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Durlyne

**Durlyne** is a western ginnal of Alderode, and the place where Duane Adelier lived and worked in life. It is a Ssaelit majority and ruled ginnal.

## Locales

* Durlyne City
	+ Temple of Song
* Sevencrow Court
* Winalils City

## Locals

* Amara Winalils
* Lemuel Adelier
* Leysa Adelier
* Mikaila Adelier
* Simon Adelier
* William Argenti (Sr.)
* William Argenti (Jr.)
* Stuart Midmolil
* Blythe Sevencrow
* Jeremy
* Jeremy Sarthos (formerly)
* Bastion Winalils (formerly)
* Marhettin Winalils (formerly)
* Duane Adelier (formerly)
Fachlyne

**Fachlyne** is a majority Ssaelit ginnal in southwest Alderode, directly south of Durlyne. It has been overrun by the deadly and untreatable Weeping Plague and its ties to the Dammakhert have been suspended to try and prevent the plauge's spread.

The ghers of Fachlyne have collapsed, leaving what little governmental structure and oversight is left in the ginnal in tatters.

## Locals

* Bastion Winalils (formerly of Winalils City, Durlyne)
* Elena
* Ashley
* Silas
* Darid
* Zinoviy

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/189127272995/good-grief-dont-plat-children-traditionally
Lucky Puppy

Lucky Puppy in Chapter 8

A friend of Sette's from back home in New Tawhoque, in Sharteshane.

## Appearance

A small child wearing a simple brimmed hat with a bird patch on it.

## Background

A beggar child in New Tawhoque that was having trouble making jurkum to Nary because he hid his eyes while begging and no one would trust him.

## Personality

Lucky Puppy was a child street beggar who suffered from shyness and having trouble lying, which made it difficult to get any money begging because no one would trust him. Sette Frummagem helped him overcome this weakness.
Fenescue

**Fenescue** is the name of a Purple Weed farm outside Port Morstorben, whose brand is prefered by a member of the local Peaceguard.

## Notes

In tumblr asks Ashley has called **Fenescue** a type of sweet kelp harvested and eaten in Kasslyne and said that  Beadmans Betters produces a Fenescue flavor of their Beadman’s Imbiblicals soft drink. It's unclear if the farm is named for the kelp or if the kelp just didn't make it into cannon.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/677809428042481664/what-are-fenescu-plugs
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/683807070500356096/whats-fenescue-it-sounds-like-itd-taste-blue
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/651179479451992064/what-would-each-characters-favorite-flavor-of
Old Tainish

Old Tainish is a dead language used to cast spellwork, otherwise known as pymary, through the khert. It is the language from which Modern Tainish formed.

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/654543705066389504/thank-you-for-this-amazing-comic-glass-re-the
2. ↑ https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/world/index.php?title=Tainish
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/674507687480967168/what-does-heby-mean-if-ef-means-its-not
4. ↑ https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch12/ch12\_88.html
5. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/163582547730/is-ilinit-shamid-the-term-for-first-light
6. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/163582547730/is-ilinit-shamid-the-term-for-first-light
7. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/165633574200/hey-whats-the-old-tainish-word-for-lightning-or
8. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/672738347986337792/whats-the-old-tainish-word-for-vliegeng-is-it
Red Berry Boys

**The Red Berry Boys** is a small group of criminals led by the cruel and money-hungry Starfish. Beginning at the border of Sharteshane, they've been kidnapping transients and orphans in order to cut out their insides and use them as containers for smuggling First Silver. Duane and Sette first encounter them in the Knobbytop area of Ulestry, foiling a kidnapping attempt on a pair of children.

There is a wanted poster out for them by Peaceguard.

## Members

* **Starfish** is the leader. He enjoys money and making children suffer.
* **Turas** is a tall, bald-headed Madishanian, and the member who seems friendliest with Starfish. He was killed and partially eaten by Duane inside of a love hotel.
* **Ephsephin** is the brute of the group, a spiky-haired, balding Sharteshanian who sports a very loud blue hat. He's fast, tenacious, and a bully, though Duane soundly thrashes him during their first encounter. He was beaten to death with a bottle by Starfish after Jivi slipped rat poison into his booze.
* **Cutter** is a dull red inak with a proclivity for knives and speaking in rhyme. He's the member in charge of cutting and enchanting the slaves, partly so he can fulfill his uncommon desire to eat the flesh of humans.
* **Bett** is an overweight Sharteshanian in a stolen wage-wright's hat with a black market pymary license and education. He began to act as the Red Berry Boys' wright when Quigley left, but was defeated by Duane during their initial encounter. Currently it's assumed he's in the custody of the Peaceguard.
* **Quigley** was hired into the gang for a time but left when Starfish began to steal and butcher children. It was money that bought Quigley's services back, but the arrangement was again short-lived and Quigley requested that all the children used in Starfish's latest plot be released to him on completion. When Starfish ordered him slain by two Frummagem thugs, Quigley swiftly escaped into the night and left the gang behind for good.

