Urnud

Urnud is named by a visiting linguist from Laterre (known on Arbre as Antarct) as the native designation behind the Arbran label “Pangee.” In that telling, an operative named Orhan is identified as being from Urnud. The same source explains that Urnud and Tro (called Diasp) act together as the self‑styled Pedestal.

Affiliations and posture (as reported)

• Forms a two‑world bloc with Tro under the name Pedestal; this bloc is opposed by Fthos (called Quator), while Laterre is internally split.
• Pedestal operatives infiltrated Tredegarh in Matarrhite garb to probe rumors about extraordinary practices; once their signals were cut within a grounded mesh, the Laterran visitor disclosed these affiliations and warned that Pedestal leaders fear such powers and contemplate pre‑emptive force.

Reported history and technology

• Urnud endured a great war between rival blocs that spread into space across its solar system.
• Developed atomic‑bomb‑propelled craft, culminating in a vessel called “Daban Urnud” (“Second Urnud”). A geometrodynamic route intended to reach their own past instead carried the ship into neighboring Narratives, first contacting Tro and later other worlds.
• The ultra‑destructive device nicknamed the World Burner is said to have originated on Urnud during that war (the visitor adds that similar plans existed on Laterre).

Current context

• Within the unfolding contact at Tredegarh, the Urnud/Tro axis (Pedestal) is an active presence. The unmasked infiltrator’s account characterizes Urnud’s leadership as decisive and wary, with the capacity and will to act first if they believe a threat exists.

All details above reflect statements and observations available to the avout at Tredegarh at the time, and where uncertain are presented as the speaker’s account rather than established fact.