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"The first step towards transcendence is always… unsettling."[1]
The Virindi Imperator was a mysterious Virindi figure with the title of Imperator who was empowered by the Quiddity using the Imperial Sigil to lead the Dominion kingdom following the Devastation and the return of Bael'Zharon during the Fifth Sending of Darkness. He worked to maintain the balance of power between the Order of Dereth and the Shadow Kingdoms.[2]
The Virindi Imperator kept a personal Singularity Trove, the Trove of the Imperator, containing riches meant to appeal to the masses. He offered access when the need arose to sway those with "more discriminating tastes".
He was one of the three Great Ones at the Battle of Kings, with the forces of Portalspace at his command. While not powerful enough to defeat Bael'Zharon and Asheron at once, he planned to overcome the weakened victor. During the battle, he was destroyed when a spell cast by Asheron became uncontrollable and consumed all three of the combatants. Before his death, he rejoiced when witnessing Asheron fall. With his death, the Imperial Sigil was lost for centuries.[3][4]
The remnants of the Virindi Imperator were held in a violet gem in the Altar of Order.
In the New Dereth Era, the Voice of the Singularity instructed adventurers to deliver the Truth Death to the Undead Legate Rymeras for being complicit in the death of the Virindi Imperator.
Lore & Utterances[]
Looking back now, the Imperator must have been a difficult concept for the Virindi to accept. What I know of the Virindi tells me that before their expeditions came to Dereth, the concept of individuality was as alien to them as suddenly waking up one morning and finding you had an extra set of arms. Or finding that you had been taken and transformed into an undying monstrosity. But I digress. The perfect order of their Singularity didn't allow the concept of I, but perhaps their study of our realm told them that the entities of this realm needed one face to look to for their war.
I wonder if the Imperator felt fear as he was scattered to the winds. If he regretted the loss of self? Or was it just another bit of data added to the collective Virindi mind?
-- A Shade
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