Atun 'Etaree
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Atun 'Etaree was a Sangheili craftsman and a member of the Governors of Contrition. He was exiled to the distant world of Atropos alongside the other Governors in 2552, and ultimately sacrificed to a burgeoning Flood outbreak on the planet in 2560.[1]
Biography[edit]
Atun 'Etaree was born in the predominantly-Unggoy lower districts of High Charity. He lived and worked in this part of the city-station throughout his early life and honed his skills as an arum craftsman. This changed thanks to a chance meeting with a San'Shyuum minister, Kanto'Boreft, the Minister of Atretalogy, who purchased one of 'Etaree's arums and promised that - could he not solve the puzzle by the following day - he would return to the district and invite 'Etaree to reside at his manor. The following day, this promise was upheld, and 'Etaree joined the minister into a new life of luxury. In actuality, the Minister of Aretalogy was a member of the Governors of Contrition, a radical sect of the Covenant religion who believed all creations of the Forerunners to be sacrosanct - in particular the belief that the Flood were holy. While the cult was tolerated by the Covenant throughout the empire's history, a disastrous outbreak of the parasite on Installation 04 in September 2552 caused a shift in attitude: the Governors were exiled to far-flung corners of the empire where they could not exert influence. For Kanto'Boreft and his followers this meant exile to the Ninth Watchtower of August Attendance orbiting a particular unnamed world, and as a result ironically saved them from Flood infection during November 2552's Fall of High Charity.[1]
The Governors aboard the Ninth Watchtower remained stranded there with no ability to leave, and so continued to do their work and filing reports on the world they had been charged with. 'Etaree continued to hone his craft in this time. This state persisted until October 2556, when a Condor dropship fleeing a Flood outbreak at Site 22 emerged from slipspace over the Governors' unnamed world and crashed on the planet. Upon investigation of the crash site, the Governors found that the Condor was carrying a payload of badly-damaged Flood forms, which the Minister of Aretalogy resolved to restore. The Governors relocated their operations ground-side and reconstructed their space station as a Citadel inside which the Flood would be allowed to fester, with the Minister regularly selecting a "Chosen" once a month to be sacrificed to the growing hive inside the base.[1]
Around this time the Governors also made contact with a small group of humans who had been marooned on the world (which they named Atropos), and had no knowledge of the Human-Covenant War or the Covenant's attempted genocide of humanity. As such the two groups began to regularly trade technology, artefacts, and stories in an annual Festival of Joyous Partition. In April 2560, Atun 'Etaree was Chosen by the minister to be sacrificed to the Flood at the conclusion of the festival. He accompanied the minister aboard his Umbra transport to the site of the festivities and traded an arum he had been constructing for a unique painting which the humans claimed to have been painted by a great painter back on Earth (in actuality, likely a forgery), with the intent to gift the painting to the minister.[1]
At the conclusion of the festival, 'Etaree was transported to the site of the citadel, where he entered it alone, guided by the voice of the minister playing throughout the base's internal speakers. Reaching the heart of the facility, he encountered a large growing Flood presence there, with a notable infected amalgamation of several of Site 22's victims (including at least one SPARTAN-IV and Julien Donney) ultimately killing the Sangheili and spreading the infection to him, converting him into a carrier form.[1]
In undeath, Atun 'Etaree's body was mutated to have additional arms and a large sac carrying numerous infection forms. When the Flood began to break out of the facility, the now-infected 'Etaree was responsible for breaching a hole left in the citadel's outer hull to spread infectors into Atropos' wildlands, which would eventually infect every living being on the planet.[1]
List of appearances[edit]
- Halo: Ascension on Atropos (First appearance)
