Sovereigns (Labyrinth)

"The Dark Ones. The dwellers in the shadow. They make war against the Architects Children, their brothers, for the right to the sacred tasks and holy destinies they wish to claim for themselves. But they have not the right, nor the will, nor the ability to bear the burden they seek, and will be crushed utterly beneath its yoke. Their hold is like iron, their gaze as piercing as a spear, their knowledge deeper than any library. But they are but a pale reflection of what they think themselves to be."

Tano 'Satsunar's thirteenth scroll makes numerous mentions of the Labyrinth and the Children of the Architect, but it also mentions another group of beings, called the Sovereigns. References to them are always negative - the "dark ones", and the "dwellers in shadow". Presumably, whatever the Children of the Architect are the Sovereigns are the antithesis to them, a dark reflection of their more enlightened counterparts.

Historians have proposed that the Architect was originally the Creator deity in ancient Keteshan religion, and that the Children of the Architect are minor deities left behind in his wake as he moved on to other worlds. In this interpretation, the Sovereigns are fallen angels, splitting with their more benign brothers. Minor, and probably falsified, accounts by other "seers" claim that the Sovereigns are demons, responsible for creating evil; others claim that they are different entirely, and are servants of the Flood, and that the Architect and his Children served the Forerunners. As with all of 'Satsunar's writings, all accounts are treated by the Ministry of Tranquility as apocryphal and therefore suspect.

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