The Place
The Throne of Names is a throne of cold light and ringing silence, and the throne stands in the highest plane, and the throne runs 1 km across the aether, and the aether keeps the power and the word. The light is white where the power is kept, and the white is the throne's way of saying the power is kept. The ringing silence hangs above the throne, and the silence is blue where it is deep, and the blue is the throne's only breath. The Cold Light is the largest of the halls, and the hall runs 400 m long, and the walls are lined with the name, and the name is the throne's only book. The Ringing Silence is the space where the gods keep their word, and the silence runs 2 km across the plane, and the running is the throne's only voice. The ground of the throne is silver where the light has touched it, and the silver is the throne's only floor. This is the place where the power is the only honest thing, and the keeping is the throne's only harvest.
How They Live
The God keeps the throne in the aether, and the throne is not a house but a power, and the power is kept in the name. The god does not build, because the throne was set before the current name, and the name only keeps it, and the keeping is the name's only work. The throne was set by the first power, and the setting is the throne's only building, and the building is what the aether keeps. Light comes from the cold light, which glows faintly in the dark, and the glow is the only light the throne has, and the glow is the throne's way of keeping the night. The light is ivory where it is thin, and the ivory is the throne's way of keeping the word, and the word is what the aether keeps. Food is the throne itself: the power that is kept, the word that is rung, the oath that is kept, and the name that keeps the life honest. The ringing of the word is the throne's only eating, and the eating is the throne's way of keeping the hunger. Water is not drawn, because the aether has no water, and the not-having is the throne's only law. In the warm months the light runs full, and the running is the throne's way of keeping the year. In the cold months the light runs thin, and the running-thin is the throne's way of keeping the power. The day is measured by the power, which is also the calendar, because the aether is the only clock the oath needs.
People
Home of the God, whose throne is counted by name. There are nine names in the throne, and the nine are the throne's only population, and the population is kept in the aether. Each name keeps a line of its own power, and the line is the name's only house, and the house is what the aether keeps. The oldest name keeps the Cold Light, and the keeping is the name's only rank, and the rank is what the hall keeps. No mortal thing is welcome in the aether, and the not-being-welcome is the throne's only law, and the law is what the light keeps. A being that crosses into the aether is already in the word's path, and the path is the throne's only welcome, and the welcome is what the silence keeps. A human trader cannot call it, because the human has never seen the throne, and the not-seeing is the trader's only word.
In Stories
The place where the power is the only honest thing, and the thing is the word, and the word is the oath, and the oath is the end. The God keeps the long, very quiet, and very patient oaths of the throne, and the keeping is the throne's only word, and the word is what the aether keeps. The power of the throne is the power of the name, and the name is the only thing that never dies, and the dying is what the light keeps.