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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, Foundationspeak: Ezraim, meaning helpers or aids) are construct-like creatures of the Integrum.

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

Servitors did not exist in the universe during the Template:Category Lost Age, as the Founders had not yet arrived.

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 Template:Category Dragons and Template:Category 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 The Integration, Servitors were the hands and tools that built the Integrum from the Apparatus unfolding from Bastion.

During the Template:Category 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 Template:Category Shards were not well connected to the Template:Category 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 common practice.

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 Template:Category 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 do not have a society in any discernable sense.

The varieties of Servitor are distinguished by two variables: which Template:Category Grand Design they serve and their Template:Potency.

• Template:Category Servitors of Autumn:
• Template:Category Servitors of Day:
• Template:Category Servitors of Destiny:
• Template:Category Servitors of Form:
• Template:Category Servitors of Night:
• Template:Category Servitors of Pattern:
• Template:Category Servitors of Spring:
• Template:Category Servitors of Summer:
• Template:Category Servitors of Winter:

• Elder Servitors are the most powerful.

Shorthand notes on servitors from conversation with Alex on 3/11/24.

• 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 servitors 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 Asmodeus can't just go throw a bunch levers in the universal design of Night, because as soon as he goes backstage into Night, his personality bits pop off, just as if he were destroyed, and have to wait for a body to attached to. Very inconvenient, the more powerful the servitor, the longer that takes.
• A true name is their instance ID, so while you normally can't summon an already-instantiated servitor, with the true name, you actually can, because it's their instance ID.