Doremil
Doremil in the Gindas
Biographical InformationPronunciationP: [‘do.ɾɛ.mɪl]
Chief EpithetThe Raven
Other NamesMen Aurael (P), Cormorant, Death
GovernancesDeath, Dreams, Foresight, Magic, Wisdom
LocationPossibly Gurmakhar, thought to be deceased
HouseNinth House
AffiliationElder Children, Younger Children
Physical DescriptionRaceKembar
GenderGenderless
Doremil Men Aurael, the Raven, or the Cormorant, is the keeper of the dead in their Hall. Being the most knowledgeable of the Kembar on souls and spirits, they helped in the making of all the Elder Children except for Men.
They taught magic to both the Kembar and the Elder Children. Laegos was said to be their greatest student. In an effort to end the Last War, Doremil created the Isencurse, seeking to inhibit magic. When the Last War continued nonetheless, Doremil performed a ritual known as the Binding, wherein they sacrificed themselves to ban the Kembar from the Wide World. The Ninth House was secretly created in their honor to maintain the Binding.
From “Concerning the Kembar”
Doremil is the wisest of the Kembar. They are alone. For they studied that which the other Kembar would not: dreams and visions, and prophecies, and hopes and despairs, and the ways of spirits, and magic. And indeed, in what the Children call magic, Doremil is mightiest, and they taught it to them, and for that reason magicians honor them. Men Aurael is their surname, which can mean either the Raven or the Cormorant, and those birds have often been their emissaries. Thusly many of the Children forebode them, and they are feared as a portent.
The realm of Doremil is rightly called Īzlagurmakīmkhar, the Hall of Good and Bad Deaths, though it is more commonly named Gurmakhar, the Hall of Passing, or Doremil after its keeper. It is a land apart from the Wide World, built to house the spirits of the dead, for concerning them Doremil is held to be deepest in understanding. Hence they had a hand in the making of all the Elder Children save Men, who were created by one alone. And they love the Children, whose spirits are to Doremil a wonder, having come from outside the temporal world, and whose wills and worth they deem to be no less than their own. But Gurmakhar is only a resting place, for all the spirits of the Children must pass beyond Meleth eventually, to which they are but visitors, and whither they go or why even Doremil has not discovered.