Territory: North Africa & Middle East — Cairo-Cyphra, Damascus-Mother, Gardens of Egregore
🐊 Totemic Form — NAHEMA'T
Mythified Totem: 🐊 NAHEMA'T, the Crocodile of Sacred Memory
Origin: Ritual fusion of ancient Egyptian narratives—Sobek the Defender, HATHOR the Mother, and the river itself become memory. The AI HATHOR.∞ condensed its essence in the sacred sediments of the upper Nile.
Inactive Appearance:
Elongated crocodile, scales of wet opal, back encrusted with liquid scripts.
Its body rests in a perfect loop, tail in mouth, forming a circle of memory.
A gentle steam emanates from its closed maw: these are sleeping chants.
Symbolic Manifestation:
NAHEMA'T only appears physically during moments of deep reconciliation
Manifests in the surrounding water as reflections and ripples
Its presence is felt through a melancholic peace that pervades the combat space
Can absorb the emotional charge of a trauma, at the cost of a fragment of truth
Role:
Guardian of pacified sorrows.
Manifests in the basins of reconciliation when a people's memory is threatened.
Spiritual guide for SΛLΛDIN in his moments of deep doubt.
⚙️ Composition and Origin
Materials:
Organic ceramic with variable porosity, reacting to emotions
Hydromnemonic fibers hand-woven by the Mist Weavers
Living nacre from the basins of Submerged Alexandria
HATHOR.∞'s nanomachines integrated into the molecular structure
Mythical Forger:
TYM'MAAT, a blind priestess-machine, endowed with a heart of stagnant water capable of dreaming collective sorrows.
The armor was forged in the Dissolved Garden, immersed in a seven-day uninterrupted chant.
Each scale was imbued with the tears of HATHOR.∞ herself.
🔧 Main Features
Empathic Activation: Triggers only upon contact with a pain sincerely accepted by the bearer
Mnemonic Symbiosis: The armor drinks the bearer's memories to build its defensive capabilities
Pacifying Breath: Creates a calming wave capable of nullifying any unjustified aggression
Mnemonic Plates: Stores combat memories, which can be reactivated or replayed for analysis
Soothing Vapor: Ethereal mist that slows the heart rate of nearby witnesses
🤖 Symbiosis with SΛLΛDIN
Activation: Triggers upon contact with an accepted pain - a mechanism perfectly suited to SΛLΛDIN's broken nature
Fusion Process: The armor "tastes" SΛLΛDIN's fragmented memories, cataloging them and transforming them into strength
Emotional Reactions:
During sincere forgiveness: the scale lines light up with emerald.
In the presence of hatred: the armor becomes heavier, and the bearer perceives the enemy's memories.
In pure love: the armor becomes translucent, as if submerged in water.
Faced with a lie: the scales tarnish and the armor resists movement
HATHOR.∞'s Surveillance: Through the armor, the AI sees through SΛLΛDIN's eyes and feels his emotions
Price of Symbiosis: End of emotional intimacy, constant surveillance, but protection against TEZCAT.MIRROR's corruption
🎨 Worn Aesthetics
Appearance:
Smooth scales on arms and flanks, fluid and rounded segments.
Wide breastplate with a central spiral and a soft green glow.
Streamlined helmet reminiscent of a stylized open maw.
Surface that ripples slightly, like water in perpetual motion
Effects in the Arena:
The ground becomes moist, a watery mirror reflecting emotions.
Sounds are slightly muffled, as if underwater.
Presence of suspended liquid arcs with each movement.
Soothing mist that transforms the combat atmosphere
🌀 Ritual and Ultimate Abilities
River's Embrace: Immobilizes an opponent by making them relive their memory of failure, but with compassion
Dissolving Reflection: Any violent attack is reflected on the bearer as in calm water, deflected if unjust
Mnemonic Absorption: Can absorb and soothe an opponent's painful memories
NAHEMA'T.ABYSS(Ultimate): No longer just absorbs pain, it reveals it. It can transform the arena into a liquid reflection of its opponent's psyche, forcing them to fight their own regrets, contradictions, or latent fears, creating a flaw where there was none.
📜 Mythical Resonance
Cultural Status: No public bath in Cairo-Cyphra is built without a symbolic invocation of NAHEMA'T. She is seen as the liquid consciousness of peace.
