Source

ALL OF THIS IS RETCONNED

Sources are living concentrations of mana that make up the Aeratiras and Daeratira. When they die, the sources move on to create new divine life. Each Aeratira is commonly made up of 7 intelligent and sentient Sources. Source have minds of their own, but the way they think is more similar to a program than a brain. Each type of Source has a personality and a goal.

The Kikono are thought to have created Sources, but this is a misconception. They had only discovered them on Marn from the remains of Limos and Calypso, two Watchers that had intact remains buried in the Kikono temple. When they discovered them, they harvested them and put them inside heralds to harness their power to hopefully defeat the Sento. This failed, and the heralds were trapped in the Watcher's Graveyard for 140 years. They were set free recently when Kyokku wished to go back in and strip the sources from them for herself.

Source Types
Sources were named after the 7 Deadly Sins and the 7 Virtues. Well, correctly the 7 Deadly Sins and Virtues were named after the Sources. If a Source is a Sin Source, that doesn't make it inherently evil, it just means it it has the powers of that personality.

The following are the 7 Sin Sources followed by their Virtuous Source counterparts. Along with the default forms of Sources, when a Source joins with a homogeneous Source, they can combine to make a stronger form, or a second tier. If two Tier II source join, it makes a Tier III. The powers are multiplicatively stronger for each Tier.
 * Wrath and Patience
 * Pride and Humility
 * Envy and Empathy
 * Lust and Eversion
 * Avarice and Liberality
 * Gluttony and Apathy
 * Sloth and Diligence