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I CANNOT S—"
—The Whirlwind
The Warrior Prophet, Chapter 1
The No-God was an entity summoned by the Consult in the spring of the year 2143 to bring about the Apocalypse.
Physical description[]
- The Whirlwind
The whirlwind of the No-God is described as a veil of storm clouds that spanned the entire horizon, so dark that they obscured the sun. Covering the surrounding hills with lightning, the clouds would roll down to the ground boiling as if they were pouring down to earth, like an umbilical cord linking the earth to the sky.[1] The whirlwind was the size of a mountain.[2]
- Carapace
The dread Carapace by Spiralhorizon
The Carapace of the No-God was a black jewel[3] that floated in the middle of the whirlwind surrounded with twinkling light and covered with choric script,[4] its surface were embedded with eleven Chorae in it, which some say makes it immune to all Sorcery.[2] The sarcophagus itself is described as black as charcoal[5] made of Nimil[4], iron,[2] or some other strange metal, measuring six cubits by four, its surface was veined as if it were ink and the front was outlined with what looked like an effigy of a face or an immense city. The surface of the sarcophagus reflected nothing, and even went so far as to swallow all light. The front part could be opened like a normal sarcophagus, its interior was so dark that nothing could be seen.[6]
- Nature
Depiction of the Carapace by Gabriel Timoteo
The No-God was a being lacking all remorse and compassion whom the Inchoroi and the Scylvendi revere as their savior. Its mere existence was antithetical to life, for the entire time it was actively walking the world all babies were stillborn.[2]
The No-God apparently lacks any self-consciousness and can only repeat over and over again the same chatter that terrified all who heard it: «"TELL ME, WHAT DO YOU SEE?", "TELL ME, WHAT AM I?", "I MUST KNOW WHAT DO YOU SEE", "I CANNOT SEE…"».[1]
Being a soulless intelligence, the Gods were unable to perceive the No-God.[7] [Who] inhabited the blind spots of the Gods, representing "oblivion", thus escaping from the existence and the future perceived by the Gods.[8]
- Skills
Crowned with tempest and lightning, the whirlwind was capable of disintegrating a human being fiber by fiber, only if this human manages to get at the eye in the center of the whirlwind.[5] The No-God were capable of bending to its will all the inhuman creations of the Consult, such as the Sranc, Bashrag, and Wracu,[2] by endowing them with a fearsome animating will, these creatures were able to move in unison with the No-God, lacking all fear of death[5] they will strike with their weapons with unerring control and coordination.[9]
Other Names[]
- Black Heaven - to the Sranc, translated from Iruturu-ka (Agurzhoi)[10]
- Cara-Sincurimoi - “Angel of Endless Hunger” to the Nonmen[11]
- Great Ruiner - to the surviving tribes of Men in the Ancient North[12]
- Lokung - “Dead-God” to the Scylvendi[13]
- Mog-Pharau - from which “No-God” is derived in ancient Kûniüric[14]
- Mursiris - “Wicked North” (Ham-Kheremic) to the Shiradi[15]
- Tsurumah - “Hated One” in ancient Kyranean[16]
- World-Breaker[17]
In The Darkness That Comes Before[]
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In The Thousandfold Thought[]
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In The Judging Eye[]
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In The White-Luck Warrior[]
When the Wizard Achamian and the Nonman Nil’giccas confront the Wracu in the ruins of the Library of Sauglish, Cleric recognizes the dragon as Wutteät, the Father of Dragons, who after the Apocalypse had made the ruins of Sauglish his den, practically half dead and blind the dragon waited in that place for the world to die. Wutteät claimed that even the "Black Heaven" did not command him.[18] (Suggesting that the No-God had no power over the ancestral and first Wracu. On the contrary the other Wracu did fall under the will of the No-God).
See also: Speculations about the Inchoroi and the Wracu
In The Great Ordeal[]
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In The Unholy Consult[]
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During the final moments of the battle for Golgotterath, the No-God was summoned. Once again before Golgotterath in 4132, all across the world, humans could feel his presence. Babies were again stillborn. His resurrection caused the Great Ordeal to scatter in panic, therefore beginning the Second Apocalypse. The Hordes swarmed around him, and the remaining armies of Anasûrimbor Kellhus were destroyed.[5]
Origins[]
The No-God is described as a World-breaking design,[19] an aborted creation and the most catastrophic of the Inchoroi depravities,[20] a design presumably resurrected by the intellect of Shaeönanra and Cet’ingira.[19]
The No-God, also called "Object", was a prosthesis of the Ark, part of it, when activated it was somehow linked to the souls harvested in Eärwa, making the Ark able to read a code that refluxed through the life in Eärwa, turning the Ark into the Absolute, becoming capable of collapsing Subject and Object.[6]
See also: Speculations about the role of the Inchoroi in the creation of the No-God
What Came Before[]
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Author's comments[]
- Author explained in Q/A: "A better way to think of the No-God is as a philosophical zombie (p-zombie), of a piece with all the other soulless instruments of the Inchoroi. A perfectly unconscious god, and so in that respect, entirely at one with material reality, continuous with it, and so an agency invisible to the Outside."[citation needed]
- According to the author, the No-God "stands outside the outside […] invisible to the Gods".[21]
Speculations[]
- It is unknown whether the Inchoroi also fall under the animating will of the No-God. Since Wutteät claimed not to be, it can be speculated that perhaps the Inchoroi were not under the will of the No-God either.
- It is possible that the original design of the No-God was entirely the work of the Inchoroi, who, due to the intellectual and material degeneration they suffered from their endless wars with the Nonmen, were unable to implement.
- There is no mention or suggestion in the text of the books as to whether something similar to the construct known as the "No-God" was used by the Inchoroi on the other worlds they were on prior to Eärwa, the No-God seems to be a final weapon against the tremendous difficulties of bending and exterminating life, something created specifically for Eärwa, but it is also the necessary tool that would shut down the world, (the speculation is worthy of consideration).
- This also relates to the unknown fact that makes Eärwa the promised world. From this comes another speculation of how the Inchoroi knew that the other worlds they were on weren't the Promised One. Did they use something similar to the No-God?
- It is not known whether the statement that the Ark can become the "Absolute" thus representing the salvation of souls from all damnation. Since the Inchoroi aim of closing the world to the Oustide has never succeeded, that fact has yet to be proven.
Trivia[]
- The No-God may be a homage or something partially inspired by the spaceships/constructs known as No-chamber/No-ship that appeared in the novel Heretics of Dune from Frank Herbert, as they are described as something "that hid whatever was inside it from prescient/oracular vision, this meant that its movements or occupants could not be seen by many of those who possessed prescient powers. It also appeared to render the contents invisible and undetectable in other ways."
- The author declined to answer to whether the No-God can be perceived by the Progenitors, by possible inhabitants in Eänna, or by other life forms in other parts of Eärwa.[22]
- It is unknown how Zeüm perceived the First Apocalypse and the No-God.
- The role of women during the first Apocalypse is completely unknown, (did they just sit and mourn for their children and their dead wombs?).
- It is unknown what Aurax and the Consult did during the first Apocalypse.
Notes and References[]
- Notes
- References
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