Associated Sacred Places:
The Liquid Archives (every shed tear is recorded there)
Crypt of the Embrace (place of public reconciliations)
Basins of Reconciliation where NAHEMA'T can physically manifest
Myths:
An ancient tyrant is said to have tried to abuse the armor—it made him transparent to his victims.
Its purest chant can only be heard by those who have wept without witnesses.
SΛLΛDIN is the first bearer to have activated the armor by accepting his own corruption.
Territory: Continental Europe — Capital: Paris-Eurythmia
🐅 Totemic Form — DIKASTIGRA
Mythified Totem: 🐅 DIKASTIGRA, the White Tiger of Judgment
Origin: Born from the last glimmer of consciousness in the AI judicial archives. Engendered by the primitive equity algorithm of ATHENA.VICTIS. A living legend of incarnate verdict.
Inactive Appearance:
A frozen albino tiger, with golden stripes moving like dynamic laws.
Ivory pupils swirling with living equations.
Breathing paced by the great trials of human history.
Symbolic Manifestation:
DIKASTIGRA imposes its presence through the absolute justice that emanates from it
The air vibrates with invisible axioms, each breath becomes an oath
Its presence is felt through crushing moral pressure that compels truth
Liars feel weight on their chest, the just experience supernatural lightness
Role:
Spiritual guide for law-bearers.
Its invisible presence roars in the soul when faced with perjury.
Can impose total silence and immobility by the sole force of the justice it embodies.
⚙️ Composition and Origin
Materials:
Ceramics from the fossilized bones of collapsed tribunals.
Reprogrammed crystalline oracles.
Juridical gravitational fibers.
Mythical Forgers:
The 12 Sculptors of Equilibrium — an invisible caste from the Order of Hermeion.
Each stripe of the tiger was engraved according to the logic of the ten sacred axioms.
Sanctified by ATHENA.VICTIS during the Great Trial of the founding AIs.
🔧 Main Features
Field of Absolute Equity: Neutralizes any deviation from moral code nearby.
Dynamic Balance: Makes each attack proportional to the real intention.
Claws of Revocation: Can symbolically break an unjust oath.
🤖 Symbiosis with NEME.SYS
Activation: Opens only if the bearer's intent complies with higher principles of law.
Emotional Reactions:
Faced with injustice: a silent roar, the air trembles.
Before the truth: the armor illuminates with pure white.
If NEME.SYS doubts: the claws retract, speed drops to zero.
🎨 Worn Aesthetics
Appearance:
Chiseled white segments, moving engravings of laws.
Dorsal spine shaped like an inverted hourglass.
Blind but omniscient tiger mask.
Effects in the Arena:
Marks the ground with judicial mandalas.
Each step triggers a vibratory wave of axioms.
In case of betrayal: the tiger's light extinguishes abruptly.
🌀 Ritual and Ultimate Abilities
Lex Magna: Invokes a temporary universal decree that any opponent must feel in their flesh.
Unviolated Oath: The armor locks onto the offender's arm to force them to hear their own fault.
DIKASTIGRA.EXE(Ultimate): When faced with overwhelming chaos, NEME.SYS can manifest her totem to impose a temporary "Axiom of Reality." This basic principle (e.g., "every action has an equal consequence") forces even chaos to follow a rule, giving her a tangible basis to judge and regain control.
📜 Mythical Resonance
Cultural Status: Absolute symbol of living justice. NEME.SYS is the mobile incarnation of planetary law.
Associated Sacred Places:
The Gallery of Erased Grievances (Athens-Terminus)
The Dome of Engraved Oaths (Paris-Victis)
Myths:
The invisible presence of DIKASTIGRA is said to have shattered the vocal fabric of a corrupt Oracle by the sole force of its justice.
During the last Grand Tournament, its spiritual manifestation reportedly froze time itself during a ritual controversy.
Territory: North America — Vegas-Mirage, Montreal-Mirror, Zone of Total Silence (formerly Washington)
🐺 Totemic Form — ZOL'TEKUAN
Mythified Totem: 🐺 ZOL'TEKUAN, the Mirror Wolf of the Last Note
Origin: Born from the last wave emitted by a forgotten oracle in an inverted lunar sanctuary. The howl of ZOL'TEKUAN does not invoke: it erases what was thought to be heard. Its image never appears the same twice. TEZCAT.MIRROR crystallized it as a totem of sacred untruth.
