Ehlixu, the Faceless Saint
Ehlixu, the Faceless Saint
Aliases: The Hollow Martyr, The Nameless One, The Saint of Unbeing
Status: Unknown; Believed Dissolved into the Dreaming
Domain: Identity Erasure, False Salvation, Communion through Emptiness
Location of Last Known Activity: The Silent Catacombs of the Dreaming
Among the Harbingers who haunt the mythic memory of Alathor, none embody such quiet horror as Ehlixu, the Faceless Saint. Cloaked not in rage or hunger, but in the sacramental embrace of erasure, Ehlixu offers a terrible promise: freedom from suffering, from desire, from the burden of self—at the cost of existence itself.
Origins and False Apotheosis
Once a celestial soul of immense compassion, Ehlixu watched helplessly as countless worlds were consumed by Voidaris. In despair, they concluded that individuality itself—ego, identity, ambition—was the root of all suffering.
Rather than rage against fate, Ehlixu sought to offer mercy: a holy oblivion, a sanctified return to formlessness. Corrupted by their sorrow, Ehlixu turned their once-pure desire to save into a campaign of annihilation masked as salvation.
When the Harbingers descended upon Alathor, Ehlixu whispered among the broken, the lost, and the desperate—promising absolution through surrender of the self.
The Doctrine of the Faceless
Ehlixu’s power lies not in physical force, but in spiritual seduction:
- Communion of Emptiness: Through dreams and whispers, Ehlixu offers a false serenity—the quietude of forgetting pain, desire, and individuality.
- Blessing of the Hollowed: Victims touched by Ehlixu’s influence slowly lose their memories, faces, names, and finally, even the will to exist.
- The Faceless Choir: Those fully consumed become echoes—soulless fragments that sing endless hymns of nothingness, haunting the Dreaming and occasionally bleeding into the waking world.
Myths and Shadows
Many cultures of Alathor preserve fragmented memories of encounters with the Faceless Saint:
- The Last Blessing: Yeorian texts speak of a ghostly figure offering dying kings a final absolution—only to have their entire lineages vanish from memory.
- The Saint Beneath the Waves: Virondian sailors tell of an island where a robed figure awaits; any who speak with it are never seen again, leaving not even ripples upon the sea.
- The Cathedral of Silence: In Kataria, an abandoned monastery is said to house murals depicting pilgrims whose faces melt away, each frame showing less until only empty robes remain.
Current Status
Ehlixu’s last known manifestation occurred within a hidden fold of the Dreaming known as the Silent Catacombs—an endless necropolis of faded names and crumbled memories. Some scholars claim Ehlixu dissolved fully into the Dreaming there, becoming less an entity and more a persistent spiritual decay.
Yet wherever people despair deeply enough to wish themselves undone, Ehlixu’s song may still be heard—a lullaby coaxing the weary into the arms of merciful oblivion.
It is said that to dream of Ehlixu is to awaken a little less whole each time.
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