The Pulsewright Order

“We listen so that he may rest.”

Core Belief

Uldrun is not dead and not bound.

He is awake beneath the stone, deliberately still—his stillness a truce with Serendahl to keep the surface calm for mortal life.

Heartroot is his breath made solid, a rhythmic expression of living patience.

To disturb it violently is to stab at a god who has chosen peace.

• “He endures because he loves us.”

• “Stillness is will, not weakness.”

• “To wake what rests by choice is to murder it.”

They call them the Breakers, old-world zealots chasing an apocalypse they mistake for salvation.

“They crave thunder because they have forgotten how to listen.”

Pulsewrights see mining as collaboration, not exorcism: giving the Heartroot room to breathe, maintaining circulation without rupture.

They teach that if the Cleftwrights ever succeed—if the Heartroot is destroyed—Uldrun will truly die, torn open by their “cure.”

• Spiral halls carved like lungs, lit by breathing vents that expand with heat.

• Hymns timed to seismic rhythms; they measure holiness in quiet seconds between tremors.

• Their high priesthood is called the Still Choir, whose duty is to keep Thorgun’s pulse steady.

“He is alive beneath us, dreaming gently so we may live. To wake him is to end all songs.”