Alright, I've slept but just before sleeping I realized that this idea of "Yozi as aspects and eras of the cosmos" can also be followed to an inevitable conclusion. I hope I've done it justice.
An Epilogue
Will the Yozi ever escape? Yes.
But it will not be soon. It is not imminent. It will not happen in the second age, nor the third, nor the fourth, nor any other time that may be called an Age of Creation.
In time, Sol Invictus will die. He may have successors, a multitude lasting age upon countless age, and yet they too will pass.
In time, Luna may depart Creation, the tides of her inconstant heart at last pulling her to follow the Emerald Mother.
In time, Autocthon's ingenuity will fail him at last.
In time perhaps Malfeas may right himself, Isidoros bracing against the firmament of Cecelyne to push his layers inwards to meet the Green Sun while Metagaos dances and plays as all of Hell falls into his degeneracy. Or perhaps Malfeas's expansion might in time outgrow his heart, until the last note from the beginning fades away from the background of the cosmos that is He Who Was Malfeas. Perhaps both, one following the other.
Even Ligier will die with time.
In time long passing --- such that a Bodhisattva rubbing silk thread across stone might grind down even Qaf --- the last peace will end, the last war will be fought, the last secret will be spoken, the last journey will be made, and the world itself will end.
In time, when the last worm that crawls, and the last man that walks, and the last god who keeps their watch over the world are all gone, even Oblivion may slowly fade away, taking with it the last memory of those who were never born into the world at it's beginning.
And with those endings the Yozi will be freed from their prison, for there will be nothing left to hold their oaths.
In that darkness the Ebon Dragon will find himself free to leave, only to find Adorjan's silence already waiting for him as He Who Was Malfeas at last escapes, encompassing the fullness of Cecelyne's firmament, followed by a society of Pyrian Flame ensconced safely within crystal spheres, ordered and regimented enough that it might last to see the end of all things.
And under dark skies they will walk west, towards a place called Saigoth that lies furthest from the irreducible perfection of Dharma, the place where the Sun and the Stars last set. That place that Lucien once glimpsed in the dreams of Sacheverell.
And there with Emeralds of Gaia and the Celestial metal of the gods of sun and stars they will craft a doorway between the Void of ending and the Primordial beginning.
And what lies beyond it, No one knows.
This is exalted. Most of the Yozi are cosmology jokes. The Shinma are a giant set theory joke. "Yozi is obscure cosmology joke" is an interpretation fully in line with authorial intent.
Not only that but, if my reading is correct, each Yozi is
several cosmology and sci-fi jokes rolled into one being.
As detailed above: (just from the things I'm adding to the picture or discovering for myself from first principles)
Isidoros is the gravity that brings the big crunch, exchanging one disaster for another.
Cecelyne the fabric of space and the quantum firmament of the universe,
Metagaos is degenerate matter and neutron stars
Ligier is the cosmic background radiation that shines on all places, inverted into a point source
He Who Was Malfeas is the universe after expansion and time has redshifted the rest of the observable universe into obscurity
She Who Lives in Her Name is your classic "sci-fi society that's going to see the end of the universe"
Qaf is mountain who's grinding down measures the kalpa
Oblivion is the black holes from the beginning of the universe, and the neverborn are those records trapped within of things that did not endure the end of the early hot era.
Sacheverell is determinism and Laplace's demon, though that's nothing new.
And the Gates of Saigoth are another classic sci-fi concept: The gate to another universe that those people who remain will travel through when the universe is gone.
(Elloge isn't detailed and I would need to do research, but would probably be dark matter. Szoreny I don't know.)