1. ↑ https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch08/ch08\_54.html
Glamour

A **glamour** is any spell made by a wright intended to change the physical appearance of something. Glamours can be burned into a pymaric, so that non-wrights can wear them without needing to maintain the spell. Some instances of glamours being used in the comic are Duane's face and Anadyne's purple eyes.
Bili

**Bili** is the young watch captain in the small Crescian town of Jarladorp, on the banks of the River Jarla.

## Background

At 18 Bili is at a prime age to be conscripted into the military. "His family worked hard to keep him hidden away in Jarladorp - on the rolls and working, but under the radar - so he wouldn’t be called to the frontlines, which have become quite the slaughterhouse in the past few months."

## Notes

* Ashley "had a whole little interaction where Toma gets a kick out of his old-fashioned leather cuirass and Bili explains it was his grandfather’s who was captain of the Jarladorp watch before him, and how that title doesn’t mean much since the dedicated town watch hasn’t consisted of more than a Captain and a Deputy for centuries, but it didn’t make it to the page~"

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/179278242510/how-old-is-that-guardsmen-dressed-in-red-who-just
Fluirstadt

**Fluirstadt** is the capitol of Cresce, where Sonorie Palace rises high above the city over the lake. Current Chancellor Ufal was the highly popular mayor of the city for five years prior to him gaining his current position.

## Locals

* Maharaishala Sonorie
* Rilursa Sonorie
* Roger Foi-Hellick
* Chancellor Ufal
* Emne Toma
* Chea Toma
* Karl Toma
* Liro
* Luci
Lions of Mercy

The **Lions of Mercy** (Tainish *Llede Llaemasa*) are an elite Aldish Ssaelit military organization. All soldier members are righted, and thus wrights. They are transported to and from the battlefield and given air support by Vliegeng Units, the members of whom do not need to be wrighted unless they are specifically serving as battlewrights. The Lion's credo is *“For the furtherance of Faith, Peace, and God.”* (Tainish  *“Mopahol Laemasa Llaemas e Mann”*).  Their standard is a golden lion on a green banner whose tail ends in a square scroll with black Tainish lettering and a black mane.

## History

Prior to his assassination Rector Duane Adelier acted as spellmaster of the Lions of Mercy in Durlyne, teaching them battle handy pymary.

## Members

* Duane Adelier
* William Argenti (Jr.)
* William Argenti (Sr.) (Captain)
* Thierry Heuse
* Artus P.
* Shawn
* Glover
* Killian
* Ricker
* Horace
* Chalmer
* Elleri

### Vliegeng Units

* Diva - Captain Lemuel Adelier - Co-pilot Mason
* Kel Unit

## Recent Events (spoilers)

### Book I

#### *Chapter 12: The Collar of Kasslyne*

The lions assault a group of Crescian Peaceguard and Firelopers deep within Cresce on the banks of the River Jarla while seeking a hidden construct facility some Crescian spies captured infiltrating and stealing First Materials from Alderode gave up under torture.

#### *Chapter 15: Litriya Shrine*

With the supernatural storm around Litriya Shrine dissipated both General Bell's forces and the Lions of Mercy decend to try and carry out the reconnaissance that would confirm rumors of the hidden construct facility beneath Litriya.

#### *Chapter 16: Passionate Intensity*

The Aldish and Crescian forces clash outside the shrine, with the advantage gained by having Vliegeng granting the Lions of Mercy a decisive victory as they kill all but two members of General Bell's small force. Ricker is dropped off to seek out the construct facility, however decides to do more than just reconnaissance and the Vliegeng Units have further instructions, to destroy the entire shrine once the facility's existence is confirmed.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/180607058760/i-must-first-give-my-sincerest-appreciation-for/amp
Port Morstorben

**Port Morsorben** is a Crescian port city on the west coast.

For the Book I chapter of the same name see Chapter 17.

## Recent Events

Some of those relocated from Ethelmik before its destruction were moved to Morsorben.

Queen Sonorie has chosen to celebrate Treenahinn in Port Morsorben in the Crescian calendar year of 416, the four-hundred and sixteenth year of the Sonorie family's rule. The holiday festivities are scheduled to include a pageant, circus and the ritual sacrifice of the year's twin from Litriya Shrine, Ilia Litriya.

## Locales

* F.R.E.D.
* Litton (suburb)
Elarosny Fici

**Elarosny** is the leader of The March, an Aldish rebel group opposed to child soldiers, forced conscription, government control over marriages and other controls the Aldish state exercises over its populace. Vienne Quigley intended to donate Uaid to her in order to operate as a mobile headquarters in which Elarosny would be protected from state "stings" through the Dammakhert.

## Appearance

Elarosny is a nine foot tall Copper woman.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/727119516016033792/let-me-be-blunt-for-a-sec-here-but-how-do-you
Cutter

Cutter in Chapter 10

Prakhuta, or **Cutter** as he is known for the first few chapters, is a two-toe member of the Red Berry Boys. He is the surgeon who removes the organs of the kidnapped victims and puts silver in their bodies. Cutter speaks in rhyme, and shows an affinity for eating humans and especially killing children. He was the one who butchered Cara. Unlike other two-toes, he work pymary. He told Starfish he is one of the Black Tongues, an organization reportedly exclusive to humans.

