Hymn of Truenames

“More than tenfold millennia of truenaming Threads spun into beings and things were released to all ears in one long hymn.”

“Some jokingly call it the longest moan, yet it contained so much more.”

—Skjald Ulrich

As the mayhem of the 1st Cataclysm grew and more forces of might chimed into the boiling insanity, the maelstrom of Mana gained momentum and mass. Becoming a thing of itself, it began to inflict bystanders and previously neutral forces, eventually hurting and, lastly, ripping apart those trying to use or control it. Seeing hundreds of millennia’s work being consumed, they decided to give all equal power to control and protect.

Those who witnessed it and survived that horrible day said the Vornir stood in a great choir. To focus on the song instead of being distracted by the unfolding disaster, they had torn out their eyes so they could no longer watch what their creations had become or were doing. Standing there in a horizon-spanning wall of tall female shapes, with torn-out eyes on spiked Ironthorn staffs, they poured their energies into the hymn and ended as a fatigued, skeleton-like, withered fence.

“Like withered Wickeryadii they stood, all bony and without hood.”

—Skjald Vinotis

From their lips… with steady hips…

Truenames they sang… for all minds, it rang…

Gods and races alike… thus gained words to strike.

“A stone Stoicheian told me… as they drained and withered… I cried.”

Thus, in one mighty hymn, both physically for all beings to hear and mentally for those unable. All existing Truenames, every living being’s key behind its mana thread, were revealed. Quickly forgotten by insects, fish, animals and the like. It took root in many a clever being of either race or monster origin.

Their knowledge release, although it served as the wake-up call that saved us all, is to this day considered their biggest error. Far greater than letting Drakk Alfar help with Vornir weaving. Aiding a combined Mana Manipulator effort to tame the maelstrom, it also empowered gods and certain races and individuals enormously, and only very few—like the Borji scholar Chânga Tiaô—used it wisely.

“It’s a rare mortal who grasps history unfolding and keeps it.”

—Skjald Sejrik

There is no full overview of Trunames being sung, so an organisation is impossible to define.

“Do only rely on a single-sourced true name if there’s no other option.”

—Skjald Valgrif