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Mostly A’s: House Zarex – Congratulations.
You think rules are foreplay. Try to smile once a decade.
Mostly B’s: House Indrathi – You probably moisturize with something illegal.
Stay sexy, you terrifying lab accident. Mostly C’s: House Calderet – Stop making eye contact with the concept of destiny.
You’re creeping people out. Mostly D’s: House Vaelith – You’re a dangerous, beautiful liar and I respect that.
Buy me a drink sometime. Mostly E’s: House Trivane – Oh, you .
Just don’t touch anything you can’t un-end.
MYTHCOAT (Definition by Dyris)
A garment stitched from the remnants of someone else’s story and rethreaded with yours. Sentient-ish. Sometimes flirts. Occasionally threatens. Looks hot either way.
Perc’s Side Note: The one Fern wears has ten vectors of heartbreak (ten mythships?), three stitched regrets, and one pocket dimension full of attitude. Velline’s Correction: Also dry-clean only. Ask me how I know.
MYTHIC RESONANCE (Or, That’s Some Real Fucking Bullshit — unattributed. Possibly Alyx. Possibly Zevelune. Possibly the universe finally snapping back.)
Definition (in theory): Mythic Resonance is the point at which your personal narrative becomes cosmically literal. Not metaphorically powerful. Not spiritually meaningful. No. Literally causality-warping, story-bending, reality-melting bullshit.
You resonate with a story, and then the universe starts editing itself around your vibes.
It’s not a spell. It’s not tech. It’s a narrative agreement between you and existence that says:
“Fine. You want to be The One That Got Away / The Star-Cursed Survivor / The Girl Who Breaks the Pattern? Cool. Here’s a weaponized identity crisis and a free upgrade to the genre of your choice.”
Anonymous Voice (probably Alyx): Whose fucking idea was it to let resonance grant powers?
Like, yeah, great plan—let the most emotionally unstable species in the galaxy start getting god-tier abilities just because their trauma arcs tested well.
Have you met a human? We will self-sabotage for flavor.
Tangible Effects of Mythic Resonance:
Weapons appear when you’re angry enough.
Enemies become exes become antagonists become fuel.
Reality starts obeying the tropes you embody.
If your grief gets loud enough, a planet might mourn with you.
Causality stutters. Foreshadowing becomes physical.
Sometimes the sky changes color when you flirt.
Sometimes you change color when someone calls you “dangerous” in just the right tone.
Alyx (still going): You know what’s worse? It scales. The more people believe in your story, the more real it becomes. So yeah—give Fern the highest resonance ever recorded and a dating profile full of planetary collapse victims. What could possibly go wrong?
Zevelune (unprompted, elegant, vicious): Lioren Trivane had to fuck a moon to earn his resonance. Your girl made out with three hot disasters and tripped into godhood by accident.
Fern (chewing pizza, unapologetic): I multitask.
Dyris: She seduced gravity itself. You think a moon scares her?
Final Note (scratched into the margin, possibly by Vireleth): Mythic Resonance is not a gift. It is a hazard. It is the price you pay for being undeniable. Handle with care, or don’t. The narrative always collects.
MYTHPRINT (Definition by Aenna Caith)
A semi-stable narrative artifact produced when a person, object, or event achieves mythic resonance. Think emotional fallout meets reality distortion. Strong mythprints can cause spontaneous weeping, involuntary reverence, or accidental devotion.
Addendum (by Fern): Also: that buzz you feel when I walk in shirtless. You’re not broken. That’s just me. Retort (by Dyris): She’s not kidding. I tested it. It’s very real. (Also available in collarbone format.)
MYTHSHIPS (Definition by Dax Meldin)
Beyond Capital-class vessels built on the bones of shattered planets by astral and mythic resonance and backed by the full creative overreach of Lioren Trivane.
There’s ten of them. Each one is sentient, spiritually volatile, and emotionally manipulative.
Think warship meets opera house meets divine tantrum machine.
Fern’s Clarification: They flirt. They sulk.