His forehead is branded with the mark 'L12'. This same mark is seen on the Two-toe that a young Bastion Winalils is conversing with about gaining a soul due to the work of Master Delicieu, hooked up to a machine just before an experiment was begun. He also claims the name of Delicieu while conversing with Duane. He claims to understand pain, just as Delicieu was intent on making Bastion understand it.
Weeping Plague

The **Weeping Plague** is a deadly supernatural disease of unknown origin, which spreads via eye contact. The disease's spread is mostly limited to the Aldish ginnal of Fachlyne, a majority Ssaelit area.

## Management and Treatment

There is no known cure and no known survivors, with the disease usually killing those affected within a week of the onset of symptoms. Symptoms can be slow to show, resulting in a travel ban from Fachlyne. Those with the illness wear bags over their heads to ensure they do not make eye contact, and when cases are discovered in villages outside of Fachlyne the entire population is declared a loss by the Vits Council, who move all of them to Fachlyne and make a public announcement that everyone in the village died. Inak are immune to the disease, as it spreads somehow through the connection Kasslynians' souls have with the Khert. While there have historically been outbreaks outside of Alderode the plauge has been eradicated elsewhere.

## Victims

Known victims of the Weeping Plague include Cara's parents and Bastion Winalils' mother Plunara and elder sister Marhettin Winalils. The child plats, including Magnus and Darid conscripted to the State Ssaelit Order of Chinoll and assigned to spellmaster Duane Adelier were plague orphans.

## Notes

* Weeping Plague is also called Stricks.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/682436259906535424/can-sessine-puppet-those-with-the-torc-like-i
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/675718369952104448/you-said-bastion-had-like-a-sister-familywhat
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/176494513615/mindaroth-replied-to-your-post-blood-from-the
Breath System

"Cresce’s **Breath System** [is] a network of pipes that contain and isolate khert lines so Aspects can reliably be transported from point to point along them. You can’t usually send spells so far, as khert lines waver and vanish and twist in the currents of the khert, restricting casters to a certain range before their spells veer off path. The Breath system creates a way to send data vast distances quickly."

Chirographs and Labor Points are two Crescian state created items which utilize the Breath system to function, and it is the backbone of Cresce's moneyless economy functioning. It was founded, along with the united state of Cresce, by Queen Crescia. Crescian citizens register with the state for a unique ID, which is used in conjunction with the Breath System for identification and assigning Labor Points.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/139787213715/how-does-chirograph-work-or-will-you-tell-us-in
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/689222023725170688/is-the-crescian-breath-system-something-you-have
List of universes.

This article lists seen and mentioned alternate universes.

If a universe turns 500 years old, then it ends. (Possibly excluding the canon universe, due to it being the original)

## List

* Canadian Universe (?? years, normal.)
* Swap Universe (102 years, normal.)
* Canon Universe (400 years, normal.)
* Normal Universe (?? years, normal.)
* Traitor Universe (283 years, normal.)
* Neno Universe (500 years, ended.)
* ROBLOX Universe (15 years, cannot end, normal)
Danila

**Danila** was a member of the State Ssaelit Order of Chinoll during the Foi-Hellick Affair.

## Appearance

A young blonde man with messily spiked hair.

## Background

Danila was conscripted at the same time as Lemuel Adelier and they grew up in the military together. Danila and Lemuel had been serving for four years by the time Duane joined them as a spellmaster and battlewright.
Chea Toma

Chea in Ch 12

Chea is the daugher of Emil and Emne Toma. First mentioned in Chapter 6, she made an in-comic appearance in Chapter 12 during the mourning celebration for Emil's (supposed) death in the Crescian capital

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## Recent Events

#### Chapter 17

Chea dresses in a poncho covered in many badges her father sent to her for Tirnasday, and asks Yerta a favor not knowing she's addressing Hanst Mikharhuk Ruckmearkha in costume.
Niri Litriya

**Niri Litriya** is a kept twin at the Litriya Shrine in Cresce.

## Appearance

A heavyset teenage girl with beautiful black hair and a short nose with wide nostrils.

## Background

Niri and her twin were given to Litriya Shrine to be raised in the Gefendur tradition of kept twins, with the eldest to live in the cloister for life and the youngest to be sacrificed and ritually eaten on one of two annual holy days in their early twenties. It is unclear which Niri is, though she's hinted to be the elder twin.

## gallery

Niri getting fitted in a Yerta costume.Niri ill on the day of the pageant.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

#### Chapter 13

Mish gave Niri the part of Mother Yerta in the shrine's Tirnasday pageant, even though she'd already told Sara she could have the part.

#### Chapter 15

In a misguided attempt at friendship, something Sette has never had outside of coworker beggars, theives and pickpockets, Sette drugged Niri's food to make her too sick to play Yerta and allow Sara to play the part.

#### Chapter 16

Niri was seen huddling with her sister in the shrine's protected main hall during the Aldish assault on the shrine prompted by the hidden military construct facility beneath it.
Khert

The **khert** /xert/ is the vast and invisible spectral plane within which and on top of which the world of *Unsounded* exists. It effects and defines all living and unliving matter, holds all natural laws, and in many ways guides destinies. Pymary works by giving instructions to the khert.

The khert exists only in the vicinity of Kasslyne. Deep underground, it becomes thick. A few hundred feet above the surface or away from its shores, it becomes thin. Either makes pymary difficult. Traveling beyond the khert's influence is fatal for an unaccustomed Kasslynian. The khert also does not extend into Senet beasts or First Materials, beings and objects left over from the senet world.

