The Resonants

Resonants are the gods of the mortal world. When enough mortals focus their belief, fear, devotion, or desperation upon a concept governed by a Prime, the ambient energy of that Prime condenses at that point of intense focus, coalescing into a new, self-aware entity.

Aion · Aqua · Ignis · Imago · Lux · Memoria · Terra · Umbra · Verba · Zephyr

Aion

• Calvesh the Chronos-King ResonantThe god of the elder Archive-Law world, a Resonant of Aion who embodied records that never change; he was finished, like the rolls his keepers sealed, and his name survives only inside the oath forms…
• Quennet the Clockmaker ResonantThe god of the Gnome harbours, a Resonant of Aion who stretches a closing tide-window by a breath; he is fading, because a harbour that can name who bears a lost moment, and make them pay, no longer…
• Ulaun the Stilled Hour ResonantThe Resonant of Aion born of Thaluren dread as egg blight entered the First Nesting Confluence; the stillness she gave held the clutches in a prison from which they could never hatch.
• Tamsel the Season-Weaver ResonantThe god of the turning year in the Halfling folds, a Resonant of Aion who is young and green in spring and pale and frosted in winter; the Festival of the Turn is kept for Tamsel.

Aqua

• Maris of the Tides ResonantThe sea god of the Tidelace Coasts, a Resonant of Aqua born in the Decade of Storms from the prayers of coastal Humans and Gnome harbour towns; her Festival of the Tides brings whole harbours down to…
• Ithaere the Drowned Mother ResonantA Resonant of Aqua that condensed briefly out of the terror of the Drowning Bloom, when the Elves whose survivors became the Dark Elves prayed for permission to survive by any means, and faded when…
• Serovan the River-King ResonantThe god of the Serath, a Resonant of Aqua, more foreman than monarch, who stands first in the Sworn Accord beside Anvelle; his Festival of the First Flow opens the river's year.
• Mereth the Salt-Witch ResonantThe faded god of a vanished inland-sea people of the Glassbelt Interior, a Resonant of Aqua whose stillness helped turn their sea to salt.

Ignis

• Ghessa the Hearth-Mother ResonantThe Ogre hearth-god, a Resonant of Ignis born of famine winters and small fires that had to last, and the gentlest of its gods.
• Ozhar the Pyre-King ResonantThe god of the elder Ash-Furnace world, a Resonant of Ignis and the terrible face of fire, whose name is still forbidden near any furnace.

Imago

• Abrel the Changeling ResonantThe god of people who belong to two peoples at once, a Resonant of Imago risen in the Headwater foothills; frontier Dwarves call the god Durrask and the Goblins of the mixed crossings Ziv, and young…
• The First Man ResonantThe faded Resonant of Imago born of the first Human self-awareness during the First Human Emergence, whose voice said only "Look." See Humans.
• Saerith the Mirror-King ResonantThe High Elf god of the Crownbough Courts and of finished form, a Resonant of Imago born of the houses' pride and fear of being found less than they claimed; the most powerful and most contested…
• Hesserin the Shattered Saint ResonantThe faded Reedfolk god, a Resonant of Imago, of the Floodkeeper houses that would not be made servants of the Human river powers.

Lux

• Ostrin the Lantern-Bearer ResonantThe severe, blind god of the Serathic towns, a Resonant of Lux born of grievance over dues taken and upkeep never done, who drags hidden wrongs into the light; the Ashen Lantern is called his eye.

Memoria

• Ushkar the Ancestor-Warden ResonantThe Orc god of lineage and the dead on the Windscar, a Resonant of Memoria who keeps the names of kindreds that held passage on the Stele of Names and strikes the names of those who broke it, leaving…
• Annoth the Keeper of Scrolls ResonantThe god of the scribes and record-houses of the Human corridor, a Resonant of Memoria who is always losing records to fire and seizure.
• The Many-Named ResonantThe god of memory kept by voice through the Unrecorded Age, a Resonant of Memoria fed by many peoples under many names, whom later scholars call the Oral Tradition.
• Oblen the Trauma-Weaver ResonantThe god of chosen forgetting among the survivors of the furnace world's fall, a Resonant of Memoria who took the memory of the overburn away, and with it the lesson.

Terra

• Anvelle the Harvest-Mother ResonantThe god of the Human basin farmers, a Resonant of Terra who stands first in the Sworn Accord beside Serovan; her Festival of the First Sheaf opens the harvest.
• The Last Chamber ResonantThe deep god of refuge and survivable holding, a Resonant of Terra that condensed during the Heartwell Stakings; its question in the Held Covenant is "can this still bear?", and the Kobold…
• The Measured Seal ResonantThe deep god of closure, a Resonant of Terra of black ironstone with one arm a gate-leaf, trusted to see a necessary closing and the reckoning after it; its question in the Held Covenant is "must…
• Haurûm the Mountain-Father ResonantSee Haurûm the Mountain-Father.
• Kerrund the Stone-Warden ResonantThe god of the Dwarven hold gates, a Resonant of Terra born at a besieged gate in the early deep conflicts; his question in the Held Covenant is "will you hold?" See The Gods of the Medieval Era.
• The Tomb-Builder ResonantThe god of the Sepulchre-Kin burial houses, a Resonant of Terra whose obsession with permanence drove the Unburial War; his true name is held inside their Record-engine.

Umbra

• The Echo-Mother ResonantThe god of protective quiet, a Resonant of Umbra born c. 1,200 CR from the prayer of the Hushvale survivors not to be found, as they made the Wake-Seal.
• Ennor the Grave-Watcher ResonantThe god who stands at the threshold of the dead, a Resonant of Umbra condensed over ages of burial, whom most cradle-web peoples honour at their graves under names of their own; Ennor is his Human…
• Varn the Shadow-Stalker ResonantThe god of the hidden in the Broken Marches, a Resonant of Umbra born of everyone who has had to live unseen in the ruin-belts; many fugitive Wrought prayed to him.

Verba

• Tavi the Bard of the Broken ResonantThe Goblin god of a history no lord would write down, a Resonant of Verba grown verse by verse from the struck warrants and lost seams Goblins kept in song.
• Iskel the Scribe of the Silent ResonantThe god of oaths, sworn testimony, and sealed bargains in the oath-houses and moot-halls of the Human corridor, a Resonant of Verba by whom oath-breakers are cursed.
• Sessik the Tongue-Taker ResonantA Resonant of Verba that older Kobold lines feared as a punisher of noise in the tunnels, which faded once shared sound codes made silence a skill.

Zephyr

• Corrow the Gale-Runner ResonantThe wind at the backs of the Edgeway Kindreds on their circuits, a Resonant of Zephyr who cannot stop moving.
• Rakhal the Storm-Caller ResonantThe Orc god of the scouring wind of the Windscar, a Resonant of Zephyr who breaks what has gone stale; his following is growing, and he grows more volatile with it.
• Haggun the Wall-Breaker ResonantThe faded Ogre god of the chain-camps, a Resonant of Zephyr born of the camps' prayers not for a better master but for a way out.