The Violet Emperor (5e Deity)
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The Violet Emperor[edit]
Alignment. Neutral Evil
Domains. Knowledge
Divine Rank. Lesser Deity
The Violet Emperor is one of the Dark Powers from the Sanctuary's Lot Setting.
Today, no other god of The Dark is more feared than The Violet Emperor. Easily the most successful of the dark powers. During The Visitation, The Violet Emperor subtly drove a force of powerful Strangers to pierce the veil between the material world and The Dream. It has been suggested The emperor succeeded, that he crossed the tumultuous Verge and deep into The Dream itself. And that it was this violation that prompted the Gods of dream to drive out The Violet Emperor, then cross to the Verge to The Evanescent Realm, where they began their campaign to expel the Strangers from this world, thus ending the Visitation and ushering in the early post-visitation period.
While the emperor was exorcised from the The Dream, his newly-formed connection to that realm has never been severed. No other dark power has access to The Dream at all.
Forbidden texts mark the Violet Emperor as the architect of Yg-Mothatt, the language of the dark powers. (Dictated to Si Lam Guis, the infamous "Broken Sage", first of the emperor's slaves)
When The Violet Emperor chooses to appear (to servants, or to victims), it is always a variation of the same horrifying dream: a huge humanoid is seen in atop an enormous stone altar. The figure's features are completely obscured by a hood, scarves, and a floor-length robe, all made of a dark purple cloth wholly patterned with fine, black sigils. There is a constant intonation-like chanting in a low, deep, and inhuman voice. The figure seems to kneel, pressing both hands to the floor, while, paradoxically, the figure seems to be rising, raising another pair or arms it did not have before. The figure kneels while rising again, revealing more limbs as its body shifts unpleasantly under its robes. Then again, and again, until the figure is huge, and shaped more like a caterpillar than a human being. all the while shrouded, in heavy, violet robes.
Employing complex networks of servant creatures, agents, and debased magicians, the most terrifying aspect of the Violet Emperor is the malign calculus of his actions. A relentless, alien intelligence directing the actions of powerful monsters for the singular goal of extending his presence into The Dream itself.
A hated enemy, particularly of Sanctuary and Rune, The Violet Emperor's cults are rigorously harassed by all religions of the gods of dream, and by nearly all governments.
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