Bilewit and Wildiar

Bilewit and Wildiar are the Twayne, the two who went in seech of the Lodestone, and when they had found it, brought it to the Alwight, who became then the Drygand.

The Twayne are a team, but a seeming ill-matched one, though one cannot be without the other, as together they are the Alxnar, the keepers of the Alx (temple).

Bilewit is the Helgeking, Sacred King, and also the Green Man. His name means 'gentle, mild, gracious, simple, earnest, honest, moderate, just, merciful, reasonable'. He is treeish. He is an Agathodaimon: a 'good wight'. He is a steady (focused) and strong striver: orderly, systematic, thoughtful and prudent. He teaches by being an example to all, a good influence who can inspire others.

Wildiar is the Wyzwaza: Trickster-shaman-wizard, and also the Wild Man. His name means 'wild animal'. He is feral, a bit of a bad boy, but to the good. He is mercurial, with a kind of ADHD brilliance, erratic but creative, energetic, a protean shapeshifter. He teaches by provocation and through magical influence.

By their natures, the Twayne are a pair of opposites, though each has some of the other in him. In a way, they embody the opposites of Fundamentalism (Bilewit) and Proteanism (Wildiar), according to Robert J. Lifton's dichotomy as presented in The Protean Self*, though he has a bias toward Proteanism (which sometimes seems like postmodern liberal humanism) and against Fundamentalism, while I see Fundamentalism and Proteanism, as they are both produced by similar trauma, as both necessary responses to a crisis situation. Either tendency can be good or evil, but I tend to look for some kind of workable creative combination of these opposites as optimal (as it often seems to work better than pursuing one of a pair and fighting the other-- but it depends on the specific case). The Drygand represents this combining of opposites as he both contains the full natures of Bilewit and Wildiar within him and also inhabits the space between the opposites, which makes him further from human than are the Twayne.

*= "a fluid and many-sided self in constant motion".