Akata and the Silver Mount

[Prismatic Codex]

Does anyone know where akata come from? Do they come from the same world that the Silver Mount came from? Could they? Is there anything that says otherwise?

[PFW1-K1]

I couldn't find anything that provides a specific origin. It's possible, but somewhat unlikely based on what we can piece together.

Akatas hitch rides on comets; Bestiary 2 suggests that's because they come from a planet that's been destroyed. (I say suggests because the Bestiaries aren't necessarily canon sources for Golarion, as they're setting-neutral.) Though technically, there's nothing saying they are (or aren't) related to the planet where the Silver Mount originated.

Iron Gods:

Androffa, the world that launched the Divinity spaceship which crashed into Numeria to form the Silver Mount, is still intact, and akata comets have landed on Golarion after Earthfall, long after Divinity crashed, which suggests they aren't directly related.

Having said that, Androffans were curious folk—that's why they launched the Divinity with habitat pods to carry alien species. Iron Gods intentionally doesn't expose every piece of the crashed ship, and akatas can hibernate indefinitely; if you want to say they brought akatas with them and the akatas survived the crash, it wouldn't be unlikely.

[Kalindlara]

You might want to check out Children of the Void, the second volume of Second Darkness. That has the Golarion-specific version of the akata.

[Kalindlara]

Found it! According to Distant Worlds, the akata originally come from the Diaspora, the Golarion star system's asteroid belt (and once a pair of planets in its own right).

[Garrett Guillotte]

Thanks, Kalindlara! I've updated the wiki article.

[Prismatic Codex]

Thanks y'all! ^_^