Titan
"The sun sits in silence beneath the mountain's mirror."
Essence
Titans are ancient, nearly extinct constructs created through the impossible fusion of a Sun Souls and a resonance-forged Golems body. They were once resonant anchors—colossal beings meant to restore or contain catastrophic spiritual imbalance during the Resonant Age.
Each Titan was not built—they were summoned into being through soul-forging rituals no longer fully understood. Their cores do not pulse with borrowed magic, but with the will of a living sun.
Form & Presence
- Height: Approximately 60 feet (18m)
- Core: A true Sun Soul, suspended within a containment forged of sacred resonance metals and Solar Crystal.
- Form: Colossal humanoid of gold-veined stone, radiant crystal plating, and heavy, ancient armor. Their light bleeds through cracks, like a heartbeat just beneath skin.
- Motionless Presence: Once moving beacons of harmony, only one remains.
The Last Titan: Lakebound in Oldshore
In the high cliffs of Oldshore, surrounded by mountains like silent sentinels, lies Titan Lake. The water is clear and impossibly still. Beneath its surface, the last known Titan sits curled, its massive form cradled in grief or exhaustion.
- Position: It sits at the lake’s center, knees to chest, head in hands.
- Only the tips of its fingers break the surface—forming a small, sacred island that glows softly at sunrise and sunset.
- Its core still pulses, dim and steady beneath the water, casting golden light upward in shimmering waves.
The region is heavily protected. A resonance outpost stands at the only mountain pass leading to the lake. Not to keep people out—but to keep what lies beneath undisturbed.
Myth: The Mourning Flame
It is said that this Titan—called Sorynth in old songs—was once the guardian of a temple-city lost to a great dissonance storm. When the city's harmonics shattered, the souls within fell into chaos, their frequencies collapsing into Hollowtones . The Titan did not fail in its duty—it absorbed the resonance backlash, saving the world from a cascade failure of the surrounding ley-lines.
But in doing so, Sorynth burned from within, overwhelmed by grief and imbalance. Rather than rage or decay, it walked into the mountain lake and sat down—burying itself in cool water and silence, unable to bear the sound of the broken world.
Some say its hands cover its ears not to block out sound—but to keep its own resonance from rising again.
Titan Shards
When the other Titans fell, their bodies shattered, but not without leaving behind relics—known today as Titan Shards.
- Description: Crystalline fragments pulsing with stored high-frequency resonance.
- Effects:
- Stabilization: Used to strengthen harmonization in volatile zones.
- Resonant Anchoring: Can lock a soul’s frequency in place temporarily—useful in dangerous rites or deep harmonization.
- Artifact Core Material: Used by elite Artificers to create Artifacts capable of amplifying or storing massive energy.
- Warning: Prolonged contact with a Titan Shard may induce visions of the Titan’s final moments—raw grief, blazing resonance, and the echo of too many lost souls.
