Isu codex

Isu codexes were excerpts of information found in Aletheia's simulation of Atlantis. These codexes were scattered across the city and could be found on certain walls, providing information about the city's inhabitants, personal logs, amongst others.

Codexes
1====Letter from Diaprepes=== Location: Doma of Diaprepes

I have fashioned the devices as crowns so that each ruler of the three Sister Realms could use them to control others. Persephone, Hades, and father would be unstoppable!

Location: Atlantis Latomia
 * -|2====Diaprepes's Musings===

Diaprepes, personal log

"The bio-augmentations of Hades, Persephone, and Poseidon proved unstable, but when coupled with control devices implanted in their crowns, they gained the power to not just control thought, but the actions of others."

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods south of Basilike Garrison
 * -|3====Elasippos: Archon of Affairs===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.249

It is not unknown to me that Elasippos sympathizes more with Aita and Juno since I sent them back to Feyan and forbade them from entering Atlantis. Time will tell if my allowing this will be a mistake.

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods north of Basilike Garrison
 * -|4====Ampheres: Archon of Defense===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.245

Ampheres, my boldest son, is the noble defender of Atlantis. In him I trust the Atlantean military to ensure peace and safety of all citizens. The Sister Realms have faced many dangers throughout our rich history, but Ampheres has met them all. Though I must admit to hearing reports of my son growing callous, and perhaps extreme in his methods.

But I won't hear it. I've seen his compassion. Ever the noble soldier, he has vowed to never to let another soul suffer the same losses he has.

Location: Basilike Garrison
 * -|5====Musings on Mneseas===

Isu General, personal log

"Our garrisons would prove insufficient. Humans grow bolder. Then, an insidious plan fromed in Mneseas's mind: Weaponize the humans against themselves. Surely he wasn't cunning enough to come up with such a plan."

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods north of the Palace of Poseidon
 * -|6====Evaimon: Archon of the Hunt===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.250

I've heard tales that a terrible wolf-like creature is terrorizing our city. I should like my son Evaimon to find and slay this beast, and present me its head for the good of all.

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods northwest of the Palace of Poseidon
 * -|7====Azaes: Archon of Welfare===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.246

Atlantis has not always been the tranquil paradise it is today. Our Sister Realms have endured dark cycles - human unrest, environmental desecration, hostility from Eden - and my citizens live in comfort and peace thanks to Azaes. My youngest son displayed compassion and love for humanity from his first breath. Growing into a trusted Archon, Azaes introduced policies to improve the lives of humans through science - which seem quite radical to my old mind.

This cycle has seen improvement in both productivity and human happiness. I could not be more proud of him.

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods west of the Palace of Poseidon, northern of the two
 * -|8====Atlas: Heir to the Trident Throne===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.243

Of my ten sons, only Atlas appears to have perfected the art of compromise. He is not just a master of politics, but in warfare and culture.

Being the future leader of Atlantis requires a broad range of skills, and Atlas has learned from his siblings and their specialities. He trained with his war-loving brother Ampheres, studied the arts with Gadiros, and even spent time learning the work of Consus with the contemptuous Juno as a boy.

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods west of the Palace of Poseidon, southern of the two
 * -|9====Mestor: Archon of Ports===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.248

There is no city like ours on this great planet. Her many ports need a watchful eye, lest they be breached by cities who don't belive in our egalitarian approach. My son Mestor shall be that eye.

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods southwest of the Palace of Poseidon
 * -|10====Diaprepes: Archon of Invention===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.251

Persephone, Hades and I quite literally owe the crowns upon our heads to my most inventive son, Diaprepes. With them, he says we may control the thoughts and movements of not just humans, but Isu themselves. Though I hope we never need to.

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods south of the Palace of Poseidon
 * -|11====Mneseas: The Lost Archon===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.247

It has broken my old heart that my son Mneseas has such contempt for me. Still, I leave the doors to my palace open to him, should he ever choose to return.

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods southeast of the Palace of Poseidon
 * -|12====Gadiros: Archon of Culture===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.244

Gadiros, master of the arts, is my most beloved son. Tirelessly filling imaginations with a continuous stream of entertainment, his cultural knowledge and experience grants him an uncanny level of perception of Atlantis. In our darkest days, Gadiros reassures us, distracts us, and raises us above the harshness of this reality.

