Song
The Song, also known as the Song of the Spheres, is the discordant tune that underpins the fabric of reality, which spreads across every Petal and every world within it. While commonly associated with Desna and the Songbird in Tyrnog, scholars above the Infinite Line know that they are but expert practitioners of the Song, not its master. The Cult of the Elder Mythos believes the Song is created by Tru'nembra, but given that all who hear the flautist's music go irrevocably mad, little has come from its study.
Summary
While the Song as a concept is known to most across the Infinity Petal, the details of its harmony are close-kept secrets of melophiles and scholars, and are generally difficult to transfer to mediums beside the Song itself. Written music resembling the Song — while lovely — fails to capture its true essence, and audio recording devices often short-circuit in their attempts to record it. Both the First Ones and the Azlanti spent centuries attempting to capture the Song inside of various vessels, but all evidence suggests these experiments ended in failure.
Despite this, it is commonly known among experts that the Song can be broken up into five major "Notes" (the Howl, the Croon, the Chant, the Warble, and the Trill), backed by thousands of lesser variations, all of which swell around the beauty of the Voice (also known as the Chorus of Names). To know even one of the lesser Notes is considered a great achievement, often marking an acolyte's rise to the common fold, and for a mortal to learn a major Note in their lifetime is all but unheard of. Longer-lived species and Outsiders have an advantage in this regard, but even they eventually succumb to the sheer complexity of the harmonies, which require a divine intellect to understand.
More than a few melophiles have begun Apotheosis in pursuit of the Song, the most notable being the Songbird. He is also the only known mortal to have successfully followed this path, with all others tumbling into madness or vanishing altogether. A similar tale is told in the Codex of Whispers, where countless wordsmiths perished in their attempt to create Azkhrumdar using components of the Song, succeeding only with the help of a pre-corruption Crow. As seen in A Memoir of Night, a nigh-identical process was used to craft the earliest Dweomerblades, and likely also the Shards of Mortal Anguish.
Of peculiar note, the Oma are capable of a lesser variation of the Song that functions as their native tongue. They sing the timeless tale of the universe to each other, keeping a vocal history of all that has come to pass, and the manifold variations of what may soon come to be.
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