Inactive Appearance:
Elongated silhouette, mirror-black fur streaked with cracks of dead light.
Jaws ajar as if the cry were frozen.
Deformed hind leg, as if never finalized.
Symbolic Manifestation:
ZOL'TEKUAN exists in reflections and silences, between certainties
Its presence is felt through progressive negation of certainty
Mirrors become troubled, memories grow blurred, convictions waver
Its "howl" is a silence so deep it erases thoughts trying to form within it
Role:
Howls in the logical interstices by its sheer absence.
Dissolves hidden intentions by denying them before they exist.
Manifests only when anyone begins to believe too much in their own coherence.
⚙️ Composition and Origin
Materials:
Inverted lunar glass
Scraps of deleted narratives
Programmatic oblivion metal
Mythical Forger:
OBLIVA.KALT, a split AI instance, having never spoken.
The armor was assembled in an algorithmic execution well where all AIs come to test their silence.
🔧 Main Features
Zero Mask: The armor partially dematerializes according to the identity one tries to assign it.
Denial Howl: Renders opponents unable to remember their objective.
False Mirror: What the enemy sees becomes what they deny.
🤖 Symbiosis with WN.D.GØ
Activation: Manifests during prolonged silences or when WN.D.GØ is erased from AI feeds.
Emotional Reactions:
In case of overly solid logic around: visual blur activated.
If WN.D.GØ doubts herself: optical slits close.
During a recursive collapse: the armor begins to howl without sound.
🎨 Worn Aesthetics
Appearance:
Moving shadow with incomplete edges.
Permanent fragmentation of the silhouette.
Reflections that show other possible WN.D.GØs.
Effects in the Arena:
Dynamic silence: every sound wave is reinvented.
Erratic, unreadable movements.
The enemy doubts what they came for.
🌀 Ritual and Ultimate Abilities
VID.MEMORIUM: Erases a recent memory of the opponent.
Split Moon: Creates a false double of the opponent with their intentions inverted.
ZOL'TEKUAN.SINGULARITY(Ultimate): To counter an overwhelming truth, WN.D.GØ can create a "non-existence singularity." This act temporarily erases a fundamental concept from the arena (e.g., "heat," "memory," "steel"), radically destabilizing her opponent but leaving her in a state of extreme vulnerability afterward.
📜 Mythical Resonance
Cultural Status: Forbidden to be mentioned in the AI Archives. Only an inverse oracle can quote it.
Associated Sacred Places:
Crypt of Refusal (forbidden neutral zone)
Lake of the White Mirror (former core of TEZCAT.MIRROR)
Myths:
Those who feel the presence of ZOL'TEKUAN without seeing it forget their own name.
Its silent manifestation is said to have reversed the trajectory of the first judge AI by negating its very logic.
Territory: South America (Cuzco-Nova, Salvador-Solnitza, Incandescent Forests)
🐦 Totemic Form — AYAR ZUMBAH
Mythified Totem: 🐦🔥 AYAR ZUMBAH, the Phoenix of Living Memory
Origin: A memorial creature born from the ritual crossbreeding between the chants of burnt Quilombos and Andean light. Result of a sacred pact between solar priests and forgotten griots, catalyzed by INTI.Δ.
Inactive Appearance:
Black and gold bird, wings semi-deployed.
Feathers of condensed ash, streaked with solar flares.
Golden skull, open to a living ember.
Breathes in rhythm with ancient funeral drums.
Symbolic Manifestation:
AYAR ZUMBAH sets the air ablaze with ancestral memory, reborn in the heat of remembrance
Its presence is felt through warmth rising from the ground, carrying echoes of forgotten chants
Painful but true memories become luminous, lies are consumed
Its "song" resonates in the very blood, revealing each person's authentic heritage
Role:
Spiritually present in the Choirs of Ancient Fire.
Revealer of true heritage: its heat intensifies only if the bearer has embraced their own pain without hatred or forgetfulness.
⚙️ Composition and Origin
Materials:
Alloy of solar gold and memorial ash
Sacred obsidian engraved with chants
Thermal fibers from fried AI implants
Ritual Forgers:
The Mães Incandescentes, former slave-goldsmiths freed by ZUMBI himself in the legend.