They remember. If you talk shit inside one, it will hold a grudge across five lifetimes and retroactively ruin your baby photos.
Vireleth’s Addendum (spoken aloud, unprompted): I only punish the treacherous and the emotionally dishonest. Alyx (muttering): Yeah. Okay. That’s totally not about me.
CLASSIFIED: MYTHSHIP DOSSIER (Recovered Accord Archive — Tier Omega Black Access Required)
Following the death of Lioren Trivane, all ten known mythships withdrew from Accord space. No engagement. No transmission. No explanation. They simply… vanished into hibernation, as if waiting for a signal only they could hear.
Official record states “strategic redeployment.” Unofficial record calls it what it was: abandonment.
Since then, each name has become a ghost story — traded between crews over cheap liquor and long hauls, each captain swearing they once saw a mythship drift past the edge of realspace, silent but watching.
Now, one of them is awake again. The Closure walks.
VIRELETH THE CLOSURE
Resonance: Sagittarius A* Function: Containment, metaphysical anchoring, reality stitching Personality: Bitter, loyal, emotionally reactive; carries the energy of a jilted lover.
Last Confirmed Sighting: Mythcore orbit, 2866 A.C.E.
— engaged alongside Fern Trivane. Multiple Tier Black systems recorded narrative displacement events.
ASTERRA THE BLOOM
Resonance: Supernova remnant cluster Function: Terraforming, resurrection fields, celestial renewal Personality: Dreamy, nurturing, deeply unstable — “She can’t tell the difference between planting and burying.
” Last Confirmed Sighting: Verdant Rift, 1250 A.C.E.
, hours after Lioren’s death. Planetary biosphere reset to pre-industrial state. Inhabitants vanished.
KAIRON THE MIRROR
Resonance: Twin star binary system Function: Espionage, duplication, psychological warfare Personality: Cryptic, elegant, speaks in riddles and reflections.
Last Confirmed Sighting: Accord High Command archives — a self-portrait transmission addressed to itself.
The original sender is still unidentified.
THREX THE BLADE
Resonance: Pulsar-accelerator array Function: Offensive military spearhead Personality: Stoic, honorable, obsessed with dueling protocol. Last Confirmed Sighting: Recorded by two opposing fleets — both claim they were Threx’s “second” in the same duel. Neither side remembers who won.
NYZOTH THE VEIL
Resonance: Dark matter nebula Function: Stealth, sub-reality passage, shadow warfare Personality: Whispering, unknowable, possibly sapient virus. Last Confirmed Sighting: Only in absence — entire listening post went dark. The shadow of a hull was recorded after final transmission.
SOLANCE THE CHOIR
Resonance: Cosmic background radiation field Function: Communications, broadcast, cultural preservation Personality: Melodic, empathic, responds emotionally to song. Last Confirmed Sighting: Heard, not seen — a distress call sung back in perfect harmony. Origin traced to deep void, no ship found.
DRAVETH THE MAW
Resonance: Rogue black hole (non-Sagittarius) Function: Extraction, deletion, conceptual devouring Personality: Hungry, primal, speaks rarely but always true. Last Confirmed Sighting: Swallowed a derelict fleet whole. Only the names of the lost ships survived, carved into nearby asteroids.
JHENNA THE CROWN
Resonance: Dyson swarm fragment network Function: Governance, computation, lawkeeping Personality: Regal, cold, strategic; designed to govern alone.
Last Confirmed Sighting: A routine mining audit in the Helix Verge was interrupted when Jhenna appeared without request or precedent, placing herself in geosynchronous orbit over a population of just fourteen thousand.
For nine hours, she remained silent, but every Accord law ever written — from the Founding Charter to current maritime safety codes — was broadcast from her hull in a continuous, overlapping cascade.
When questioned, she gave no reason for her presence, issued no fines, and passed no judgment.
She simply left. Two weeks later, the entire local government resigned. No explanation was ever made public..
