Archivists

"*We search for knowledge where others shrink in fear, with the wisdom to understand when knowledge should stay forgotten.*"
- Archivist's Creed
The **Archivists**, also known as the **Tymermenn**, are a clandestine organization centered around the acquisition and preservation of Mankind's past. They are an ancient credo, stretching as far back as the Old Empire and the Dusk of Gold.

## History

Truth to the origins of the Archivists remains shrouded beyond the veil of time itself, much like their own Chronofane, there exist many internal theories as to where and when the organisation stemmed from. The most wide spread and agreed upon of these hypothesizes origins, claims the organisation to have been birthed by the Men of Gold themselves, shortly before the collapse of their society.

Uniting a thinktank of scientists, historians and scholars, this fringe group of Men of Gold sought to arrest the decline of their 'slavekin', and spare them the mistakes they had made, which ultimately led to the total collapse of their own civilization. It is through this pseudo-myth that the Archivists claim legitimacy in their work, largely known as the 'Chronicon Magna', the great chronicle.

## Role of the Archivists

To gather, to document and to protect; that has forever been the tri-fold path of the Archivists, since the earliest mystic days of their forgotten founding. It is they who with every fiber of their being and every resource at their disposal seek to uncover the mysteries of Humanity's mythic past, and safeguard them from the mistakes that felled so many who tread the path before they.

## Chronofane

The **Chronofane** is the facility primarily upon the world of Dieks Prime (Dieks Kansurii System).

## Archivist Hierarchy

The hierarchy is divided below.

Three Hierarchies of a Conclave Populii
 Apprentice
 Scribe
 Scriviner
 Archivist
 Grand Archivist

### Chronate

The **Chronate** (/kəroneɪt/) is the gathering of **Grand Master Archivists**, who oversee the organisation and guide it on its mission of collecting information and technology of Humanity's distant past. They hold council within the Chronofane.

### Overclave

An **Overclave** is less for a formal body, compared to its smaller compatriot the Conclave, however Overclaves are administrive formations that make up the major Octant-wide networks of Conclaves. Relatively small in number, and hidden within the greater Octants within which they operate.

### Conclave

A **Conclave** is a local, semi-autonomous group of archivists which are known as the **Conclave Populii**. The Populii operate far from the Chronofane, always under the watchful eye of a Grand Archivist.

### Cohors

A subdivision of a Conclave, a **Cohors** is something of a "company" or "group" of Archivist agents and operators.

## Archivist Operations

### Cohors Corvus

The **Cohors Corvii**, known also as the **Corvus Network**, are those Archivii and Sedarii that are engaged with security-related intelligence gathering and combative covert operations. Agents and operators are known as **CROW**s.

### Cohors Sedarii

The **Cohors Sedarii** are the elite military arm of the Archivists, wielded exclusively at the behest of its **Conclave**. Used predominantly to protect and safeguard the organisations central archive, the Cohors Sedarii have a long history interwoven with the Archivists. Originally employed as mercenaries by the burgeoning organisations deep within the mists of time, the Sedarii soldiery now exclusively operate under the Archivists' purview. The Cohors Sedarii have frequently been used in the recovery and retrieval of artefacts of particular interest or importance to not only the Chronofane, but the Archivists at large.

### Cohors Vox

The **Cohors Vox** is the true arm controlling ISANA, or the Intra-Spheric Ansibulary Network Authority. Unlike most cohors, the Vox is controlled directly by the Chronofane's masters.

## Archivist Factions

### Siderialists

A small and mostly extinct faction of the Archivists, the Siderialists follow the teachings of one Erstwald Ghent. It was Ghents understanding that the elapses in the Sphere's greater chronology were the product of being extra-dimensional. A being known only as the 'Great Devourer' or the 'Sidereal Worm' was feasting upon time minute by minute, day by day, year by year; eroding the very fabric of reality. Ghents teachings found purchase among the lower dregs of the order's indentured serfs, and was harshly eradicated by the warriors of the Cohors Sedarii. Though largely considered to be extinct, there remain Archivists out on the fringes of the Sphere, who still follow and practices his fanciful doctrine of record keeping.