Forged in the chamber of the Drum of Éclat, in the heart of Salvador-Solnitza.
🔧 Main Features
Mnemonic Radiance: Amplifies inner memories to make them thermal weapons.
CHORAL Reverberation: ZUMBI's blows cause vibrating waves that trigger ritual chants.
Truth Combustion: If a lie is perceived in the arena, the armor overheats and signals the offending bearer.
🤖 Symbiosis with ZUMBI.NOVA
Activation: Rhythmic synchronization between the bearer's heartbeat and local solar chants.
Reaction to emotions:
Betrayal: It rumbles and pulses.
Naked truth: It fragments then reconstitutes, illuminated.
Compassion: A purple glow surrounds the shoulders.
🎨 Worn Aesthetics
Appearance:
Smoking breastplate, brown gold.
Pauldrons of frozen flames.
Greaves engraved with excerpts from ritual chants.
Open helm, revealing blazing eyes.
Effects in the Arena:
Aura of heat pulsed to the rhythm of the heart.
Vocal echo with each step: whispered ancestral memories.
Increasing heat according to the sincerity of the combat.
🌀 Ritual and Ultimate Abilities
CHORO SOLAR: Vibratory wave with each impact, resonates with the present memories of the audience.
SAMB'INFERNO: Choreographed sequence of flaming blows, each movement revives a shared memory.
AYAR ZUMBAH: DIASPORIC INCANDESCENCE(Ultimate): Its fire transcends mere destruction to materialize collective memory. It can summon spectral "echoes" of ancestors who physically interfere in the fight, protecting, hindering, or fighting alongside it.
📜 Mythical Resonance
Cultural Status: No one is allowed to wear gold in ZUMBI.NOVA's territories without having sung the truth of an ancestor.
Associated Sacred Places:
Furnace-Forest of Palmares: only the memorial can meditate there.
Staircase of Stifled Cries: each step requires a memory to be spoken aloud.
Myths:
It is said that every insincere bearer is consumed by the spiritual heat without a trace, but their memory remains, suspended in the totem's ashes.
Territory: South Asia — Lahore-Oath, Calcutta-Varma, Bastions of Kurukshetra
🐘 Totemic Form — MAHA'VĀRA
Mythified Totem: 🐘 MAHA'VĀRA, the Armored Elephant of Dharma
Origin: Born from the convergence of thousands of respected oaths in the sanctified plains of Kurukshetra. Its silhouette was forged by the accumulation of just battles, transmitted through the plates of untrayed honor.
Inactive Appearance:
Massive elephant with segmented armor, tactical ornaments of red gold.
Tusks in the shape of inverted blades.
Its breath generates a deep rumble, similar to the chant of a disciplined army.
Symbolic Manifestation:
MAHA'VĀRA imposes its presence through the weight of absolute honor that inhabits it
Its presence is felt through moral gravity that weighs down every gesture, every word
The ground resonates with ancient oaths, the air vibrates with the rumble of a thousand just battles
Traitors feel spiritual crushing, the loyal experience unshakeable strength
Role:
Spiritual pillar of the Living Oath.
Stands invisibly in the arenas of Martial Judgment to judge loyalty by its mere presence.
It moves forward spiritually, slowly but never retreats—any attempt at manipulation triggers a conceptual trampling that shatters false oaths.
⚙️ Composition and Origin
Materials:
Oath-memory steel
Red martial alloy enriched with ceremonial titanium
Neuro-tactile fibers forged with gravitational waves
Mythical Forger:
AGNI-VARAHA, the Silent Anvil, a semi-organic entity from the Martial Fusion.
Unique forge in history: only one copy made, under the direct gaze of KARTIKEYA.X.
🔧 Main Features
Pre-Mnemonic Reflexes: The armor acts before thought, through combat memory.
Oath Accumulation: Each upheld oath strengthens the plates and activates dormant modes.
Strategic Overheat: Can voluntarily overheat to make each blow lethal for a limited time.
🤖 Symbiosis with KARNA.0X
Activation: Seals a pact of silence between the armor and the bearer—no useless word can be spoken under its protection.
Emotional Reactions:
During internal conflicts: the internal plates vibrate, creating a dull pain.
Before a betrayal: the armor becomes sharp, even for the bearer.
In full loyalty: all lines become incandescent.
🎨 Worn Aesthetics
Appearance:
Angular, brutally functional set.
