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ORIGIN OF THE 8 FAMILIES
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Once upon a time, an angel and a demon fell in love. The angel, at first appalled by the demon’s presence, would constantly avoid and reject the demon, but eventually gave in to the demon and his countless advances.
Seven siblings originated from this connection, four brothers and three sisters, all looking identical, with the angel’s wings and the demon’s handsome facade. The other angels were upset, yet intrigued by these new creatures, and decided to teach them their ways. They called the three sisters Belig, Inci, and Eser, and the four brothers Devrim, Atabey, ÇaÄŸlayan, and Afet.
For a while, those seven would learn from the angels, their language, society, and values. But, seeing all these Angels with their different personalities and habits, the seven siblings got sad. They wanted to be different from each other, just as individual as those angels that taught them. The angels did not understand their struggle, since unison and equality could only be maintained by keeping them perfectly identical. But the siblings got more and more depressed over time, feeling like they have been lacking something their entire lives.
In their despair, Inci and Afet called upon their demonic father. Inci was the first one who would speak up. She wailed, asking for a voice as beautiful as her mother’s, to have at least one thing that will set her apart of her siblings. Her father agreed, under the condition that Inci will swap her angelic wings with demonic ones, with the promise that her entire offspring will forever wear those wings. Inci gladly agreed, not seeing a problem in her father’s conditions.
Next, Afet would approach his father. He wanted a face as beautiful as his mother’s, he would not wish for more. The demon agreed again, making him give the same promise that Inci gave him.
As the deal with the demon was done, an angel became aware of the demon’s dark deeds. With an angelic blade, the angel hunted the demon down, retrieving the two Uçalım, who now wore the wings of a demon.
After this incident the angels cut off their connection to the demons entirely, realizing how miserable the Uçalım were with no identity of their own. They created a realm, which neither angels nor demons could influence directly. So they came to a decision. Their mother gave Belig a precious, crystal clock, ornamented as beautifully as the angel’s holy halls. To Eser, whose habit to stay underground has caused her wings to corrode and vanish, the angel gave a part of her strength, and showed her how to create artificial wings. Devrim got a part of the angel’s sharp mind, ÇaÄŸlayan got the angel’s most valuable ceremonial sword, and Atabey was gifted an angel’s third eye.
However, ÇaÄŸlayan has developed a greedy and materialistic side, and since then planned to steal the valuable clock from Belig. Devrim, who was even more cunning than ÇaÄŸlayan, was frustrated that he would not be allowed to make a pact with a demon and sought revenge ever since, therefore ironically resembling a demon most of all the siblings. He pretended to help ÇaÄŸlayan steal Belig’s soul clock, but as soon as ÇaÄŸlayan trusted and relied on him, he told Atabey of his plans. Atabey tried to save Belig, but came too late, as ÇaÄŸlayan has already pried out the soul clock from his unconscious sister’s back.
After Belig lost her soul clock an angel gave her a new one, one that was even more special than her original one, and filled it with crushed stars. This was the origin of the Belig’s sand clocks.
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A heated fight broke out between Atabey and ÇaÄŸlayan, which ended in Atabey banning ÇaÄŸlayan from the land he used to call his home. Their angelic mother, seeing what was happening to her children, wept for her daughter, and her son who has now lost his home.. and with her tears she filled the valleys of the world, creating a sea for the ÇaÄŸlayan to call their own.
Afet, knowing his mother’s turmoil, intended to wait for her on the shore to comfort her… but she would never set foot on earth again.
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Inci, in a last attempt to cheer her mother up, turned into a beautiful rose, her mother’s favorite flower. The rose was planted on a beautiful meadow and grew into a magnificent rose tree, a forest called Omani growing around her. This tree still exists to this day, but no other family but the Inci themselves have ever been able to find it.
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Devrim, who still wanted to get in touch with demons, retreated together with the misled Atabey into the countryside, far away from the shores that were ruled by their brother ÇaÄŸlayan.
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Belig however, feeling betrayed by her mother giving ÇaÄŸlayan an entirely new element, grew a restless soul, not being able to stay at one place for a long time, so she started roaming the desert, the place where ÇaÄŸlayan would never dare to set foot on.
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Eser, after hearing of everything her siblings have done to each other, retreated into the cold, quiet ice deserts of the poles, not leaving her underground workshops, but always ready to help her siblings if they came to her in need.
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However, untold in Cihan, there is a legend of an eigth sibling, a girl called Taarih. Unlike the others, she has been created by a demon’s power alone, therefore robbing it from the balance of good and evil that resides in all other Uçalım siblings. This evil side brought forth the worst in her, and despite her sibling’s angelic influence on Taarih, she eventually drove ÇaÄŸlayan into madness from envy, whispered into Devrims ear to betray his brother, fueled the anger in her elder brother Atabey’s heart, planted the seeds of despair in her little sister Inci, and whispered words of the angel’s treason into Belig’s ear, causing her to roam the deserts of Cihan.
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Happy about the harm that has come to the Uçalım siblings due to their creation, the demons ridiculed the angel’s perfect children, who were so easily swayed by Taarih’s demonic influence.
With a bleeding heart, their mother could not bear to watch their children like this anymore, and therefore infusing the lands of Cihan with her very own life force, dousing the soil in angelic power before vanishing shortly after. This change, may it not have completely healed the sibling’s scars, at least calmed the demonic parts of their hearts, giving them the ability to live along each other again like they did before. Only ÇaÄŸlayan, too far away from this holy soil to absorb enough of it, stayed bitter and cruel, rowing his ships through the sea in solitude.
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Taarih may have undergone the biggest change of them all; Cruel and cold before, now confused about all those new feelings this land has opened up to her, she decided to support Atabey in his mission to protect his siblings, which resulted in the strong bond the Atabey used to have with this wild family.
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