Difficult to understand, the khert has been studied by scholars and wrights since the beginning of history. The khert seems composed of contradictions; it is at once capable of being mapped and bound to correlating space in reality, and yet it is constantly in motion; it solidly defines the dimensions of all space and objects in reality and yet it can be dispersed with a breath of air; it is at once hostile towards foreign energies and yet receptive and protective of the faintest psychic pulses whispered into it.

In spite of these observations, scholars have long classed the khert as a logical and predictable force, allowing them to program spellwork into it and make the practise of pymary safer.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/108090470940/sorry-going-on-with-the-orb-of-first-glass-is-the/amp
Monocorn

**Monocorns** or "Monnies" are a species of four-legged mammals native to Kasslyne that resemble a goat or deer and are kept by farmers for their milk, fur, and meat. There are at least two breeds the smaller of which is found in Cresce and a larger breed covered in a wooly coat which is found in Alderode. Their blood has a quality of coagulating into a jelly-like substance when exposed to open air which is used as an ingredient in some recipes.
Tar-nut Frummagem

**Tar-nut Frummagem** is Stockyard Frummagem's father. He was executed for something Stockyard did prior to the events of *Unsounded Book I*.

## Background

Tar-nut's mother named him for his dark head of hair upon birth, with his name doubling as a pun referring to the petrified Tarnet trees whose fire-proof lumber Sharteshane is famous for.

Tar-nut was the son of Corner Frummagem's right hand man and best friend. He was adopted by Corners when his birth dad died saving Corners' life in a street fight. Tar-nut would himself go on to hang for his son

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/123700238700/does-stockyard-have-any-siblings-with-similarly
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/87246091810/on-formspring-you-said-that-knock-and-anadyne
Wright

**Wright**, short for spellwright, is a person who utilizes special knowledge, language and gestures to manipulate Aspects and the local Khert to perform pymary. In *Unsounded*, wright is the preferred synonym for sorcerer, spellcaster, magus, etc. The Tainish for spellwright is *alia*, while *purasa* and *saban* generally mean spellwright in Nebrofon.

## Overview

From country to country wrights are generally commonplace, performing services that citizens do not, on the whole, find particularly miraculous or worthy of pause. There are many different career branches within the label of 'wright,' some of them requiring little specialized knowledge, some of them requiring decades of research, training, and a keen intellect. A wright can be a soldier, using pymary to violently fight enemies or protect comrades; a wright might stay at home and use pymary to monitor weather conditions for their local government; a wright might travel from home to home using pymary to dye ladies' hairs interesting shades, or place illusory butterfly adornments in their sitting rooms.

Because pymary is strictly regulated, wrights must attend schools and undergo training, an initiation, and exams before they are licensed and allowed to practise the Arts publicly. Practising without a license is illegal, as is using any spells or any language, like Gruftgramary, save what the local government has ordained.

Becoming a wright is an expensive endeavour and one that has to be begun at a young age. Because of this it is often difficult - if not impossible - for the underprivileged to pursue this career path. Spurred by this injustice, there are black markets of pymary and wright initiation in the seedier parts of the world and more than a few wrights who are practising illegal pymary with forged licenses.

Alderode is considered the hotspot for pymary, as Old Tainish is required to command the khert, and originated from Tain.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/search/Nebrofon
Mira

**Captain Mira** is one of Queen Maharaishala Sonorie's most trusted personal friends and guards.

## Appearance

Sharp eyed black haired woman in possession of a giant fire sword.

## Personality

No nonsense practical woman with a disgust for Aldish use of child soldiers.

## Background

Mira's family have served the Sonorie family since their rise to power.

> She’s probably the Queen’s closest female friend. They’ve known each other for years, but there has been a coolness recently (well, fifteen years ago) because her Majesty won’t make Mira the captain of her personal guard. Mira thinks her Majesty doesn’t believe she’s strong enough and that’s why she instead chose a man for the role, but it’s really because her Majesty is afraid it would make Mira too much of a target. [Maha is] trying to protect Mira from all the political opponents and ill feelings that have sprung up since her “relationship” with Roger Foi-Hellick began.
>
>
> Mira is old school Crescian nobility. Her family has dwelled in the capital and served the Sonorie line since they came to power. She’s reliable, pragmatic, and utterly dull. The Queen’s always valued this - sometimes you need a friend who can cut through all the bullshit and tell you if you have your head up your ass.
>
>
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> Sonorie decided she was the perfect person to send to Alderode [on the mission to Avelpit during the Foi-Hellick Affair]. She can not only counterbalance flighty, idealistic Roger, but stand toe-to-toe with scary Vampire. And hopefully keep Nora Pris from walking off a cliff.
>
> Ashley Cope, ["Captain Mira"]

## Recent Events (spoilers)

### Chapter 17

Mira helped carry out the queen's plan to free Grenzlan rather than accompany Maharaishala Sonorie to Port Morstorben as part of her personal guard for Treenahin.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/187601315510/im-really-enjoying-captain-mira-so-far-it-is
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/187366538875/whats-the-name-of-this-crescian-lady-shit-talking
Vale

**Vale** is an officer in the Ethelmik Constabulary.

## Appearance

A tall dark skinned man with thick deep black hair and beard that tapers up into a mustache.

