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(day 17) OC TIME!!!! This is Frigid Sacrosanct (they/it - with feminine terms) AKA Wraith!
(VERY LONG READ AHEAD SORRY- IM VERY USED TO WRITING EXTREMELY LONG LORE)
They're an iterator who'se structure was built halfway into a mountain. Their structure also takes place near the biggest communications tower. Frigid's purpose was, rather than looking for a solution to the big problem, to archive and sort information. They also would do this for iterator's communications and logs and such as well, which is why they also go by Wraith.
Their real identity as Frigid Sacrosanct is largely undocumented as they pose as a completely ordinary, run of the mill iterator. Their existence as Wraith however is largely hated, since they were forced to act as a representation of the ancients, and sort and document in a way the ancients would've liked instead of Frigid themself.
Because of this Frigid feels that beyond its duty as an archivist and overseer, they have no real identity. After they realised all of the ancients were gone- and it took a while longer than most other iterators since there was no city on their own can- they felt a huge sense of freedom wash over them. They immediately abandoned their Wraith identity, and as such Wraith was thought to have either died or crossed itself off somehow.
Frigid has found that they're, in fact, a massive nerd. They would think all day of their archive, their life's work and masterpiece. They still continued to sort and archive after the ancients disappearance, but they also started to research topics themselves as their new purpose and documented new wildlife, how the climate continued to change, geography, etc.
While the ancients and most iterators were busy pondering endlessly about a way to leave the world, Frigid wanted to know everything they could before they even thought of ascension.
Now come when their structure could no longer withstand the passage of time. By this point, a quarter of their structure was collapsed on the mountain, the rest remaining inside and still exuding warmth as they remained mostly functional. Their can had always been plagued by snowstorms, even as the ancients built their can. They were a long ways above the line where it'd actually snowstorm, but the air was still cold to the point where no ancient would dare live there as they did on other iterators. It was a harsh climate that almost no other creature could withstand for long.
As with the rule that the void sea always eats away at the ground as new dust builds up, over time, they were subjected to being under the cycle of blizzards. This is ultimately what did their can in, big avalanches descending on top of them and tearing at their exposed leg below. Though since they were still mostly functioning, they still gave off enough warmth to withstand the extreme blizzards, and many creatures would move near them- especially a big colony of slugcats, who were the only ones that could traverse inside their can freely.
This colony was very big, and usually the slugcats would be nice to Frigid, other than when they tried to eat their neurons- to which they responded to by trying to seal off parts of their structure. For better or worse.
There also would be regular fights with scavengers and other such species, which would never end without blood. Frigid didn't like when this happened of course, so sometimes they would try to gain back control of the parts of their can that were seized over by slugcats. But then would always ultimately decide not to, knowing that they could try hurting Frigid more instead. They had seen some of their sense of vengeance first-hand by their own overseers... That little red one with the scar on it's eye, if they recall correctly.
So now Frigid Sacrosanct, once being a sort of librarian spy, now reduced to being the mother of a slugcat colony. Yeah that's all the lore i have for now. Don't know how to end this, it's actually about 4 in the morning and i feel really sleepy so... hope you enjoyed my word vomit. i bid you a nice day/night :^)
Also forgot to mention but they have seperate structures build just for extra memory and processing power and such. and the spikes on their head are extra antennae and allow them to multitask much more than other iterators. they literally function as if they were to be multiple people with 8 arms each.
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