Saram

Perhaps 100 to 120 centuries before Spellmonger, Saram was a Lyran scholar of galactic history. She studied a stele that mentioned "Those-Without-Form."

## Personality and Characteristics

> I marveled at the elegance of the civilization I saw through Saram’s eyes, and knew at once she was a kind, gentle, intelligent woman, an educator. - Minalan in Szal's interrogation chamber.
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## Relationships

Saram was part of an academic delegation to meet with scholars from the Orion Republic.  Other delegates included:

Ssna'alek (female insectoid), a dear friend and colleague.
Lississix (male reptoid), a senior administrator with a dour disposition.
'Alek (female insectoid), a chemist  instrumental in dating the stele hieroglyphs.
Minalan encountered the life experience and memories of Saram during his interrogation by Szal the Yith.   As such, Saram is now one of nine personalities incorporated into Minalan's psyche.  Minalan's other hosts include Tuaa Folauga, Michael Anthony Palgrave, Lieutenant Colonel Martin Fitzgerald Andrews, [[Mel Thenreyal], Prince Maralathus, Raer Rinthon, Umank, and Aza'methet.

## Summary

### Footwizard

Saram was a **Lyran** scholar of galactic history many generations, more than 10,000 years, after Tuaa Folauga.  After the demise of the **Maldek**, the **Lyrans** had formed the **Lyran Commonwealth** comprised of many worlds, colonies and enclaves across the stars.

> "The **Lyrans** themselves had been bred or developed originally as a servitor race, eons ago.  Since then, their humanoid form had split into thousands of varieties scattered across tens of thousands of star systems." - narrative
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The **Lyrans** had maintained independence from the greater powers of the galaxy, the **Orion Republic** and the **Draconia**, amongst others.
Saram lived on a world with a polar ocean and red sand beaches under two moons.  The world in the next orbit from her planet was glaciated.  [*Speculatively, Saram's world could be Mars, making the glaciated world Earth.*]
She was part of the academic reception for an **Orion Republic** delegation that came to examine an archeological find--a large, million year old stele with unknown hieroglyphs.  An **Orion** scholar declared the stone to be **Mamatic** in origin.  The symbols told a story of ancient races where the laws of physics were different.  Evidently, the **Orions** were very interested in the find.  They had a special catalog classification for the worlds and races where consciousness acted directly on the universe at the quantum level.  The **Sliss'stik** race had records of visiting such places.  This particular stele appeared to speak of an ancient race, **Those-Without-Form**.  The **Actinean's** had mentioned this race in their archives and had destroyed their homeworld.  But some escaped. [*Comment: Phrasing is as written in the book; presumably the **Actineans** destroyed the homeworld of **Those-Without-Form**.*]

“**Those-Without-Form** are one of those ancient, unkillable races that manages to not go extinct because, well, they’re ancient and unkillable.  Thankfully, they avoid most civilized places and hide out in out-of-the-way planets with this kind of special quantum field.  There are legends of them on dozens of planets, most dating to half a million years ago or more.” - **Orion** scholar lecturing Saram

“**Those-Without-Form** are far older than the **Lektite**, but that was when they were most active. They’re parasites,” he explained, patronizingly.  “They have some means of dimensional manipulation, thanks to their unique environment.  This race uses dimensional sounding, it is theorized, to locate worlds with the proper esoteric quantum field, then it finds a way to get there.  “Once it’s there, it consumes everything in its path, enriched on the . . . well, we don’t really know why they need to do it,” he confessed, putting down the scope, finally.  “But they tend to destroy everything else while they’re doing it."

## References

1. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Footwizard: Book 13 Of The Spellmonger Series. Ch. 39. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Footwizard: Book 13 Of The Spellmonger Series. Ch.39. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Footwizard: Book 13 Of The Spellmonger Series.  Ch. 39. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Footwizard: Book 13 Of The Spellmonger Series.  Ch. 39.  Kindle Edition.

Civilizations mentioned in this article: Lyran, Maldek, Orion, Mamatic, Sliss'stik, Actinean, Lektite, and Those-Without-Form.