## Recent Events

### Chapter 8: Masks

Vale and his partner accompany Emil Sava-Toma to The Happy Tentacle to investigate the grisly murder of one of the Red Berry Boys. They're dismissive of the operation, more interested in taking the pymaric Sette left behind and brush off Toma's question about whether or not they have any Sharteshainians in town with a flippant "hope not" as they walk away. The pair manage to walk into the Constabulary Office while Elka and Toma are fighting the two officers there who had revealed themselves as traitors to the crown and immediately attack Elka. She swipes the solidity from the floor for a bit and dumps all four constables into a cell in the basement.

### Chapter 9: The Deadly Nevergreen

When Sette blows the cells open Vale and his partner chase down Jivi and Matty instead of Elka. Jivi slams into Vale and knocks him stumbling after Vale gets hold of Matty and then both boys are rescued by Elka turning the pavement liquid with state aspect from the river when Vale's partner is about to kill Jivi with a sword strike.

### Chapter 10: The Deadly Nevergreen Pt. 2

Vale is part of the group to corner Elka and Elan Aled in the Yerta Shrine by the Deadly Nevergreen. Mathis Quigley removes a cube of pavement beneath Vale's feet and he's last seen falling through the hole.
Waumsresh

**Waumsresh** is a teenage Inak who has lived his whole life with his clan beneath Litriya Shrine, he is bitter about the slaughter of his people by Cresce prior to his birth, their forced relocation and loss of culture.

## Appearance

Waumsresh is a green Inak with a pointed narrow muzzle and a tentacle-like crest. His dewlap is decorated with a checkerboard pattern and two red Inak hand prints with black circles in their centers. He wears a helmet with a millipede engraved on it, a mythic symbol in Inak culture relating to battle for their many strong arms and poisonous bite.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

### Chapter 15

Waumsresh learns that Lowing Shaensigin is still alive and left with other Children of Shaensigin for the Cold Lands some fifteen years ago. He hears about the camps Two-toes outside the shrine in Cresce are being forced into after Two-toes in Sharteshane assassinated the Queen's sister and heir, and Masek tells Nana and the three teens about the "Red Pariah" who can use Pymary and is rounding up Inak from the camps and attacking the humans. While Nana cautions strongly against putting any stock in these talks of revolution and a supposed savior, especially as he is marked as a pariah, the teenagers don't listen and get riled up to try and undermine the queen and kill Cresian soldiers.

### Chapter 16

Waumsresh was the only one of the three rebellious teenagers to survive their encounter with the Lions of Mercy and used the self destruct spell in retaliation, killing all but two of the Lions of Mercy but also destroying Inaktown, killing his entire clan outside of himself and Ruffles who was upstairs from their village. Of their clan of twenty only these two are known to have survived.

## Notes

* While Waumsresh was never named in *Unsounded* his name appeared in the script and was revealed to readers when one inquired after it.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/611851910574686208/can-you-tell-us-what-the-flying-creatures-on-brown
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/661609955226484736/what-is-the-name-of-the-surviving-teen-inak-i
Turtle Bacon

**Turtle Bacon** is a common breakfast food in Cresce.

Sette Frummagem does not care for turtle bacon, and was disgusted when she tried it as she had been expecting pork bacon. Jivi Flask is quite fond of the meal.

## Trivia

Turtle meat does not have enough of its own fat to likely render like bacon, but "turtle flesh can be gotten from exotic meat sellers, and it can be smoked at home. This is probably not really feasible for most. Pork bacon can be substituted, but should be of the variety that Americans call “Canadian Bacon” and should not have a honey, maple, or sugar rind."

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/625943855974531072/turtle-barbecue-would-probably-be-terrible-turtle
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/108187034770/so-a-while-ago-you-described-some-aldish-foods
Toby

**Toby** is Stockyard's right hand man and was to be trusted to run the Deadly Nevergreen while he was away. He has a clear romantic relationship with Anadyne, and they and Knock-Me-Down are very close.

## Appearance

Toby is a hulking giant of a man, with bulky muscles and the oversized hands and shoulders indicative of a long term Glut addiction. His biceps are decorated with a tattoos of a pair of Gefendur giving hands. He has a little middle tuft of his fringe dyed a purplish pink, which matches Anadyne's scarf.

## Background

> Toby’s full name is Tobias Hogshead. As a baby he was left atop a hogshead barrel outside a Gefendur foundling house and shrine at the edge of New Tawhoque, Sette’s hometown. In addition to a colorful name his clerical benefactors provided him an honest apprenticeship as a waterfront stevedore when he came of age, but Toby fell into drugs and drink and lost a good chunk of his life to them. Women came, women went. He got into debt with his dealer, a Frummagem, and pulled a few jobs at the docks to make good on it. From there it was a slow slide into the criminal world.
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## Personality

Despite being a henchman who roughs up and kills to make his keep Toby is uncomfortable with hurting children, or being party to children being hurt or sold.

## Relationships

* **Stockyard Frummagem** -

* **Anadyne Frummagem** -

* **Knock-Me-Down Frummagem** -

## Abilities

His stature and strength mean he can lift things that would take a team of plods.

## Recent Events (Spoilers)

### The Deadly Nevergreen

It is revealed that Toby is having a secret affair with Anadyne. Toby expresses to Anadyne his interest in leaving Stockard's employ while Stockyard is escorting the First Silver north, but this disloyalty was overheard.

