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Quiet
Quiet is a massive stone elemental in the form of a whale.
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Etymology
Quiet was named by the creatures that took up residence on him, named because in all the years he's existed, he has never once spoken a single word.
History
The Earth-bound A'huun
The Upheaval explosion spent nearly a third of the A'huun in its entirety, burning it up in the violent rush of energy. The remaining two thirds became split nearly in half. One half remaining within Earth's atmosphere, and the other half breaking free and shooting off into distant space. The A'huun that remained on Earth post-Upheaval had burst upward and outward during the explosion, but the event had changed the nature of the A'huun permanently. This is known as the A'hunic Shift. The Earth-bound A'huun had impacted the land so intensely, it had fused to it, and in the moments after the explosion, the energy shockwave surprisingly reversed its course, rushing back towards the now-decimated basin. All of the surface land of the basin, including all flora and fauna had been carried into space with the escaping energy, left behind were smaller, albeit still quite large, chunks of Earth. The Earth-bound A'huun, now bound to these shards of mountain stone and soil, began collecting itself, and thanks to the A'hunic Shift, began forming a conscious sentience. The energy and stone organized itself where it felt natural, that being floating over the crater. Drawing all the remaining energy and shards of earth towards itself, orienting itself and taking shape.
An onlooker would describe it as a strange lull, following the massive explosion, where the earth seemed to be trying to draw itself up, to pick up the pieces. Confused and new, the consciousness was attempting to put the pieces back where they belonged. Coming finally together and shifting and grating, the earthen chunks took on a rough appearance of a massive stone whale. Smaller wisps of energy took hold of the remaining rubble, floating alongside the whale. These being much less powerful, they did not fully gain a recognizable shape for decades, however we know them now as the Great Rays, a small swarm of smaller elementals shaped like manta rays. Why they took on forms reminiscent of ocean creatures was never explained, and some believe that the A'huun itself didn't know why. Some theorize that the bones of a great ancient whale may have been deep within the layers of the earth in the basin, and influenced the A'huun's path. Others think that perhaps so much of the basin's land had been removed during the Upheaval, that the floating location where the remaining A'huun gathered actually used to be ground-level, and that displacement caused the newly formed sentience to believe it was somehow swimming. (All the knowledge we have of these events has been given to us via memory-dreams from Quiet himself, and so if he understands the reason for his shape, he has chosen not to share it with us.) In any case, the creature that was left floating over the, now much deeper, basin is what we now know as Quiet.