Vuo¦irné

***"Then, as the massive indigo ship in the sky came closer to landing on the ground, it was made clear that it was under the control of at least one creature, as the giant vessel came closer to the ground. All among us were in awe, watching the great indigo ship land as soon, several Vuo¦irné would get out of a door which showed the interior of the vessel, and all of them would greet us at the field, but they did this in silence, for they could talk to us with their minds."*** ~A Ceretian legend of the creatures.

The **Vuo¦irné** (Usually pronounced "Vuoit'thirne"-, known to humans as **voitens**) are a species- or possibly pantheon- of powerful beings common in the mythologies and religion of the Ceretians, little is known of the Vuo¦irné except that they seemingly possess great power and knowledge.

## Appearance

The Vuo¦irné are bizzare in appearance, with ancient Ceretian art often depicting the critters as bipedal black critters with magenta eyes on a large round head, an almost kangaroo or saurian like body with what appears to be either a thick, long coat of fur at the torso or some kind of cloak. Their arms, when shown, appear to either be holding or ending in large blades, almost never seen in ancient artwork of the Vuo¦irné. They also seem to have a long, flexible tail ending with what seems to be a fork or set of pincers of some kind.

## Relationship with the Ceretians

The **Vuo¦irné** are shown to be shown with high respect by all 3 Ceretians, with Ceretians high up in their own society being considered blessed to even see, let alone talk to or befriend even one of the Vuo¦irné in legends. Vuo¦irné seem to have technology far past the Ceretians' own, with a single carving on a cave rock depicting a voiten on top of what seems to be a hoverboard. A script very similar to the current script of Latin-derived languages of humans has also been seen in carvings approximately younger than 350 years old, theorised to be when this script first appeared, considered by those who believe them to be real to likely be as a result of the Vuo¦irné showing the Ceretians this script, which they adopted as a secondary script. It is unknown why the Vuo¦irné taught this script, let alone why they "left" Ceres soon after. This script that was taught later evolved into a rudimentary version of Vik¦in, roughly 8 months after humanity made first contact with the Ceretians. Vuo¦irné seemingly disappeared roughly 200 years ago, but since the discovery of Ceres by Humans, sightings are becoming more common, though these modern creatures seem to be less direct than their historical counterparts, preferring to watch but not interfere.

## Cryptozoological & UFOlogical significance

The Vuo¦irné, among cryptozoologists, are widely considered most likely to be creatures of alien origin from both Ceres and Earth, and a majority think them to be real due to the sheer number of sightings and accounts in Ceretian history, as well as the claim that a language could never become as similar to a human one on a planet humans didn't even know existed as the rare "Vuo¦ic" language seen in many of the more recent writings concerning the Vuo¦irné has seemingly has, as well as one sighting on Earth before Humans had ever been to Ceres.

## Ceretian legends

### Ván Kalloran tale of "The Landing"

*"One nice morning, we in Ván Kallorus were doing our usual business, even in the watch of our chief Kal'ith, only for the bells to start ringing immediately. Everyone was confused, as no emergency was there to be breaking out, but then we saw it. A massive indigo and gray ship in the sky. Everyone wasn't sure what to make of this, and the ship in the air was becoming closer to landing. It baffled us, how could such an enormous object be floating in mid air? But then, Chief Kal'ith's assistant mentioned that this bizarre airship had wings, like the typical Qrypuse¦, except the wings seemed wider and more reminiscent of the crescent moon. Some of us were watching in awe, others were afraid, some were even downright preparing for the end times. The panic among some of those people got so bad even our Chief had to reassure them that the ship wasn't going to end us all.*

*Over time, the vessel appeared to be setting its course towards a flat plain with no houses nor trees. Some of us immediately rushed towards this plain, and we were met with surprise, as we looked closer, the vessel had several magenta lights in it, shining through windows like how the light glowed from the windows of our homes. Some keen Kallorans among us looked closer, and saw creatures they all assumed had to be the residents of the vessel.*

*Then, as the massive indigo ship in the sky came closer to landing on the ground, it was made clear that it was under the control of at least one creature, as the giant vessel came closer to the ground. All of us were in awe, watching the great indigo ship land as soon, several Vuo¦irné would get out of a door which showed the interior of the vessel, and all of them would greet us at the field, but they did this in silence, for they could talk to us with their minds. Some of us would bow, though these magnificent creatures looked confused at first, but seemed to accept this after a good while."*

## Supposed sightings

These are sightings that occured long after the supposed departure of the Vuo¦irné in Ceretian legend, roughly 180 - 210 years in advance.

