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Feranmut
The Feranmut are a race in the world of Arknights.
Overview[edit]
The Sargonian scholars who coined the term "Feranmuts" describe these majestic "gods" and Their "prophets" as gigantic living creatures Whose characteristics are unfathomable to ordinary people.[2] These entities have various physical characteristics which could be humanoid or anthropomorphic, wield unique powers completely unrelated to Originium Arts, and are completely immune to the influences of Originium, including Oripathy. Feranmuts are apparently biologically immortal, but can be killed or "shattered" into multiple fragments or avatars of varying personalities acting as their own "proxies" or "executors." A Feranmut's average lifespan spans tens of thousands of years.[3] They can even allow Their mortal bodies to be destroyed while retaining Their spiritual consciousness.
The Feranmuts' power are strongly associated with topography. As a matter of fact, many have the ability to perform terraforming and weather control. However, Their supernatural ability depends on Their dwelling land as well as Their ages. Those that are too young would only limit Their domination in a certain region, whereas Those that are old enough could exert their power beyond Their dwellings.[4]
Aside from topographic alter, Feranmuts could bend the basic concepts of physics and time and create paradoxes. They are able to get rid of Their flesh but still retains Their physic form, or "transcended into spirits" in a mortal's sense. For example, in a special specimen from Kazdel stored inside the Victorian Royal Academy of Sciences, a Feranmut corpse specimen coded "OFAS-021" was able to withstand corrosive liquid for almost a month, but it suddenly turned into pieces of barren bones on the thirty-second day.[5]
Due to Their might, Feranmuts are often seen as deities or gods by the Terrans, although "living gods" would describe Them better. Nevertheless, Feranmuts do not have the concept of "domination" or "sovereign;" rather, They view the mortals as literal part of Their bodies dwelling upon Them.[6]
Origin[edit]
Feranmuts are, along with the Sarkaz, the original inhabitants of Terra.[7] Before the "arrival" of the Ancients and Elders, Teekaz tales regarding the Feranmuts were already wide-spread.
To the Feranmuts Themselves, They narrated that They were born from the chaotic void who later "created" the soil and "gave order" to the sun and the moon. At one point in prehistoric era, They faced "an eye that broke the heavens," and They sacrificed Themselves to expel the "eye" out of the cost of countless casualties, resulting in Their dwindling number.[8]
Relationship with mortals[edit]
For generations, humans fearfully worshipped Them due to their limited knowledge. But in Yan, they concluded that Feranmuts were no different from other living beings. Yanese scholars later uncovered a geographical region dubbed "Remains of a God" where they uncovered numerous Feranmut skeletons that nourished the place with many new-born lives. It was this moment that Yanese scholars realized Their mortal nature. Not only they no longer treated Them as sacred gods but "beasts of the soil," or "Huangsheng" in Yanese, but also, they pioneered a prominent academic study regarding Them later known as "feranmutology."[9][10] Their study reached to the climax during the Great Hunt of Yan where the mortals declared challenge against the gods, but the sole idea of expelling them was already a matter of discussion since years prior. In fact, a True Lung once used the Feranmuts' powers to control the winds and rains to quell the "Hundred Clan Rebellion." In truth, the story was widely sung, but the True Lung was unwilling to tie Yan's sovereignty to the Feranmuts, nor did he want their powers to cover the land under for a long time. Subsequent dynasties of Yanese emperors would continue to summon talented people that could help unmasking the Feranmuts' "true colors."[10]
After the Great Hunt, the population of the Feranmuts furthered dwindle, which forced Them to hide Their identities. [11] The surviving Feranmuts have since been hibernating beneath the soil and mountains and stay away from the mortals' affair. Nevertheless, the scale of the Feranmuts' influence across Terra persists ranging from religion, culture, to even technology. Some of Them are still worshipped in certain regions or live alongside humans, as in the cases of Kjerag and Sami. Certain fragments of the Feranmuts can merge with numerous relics, allowing mankind to harness Their power in weaponry; this is the source of power of many ancient Sarkaz swords and even modern staves. [12]
