Subete'No'Shi Organization in Songs Of Shadow | World Anvil

Subete'No'Shi

HOSTILE FACTION

"This is what happens when you call out to a god. This is what happens when you pray to nothing. Shi is there."
— The Fated Fool
 

Maker Apollyon: Reclaimed/Defeated

Currently Active Enforcers: 4/7

(Red Cleaver Released, Mechanus Defeated, Balan Rescued)  
The faction of Subete'No'Shi has been around since well before the seven seals creation, but its form has changed extremely over that vast amount of time. Appearing and cropping up in various cycles as a force of destruction, it is only in this last cycle that they have managed to get such a foot hold that it is actively on a track of total loss for the physical and metaphysical states. The quote unquote leader of this faction is said to be Apollyon, but it is rather to be Shi themselves. Influencing those beneath her to sacrifice all life in their name, hence the given name of the faction which was otherwise nameless, Subete'No'Shi, meaning Death of All.
 
While on the surface it may seem as if the faction is mindless or purposeless, the indivduals who pledge their alliegence to such, usually believe in gaining higher rewards and abandoning it later, only to realize the force of the gravitational pull of madness is one hard to escape and harder to control. Very few individuals actively work under said faction willingly, but those who do generally hold higher positions of power. Their resources are vast and their mercy is nonexistant.
 
The more suffering and subsequent death that occurs, the more that the beast from beyond the wall, Shi, is sated. However because of the lack of the 7 seals deaths, and adjacently the creation of the Rebis and sacrifice of the 144, that which is known as Shi has not been sated and slowly begins to awake more and more as existance moves forward, causing cataclysmic states of destruction to all that is caught within their gaze.
 
The crimes of this faction are limitless and impossible to catalogue in one single document or even an infinite codex of documents. Goals of the faction seem to be aligned towards breaking the cycle completely, and shattering the seven seals of existence to once more continue their factional goal of feeding Shi, however it would seem as if Shi will no longer be sated by sacrifices regardless, and instead seeks to destroy everything once and for all.
I thought I ended this disgusting story...
— The Celestine Apollyon, during the events of Mourningfall

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