What do we know about the Ode?

[ABlindGuyPlays]

Admittedly not much. The name of presumeably thier leader. That they are invaders that are stealing resources in a... rather shockingly ineffective way (assuming these resoruces can't be mass stripped,) and are setting up machines that seem to intake clean water and spew out sludge for reasons we do not yet know. Possibly in relation to how they were able to convert/turn Garrand Rood.

[Raven_Bloodbane]

Here's what I've understood so far;

Leader; Synod - Uncertain if name or title.  Based on dialogue, is male.

Overall Faction; Ode - Space-travelling technologically advanced faction, comes from planets so polluted they can't breathe Alca air.  Seems to absorb resources and subjects from conquered worlds while terraforming them to be as polluted as they need.

Sub-faction; Sinecure - Mainly sourced from local converts, some form of brainwashing is used to conscript subjects, who are slowly conditioned to be similar to the Ode in terms of physicality.  Note the robotic limbs/gas masks feeding toxins.

[Keysharpe]

6 hours ago, Raven_Bloodbane said:

Overall Faction; Ode - Space-travelling technologically advanced faction, comes from planets so polluted they can't breathe Alca air.  Seems to absorb resources and subjects from conquered worlds while terraforming them to be as polluted as they need.

Sub-faction; Sinecure - Mainly sourced from local converts, some form of brainwashing is used to conscript subjects, who are slowly conditioned to be similar to the Ode in terms of physicality.  Note the robotic limbs/gas masks feeding toxins.

"Legions of robots, mindless automatons, freakin' lasers. These guys are bad news, but they're also loaded. Which is why you're here."

- Freelance ex-Corpus Merchant Darvo Bek

[Cloudkracker]

The Ode are technologically advanced alien invaders that  hail from beyond the stars. The space-farers often used stars as forges, artificially creating unique minerals and materials.

They have descended to conquer the world below, stripping Alca of her flesh and conscripting all of Midrath’s inhabitants. The Ode often reside within great floating Skytowers, whose low-pressure atmospheres are open to the harsh UV rays of the binary suns. Human inhabitants must wear heavy brass apparatuses to breathe tolerably.

Ichor is the basis of all Ode’n life. In liquid form, this silvery grease blights trees and pollutes rivers, allowing the Sinecure to adequately drink the water. Regurgitated by mechanical Ode’n Moaners, ichor can also harden and petrify in sharp, coral-like growths that coat everything nearby.

Due to living in the thin, low-pressure atmospheres of the Skytowers, the Ode are vulnerable to a unique condition called Smogswell; because of the heavy Alcan atmosphere, the legs and feet of the Ode (mostly their Sinecure scouts) will often swell up when on long patrols.

They appear to worship celestial or astronomical sources, such as star constellations.

• Lord Synod - The high sovereign of the Ode, very little is known about the Synod. Other than that he desires the history of Midrath to burn, taking anything of value as tribute, and that he craves Alca's children, the Omen Beasts.

• Torque Inquisitor - The one who banished the Envoy to earth.

• Mada - A bored Inquisitor of Synod who oversees the collection of earthling resources. Takes pleasure in seeing the Envoy attempt to thwart her plans, but the mood is short lived.

• Gruul-Seekers - Sinecure sent out to scour the isles of Midrath for any left-over Midrathians, or “Gruul” as they so rudely refer to them as. Use the Sollos-I broadsword. 

• Thrall - Brainwashed denizens of Alca that have been abducted and conscripted into Ode’n ranks.

• Extractors - Those who are delegated to extract and gather material and resources to store upon Synod’s Collectors as tribute. Highly unfavored work, this duty is often reserved for the lowest of Sinecure ranks. 

• Tempest - Presumably spell-sung pawns that act as Ode’n soldiers.

• Collectors - Sent by the Synod, Collectors are large, flying constructs in the shape of triangular slabs that descend groundwards to collect any and all resources as tribute. They are even used to collect any unfortunate beast of Alca and haul them skyward.

The Spellsong

The Ode's Spellsong is a magical auditory weapon used to charm the denizens of Midrath, causing them to lose their memories and forget their history and culture. A side effect of being spell-sung are glossy white eyes.

Regents

Not Sinecure nor Tempest, Gruul nor Thrall, the Regent treads a balance betwixt them all.

High ranking spell-sung pawns that act as overseers of their assigned region. 

Sinecure

Hunters of Omen Beasts, Enforcers of Ode decree. Often referred to as 'Cleggs' or 'cans', the Sinecure act as Ode'n mercenaries. Descending from the Ode Sky, the Children of Synod can be found depriving Alca of her earth-flesh, transfusing it with the silvern grease from their infernal, mawed engines.

Misc

• Ode Bisulcam - A stationary, twin-barreled siege cannon that belongs to the Nimrod.

• Mistrel - Ode’n-made barrels with metal faces that slowly let out poisonous gasses. Destroying them causes them to detonate.

• Ichor Tap - Mistrel-like barrels that exude ichor and are linked to the imprisonment of animals. Destroying a Tap will unlock any nearby cages.

• Moaner - Large, statue-like machines that appear like a human head and neck. They slowly drool out a steady stream of ichor into any nearby water source, polluting it. Destroying the two small faces within the Moaner’s eye sockets will destroy it, stopping any more ichor from flowing.

Sinecure Armamentarium

The Armamentarium is the collection of weapons and equipment used by the Sinecure.