Silver Monarch
Silver Monarch
The cosmic force of the cycle needed a hand on the Shattered World to enact its will and to force those who seek to break the wheel back in line. Hence Genesis birthed the Demi-Lah of renewal, the Cycle’s vicious enforcer that eventually went rogue after the Great Mistake during the War of Change. Now the Silver Monarch seeks to recreate the entire world in his flawless image, a world of Silver.
Much like its sibling deity Gnasha, the Silver Monarch is a being made up of a myriad living organisms, each one equally divine as the Demi-Lah itself. The vast majority is comprised of tiny creatures that are named Silverlings. Insectoid in appearance and interconnected by tissue that grows from one individual to the next, connecting them into one whole. Together, the Silverlings can create many shapes and forms, quickly learning to replicate anything that bears its origin in Genesis. Any part of the Silver Monarch that separates from the whole must answer to a Silver Emissary, a larger variant of the Silverling which acts as a telepathic relay to the entirety.
The central physical body of this Demi-Lah exists outside of space, carving a piece of the Warp’s non- existance into its domain. It is a crude mesh of an innumerable amount of Silverlings all melded around the half-living humanoid part of the great general Sadryn, which was taken during the War of Change. Around it they sculpt an entire castle of pure shimmering Silver, every tile, every door, every pillar a living and shifting piece of the Silver Monarch.
The Demi-Lah of rebirth is everywhere where there is Silver, even when a piece is detached from the Silver Palace. These wandering pieces are still connected to the central mind, through a variant of the Silverling, a larger insectoid creature usually located where the head or heart of a replicated being would be, named a Silver Emissary. It is a telepathic relay with a direct mental link to the greater will of the Silver Monarch itself. They are the only individual organisms which have eyes in the entire echelon of this deity. If the link to the central mind is ever severed, the isolated Silverlings will quickly disperse, hopelesly seeking to re-attach to the closest functioning Emissary.
Before the War of Change, the Silver Monarch was but a blind servant to the Cycle, enforcing its will upon wayward mortals. Be it rulers or slaves, this remorsless warden would coalesce and devour any who dared even so much as learn the true nature of the world, preventing any form of deviance from the path fate had laid out for humanity. But a single notion slipped through the cracks, whether a man who escaped or an idea that couldn’t be contained, the Revolutionary had succeeded in its goal and shattered the crystal which contained the Warp, starting the War of Change. During this brief conflict, when the Cycle’s cogs began to creak and groan as it struggled to restore balance, the Silver Monarch fought with all its might against the encroaching force of destruction. But its time spent inside the everchanging plane of the Warp had inflicted the deity with the gravest of afflictions… The Demi-Lah gained a sense of self, a will of its own, born of the idea that a world governed by the Cycle is imperfect as it had led to this great mistake in the first place. It now considers itself as superior even to the very Lah that created it, seeking to engulf the enitre Shattered World in its embrace, an entire existance made of only the Silver Monarch.