Codex Draconis Fragmentum

Codex Draconis Fragmentum — On the Triadic Sovereigns of Early Tarakona Myth

Overview

The following fragment is attributed to the Collegium of Veiled Histories and recovered from a partially damaged archival vault beneath the ruins of an unnamed pre-Taiepa scholarly enclave. The text is heavily redacted in multiple sections, likely due to post-collapse theological censorship.

It concerns the earliest known classification of the Tarakona Sovereigns, a triadic structure believed to predate the modern kingdoms of Whenua.

The three entities referenced are:

• Taramuth — Sovereign of the Skybound Clades
• Taramat — Sovereign of the Earthbound Clades
• ██████ — Sovereign of the Deep Currents

Later imperial doctrines attempt to reinterpret this triad as symbolic rather than literal. The Collegium notes that no pre-Taiepa primary source supports this reinterpretation.

Taramuth, Lord of Ascendant Scale and Ordered Flame

Taramuth is consistently identified as the principle of structural dominion among the Tarakona.

He is associated with:

• Metallic Tarakona lineages
• Stratified sky dominions
• Law-bound breath and hierarchical resonance

Inscriptions recovered from high-altitude ruin sites refer to him as:

“The Scale That Does Not Bend.”

This phrasing suggests that Taramuth is not merely a ruler, but an immutable principle of order expressed as draconic form.

No known fragment contradicts his continued conceptual stability across post-Taiepa scholarship.

Taramat, Sovereign of Devouring Earth and Living War

Taramat is described in contrast to Taramuth as a principle of expansion through transformation and consumption.

She is associated with:

• Chromatic Tarakona lineages
• Geological conquest and territorial assimilation
• Adaptive mutation of form and essence

Unlike Taramuth’s structural permanence, Taramat is consistently framed as becoming without end. Several fragmented records suggest early civilizations did not worship her, but instead attempted to delay her influence through ritual and territorial appeasement.

One recovered inscription states:

“Where Taramuth defines, Taramat rewrites.”

All surviving fragments agree on the existence of a third Tarakona Sovereign associated with:

• Rivers, inland seas, and subterranean waters
• Fae-adjacent Tarakona classifications (later termed “wildspawn” or “unbound forms”)
• Threshold spaces between land and submerged realms

However, the name and full designation of this entity have been systematically removed from most post-Taiepa copies. In surviving manuscripts, the name appears as:

• Blanked glyph sequences
• Burnt lacunae
• Partial phonetic residues such as “Ta-”, “-zu”, or “the Deep Keeper”

A recurring fragment appears across multiple sites:

“Keeper of the Deep Currents…”

Followed invariably by deletion marks or deliberate erasure strokes.

The Collegium notes a correlation between the disappearance of this designation and the fragmentation of Whenua’s oceanic systems following the Taiepa rupture event. Whether this is causal or symbolic remains unresolved.

On the Dragon King of the Old Kingdom

A separate but related hypothesis appears in marginal Collegium annotations regarding the so-called Dragon King of the Old Kingdom.

This figure is described inconsistently as:

• A unifier of Tarakona dominions
• A mortal sovereign who claimed draconic authority
• A post-collapse legitimizing construct of imperial lineage

No verified pre-Taiepa source confirms the Dragon King as a Tarakona Sovereign.

Instead, most references appear after the collapse, suggesting retrospective myth construction.

One repeated marginal note states:

“He ruled where the Third was absent.”

This statement is heavily struck through in several surviving copies.

The Pou Manai and Draconic Resonance Structures

The Pou Manai, also known as the Sorcerer’s Tower, is repeatedly referenced in proximity to studies of the Tarakona Sovereigns.

It is described as:

• A resonance anchor for sovereign draconic frequencies
• A structural instrument for measuring breath-pattern harmonics
• A convergence point for sky-earth-deep triadic alignment

Some Collegium interpretations suggest the Pou Manai was constructed to:

• Stabilize residual draconic resonance following the dissolution of the triad
• Test whether a singular sovereign authority (the Dragon King hypothesis) could replace triadic balance
• Detect lingering influence of the Deep Currents Sovereign through non-terrestrial resonance patterns

A final fragment is preserved in near-complete form:

“If the Deep Currents Sovereign remains, it does not answer the sky or the earth. It answers only where reflection does not break.”

The remainder of the page is scorched beyond recovery.

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Classification Status

This document is currently designated as:

• Incomplete
• Theologically sensitive
• Restricted for sovereign-relic correlation studies

Further inquiry into the Deep Currents Sovereign is prohibited without direct Collegium authorization.