burning brighter.
At the height of the battle, God became wounded and unstable, about to explode and engulf the Sea of Stars in a giant super nova that would have destroyed Admonition and himself. Admonition resigned himself to martyr, having lost his sister and the will continue, accepting his death was imminent. Grace had other plans. Within the subtle reaches of Ebb, Grace turned God's super nova against him, making him implode upon himself. Thus, the first black hole in Thul Ithílíá was born, a prison of pure Ebb trapping Vehoja and his light for all eternity. At the end of the conflict, Admonition was so full of Flow essence that he was undergoing Ascendancy, a rare spectacle where a terrestrial being acquires the means to become a Star. Clever Grace performed another miracle from Ebb as Admonition became a Star during Ascendancy. She released the Flows of all his fallen comrades, creating an entire constellation around the vortex prison, and she emerged as a Star attached to the Flow of her brother. That's when they became the first Binary Star and formed the Gemini Sigma constellation, the first event of its kind in the history of Thul Ithílíá.
They are now the most powerful Star in the expanse of the Sea of Stars, with their combined essence and understanding of both Flow and Ebb. they were able to bring harmony back to the plane, resting at the center around the prison of Vehoja with all other Constellations Flowing harmoniously around the pull of Ebb. However, for the past several centuries, Eta has been ordering the Stars of the Gemini Sigma constellation to form a message for the humans. Slowly drifting into concise arrangement for a constellation representing the coming Planar Conflux and the opening of the Nexus, the signs are there for mortals who can read the stars.
Abilities: Being a Star, Eta Carinae can float/fly anywhere even in compressed form. Like their old Firefly form, they can ignite their entire body with Star fire and bend it to their will. Not only is it a spectacle for outer planar beings to witness, its a useful combat ability. Eta Carinae also has full understanding of the primordial concepts of Ebb and Flow, the give and take, stress and relaxation, compression and decompression, life and death. Everything and Nothing. The body is a by-product of Flow, the mind and consciousness belong to the Ebb.
Star Directive: Even while remaining in the Sea of Stars Eta Carinae can direct all their forces in other planes. They do this by being in Star form and utilizing the channel of Ebb to communicate in the minds of their followers. This can also be done in the presence of their forces, making the relaying of messages redundant as long as Grace slips into the Ebb and establishes Flow points in the minds of their followers.
Nova Blast: Eta Carinae can discharge pulses of super heated plasma from any one of their four hands or even mouth and eyes. It's highly destructive and can severely wreck a landscape not mention disintegrate enemies quickly, severing flesh and bone on an atomic level.
Solar Pulse: Eta Carinae can discharge a burst of solar winds from their body. They can also sling these winds from their hands and feet, making these an extension of their body. These winds are super heated, radioactive, and more powerful than any atmospheric winds generated on any of the planes.
Eta Carinae's Grace: Grace can slip into the Ebb, the negative space between things in the physical world, and establish Flow points in allies, allowing them to receive energy from Eta Carinae. This can augment their own abilities with Star power, or heal wounds and debilitation with incredible speed. The limit to this is that Grace cannot get to far from Admonition, the range being a 30 ft radius. Those within this radius, however, can receive these benefits almost non-stop as long Grace has established these Flow points.
Eta Carinae's Admonition: Admonition can temporarily overpower the balance between him and his sister in order to greatly heighten his abilities. In this state, terrestrial beings and landscape would burn up/combust/disintegrate in his presence if they can't handle extreme temperatures. This presence extends spherically around his body at his own will and it could engulf entire terrestrial bodies if he expanded it far enough. Although, this is normally limited by his control and unwillingness to cause casualties to his own forces, or consume his sister in the wake of his power. The ability is also temporary, for he can only maintain this unbalance for so long before Grace's own Flow is burned up.