### The Deadly Nevergreen, Part II

Toby, knowing that he has no other choice to leave the Frummagem crime business, plans to stab Stockyard while they talk in his office. Stockyard is aware of Toby's treachery, though, and ambushes Toby before he can react, tearfully strangling him with a wire. During the fight in the Nevergreen, Toby's reanimated body, under the control of the First Silver Weapon, murders Stockyard.
Vera

**Vera** is a Crescian woman who worked as the receptionist at The Happy Tentacle love hotel in Ethelmik.

## Appearance

Vera is a thin young woman with sloping shoulders and a short round chin. While at work she wears a pymaric blue tentacle hat and a short tube top with matching shorts, and off work she takes off the hat and dons a collared cape with slit sleeves and heart accents.

## Personality

She doesn't care for pedophiles, but if a young teen comes in asking for a room with one in tow it doesn't take much for them to talk her into giving them a room. She's ashamed that she's let a child rent a room for a night, but fears being put back to work in a factory should The Happy Tentacle be decommissioned for not bringing in enough clients. Vera enjoys risque romance novels. Despite her chosen detachment while at work she is compassionate and asks after the health of even those who repel her, and is quick to get medical aid for the injured. She is deeply upset when someone is murdered in one of the rooms, and cooperative with both local and state police forces in the investigation.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

Vera was killed by Bell's loyalists when they razed Ethelmik and butchered everyone still living there to frame the Alish and make Queen Sonorie look bad while covering up Bell's involvment with the Shatterstar Cache and his connections to the criminals from Sharteshane whose presence in town he helped cover up in exchange for their aid moving his illegally purchased superweapon.

Vera working the front desk.Vera preparing to leave work.Vera interviewed by Peaceguard and Watch.
## Trivia

The unseen princess of Sharteshane, and only thus named member of the Sharteshanian royal family, is also named Vera. She was once abducted while in New Tawhoque.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/170546732255/can-you-tell-us-who-is-in-the-portrait-on-the-wall
Tainish (disambiguation)

Tainish may refer to either Tainish, the language spoken by roughly half of Alderode's citizenship, or Old Tainish, a dead language from what is now north-eastern Alderode and which is the language of the Khert and pymary all over Kasslyne.

It may also refere to people from the Aldish ginnal of Tain or the ancient tribe who developed pymary, the Tains originally from the area now structured as said ginnal.
Tacit casting

**Tacit casting** is the ability to perform pymary without verbal commands. Two things are generally required for a wright to interface with the khert and the movable Aspects that sit within it - a Rited connection and knowledge of the language Old Tainish. Both of these things are acquired through years of training and eventual initiation. Tacit casters, however, are born with a unique connection already in place, one that skirts the edges of their consciousness. This connection, unlike the one created on the chest of conventional wrights, leeches thought and allows the tacit caster to work spells internally.

In battle, one vulnerability most wrights face is their opponent's ability to hear the spell they are casting before it's manifested, and act preemptively. Being able to call forward spells silently however, tacit casters don't have this trouble and are therefore particularly fearsome in battle. It is an extremely rare but extremely useful ability.

Scholars aren't entirely sure what determines tacit casting. Since it sometimes runs in families there may be a genetic component to it. For public safety, most countries require children who display the ability to be turned over to the government so their connection can be sealed off until they are old enough to learn pymary properly.

Duane Adelier, Mikaila Adelier and Duane's grandfather are known tacit casters. Tacit casters are rare enough that generalizations about them can't be made, but in the Adelier family at least all tacit casters are also born innate, meaning they do not need to be rited in order to cast like most wrights do in order to from the connection to the khert necessary for the spells to work.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/673394032444162048/are-all-tacit-casters-like-duane-and-mikalia-born
Unsounded 2022 Fanworks Contest

The Unsounded 2022 fanworks contest was run between the end of Chapter 16 and the beginning of Chapter 17. The entries are listed below.

## **Fanfiction**

* Happiness Aspect by Robocrates
* Seddy & Dwwon Go to the Mall by Groucho\*
* The Taking of Alderode (nsfw) by Lindsay M.
* The Ghost Library by Noxae
* Mikaila, denaobud walota lloLlederod by Serpenthyne
* IS it possible to beat Unsounded 1 using only Bett? (After Chapter 2.1) by ER
* Immemoriam by Amaranthaceae
* Unmarked by Miao93

## **Fanart**

* "Prakhuta" by Hannah K.
* "Lady Ilganyag in a Virgin-Killer Sweater" by Noel
* "Ruffles & Minnow" by Tim Cook
* Seddy & Dwwon Go to the Mall by Groucho(YouTube)
* "It's Boo!" by DermitTheFregg(YouTube)
* "Motivational Murkoph" by krad

* "Prakhuta Listening In on the Silver's Juicy Gossip" by L95
* "Groovy" by Wanderdraw
* "Duane, Sad Boy Hours" by Hannah K.
* "Let's Have a Feast, Shall We?" by Magnuspool
* "Changgwi" by redfish
* "Ulterior Machinations" by Nikaleles\*

* "Say Hello" by ThisGiantCat
* "Happy Memories" by Drasil Faemir
* "A Proper Frummagem" by l'Agache
* "Playstation1 Duane Render" by Fitzy
* "Sette in the Khert" a song by Hambrababy
* "Our Lady of Compulsory Empathy" by Humming-fly

\*Winner[1]

[1] https://at.tumblr.com/unsoundedupdates/ch17-page-5/fm5vq2xwef88
Tesa Moli

Tesa in Chapter 17

**Tesa Moli** is the retired ArchWright of the Cresian military, formerly the head of the Crescian Royal Peaceguard's pymary branch. She is fiercely loyal to Queen Maharaishala Sonorie and the matriarch of her family at the time of Book I.

