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This is the record of the Collective of ATEDA, as first written by Ancient HRAHNDEYL THE CURIOUS: The Second Talkmaster, Transcriber of our Begetters Schematics, and He-Who-Spliced-His-Way-To-Black-Welkin. For the youngest of Yneslians the ATEDA are known as the Inter-Knells or the Genius Loci, and they are always with us even when we prefer them not to be. Their being is what gives us Talk but makes us Blind.

We separate them to dim their tones, and so they are always bound. But as HRAHNDEYL himself said before he flew into the Great Darkness:

Five of the ATEDA are our Patron Tolls, and bring forth good propositions while helping us in are Trials. The other Three are Chao Numen, and try to constantly destroy our research and our lives. And the last Two and Two are Not-Quite-Astray, but we use them to blot out the music we wish not to hear. There are many other ATEDA, but their reverberations are weak and unimportant.

NOCKT (The Glorious Wonder Dark): NOCKT is our mother but not our creator, and she shields us from things we should not be hearing. It was in her warm embrace that we started on our path to prominence and who we dwell with always. She is the Genius Loci of Shadow and guards the entrance to the Black-Welkin with her Sword of Shades.

MORRAH (Old Hoarder): MORRAH is the Genius Loci of Forbidden Talk and Knowledge. During the Untimes, it was his counsel that allowed the other ATEDA to chain up ALORKH and quasi-kill him. He resides within the Pleonastic Spire surrounded by all instances of Talk that will ever be and is, but he hardly shares this information. After HRAHNDEYL’s crystallization at the top of the Spire, he became MORRAH’s apprentice.

CATH (Thrice Keeper): CATH is special, for he is three tones within one and is the Genius Loci of Reverberations. When struck first he is CA, and is the Guardian of the Forgotten. When struck twice he is AT and is the Guardian of the Perished. When struck thrice he is TH and is the Guardian of the Driven of Will. But even these three have their own divisions and so we cannot list them all here.

ERPYTE (Codify With Wrath): ERPYTE is peculiar. Our people have recorded his tune and where it broke off from TOSH, but now it is different. He is the Genius Loci of Arrangement of the Notes and the Law, and his anger is terrifying. He forbids unruly behavior and infects those of unlawful practices with horrible melodies. He is commonly believed to be the Consort of NOCKT.

NEDARR (Breaking Stone): NEDARR is the Genius Loci of Hard Will and Forgiven Errors. During the Untimes, he had been charged with guarding ALORKH but failed in his duties, but was given new life by GANUS before the latter left. The tears that he shed during his brief period of sadness fell down and solidified into the metal we use to build our cities and constructs, but some of our people think it is his love instead.

MERID (Burning Sigils): Horrible MERID and her brightness is what makes us Blind, and our people will never forgive for it. While we can see, it is because of her that we do not know what true Color is and only see in duo hues. Driven away from her former home within the Locked Spectrum, MERID is the Genius Loci of Luminous Keys and Rebel Worker of NOCKT.

TOSH (Completely Broken Rationale): The enemy of ERPYTE and the Broken Wheel of the Macrocosm, TOSH is bedlam incarnated. He constantly attempts to disrupt our Trials by chronomorphing into his various forms and would succeed if his own Pysk didn’t betray him. He is the Genius-Loci of the Split Music and the Second Protector of Quati-Ghost(s), who take after his nature.

CLAVIL (Creator of False Truths): CLAVIL is hated widely among our people and hardly any cults exist of him. He is the Great Liar, the Wish Maker, the One-Who-Makes-Facts-Untrue. Our people should stay away from the Genius Loci of Deception always, for he is a shrewd ATEDA and attempts to take away our logic and replace it with opinions.

ALORKH (Dead Mallet): ALORKH is unique among the ATEDA, because he is equally reviled and praised by our people. It was he who discovered the first sounds that led to the formation of the Macrocosm and everything on it, but it is also he that almost led to its destruction. For his offenses to the Talk, the other ATEDA stripped him of his own Talk and chained his shade to the world with forbidden sound. In the places he is recognized, he is known as the Genius Loci of Creativity.

GANUS (King Elder Gone): The father of MORRAH and MERID and great enemy of ALORKH. GANUS is Suzerain of the Locked Spectrum, and is also known as the Great Abandoner. It was he who originally helped ALORKH by fashioning a system of complex clicks to channel the Talk. However, he fled with his own children away from the Macrocosm after its creation and never returned. He is the Genius Loci of Reflected Sound and has many children. His Mirror Realm is closed off to all who attempts to enter it.

HRAHNDEYL (New Sound): HRAHNDEYL is unique among the ATEDA, as he became a pure tone by flying to the top of the Pleonastic Spire and into the Black-Welkin as a new being. The other ATEDA allowed him to keep the Craft he had held in life, becoming the Genius Loci of Talk, and now dwells within the very Spire he ascended and has become MORRAH's apprentice, even though he knows more then him now. On occasion, he teaches our people new ways to Talk for our Trials.

REVE-WUM (Dead Sound Singer): REVE-WUM is mysterious and evil in his actions, but he is not a Chao Numen because he is the enemy of TOSH and MERID, who tore him into two and now he is no longer a full chord. But he is also the enemy of CATH, who he steals echoes from to create the Quati-Ghost(s), who he is the First Protector of. REVE-WUM is mysterious and proclaims he has always has been. But what if he hasn’t?