Urnud

Not to be confused with Urnudans.

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).

Governance and shipboard factions (firsthand account)

A direct account from a ceremonial meeting aboard the Daban Urnud describes how authority and factions tied to Urnud’s expedition evolved: - Titles and roles: “Gan” (roughly, a strategic admiral) delegates command of specific vessels to “Prags” (tactical captains). Over long wanderings, practical power tends to migrate toward Prags during the cruise and back toward Gans during an Advent. - Alignments: Shipboard politics name two opposed tendencies: the Pedestal aligned with the Prags, and the Fulcrum aligned with the Gans. These names also map to the broader Urnud/Tro vs. Fthos divide seen across the visitors. - Third Gan’s decision: Late in a long career, a third Gan perceived incoming imagery of robed priests being massacred, great churches torn down, and unfamiliar geometric proofs on burning pages. Interpreting this as an ancestral summons, he altered the ship’s trajectory to “fly into the past.” Later correlation by avout suggests those visions match what is remembered on Arbre as the Third Sack. - Advent pattern: At each stop—first Tro (Diasp), then Laterre, then Fthos—some visitors settle while others rebuild the ship and continue the voyage, drawing in recruits from the new cosmos. This recurring cycle contributes to shifting balances of influence between Gans and Prags. - Current posture near Arbre: A senior Prag views Arbre chiefly as a resource to be tapped for refit and extension of the voyage, and employed comparisons between the Warden of Heaven and the Gan to diminish the latter’s standing. Others, sympathetic to the Fulcrum, sought gestures of respect toward Arbre even at political risk.

Chronology and terminology (as reported)

• Timekeeping: “Urnud years” are used as a standard unit in Urnud/Tro records and conversation aboard Daban Urnud. Ita analysis of captured Pedestal documents—matching Urnudan timestamps to known Arbran events—suggests that the first inter‑cosmic departure of Daban Urnud occurred roughly nine centuries ago by Arbran reckoning (approximately within a several‑decade window around the era of the Third Sack). This estimate includes an error margin and does not assert a cause‑and‑effect link.
• Demonym and script: “Urnudan” is used for people or things of Urnud. Captured reports include a phonetic transliteration system for rendering foreign proper names when engaging new worlds.
• Long wandering between Advents: Accounts mention that Urnudans—and later, alongside Tro—spent long intervals traveling between Advents, influencing attitudes and cohesion within the Command community aboard Daban Urnud.

Aboard Daban Urnud (observed context)

• Modeling and direct observation of Daban Urnud describe pressurized corridors and access ways used by Urnudans alongside Troäns, Laterrans, and Fthosians.
• The vessel’s rotating living spheres create pseudogravity matched to home‑world conditions; residents live on water surfaces in boat‑like dwellings adapted for occasional jostling.
• References to “families back on Urnud” imply a continuing home‑world population even as others live and work aboard the ship.

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 and their Sæcular counterparts to date, and where uncertain are presented as reported claims rather than established fact.