## Appearance

Elderly woman using a wheelchair and life supporting medical constructs.

## Background

Was the highest ranked Wright in the entire Peaceguard at one point, and in charge of the Royal Peaceguard's pymary branch. She was thus presumably a very formidable wright in her day.

## Personality

Tesa supports Inak rights and sees the violence enacted by them in response to their treatment in the wake of Rilursa Sonorie's assassination as only natural to a desperate people denied any peaceful recourse to join society. She sees Bell as a small minded fool who knows only war and is not fit to lead a nation nor make decisions outside of combat, and those that follow him and wish to continue subjugating the Inak like slaves as idiots.

## Recent Events (Spoilers)

Argues with Karl Toma during a meeting of nobles in Port Morstorben while Karl makes arguments in support of Bell and earns him enough support among the nobles to vote to block any heirs Maharaishala Sonorie proposes.

## Trivia

* Tesa is one of Elka's heroes, but the younger wright has never met her.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/694306590338285568/who-is-that-old-lady-wright-more-exactly
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/694306590338285568/who-is-that-old-lady-wright-more-exactly
Stewed Pigeon Zongzi

**Stewed Pigeon Zongzi** is a type of leaf wrapped rice dumpling containing stewed pigeon served in Cresce. During Treenahinn celebrations in Port Morstorben during the Crescian calendar year of 416 the large feasting tables outside the Mayor's house included trays of Stewed Pigeon Zongzi.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/689897556308852736/dear-ashley-could-you-tell-us-what-the-food-and
Tinned Sardines

**Tinned Sardines** are a simple easily transportable food in Kasslyne, and are among Sette Frummagem's favorite meals. They are very convenient and easy to purchase, and are considered basic simple fare in coastal rocky Sharteshane.

As seafood sardines of any type would be considered unclean to Ssaelit and their doctrine would forbid them consuming it.
Fry

Fry is a side antagonist created by CrazyNugget123,

## Friends

* Willow
* Sauce
* Burger (Girlfriend)
* Handy (Frenemy)

## Enemies

* Nugget (Ex girlfriend)
* Flakes (One sided on Fry's side, debatable)
* Giggles
* Chip (Sister, status unknown)

## Love interests

* Nugget (Previous/Ex girlfriend)
* Burger (Girlfriend)

## Trivia

* Fry is sapphic.
* As it seems, they lack sympathy for any character's death, instead they find entertainment in it (excluding burger).
* Fry has taken a particular disliking to Nugget, due to the fact that they killed Burger in a car accident.
* Throughout the series they've normally used they/them pronouns.
King Rortide

**King Rortide** was the leader of the collective of Gefendur tribes that attacked the ancient Tains and founded Alderode. The Aldish fraternal Gefendur church has recognized him as a Victori.

## Appearance

Described by Sonum Ssael as copper-bearded and swarthy.

## History

Conquered the Tains with the help of Tainish turncoat Sonum Ssael and turned his band of roving raiders into the start of Alderode. He led the group of disparate violent Gefendurs who crossed Kasslyne slaughtering Senet beasts and enslaving and killing those who worshiped them.

## Relationships

### Sonum Ssael

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/675002533779030016/are-there-any-artistic-depictions-of-the-original
Taron

**Taron** is a peppery spice used heavily in foods along the southern bit of the River Jarla in Cresce.

## Dishes

Ethelmik Sandwiches are a local Ethelmik specialty that are made with flat bread, pea root, taron, yams & beans. Iori Ripa makes some for Jivi Flask, Matty Quigley and Sette Frummagem in Chapter 11.

Iori makes a regional stewed greens with Matty that includes tarnut and crayfish, which Matty thinks may be the best thing he's ever eaten.

## Trivia

Taron is much like a real-world pepper in flavor. Ashely described Iori's stewed greens which included taron as tasting like *"creamed spinach with tons of garlic, chili, rush nuts, and mudbug chunks."*
The Price of Doing Business, or in Which Two Rogues Give Each Other Bad Counsel

"The Price of Doing Business, or in Which Two Rogues Give Each Other Bad Counsel" is an Unsounded fanfiction by soartfullydone for the Unsounded 2021 Fanworks Contest.

## Summary

The day before Sette is expected to leave on her mission with her attack zombie, she receives a much-needed diversion from her favorite underling. Riven, for her part, isn't quite as amused as her lion-tailed future boss.

This must be what having a sibling is like.

