The Rulie

While others sought to master the universe, the Rulie chose to understand it — and in doing so, became part of it.

Rulie with Staff of Resonance

Appearance

Height: Between 5'10" and 6'8", shorter than legends claim. Many stoop slightly, making them seem even smaller, yet they carry an undeniable presence.
Build: Slender but not frail, with long limbs and elongated torsos. Their movements are slow, purposeful—like underwater dancers or monks at prayer.
Posture: Characteristically hunched forward, not from age or pain, but as if they are always listening—to the ground, to time, or to the universe itself.
Skin: Smooth, pale violet, or mist-silver, sometimes dappled with faint natural patterns like mineral veins or ripples.
Head:

Shape resembles a giant sloth, elongated and solemn, with a wide, downward-curving brow.
No nose—only slits and smooth contours.
Eyes: Large, ovular, fully black or glowing indigo; unblinking and reflective.
No ears—just subtle ridges along the sides of the skull that sense resonant frequencies.

Robes: Silken layers made from woven crystal threads and organic fibers. Always flowing, with quiet, rippling patterns—some shift subtly in the presence of certain emotions or harmonic fields.
Staff of Resonance:

Usually as tall as the Rulie themself. Topped with a crescent moon design.
A blue crystal floats inside the crescent, humming faintly in proximity to sound, memory, or power.
Used for sensing, healing, balancing energies—not combat.
Each staff is soul-bonded and cannot be used by another.

Neurostructure: Their brains are multi-phase quantum-organic matrices, meaning they think across multiple dimensions of probability. Their "thoughts" are harmonics rather than linear language.
Time Perception: Experience time nonlinearly — not full time travelers, but capable of multi-temporal awareness (e.g., sensing echoes of future consequences).
Memory: Their memory is distributed, partially embedded in their physical form, partially in harmonic fields linked to nearby crystals and planetary systems.
Communication: Transmit meaning via harmonic resonance, emotion-infused frequencies that bypass spoken language. They can “think” in equations, tones, and geometric constructs simultaneously.

The Rulie discovered the Clear Crystal, not created it — they believe it is a natural artifact from the universe’s first harmonic resonance.
All colored crystals (red, green, blue, yellow, grey, black) are refractions of the original Clear Crystal — each representing a distorted but powerful principle.
They forged the Star Sword using Blue Crystal — believing it could channel Will without corruption.
The Black Crystal is to them a paradox — raw potential without boundary — and therefore dangerous beyond all measure.

Elias’s kind seeks mastery of energy and potential, even if it leads to manipulation.
The Rulie seek resonance and surrender to pattern, even if it leads to obscurity.
It is said they once met in an age before memory, and neither won, nor lost, but came to an accord:

Vear could encounter a Rulie holographic echo or living elder, who senses his presence as a “discordant thread” — not a threat, but a pivotal moment.
The Star Sword might only reach its full potential when a Rulie harmonic key unlocks the last resonance locked inside the Blue Crystal.
The Rulie and Elias may both appear to Leia or Vear with conflicting truths about the Black Crystal — leading to a profound moral choice.

Star Swored Elias Lyra Vear