Ask Jenetia Krole - Knight-Commander of the Silent Sisterhood of the Great Tithe, Chief Investigatus-Militant of the Divisio Astra Telepathica, and Left Hand of the Emperor of Mankind. Low Gothic translations by Melpomanei, Proloquor to the Soulless Queen.
It is an inviolable truth that humanity's ability to destroy will always outstrip its ability to create, it is our curse and our salvation combined, our end when it comes, will be writ by our own bloody hand.
Attributed to the Unspeakable King (The Horus Heresy Book Six: Retribution)
A living weapon capable of turning a target’s psionic force back upon it without the aid of an animus speculum, the Black Pariah project was intended to create the ultimate counter-psyker. Although ostensibly successful, the project was declared null by Sire Culexus with the only known subject imprisoned on a Black Ship that was to be piloted into a star.
- Nemesis by James Swallow (image by Neil Roberts)
hello, I recently chanced upon the Unspeakable King and while doing some project related research on my own time I found out about your fanfic. I am interested in your interpretation of this mythical figure, and hope for an update on the Unspeakable King and the Silent Queen 🙏
So it has been... five and a half years since I last edited the WIP file of The Unspeakable King and the Silent Queen. Realistically, no, I'm not going to finish it.
With that in mind, spoilers be damned, see below a synopsis of each of the parts I had sketched out.
Part One: The Hollow Girl
"Fatal Night brought forth Strife steel-hearted, then hateful Strife bore Oblivion."
After showing Jenetia's birth (see here), this part follows Jenetia and her mother, Eris, being hunted by the Unspeakable King's Blind Judges. They catch up to Eris, who is killed while Jenetia is in hiding. Jenetia is found by Constantin Valdor (see here) and taken to the Emperor (see here).
Part Two: The Crimson Masque
"Even a God-King can bleed."
Jenetia is getting ready for a masquerade ball where she will make her first public appearance as the Emperor's daughter (see here). At the masque, the Emperor's Custodians are frozen in place and Blind Judges attack the Emperor. While He holds off the pariahs, Jenetia hunts down the Crimson Walker who is holding the Custodians in stasis.
Part Three: Nomenclature
"That which is unknown and unseen always commands the greatest fear."
At the behest of the Emperor, who fears the Unspeakable King is powerful enough to counter even His psychic might, Constantin arranges for Jenetia to meet a nameless man who asks for her help to kill the Unspeakable King. Together, they break into the cells of what used to be the Tower of London and free some rebellious Hollow Ones to aid them.
Part Four: Sisterhood
"Perseverance and Silence are the highest virtues."
This is the least sketched out section. Jenetia and the Hollow Ones she has freed launch guerilla raids to undermine the power of the Unspeakable King, their growing bond forming the foundation of what would eventually become the Silent Sisterhood.
Part Five: Regicide
"Our end, when it comes, will be writ by our own bloody hand."
Jenetia and her sisters infiltrate the Unspeakable King's throne room, where it is confirmed that he is her father. An assassination attempt by the nameless man using an Animus Speculum fails, and the Unspeakable King proves able to unleash a similar blast without technological aid, which fells the nameless man but has no effect on Jenetia. Jenetia kills the Unspeakable King with her mother's misericodia, No Man's Hand. The surviving Hollow Ones kneel as Celia pronounces "The King is dead, long live the Queen."
Epilogue: The Once and Future King
The nameless man meets with the Grand Master of Assassins, who addresses him as Sire Culexus, to deliver the remains of the Unspeakable King. The Grand Master announces that Project: Black Pariah can now begin.
“Under blue heaven, Empires rise and then they fall. Heroes cannot die.”
— Tsolmon Khan, inscription in memory of Knight-Centura Calistis Merovin and the fallen in the Betrayal at Byfrust (The Horus Heresy Book Eight: Malevolence)
Albia was a part of my mentor's story, though she kept most of her story to herself, right up to the end. The book talks only about its feldspar, its igneous formations and its alluvial deposits. But in those sparse words, I imagine empty moorland and breathe fresh, clean air. I see wildflowers nodding in the cold wind, and a broad roof of sky filled with grey, rain-shot clouds. I see her standing there, on the granite and the feldspar. She is not smiling. She never smiled.
Aphone Ire, Vigil-Commander of the Silent Sisterhood, 014.M31 (Fragments (All We Have Left) by Dan Abnett from Era of Ruin)
"Magic is fucking stupid, you've gotta be the lamest dork alive to use it"
*Wizard on the verge of tears after failing 8 consecutive times to cast a lightning bolt on this guy* "No it's.... no it's not...."
My mentor had lived a life of her own, a whole life, before she was inducted into the Silent Sisterhood. Jenetia Krole... that was her actual name, not something chosen off a list.
Aphone Ire, Vigil-Commander of the Silent Sisterhood, 014.M31 (Fragments (All We Have Left) by Dan Abnett from Era of Ruin)
My mentor, Jenetia, once said that she had known an Aphone once. That's all. But from the comment , I got the sense that Aphone had been her sister, perhaps, or her daughter. Why would someone who said so little mention it at all if it didn't matter?
Aphone Ire, Vigil-Commander of the Silent Sisterhood, 014.M31 (Fragments (All We Have Left) by Dan Abnett from Era of Ruin)
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