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This category enumerates the varieties and individuals that are part of The Apparatus and are as old as the Founders.

Servitors (Enchiridian, Foundertongue: Ezraim, meaning helpers or aids) are construct-like creatures of the Integrum.

Lore about servitors is extensive and accurate, coming from Gods, Heralds, and servitors themselves. They have also been studied by scholars throughout the ages, making them one of the most well-understood parts of Founder technology.

Servitors were instrumental in the First Age in several ways.

In the early First Age, servitors issued forth from Bastion as scouts to investigate the universe as controlled by the powers of Fury. They returned with data about the universe and its inhabitants. Later, they would be used to ferry messages to creatures of Fury, especially Dragons and Immortals, building allegiances for the war to come.

During the Foundation War, Servitors made up the majority of the Founders' forces, fighting alongside the Dragons and Immortals who allied with the Founders.

After the war, during Integration, servitors were the hands and tools that built The Integrum, governed by The Apparatus.

During the Gilded Age the Servitors were passive in their maintenance of the Integrum, ticking away in its perfectly predestined course.

After The Shattering, The Integrum was in a state of disrepair. The Shards were not well connected to the Grand Designs resulting in significant problems for their inhabitants. Servitors became critical to the repair of The Integrum and the practice of summoning of servitors from The Apparatus by Heralds became commonplace.

After The Fall, Servitors were able to be summoned from The Apparatus for longer and longer durations. This led to the formation of individual Servitors achieving independent thought and personalities, becoming Sovereigns. The ability for Sovereigns to balance their deep understanding of The Apparatus with an increased capacity for willed action made them vital the survival of the Integrum.

In the current age, Servitors and Sovereigns exist in much the same capacities as the Dark Age.

Servitors seem to be autonomous extensions of The Apparatus itself. They seem to have an innate purpose to maintain, repair, and contribute to the proper functioning of The Integrum. Once serving the Founders, they now serve the Gods, though only when there is alignment between the Gods' will and the Servitors' purpose.

Servitors do not have a society in any discernable sense, though Sovereigns participate in mortal and divine societies.

Servitors are "dumb", in that they have no personality, no memory, no will of their own. They are instantiated by their designs and exist for as long as the design needs them to exist. It's like they are given a freshly formatted memory stick whenever they are created.

Sometimes a Servitor can, when exposed to unknown, unpredictable circumstances within shards, can "go local". They begin to desire to stay, they form memories, they form personalities. Things that are likely to influence this include interaction with mortals, magical investments, et cetera.

Servitors backstage serving their design can't have personalities, so even Sovereigns revert to being ordinary Servitors if they leave the shards or else they lose their identity and memories. The identity and memories can attach to an appropriate instance of a Servitor should one emerge from The Apparatus. However, the more powerful the Sovereign the longer it takes to find a suitable host.

Servitors that are instantiated by The Apparatus have a true name. Normally magic cannot summon an a specific Servitor or a Servitor that is already instantiated. However, with the true name, this can be achieved.

Servitors have skeletons of Truemetal. They do not eat, breath, drink, age, or get sick. They do not respond to mental compulsion except from an appropriate Integral Authority. When they manifest in the Shards, they typically appear like the inhabitants of the Shard, such as appearing Human in Acrolon or Fey in Pelithos.

During the Shattered Age some Servitors who persisted for long periods in the shards found a sense of identity and a durability to their memories. These Servitors are known as Sovereigns, and many have found permanent homes in The Integrum. This became even more common in the Dark Age. More at Sovereigns.

The varieties of Servitor are distinguished primarily by which Grand Design they serve.

• Angels: Servitors of Day
• Devils: Servitors of Night
• Eidolons: Servitors of Pattern
• Elementals: Servitors of Form
• Fates: Servitors of Destiny
• Kindlers: Servitors of Summer
• Verdants: Servitors of Spring
• Wights: Servitors of Winter
• Hollows: Servitors of Autumn