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Release 2: Does It End, Death Prophet?
Does It End, Death Prophet?
CanonUndying asks the one woman who has died and come back whether it ends.
Ties back to earlier releasesThe Age of Light
HeroEnigma
the Consumer of Worlds
A Fundamental created at the Schism, associated with gravity and the death of stars.
“Chaos hunts the spark of endless suns, whose light will die in my crushing grasp.”
Appears in 4 stories
A Fundamental created at the Schism, associated with gravity and the death of stars. Aeons after escaping the plane, Enigma planted dozens of fake journals by an invented alchemist named Jovat Kazran, describing an ascension to Dark Fundamental with the final page missing, so that ambitious readers would come looking for him. One of them, , summoned and briefly bound him.
Enigma took Cedric's World Chasm Artifact for his trouble.
Keeper of the LightCanonRivalryThe star-maker and the star-eater: gravity ends what light begins.
Elder TitanCanonCreated byEnigma remembers the titan's hammer falling and the four children scattering, and says so to his face.
Chaos KnightCanonFamilyBrothers of the Schism. Chaos Knight hunts Enigma as one of the escaped forces to be made one again.
“The shall win this day.”
Enigma, about Chaos Knight · Meeting an allyBrothers of the Schism. Chaos Knight hunts Enigma as one of the escaped forces to be made one again.
“Born in the Schism, died in the forge.”
Elder Titan, about Enigma · Meeting a rivalEnigma remembers the titan's hammer falling and the four children scattering, and says so to his face.
“They said not even light can escape you. They lied.”
Keeper of the Light, about Enigma · Meeting a rivalThe star-maker and the star-eater: gravity ends what light begins.
“The aid of a Fundamental is most welcome.”
Arc Warden, about Enigma · Meeting an ally
- Black Hole
The ground trembles as Enigma channels his ultimate vortex of destruction, a singularity with the power to end worlds.
- Dota Underlords
Addresses the other three as brothers and names the Fundamentals.
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Nothing is known of Enigma's background. There are only stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages. In truth, Enigma is a mystery for whom the only true biography is description: he is a universal force, a consumer of worlds. He is a being of the void, at times corporeal, other times ethereal. A beast between the planes.
There are stories that say he was once a great alchemist who tried to unlock the secrets of the universe and was cursed for his arrogance. Other legends tell that he is an ancient being of strange gravity, the abyss personified--a twisted voice from out the original darkness, before the first light in the universe. And there are older legends that say he is the first collapsed star, a black hole grown complicated and sentient--his motivations unknowable, his power inexorable, a force of destruction unleashed upon existence itself.