How Many Members Of The Modal Nodes Are There?

I won't bury the lead. There are seven members of the Modal Nodes. The research was well documented in Mr. Nomadscout's Figrin D'an And The Modal Nodes Commemorative Tin review. The purpose of this is to marry Bret's description with screen captures. Let's start off with the description of the first shot:

The first shot...pans slowly from right to left. You can see 5 band members easily - 3 in the foreground and 2 more in the background. But if you notice, the shot begins and pans from the point where there is a 6th player’s arm just visible at the right edge of the screen.

Let's look at what's being described:


#6 is pointing to the arm on the right of the frame that Bret mentions above. #3 is pointing to a shoulder at the left of the the shot. This is Cheel (Bandfill), and he will be fully revealed as the camera continues panning left:


So this establishes the left side of the stage, but that first shot does not answer whose arm that arm is to the right (#6). This get answered with the third overall shot of the band:

... the [third] shot ... tilts upward, focusing on 2 Bith. The seated one on the right is Tech M’or (Ommni Box), while the player standing to the left is Doikk Na’ts (Fizzz), whose face you never see.

Here is that third shot:


The band member to the left of the above shot is that mysterious arm to the far right of the first shot. He is Doikk Na’ts (Fizzz). Since Tech M'or (Ommni Box) is to Doikk's right, we can easily establish him as the 7th band member, who was completely off-screen in the first shot.

Here are all seven members. The instruments in bold are the ones that are included with the upcoming Figrin D'an figure. The numbers correspond to the screen shots above:

1. Figrin D’an (Kloo Horn)
2. Tedn Dahai (Fanfar)
3. Nalan Cheel (Bandfill)
4. Ickabel G’ont (Fanfar)
5. Sun’il Ei’de (Drum)
6. Doikk Na’ts (Fizzz)
7. Tech M’or (Ommni Box)

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