### September 12, 1952

Several members of the cryptozoological community have, in recent years, interpreted the Flatwoods monster encountered around 150 years ago in Flatwoods, West Virginia to have been a misidentified Vuo¦irné, though others have pointed out that there are noticeable differences between the two, including the monster's far larger size and its seemingly robotic nature (in one interpretation) compared to the Vuo¦irné, as well as the cryptid having already been somewhat already thought of as a barn owl perched on a tree.

### October 20, 2076

   On an otherwise normal evening in the autumn of 2076, Norman Scott, a cosmologist who would later go on to become instrumental in the discovery and study of The Anomaly and the Yasathvik System, was outside his rural home when he caught sight of a most peculiar creature watching him from the nearby forest:

"The thing had a big, round black head with two bright purple eyes near the bottom, about where the cheekbones'd be in a human, it was about the size of a child, maybe four and a half feet tall at the most, and it wore a red scarf. It didn't seem to have any arms at that moment, but it had some sort of long tail or tentacle with a claw like a crab on the tip which it was using to scribble with a pen in a big black notebook."

Disapproving of being spied on by such a creature, Scott seized his garden fork and gave chase to the diminutive espionner, which ran off at a great speed, tucking away the notebook but leaving behind what appeared to be a rectangular, dark indigo thermos flask made from a rough material. The small, black creature was apparently a fast runner, "As fast as a horse or deer" according to Norman, but he caught it when it was chased to a fast-flowing stream, which it seemed reluctant to cross. The creature then turned, whipping about its sharp tail and taking from what appeared to be a black cloak over its body a short appendage tipped with a sharp, blackish talon about 6 inches long, brandishing the claw in threat. Scott, however, stood his ground with the fork, causing the creature to make a loud scream with a huge, seemingly double-jointed jaw that opened to reveal hundreds of small, needle shaped black teeth. It then stopped spinning its tail for a moment to pull from its cloak a dark black and bulky, pistol-shaped instrument with an array of magenta lights on one side, it then proceeded to fire a single, red-hot semiamorphous object from the strange weapon at its armed pursuer, hitting Scott's fork, the blob then stuck firmly to the metal tip of the fork, and began to heat it up until it began to melt, forcing Norman to drop it and back away, at which the creature leapt straight into the canopy of a nearby conifer, an impressive feat given that the trees in the region were up to fifty feet high, and jumped again from the tree, landing somewhere that Norman didn't see at least a hundred feet away.

When Scott returned to where he'd first seen the creature, he found the pen and the thermos both still lying there, the pen, he found, seemed quite fancy and had inside it a small chunk of a luminous yellow material that constantly but slowly secreted a sort of purple mucus, which was passed through a red, spongy-looking layer in the pen's shaft that turned it into a blue liquid that seemed to work as the ink of the pen, while the rectangular thermos was made from an almost concrete or stone-like material that had been worn with slicing marks near the middle of the flask's length where the creature must have held it, and had inside it a strange, opaque dark reddish liquid seasoned with what appeared to be black herbs, Norman noted that the ink and mucus in the pen had a similar smell to it as the substance inside the flask. It is unknown what happened to the pen or the thermos.

### August 28, 2100

As Burrower landed, the AI suddenly, immediately turned on, sensing a presence. It wasn't until Burrower's two autonomous probes turned on which got to see the presence floating right above, an enormous spaceship, nearly as dark as the sky itself, though it had bizarre magenta lights unlike any star, and the spacecraft loomed slowly by, as the bots slowly got to turn off. A few Ceretian archaeologists and even Vytis Simmons were shown the tape by the Burrower team and they all stated this had a chance to be a spaceship owned by the Vuo¦irné, Simmons in particular noting that its magenta lighting is consistent with Vuo¦irné technology's depiction in historical artworks.

### September 20, 2100

Shortly following its landing on the surface of Hippolytus, MOLER@'s feed caught sight of a creature shaped very similarly to what Norman saw nearly 25 years ago, though this creature wore a kind of dark spacesuit that covered its body, making it harder to see its exact appearance. Soon after, two additional creatures of the same appearance appeared, approaching the first, and all investigated before MOLER@ decided to retreat afterward, briefly approaching a landed spacecraft of a similar style to the one seen by Burrower- before MOLER@ changed its course, sending the information and beginning to dig underground.

Norman was sent to investigate the footage, with those in charge of sending news of MOLER@'s progress emailing Norman about the bizarre creature. Norman was shocked to see a creature so vaguely similar to the one he saw all those years prior, and immediately called for research on such aliens if they were to spotted again. This footage has left those researching MOLER@'s progress stumped.