His events have created a common ground between Isu and humans in the mutual enjoyment of his work - though I wonder if the humans can fully grasp his talent. Without the influence of Gadiros, our city could not shine as brightly.

Location: Tower in the Poseidon's Woods east of the Palace of Poseidon, southern of the two
 * -|13====Autochthonos: Archon of Agriculture===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 18.252

Working with a strange little man named Neokles, young Autochthonos has sworn to use the fertile lands of Atlantis to feed not only my citizens, but the citizens of other Isu cities. My son is a dreamer and may have his head in the dirt. Time will tell.

Location: Doma of Ampheres
 * -|14====Musings on Ampheres===

Historian of Nobility

Cycle 9.333

"Ampheres was the fire, certainly, but then his daughter was his hearth. So long as she stood at his side, this Doma would be a place of warmth, and even love."

Location: The Consus Archive
 * -|15====Consus's Shroud of Eden===

Historian of Technology

Cycle 9.338

While Hephaistos was a master of forging instruments of war, his apprentice, Consus, proved himself equally capable of creating instruments of life. It was during the War of Unification where the scientist met bloodshed with innovation.

In the face of an ever-rising death toll, he worked obsessively to create a device which could restore bodies devastated by war to their previously-healthy state. He eventually succeeded in creating a prototype, and as he approached the end of his natural life, he uploaded his consciousness into the new device.

Unable to communicate with the outside world, however, he and the prototype disappeared into obscurity for centuries. Many failed attempts were made by fellow Isu scientists to replicate Consus's invention.

During the previous cycle, rumors surfaced about the discovery of Consus's original prototype, but evidence of this discovery has yet to be revealed.

Location: The Consus Archive
 * -|16====A Tale of Brothers===

Cycle 18.192. Archivist's note: This is my personal account of the familial relationships connected to the Dikastes Basileus. For the official statement, reference Codex statement 905.107.

For those who exist past this cycle's destruction, take these words as a warning.

My official document will read that Hades, brother to Poseidon, is a mastermind of leadership. On the contrary. His immaturity should bar him from any realm above his underworld. Matters unique to the Isu don't concern him, for in his realm, the quality of blood his subordinates have are inconsequential. The word "progress" means as much to him as the dirt on his sandal. Other than a love of games of chance, Poseidon and Hades are opposites.

However, they do share common ground on one subject: Zeus. Their other brother, golden child atop Mount Olympos, has been a taboo topic for more cycles than have been recorded. If the brothers had it their way, their brood would have stopped at two. One muth tells of a time Zeus came to Atlantis personally to reprimand his brother. As soon as he left, Poseidon destroyed the cycle just to get his stench out of the air. That is truly bad blood.

Location: Garden of Triton
 * -|17====Melitta's Musings===

Melitta, personal log

"More than respite, these gardens would become the grounds from which they'd cultivate a new world - one in which every element would fall under their control.

Only too late would they discover their hubris."

Location: Repository of Iris
 * -|18====The Father of Atlantis, II of II===

Dikastes Basileus Poseidon

Cycle 10.92

I will enforce the ban on human experimentation in every coming cycle. But I fear I cannot do this on my own. I need to search for one to lighten the weight of judgment from my shoulders.

Of course, I want to find one of my sons worthy. But wanting it does not make it so. Perhaps Atlas could bear this responsibility in time, but this role must be filled long before he is ready.

Location: Doma of Azaes
 * -|19====Azaes's Musings===

Azaes, personal log

"Every cycle worse than the last. The city is changing. Beautiful. Shining. But crumbling at its core. The people grow sick. The plants die. What are we missing?

And worst of all: What's next?"

Location: Doma of Garidos
 * -|20====Musings on Gadiros===

Isu General

"In the opulence of this Doma, our dear Archon, Gadiros, learned a new way to skin a human, so to speak: The weak do not need fear to be obedient. Awe alone would do. And who better than Gadiros to deliver?"

Location: Fortified Doma of Mestor
 * -|21====Mestor's Musings===

Mestor, personal log

"Reports among the merchant vessels have come in from our two Sister Realms.

It is grim. Persephone and Hades have both ceased contact.

It won't be long before the laws of my xenophobic father force Atlantis into utter irrelevance. Someone must do something."