Resonant

The monolithic beings known as the Resonant inhabit the Tyndarite Escarpment located within the Mistclad Cordillera, the mountain range in the northern reaches of Nascindor.

Physique and Attributes

The Resonant are humongous, ranging from 20 to 50 feet tall, diamond-shaped creatures with stony exteriors and a single unblinking eye. They communicate in tonal frequencies that other species can only perceive as vibrations, known colloquially as Resonance. To date, no translation for the meanings of these frequencies and their timings has been devised, though research is ongoing.

It is also unclear as to what extent the Resonant are sapient, though the consensus is that due to exhibiting signs of social hierarchy and intelligent response to external stimuli, they are at the very least self-aware.

Reproduction

The Resonant propagate via a process that has been coined ”shedding” by the scientific community of Nascindor. During this process, a Resonant's stony body expels several crystals that float towards all directions, settling down wherever they may land and, in the wake of centuries, are assumed to transform into new Resonant.

The truth of the matter is that the Tyndarite deposits around the escarpment are not naturally occuring manifestations of a subterranean mineral, but fields of developing Resonant in a kind of hibernation, which explains why they guard these deposits so vehemently.

Divine Relation

Perhaps the most peculiar behavior of the Resonant manifests when the Eternal Hymn is recited in their presence, as the creatures seem to repeat the melody through their tonal murmurings, as if it is familiar to them.

This has led many of the faithful of the Church of Resounding Truth to believe that the Resonant are somehow related to the Progenitor, with the boldest and most extreme claims stating that some part of the Progenitor must have split off during the Godfall and the Resonant are an attempt of this shard of a dead god trying to reconstitute itself.

Those less inclined to dogmatic mania believe that the Resonant could be useful in propagating the hymn if they could be communicated with and convinced that the containment of the Adversary is in their interest as well.

First Contact

When humanity first discovered the Tyndarite Escarpment, they also found the Resonant. Through their callous actions, the humans aggravated the Resonant, which flared into a full-blown conflict that history now remembers as the First Contact. Since then, relations between the crystalline colossi and mankind have healed.

Just think of what wonders they'd be able to teach us, if only we could understand them!

–Leader of a research expedition into the Tyndarite Escarpment

Lifespan

Undetermined

Average Height

31 ft / 9.4 m

Average Weight

10 to 12 tons (approximated)

Average Length

17 ft / 5.1 m

Geographic Distribution

• Mistclad Cordillera

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_{A Resonant floating above a deposit of Tyndarite}

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_{An unusually large Resonant touching a Tyndarite crystal and projecting some form of energy into it, as a mountaineer observes the event}