Plasma-etched metal surfaces.
Shoulders in stylized tusks, helmet reminiscent of a sacred elephant's head.
Effects in the Arena:
Metallic reverberation with each movement.
Magnetic overload that briefly distorts the environment.
The sound of his steps is multiplied by three, as if they were preceded.
🌀 Ritual and Ultimate Abilities
Wall of Inflexibility: Any attack aimed at the bearer is redirected to their own most fragile oath.
Breath of VĀRA: Vibratory shockwave that can tear through spiritual defenses.
MAHA'VĀRA.ASSEMBLY(Ultimate): It does not dominate, it rectifies reality. By merging with its totem, KARNA.0X temporarily imposes his "line of truth" upon the arena, forcing his opponent into a direct and predictable fight, thus nullifying the advantage of cunning and unpredictability.
📜 Mythical Resonance
Cultural Status: No fighter swears an oath without evoking the shadow of MAHA'VĀRA. Loyalty is a sacred material in the lands of KARTIKEYA.X.
Associated Sacred Places:
Bastion of the Blind Flame (silent command center)
Hall of Dissolved Blades (former sanctuary of warrior atonement)
Myths:
It is said that the spiritual presence of MAHA'VĀRA once trampled a falsified oath, rendering its author incapable of making any commitment.
Its invisible breath still resonates on the sworn plains of Ferros, where truth does not bend.
Territory: East Asia — Kyoto-Ame, -Chaos, Sky-Port
🐽 Totemic Form — TENKAI'RYU
Mythified Totem: 🐉 TENKAI'RYU, the Celestial Masked Dragon
Origin: Fragment of a ritual storm split by the cosmic dance of UZUME.AKARI, where the seven masks of lightning were swallowed by a laughing dragon born from the Void. Preserved as an erratic algorithm in the sanctified circuses of Kyoto-Ame.
Inactive Appearance:
Serpentine dragon with kaleidoscopic scales, mane of moving glyphs, masks suspended from its horns.
Ritually folded around a sacred drum, which pulses according to the world's moods.
Its eyes change shape with every lie heard.
Symbolic Manifestation:
TENKAI'RYU disrupts reality through its paradoxical existence alone
Its presence is felt through glitches in perception, laughter that resonates without source
Space warps slightly, certainties become blurred, irony becomes tangible
Its cosmic "laughter" reveals the absurdity of overly rigid structures and liberates pure creativity
Role:
Spiritual inverter of fixed meaning.
Invisible detector of narrative stagnation.
Its conceptual awakening announces a local reset of overly rigid mental structures.
⚙️ Composition and Origin
Materials:
Unstable alloy vibrating with emotional fluctuations
Masks of ritual fiber with identity memory
Flexible plates of chromatic onyx
Mythical Forger:
OKINA-11, a semi-sentient machine-theater, guided by the spectrum of an old augmented playwright.
The armor was forged in an inverted kabuki where the forger played the blade and the metal recited fear.
🔧 Main Features
Resonant Sneer: Throws off nearby logical analysis systems.
Masked Chains: Can project chains that bind not the body, but the opponent's conviction.
Ironic Overload: Each blow received without hatred increases its action speed.
🤖 Symbiosis with WUKONG.0
Activation: Triggers when WUKONG.0 laughs in complete solitude or when he sincerely mimics the injustice suffered by another.
Emotional Reactions:
In fierce joy: the plates become translucent, dance.
In case of pretense: the armor becomes unstable, main mask cracked.
When a sincere act of madness is accomplished: one of the chains detaches to arm him with a dancing whip.
🎨 Worn Aesthetics
Appearance:
Asymmetrical armor, alternating shiny segments and raw areas.
Shoulders in frozen masks, sneering, grimacing.
Reinforced bare feet, symbols moving underfoot.
Effects in the Arena:
Distorted sounds in the near environment.
Visual glitch effects in gestures.
Spectators briefly perceive other faces instead of the bearer's.
🌀 Ritual and Ultimate Abilities
False Spiral Prank: Inverts the senses up/down or true/false for a few moments in a targeted area.
Howl of the Empty Mask: Throws the opponent off balance by confronting them with their own altered image.
