The gerimym: Allies from the threadworld
Written by J.L. Lockwood
05/10/2026
The Power of Mekka
The Occulan Sages
The Occulan Archives dives deeper into the artifacts, histories, and recovered writings from across the Aeturnus Continuum. This entry, drawn from “The Last War of Artriu” explores the Gerimym of planet Artriu: Allies of the Occulan Sages during the First War of Artriu.
Fig 1. Occulan Sages constructing a portal to the Etheren
“The uncovering of the Gerimym unfolded across generations. They first revealed themselves to the Occulan Sages at the sacred Pools of Omular at Hivlar. At these pools, the Sages made pilgrimage to receive the Echoria — a ritual attunement to the Threadworld through song. Within that resonance, the whispers of an unseen presence took form. What began as a distant signal deepened into a calling.
Upon their return to the Occulus, the Sages refined their workings and gave answer to that call within the temple’s inner sanctums. Through ritual practice — and through the teachings granted by the Gerimym — they came to master Mekka, an Echoric Channel unique to the nether-world of the Etheren, and drew it through the Occulan Temples scattered across Artriu.
Contact gave way to kinship, and in the time of the First War of Artriu — alliance. The Occulan Sages wrought these new workings into their craft — shaping matter itself through Echoric Invokation. Their works attained a scale and precision only known through what they left behind: statuary, architecture and strange objects, gutted of an unseen life-blood and swept away into ruin long after the First War.”
-Unknown Occulan Scribe
Fig 2. The Gerimym of the Etheren
This mysterious kin of the Etheren took a liking to the Occulan Sages, forming a special bond with them through the Threadworld —source and space where all Echoric magic flows. First contacted through the Echoria songs of Hivlar, they would converge through rituals within the Occulus.
UNcovering the gerimym
It is said that the temple city of The Occulus was founded long ago — before the first war of Artriu. And those who practiced there: The Occulan Sages, served as a unifying sect — welcoming seekers and Om-Li alike to join in ritual, under one banner.
The Occulus became a hub of the Elden Seekers — and from there would emerge the Occulan Sages, who came to be known as the first to contact the kin of the Etheren: the Gerimym.
Fig 3. Occulan Sages from before the First War
“Since the time before the First War, the Occulan Sages came to wield Mekka — a force drawn not from Artriu itself, but from the deeper currents of the Threadworld. Through it, they bent matter through intention, shaping form where none had stood, and raising structures that defied the limits of the physical world.
It is said that their works were guided through instruments known as Icons — mediums through which Mekka could be focused and made precise. Whether these were tools, or something more akin to living constructs, remains uncertain.
In the centuries that followed, the knowledge of Mekka fractured. What remains are its remnants — silent, inert, and awaiting the hand that might once again awaken them.”
Author: Erion Lorekeeper Elis
Fig 4. Mekka Invokations
Therik’s observation
“Through Mekka, the sages did not command matter—they persuaded it. What rose from their workings was not built by hand, but willed through the spirit of the Etheren..”
— Therik of Kyle