## Trivia

Winner of the 2021 Unsounded Fanworks Contest - Fanfiction Portion
Treaty of Blue Ruspage

The **Treaty of Blue Ruspage** is a treaty signed by Alderode and Cresce agreeing to outlaw the use of Plods in war. "They were banned because they were difficult to control, spread disease, and were utterly shattering to everyone’s morale. They also don’t fare well against competent wrights. Their ability to respond to actions is limited so they don’t counter spellwork well, and easily get blown up or Leeched."
In the aftermath plods became outlawed entirely in Alderode due to the Ssaelit half of their government's disgust with rot and plods were put to domestic use in Cresce leading to the outlawing of chattel slavery and a near post scarcity society.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/698551740474310656/can-you-shed-more-light-on-the-history-of-the
Vienne Quigley

Vienne in her work outfit, ch10

**Vienne Quigley** was a Hethllot woman and wife to Mathis Quigley and thus Matty's mother. Vienne was her parent's first-born daughter, as exemplified by her being given the same given name as her mother. She was raised as a free spirit by her father, a forgemaster, and considered a headache by the Elders for this reason (which is why she was paired with Quigley). Vienne was also skilled in pymary and an adept smith. She built the construct Uaid among other Pymarics. She designed the Swarm mantle-pymaric as a gift for her husband to protect him when he was on the road for the Window.

She was known for her compassion, but also was very analytic and practical when it came to pymary and constructs. She was among the most talented living wrights when it came to these two topics, able to induce previously impossible behavior like the replication of First Material-like properties in a base material.

She was not so deft with a needle. Attempting to make toys for her son like the other mothers did, she constructed Chitz for Matty (which was turned into his seeing aid after the Quigleys' exodus).

Vienne had dealings to a yet unknown extent with The March. She had planned to donate Uaid to them after his completion.

Vienne was tortured by the Window and then killed when she refused to give them Uaid's schematics.

Vienne has a side story, Vienne of Seferpine.

## Relationships

* **Mathis "Matty" Quigley (Jr.)** - son

* **Mathis Quigley (Sr.)** - Husband.

* **Uaid** - Her unfinished masterpiece, called him her son's little brother.

* **Gerald Kilpenny** - Her subordinate at the forge. Tried to sell her out to the Window.

* **Wick Madigan** - Wick was Vienne's contact with The March.

## Notes

* Vienne's name was originally Sylvia for Sylvia Plath, but Ashley felt it was too on the nose and changed it before publication.
* Ashely couldn't recall Vienne's maiden name and accepted a reader suggestion of Lefebvre/Lefébure, but her father's family name had already been given as Tor in *Orphans*.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/109757492525/was-quigleys-father-named-mathis-too
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/644496194977120256/which-of-your-prose-stories-do-you-feel-is-your
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/681346652418834432/viennes-maiden-name
4. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/681361888326647808/lefebvre-smith-would-be-an-obvious-if-slightly
WRATH OF DOG

**Wrath** was Sette Frummagem's hound.

## Background

Wrath was a hound belonging to Sette, a gift from her father Nary-A’Care Frummagem. She was very fond of Wrath, and he died before the start of Book I.

## Notes

* A story containing Wrath has been considered for the print exclusive story in Volume 4. Wrath has otherwise not appeared outside of posts by Ashley.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/189709427240/do-shartes-celebrate-notchristmas-and-if-so
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/181963272475/what-did-sette-do-in-her-down-time-when-she-wasnt
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/181592781475/whats-the-name-of-settes-dog-is-heshe-doing
4. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/634441121045626880/would-you-maybe-include-some-recipes-in-the-next
Thorns

**Thorns** are a type of glove used in Alderode to mark the best dueling wrights in the country. They are distinct because of their red thumbs, pointers, and pinkies. Wrights considered advanced enough to qualify for thorns are legally required to wear them.

## Purpose

Pymary duels are common practice in Alderode; however, because pymary is such a powerful art, such duels are incredibly dangerous. Thorns are a way of identifying an incredibly powerful wright so that nobody will unwittingly challenge him.
Stuart Midmolil

**SPOILERS AHEAD**

**Stuart Midmolil** is the Harbour Master of Durlyne and runs the Tanners gang out of Sevencrow Court. He's fond of Purple Weed and friends with Jab Beadman.

## Trivia

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/189269129775/which-character-that-has-not-yet-been-introduced
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/727119516016033792/let-me-be-blunt-for-a-sec-here-but-how-do-you
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/181757051090/are-their-any-main-or-nearly-main-if-that-makes
4. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/613750963972505600/will-we-ever-be-able-to-see-the-tanners-story
5. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/148881962910/are-there-cigarettes-cigars-or-hookahs-in
6. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/188127393910/beadman-a-bit-part-say-it-aint-so-hes-so
Tain

**Tain** is the northeastern ginnal of Alderode, and the location of the ancient Tanish tribe who originally invented pymary. Though long ago most Tainish were killed in conflict with the Gefendur invaders who would go on to found Alderode those who survived became the Soud, or Gold, caste of the modern Aldish state who do not share the same connection with the Dammakhert as other Aldish and retain typical human lifespans unlike any other sultet. The controversial historical wright Sonum Ssael was one of the ancient Tains and originated from this area. Tain is a Ssaelit majority ginnal. The original volume of the Ssaelit holy book the Northsongs is kept in the Temple of the Winds in Tain.

## Locales

* Temple of the Winds
* Anchert (contested)

## Locals

* Claggart

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/179720535655/where-is-the-original-volume-of-northsongs-kept