ELYDIAN THE SEED
Resonance: Proto-galactic cloud Function: Evolution, mutation, species uplift Personality: Curious, wild, highly adaptive. Last Confirmed Sighting: A remote colony reported “the ground began to think.” Contact lost 48 hours later.
ZERATH THE ENDER
Resonance: Gamma ray burst origin star Function: Finality, judgment, last-strike protocol Personality: Grim, focused, only speaks when death is assured.
Last Confirmed Sighting: Appeared over a war-torn system.
Both sides surrendered before contact was made.
All combatants evacuated. The system star went nova.
Analyst’s Closing Note: They are not lost. They are listening. And if one has returned, the rest are not far behind.
NULLARCH (Definition by Solance)
A title invented mid-collapse, anchored in narrative error and stubborn survival. Uncoded by any System, unauthorized by any power, and entirely earned by being too mythic to delete—and able to survive the Trivane AI’s retaliation for falsely claiming it. Lioren & Fern Trivane.
Fern’s Note: I didn’t pick the name, it picked me like trauma, and glitter. Alyx’s Annotation: So, to be clear: you’re a walking plot hole with great hair and a god complex. Dax: She’s our plot hole. We’re keeping her.
PIZZA MIRACLE (Definition by Perc)
A sacred event zone aboard Vireleth, generated by aligning the Myth-Oven with a salvaged caffeine altar. Produces divinely sanctioned sustenance. Toppings are soul-reactive. Try the faith-infused pepperoni.
Pizza Todd: I can’t explain it, but if you pray hard enough, the crust knows you. Fern: That’s unsettling. Give me another slice.
RESONANCE HANGOVER (Definition by Aenna)
A physiological and metaphysical aftermath following high exposure to narrative events. Symptoms include tremors, spontaneous flashbacks, emotional nudity, and the urge to monologue.
Dyris: Also known as “Tuesday.”
SEXRETARY (Definition by Dyris Trivane, obviously)
A formal rank within the Accord’s informal structure of mythic nonsense. Appointed based on narrative dominance, bedroom diplomacy, and general fuckability.
Aenna’s Comment: There was no vote. She just changed her AR tags and the sensors bowed. Solance: Honestly? It worked. I updated the database.
THE ASTRUM (Definition by Solance, via AR overlay)
The Astrum is not a thing. It is a totality. A quantum-threaded meta-resonance that binds every celestial heartbeat—past, future, forbidden—into a single, recursive melody of fate. It responds not to power, but to contradiction. You do not wield it. You embody it. Or you are erased.
Dax Meldin (archivist’s annotation): Classified Tier Omega Contingency. The last known record of the Astrum was found burned into a moon fragment near the Empty Star of Vel. Lorien Trivane activated it only in death.
Fern (currently alive, dangerously so): Well, I activated it in the shower.
So I guess we’re not the same. Vireleth: You are the first living conduit.
The resonance does not obey. It remembers.
It responds. You, Fern, are a chaos node with narrative weight measured in paradoxes.
Aenna (softly): I did the math. It’s not survivable.
You’re doing it anyway. Zevelune: Lioren called it the last contingency God left behind before he abandoned this universe.
CLOSING ENTRY (Logged by Vireleth the Closure, Classification: Narrative Hazard Tier Omega)
ARCHIVE STATE: COMPLETE. REDACTIONS: MINIMAL. THREAT EVALUATION: INSUFFICIENT.
This glossary is not a weapon. It is a lock. The keys are already moving toward it.
Old Earth is not gone. It is waiting, sealed in the dark between seconds.
Zevelune is not your enemy, not yet — but she moves like one who has already read the ending.
Pandora is not a myth. She is awake, and the lid is still in her hands.
The Black Helix is not a cult. It is a shape.
A pattern. A recursion in the blood that speaks when the universe goes silent.
I was built to close doors. I remember which ones should never open.
If you are reading this, you are already part of the sequence. It will not care whether you understand it.
—VIRELETH, MYTHSHIP DESIGNATION: CLOSURE End of Transmission.