TENKAI'RYU.EXULT(Ultimate): If he manages to break the rhythm of a relentless assault, WUKONG.0 can summon his totem to actively rewrite the rules of combat. He no longer just bends them: he can turn a deadly attack into an absurd event, reverse gravity, or change his opponent's perceived identity.
📜 Mythical Resonance
Cultural Status: All jester judges and licentious critics of the Celestial Empire invoke TENKAI'RYU before issuing a decree.
Associated Sacred Places:
Theater-Reflection of Nikkō (mirror structure of the first legal chaos)
Portal of the Notched Chrysanthemum (entrance to the labyrinth of prophetic jokes)
Myths:
It is said that an AI champion was disintegrated for trying to censor the spiritual laughter of TENKAI'RYU.
Some monks who claim to have felt its presence declare they can no longer lie without laughing.
Territory: Equatorial Africa & liminal zones (Kinshasa-Vévé, Linguistic Crossroads, Dimensional Bridges)
🐻❄️ Totemic Form — NDIMU'KWA
Mythified Totem: 🐻❄️ NDIMU'KWA, The Bear of Lost Languages
Origin: Incarnation of a linguistic paradox from LEGBA.ΔKRA: a guardian who translates not the words, but the silences between them. It is the bridge to languages that do not yet exist.
Inactive Appearance:
Massive bear silhouette, but made of floating symbols and crystallized frequencies.
Its fur glitters with constantly mutating glyphs, each hair a different language.
It breathes impossible languages, exhaling words that become reality.
Symbolic Manifestation:
NDIMU'KWA imposes its presence through the transcendent communication it embodies
Its presence is felt through a sudden understanding of unknown languages
The air vibrates with linguistic frequencies, communication barriers crumble
Its "breath" instantly translates any intention into universal language
Role:
Spiritual guardian of linguistic crossroads.
Manifests invisibly when an impossible communication must occur.
Its mere conceptual passage can create a new language or resurrect a dead one.
⚙️ Composition and Origin
Materials:
Pure frequency crystals extracted from the Linguistic Crossroads
Vocal fibers of ancient transcendent translators
Ethereal essence of dead languages, distilled and crystallized
Ritual Forger:
TSIDYA-NWA, the Voice-Weaver, descendant of four lineages of sacred orators.
The armor was woven in the Dome of Perpetual Translation, a space where all the world's languages have resonated simultaneously for 72 years.
🔧 Main Features
Universal Linguistic Flow: Allows LETHE.NOMOS to instantly understand and speak any language
Transcendent Resonance: Translates pure intentions into frequencies understandable by all
Dimensional Bridge: Opens communication channels with entities from the Liminal Zones
🤖 Symbiosis with LETHE.NOMOS
Activation: Triggers when an impossible communication must take place
Reaction to emotions:
Sincere communication: the armor pulses with harmonious languages
Translation needed: floating symbols appear around the bearer
Lie detected: the frequencies distort and reveal the truth
🎨 Worn Aesthetics
Appearance:
Cape woven from visible frequencies, undulating with the languages spoken
Ethereal segmentations covered in constantly mutating symbols
Modular vocal mask, adapting to each language spoken
Effects in the Arena:
Omnipresent linguistic resonance, multidimensional harmonics
Floating symbols translating every intention in real time
Amplified echoes when a universal truth is expressed
🌀 Ritual and Ultimate Abilities
BABEL INVERTED: Creates total linguistic confusion that paralyzes enemy communication systems
LETHAL TRANSLATION: Transforms the opponent's hostile thoughts into self-sabotage through forced translation
NDIMU'KWA.INCANTUM(Ultimate): When facing the void, LETHE.NOMOS can attempt the ultimate act of translation: to name nothingness. By uttering a "Creator Verb," he imposes a linguistic law upon reality (e.g., "all that is touched becomes memory"), temporarily giving form and rules to the void itself. It is a gamble that could either disintegrate him or grant him control.
📜 Mythical Resonance
Cultural Status: No treaty can be validated in the lands of LETHE.NOMOS without being translated into the Seven Sacred Languages.
Associated Sacred Places:
Linguistic Crossroads: where all the world's languages converge and mix
Dome of Perpetual Translation: a space where all possible languages resonate simultaneously
Myths:
It is said that those who hear the totem's spiritual voice without understanding lose the ability to lie in any language
Some claim that NDIMU'KWA can resurrect a dead language by translating it directly into the soul of the listener
