Immortal Fruits
The Immortal Fruits of Yggdrasil are one of the common ties for the godling races. Consuming them is a deeply sacred rite that affirms the harmony of the godlings who are permitted to share in the Demiurge's power. So crucial are these fruits that the myth of sacred fruit exists in every mythos, whether golden apples or sacred cacao beans. Legendary tricksters like Loki and Maui have tried to steal them many times, and the Primarchs like Odin and Zeus hoard these precious fruits jealously.
The fruits renew the godling's connection to the Demiurge, attunes them to Yggdrasil's branches and twists, and affirms the compact of mutual peace made at the Convocation of the Gods. In consuming the fruit, the godlings gain the favor of the Demiurge. With these fruits comes the awesome powers granted to the New Gods, attuned to the cosmic whole of the Demiurge.
The Primarchs of each realm choose who will be permitted to visit the Gardens and commune with the Demiurge. Great care must be made in this choice, to ensure that the harmony of the realm is kept stable. It is a high privilege afforded very rarely to those outside of royal families; only those Gods that the Primarchs perceive as aligning with their vision of the harmony of their realm.
History
In the years when the Earth was still a ball of fire and the Demiurge nothing but potential, the Elder Gods settled the endless twisting paths and tightly-woven demesnes that would later become that entity. Some craved heat, some sought vacuum; others wished for worlds devoid of life, or realms teeming with vigorous ecologies. Three of them settled at the root of the Demiurge.
Night, also known as Oblivion, who had borne the Endless into being, curled the Void about her as a robe and settled into the darkest curls of the roots. All her tangled shadows wind through all possible past and paths. Her footsteps formed the cradle of The Garden. From her shadow robes flows the Infinite River, nourishing the Demiurge's roots with the purest source of raw potential.
Gaea, Mother of All, was the nurturer. She looked to the present, to growth and rebirth. It was from her that nearly all the latter godlings would descend, and she in turn would be worshipped by many mortals as the origin of life itself.
The third to join them was the Lady. New worlds and new rules meant new ideologues, new ways the Source shaped the universe. Night made the soil, and Gaea nurtured the trees, but the Lady would pluck the fruits to deliver to the worthy. The Asgardians called her Idunn; among the Daoist Immortals she was the Queen Lady-Mother, daughter of the Goddess of the Moon. The Olympians knew her as Hebe and among the Aztecs, she was Ixcacao, bearer of the sacred xocoatl beans.
The three women-- Grandmother, Mother, Daughter; Dowager, Queen, Lady-- became a triumvirate entity even as they maintained their own identities and roles. They are the Norns, the Fates, the Sisters and the Oracles. Past, present, and future, and they are so deeply attached to the Demiurge as it resontates forward and back through time and space that little escapes their knowledge. Their imprint can be seen in the Courts of Fae and in mythologies of not just the realms of Yggdrasil, but much of the universe and even beyond.
