User:114PA/Thanek

"Owning your wretched bodies isn't enough. I must own your minds, your hearts, your souls."

- Thanek to Gath, 2647

High Lord Havris Thanek Mant is the ruler of all the Thanix. He is hell-bent on finding a Forerunner artifact powerful enough to help him rule the galaxy.

Biography
Thanek was born on Kurikathis during the year of 2578. Not much is known about his childhood except that his parents were killed in a horrible accident involving a Forerunner Sentinel. When he became an adult, Thanek became a general in the King Jidek's army. He led armies during many battles and is responsible for the enslavement and eventual extinction of the Kurthos. He later found a mate and had his own child. Around the same time, Thanek found 036-Peaceful Rapture during an excavation dig on a Forerunner planet.

Thanek saw Peaceful Rapture as a prophet and kept him hidden in secrecy for he saw Peaceful Rapture as his way to power. He used Peaceful Rapture to gain support from others claiming that the "prophet" proclaimed him ruler and Jidek would cause the downfall of the Thanix. When the time came, Thanek began a violent coup and forcefully took the throne from Jidek. After doing so, Thanek had scientists analyze 036 and 'encourage' it to share information on the Forerunner. 036 spoke of a Forerunner creation so powerful, it "opened the gate to infinity." Thanek saw this as a godly power that would give him ultimate control over the galaxy so he began the search for the ancient machine.

Personality
Thanek is a rough, manipulative, and fear-inducing creature. He is both a dillusional psychopath and a cold ruler, feeling little for his subjects other than their ability to be tossed aside. His manipulation has gone so far as to cause the first undeserved death of a king in 900 years. He feels no remorse for the races his people have enslaved but instead, works hard to make their servitude more unpleasant. One example of this is when he ordered the destruction of an entire Kig-yar settlement after they failed to protect the excavation camp on Prospect.