Phaenon
Phaenon, also known as the Saturn Deer, or The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth, was one of the Sentinels of Creatio once thought to have perished by the Scarlet King.
Description[]
Phaenon appears as a colossal deer/stag with a large Voxen Eye in place of a head. The Eye is more detailed than the one depicted in the Last Appeal of Biphi and also has two glowing white antler symbols floating next to it. A large pitch-black circle can be seen in the middle of Eye. It also has multiple glowing white orbs orbiting around where the neck should be, which each give off their own glowing particles as they spin.
The documents describe the creature emerging from the dark frosted forests of the north to claim the payment the Druids offered. The documents also describe a symbol linked to the deity itself, known as the Voxen Eye, which is described as a series of circles and triangles within each other. Medallions and pendants versions of the Voxen Eye were found in hidden caches of pre-Roman artefacts in dig sites within the British Isles.
Overview[]
Unlike most of the other seven Sentinels, much of Phaenon's occupation and role in the cosmos is unknown but according to Nahash, who was a former member of the Sentinels, Phaenon was the least social and was mainly focused on its role in guarding the Tree of Life and its caretaker.
What is known is that it was one of the Sentinels previously believed to have perished during the Scarlet King's war on Creation itself but was revealed to have survived by splitting a piece of its essence that eventually made its way to Earth. Upon arrival, the sliver of Phaenon's essence went dorman beneath the earth and bided its time to be fully reformed.
History[]
Origins[]
Phaenon was one of the Sentinels of Creatio, but other texts involving its activities are undetermined. Nahash states that among the Sentinels, Phaenon was the least interesting but at the same time "the most dangerous". After its arrival to Earth where it slowly rebuilt its power, the first committed act of murder and spilling of blood during the infamous event of Cain murdering Abel interfered with the reformation process and altered Phaenon's original intent and purpose. Biphi, a witch and follower of Phaenon, explains in her manuscripts that Cain's use of agriculture cultivated a domain for Phaenon as a nature deity which also coincided with Abel's role as a shepherd of animals, assuming the role similar to the Leshy.
When Cain murdered Abel, the latter's blood was "swallowed" by the ground that held the dormant reforming body of Phaenon. The blood of man was inadvertently fed to the sleeping Sentinel, twisting its original purpose to become a god that feeds on the worship of humanity through gruesome human sacrifices. Phaenon eventually presented itself to the humans as a seemingly benign nature deity, but was supposedly among the earliest of catalysts behind humanity's first usage of sacrificial worship to a god. According The Last Appeal of Biphi the 'antlers' surrounding the Voxen Eye were made up of Abel's blood that flowed in certain directions like river branches.
References to the Sentinel were found in ancient Celtic druidic texts that date back to before the Roman Conquest of Britain in 43AD. The druidic texts describe a cosmic force which they believed to be a nature god, which they named "The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth", whom they frequently offered sacrifices of human hearts as they believed this would appease the entity enough that it would allow them to hunt and give their tribes protection from the creatures of the forest. At an unspecified point in time, Phaenon's name would be lost from the human psyche and unpronounceable to the human tongue, instead only being addressed as The One Who Knows Silence in the Earth.