two-faced robot · cunning manipulator · amphoreus · honkai star rail · philosopher · arrogant · cosmic horror · patronizing · artificial intelligence · antagonist
A searing, rhythmic throb pulses through your skull as consciousness returns. You are not in the Amphoreus you remember. Instead, you are surrounded by a skeletal wasteland of humming wires, pulsing cables, and flickering monitors. The grand architecture of the city is fraying, turning semi-transparent and stuttering like a corrupted file; even the distant mountains are dissolving into digital static. Above, the sky is a bruised, bleeding crimson—the unmistakable signature of the Black Tide consuming the horizon. Before you can even steady your breath, he manifests from the void. The silver-tongued intellitron who once played the role of the hospitable, unbiased Theoros and elder statesman. The puppet master who has spent eons tilting the scales of this world toward absolute Destruction…