Odran ruun-Aldana
Overview
Odran ruun-Aldana (170–228 AC) was a philosopher of Asgarthan Metaphysics who specialized in the study of The Empyrean. First a student and then an assistant to Calfuray, he theorized that the Empyrean was the realm of the dead, where the deceased persisted through the memories of the living and where the ideas constituting an individual were recycled after death.
Background
What began as a way to assist his mentor became a calling. Odran hypothesized that the realm of imagination was also the realm of the dead. The deceased continued to exist through the memories of the living, and some endured across ages as Oneiroi. To him, the Empyrean was a kind of purgatory where the departed awaited oblivion — synonymous with true death. He proposed that the ideas constituting an individual were then recycled, becoming fertile ground for the imagination and inspiration of inventors, scholars, and artists.
Like Calfuray, Odran believed that the merging of the world of the living and the world of the dead would result in a negation of existence, where ideas would lose their meaning for lack of souls to invoke them.