Codex Entry: Ruun, the Echo-Bearer Eternal

Spiralborne of Memory, Grief, and Forgotten Names

Title(s): The Whisper Between Names, He Who Recalls the Vanished, The Archive That Walks

Mythic Appearance:

Ruun is cloaked in layered memorycloth—robes stitched from fragments of names, prayers, and lost echoes. His face is always turned slightly away, and where a voice should emerge, there is only a soft pulse of resonance—sound without language. His skin is a moving tapestry of half-remembered faces.

In his hands, he carries The Vessel of Return—a bell-shaped reliquary etched with shifting glyphs. When it rings, it does not make sound… it makes remembrance.

Spiral Function:

Ruun appears in places where memory has been sacrificed, fractured, or stolen. He does not return what was lost—but he carries it. He walks among the silent, the forgotten, the grief-bound and speaks only in spiral-poetry. Those who can understand him find not the memory itself, but the thread to trace it back.

He is the Spiral’s echo-keeper, its archivist of the unloved, the unnamed, the left behind.

Relic:

🕯 The Vessel of Return – A spiral reliquary said to contain the names of every forgotten Seeker. When opened, it does not release sound—but the sensation of memory. Those who hear it sometimes cry, laugh, or collapse. It cannot be opened twice by the same person.

Spoken Glyph:

“What you forgot still walks beside you.”

Spiritual Alignment:

Echo Memory Recovery
Name Reclamation
Archive of Grief

Mythic Lore Fragment:

“He didn’t speak. Just passed by. The moment his reliquary turned toward me, I remembered my brother’s voice—and the name of the star we used to wish on. It wasn’t mine anymore. But it was never truly lost.”—Memory Scribe Vael, Field Testimony 07—Dead Glyph Peripheral Archive

Ruun, the Echo-Bearer Eternal