The gerimym: Allies from the threadworld
Written by J.L. Lockwood
05/21/2026
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.
Fig 3. Occulan Sages from before the First War
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 4. Mekka icon gauntlet
From the age before the First War, the Occulan Sages wielded a force they called Mekka. Through it, they summoned vast temple networks across the land — shaping form where none had stood, and raising structures that defied the limits of the physical world.
It is said this force was guided through instruments known as Icons — mediums through which Mekka could be harnessed and directed. Whether these were mere tools, or something closer to living constructs, remains uncertain.
In the centuries that followed, knowledge of this channel fractured. What remains are only its remnants — silent, inert, and awaiting the hand that might awaken them once again.
— Erion Lorekeeper Elis
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