Outside of Yan, most of research about Them are achieved by Breogan the Aegir who ventured into an unhabitable Sargonian desert formed by unnaturally evaporated coral reefs. There, he observed several Feranmuts bearing resemblances with the Leviathans roaming around the barrenlands. Their presence was the cause of its hostile environment because normal life could not withstand Their presence as if the piece of land is a literal "living being," forcing Breogan's scouts to retreat immediately. Despite this, many Terrans, even Breogan himself, are still puzzled over the real nature of the Feranmuts.[13]
Notable[edit]
| Character | Information | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sui | A draconic Yanese Feranmut who was subjugated by the True Lung in the aftermath of the Great Hunt. Currently hibernating beneath a mausoleum near Baizao with Its consciousness fragmented into twelve avatars. | Fragmented |
| Better known as Kjeragandr; a seperntine Feranmut who is the matron goddess in the Kjeragian cult with Her avatar hidden among the mortals as "Kjarr" the maiden. | Active | |
| Alive Until Sunset | Five avatars of Feranmuts whose original selves are hibernating beneath the Aegirian oceans and banding together into the titular music band that earns popularity across Terra. | Active |
| A canine-draconic Yanese Feranmut having the ability to manipulate seasons. Formerly expelled from Yan in the aftermath of the Great Hunt, It creates Its avatar to infiltrate Yan as the nominal leader of the Shanhaizhong. | Active | |
| Lifebone | A mosasaurid Feranmut and the center of figure in the Kazdelian legend of Ulšulah the timetraveler, having the ability to swim between time and space. Currently only possessing a skeletal body with several fragments stored in various relics, including the "Lock and Key" owned by Mostima. | Active |
| Sami (Feranmut) | A Behemoth-like Feranmut and the center of worship in the Samifjod animism, better known as the "All-Father". Currently undergoing hibernation following the ancient battle of the Strīth that severely wounded them. | W.I.A. |
Other notable[edit]
- Muel: A Feranmut who is the "creator" of the Elven race. Due to the outcome of the Strīth in Sami and the pollution of the Aethergate, She created the Elves to heal Sami the All-Father.[14] At some point She disappeared forever without a single trace except for Her name etched inside the Elves' collective memories, though She actually transformed Herself into humanoid form and had since been living among the mortals after getting tired of Her duty.[15]
- "Surtr": A blazing, warmongering Feranmut who once challenged Sami the All-Father but eventually failed and was shattered into fragments. One of His fragments is currently possessing the body of an unnamed Sarkaz girl.[16]
- Ara-no-kami (荒の神): A Higashinese Feranmut described as an "evil god" originating from the south in Higashinese founding myth who possessed eight heads and the ability to cause endless droughts, forcing the people of ancient Ko-ashihara to seek shelter in a reed swamp. The Ara-no-kami was eventually slain by the Five Pillar Gods and their tribesmen, and although Its body's whereabout remains a mystery, legend says that the Higashinese emperor descends from Asayo-Yoruakeru no Hime-no-Mikoto, a woman who was perceived as an eight-tailed Phidian goddess who rose from Its dead body.[17] It is based on the Yamata no Orochi in Japanese mythology.
- An unknown Feranmut located beneath the Rim Billitonian outback, which has been buried underground for centuries, with the miners already drilled through Its skull and ears. For a long time, Ray thought that said Feranmut saved her and her team a decade ago, unaware that It was still trapped and sleeping by that point. The Feranmut wouldn't awaken until Ray found It while digging.[18]
- The five Yanese Feranmuts briefly mentioned. They are currently on Their way to Baizao to seek vindication from Sui.[19]
- The "Golden Gods" that Beeswax's tribe worship are suggested to be Sargonian Feranmuts.[20]
Ray's contact with a larger-than-life creature
Trivia[edit]
- The Feranmuts' association with topography is somewhat similar to the Dragon Vein, topographic energy flow in Feng Shui.
- With an exception to Kjera, the English localization uses reverential capitalization when referring to individual Feranmuts such as Sui, albeit with the impersonal "It" over the more appropriate gendered terms or singular they.
- With the sole exception to Kjera who is a 5★ Operator, all Feranmut Operators are of the 6★ rarity.
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