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The Great Confluence

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Inai calls his scattered kin together, but none has yet taken a seat.

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Void Spirit
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Void Spirit

Celestial

Inai the Void Spirit, first of the celestials and the aspect of the void, called the Hidden One.

“Friend or foe, in the wake of the confluence, you will follow where I lead.”

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Stories

Appears in 8 stories

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The Anti-Magic Masters' Magical Teacher

The monks trained without gods or magic until the Legion of the destroyed their monastery. escaped with their scrolls and became the last carrier of their doctrine. Void Spirit speaks of the order as if he knows an earlier chapter: the Turstarkuri, he says, were consumed by their folly and misunderstood his teachings.

That does not make Anti-Mage Inai's student, or prove the spirit personally instructed every monk. It does mean the famous anti-magic masters inherited or rejected ideas from one of the world's oldest magical powers.

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Cast
  • Anti-Mage
  • Void Spirit
The hero's story

Inai the Void Spirit, first of the celestials and the aspect of the void, called the Hidden One. He dwells in the and emerges only to take part in the battle of the Ancients, tearing rifts through the Astral Plane at will. He instructs a chosen few, among them the Templar Assassin, and seeks to reunite the scattered celestials in the event he calls the Great Confluence.

Connections
  • Templar AssassinCanonServed by

    Lanaya serves the master of the , though he says himself that she has never recognized his face. Her true service now comes to pass, he says. What that service is, he has not told her.

  • Storm SpiritCanonFamily

    Brothers of the celestial line with a history between them. Inai makes no apology for letting Thunderkeg stumble on the forbidden spell. Raijin says his brother cannot control him, only set him loose, and will forgive the scheming but never the entitlement.

  • Ember SpiritCanonFamily

    Xin is the brother who listens. 'Long have we waited, brother,' he tells Inai, and of his preparations he has no doubt. Inai allows that they are not always in agreement, but can at least work in alignment.

  • Earth SpiritCanonFamily

    Kaolin is the brother who doubts. 'I suspected we might see your face, brother,' he tells Inai, and asks how the earth feels beneath his feet. The brothers, he warns, are not what Inai thinks they are.

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Voice lines

  • “To meet The Most Hidden One... The temple blesses me.”

    Templar Assassin, about Void Spirit · Meeting an ally

  • “I've lived on this plane much longer, brother. You have no power here.”

    Storm Spirit, about Void Spirit · Meeting a rival

  • “I suspected we might see your face, brother. How does the earth feel beneath your feet?”

    Earth Spirit, about Void Spirit · Meeting an ally

  • “You decided this fate. My blades realized it.”

    Ember Spirit, about Void Spirit · Meeting a rival
Open questions
Ability lore
  • Aether Remnant

    Inai exists far beyond the scope of a single point in space and time.

Official biography
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Not even the other spirits claim to understand the mind and machinations of the eldest amongst them, Inai the Void Spirit. Privy to secrets that would shatter a mortal mind, the Void Spirit observes the workings of the universe from an unknowable vantage, choosing to let carefully groomed servants do his bidding -- only emerging from his Hidden Temple into the material plane when he deems that he alone can steer the course of reality along its proper path.

With an expansive perspective on existence, Inai is focused intently on a point in time beyond which he cannot see, when the fabrics of multiple realities are fated to collide. Now he steps from the aether to personally resolve the battle of the Ancients and prepare his allies for what he views as a greater conflict to come.

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