Mantorok
Mantorok is a demonic video game character who features in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.
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Overview
Mantorok was known as the Dead God and as the Corpse God who was an unsettling entity and one of the Ancients. It appeared as a giant mound of living flesh with hundreds of eyes and mouths which controlled all purple magick. Mantorok lies outside the circle of power where the other three gods (Chattur'gha, Ulyaoth and Xel'lotath) remain trapped due to his inability to be contained due to his close association with chaos. Free from the ritualistic bindments of the circle of power, Mantorok does not have to submit to any of the three other gods. Mantorok focuses all his power upon keeping the three other gods trapped, knowing that if one ever escaped or joined forces he would be overpowered and destroyed. Similarly Mantorok could not kill them off one by one because as soon as he killed one of the gods, that gods power would shift to the two remaining gods. Prisoner to his own prisoners Mantorok used all his energy to simply bind the gods allowing the world to be filled by those he hated even more than the gods themselves; humans, however he was unable to remedy this situation with all his focus held upon binding the gods and the human population began to grow. The creature resided in a temple of tomb that was present in Cambodia.
In 26 BC things appeared to take a turn for the worst for Mantorok. A Roman centurion by the name of Pious Augustus was tricked into accepting the essence of the one of the three ancients imprisoned by Mantorok, becoming their slave and vessel. Pious entered Mantorok's temple in Cambodia and collapsed the temple pillars onto the god, pinning and trapping Mantorok in it's own temple. The heart of Mantorok was protected however and while death would be eventual without piercing the actual heart, Mantorok's death would still take thousands of years. Pious set to work searching for the essence of Mantorok. In 1150 A.D a dancing girl by the name of Ellia found her way into the temple - perhaps drawn by Mantorok. She is used as a vessel to carry Mantorok's heart, replacing her own with that of the god. When she is captured by Pious the centurion turned demon searches her for the heart, not realizing that is actually inside of her. Frustrated he strikes her down and continues his search, leaving Ellia to a fate between death and life with the heart inside of her. When Pious leaves the temple Mantorok casts a spell to the hide the temple in attempt to prevent Pious from finding it again.
As time passes by Pious realizes that the heart must reside in the body of Ellia but is enraged when he realizes that he can no longer find the temple. In 1983, posing as an eccentric collector of rare artifacts Pious tricks a man by the name of Edwin Lindsey, a famous archaeologist, into using the current technology to locate the temple. Upon entrance of the temple Pious reveals to Lindsey his true form and leaves Lindsey to die in the temple at the hand of one his agents. When Lindsey overcomes this agent he is forced to move deeper into the temple and enters Mantorok's chamber at the same time as Pious. As Pious attempts to kill Lindsey Mantorok uses the last of his essence to both protect him and cause Pious to retreat. It is here that the vessel of Mantorok's heart, Ellia is found. She gives the heart to Lindsey, who makes sure he does not touch it with his bare hands and is instructed to give it to a man by the name of Edward Roivas, otherwise known as the keeper of the light.
As Mantorok was unable to call upon its guardians, it had to rely on subtle manipulations that involved the Roivas family in order to defeat its enemies. The events occured all at once as the universe was made of many timestreams which operated in harmonius synchronity. This allowed Mantorok to play the Ancients against one another in order to assure their mutual annihilation.
This led to the destruction of the three Ancients with mighty Chattur'gha decimating Xel'lotath's power while its insanity was crushed by the power of Ulyaoth which in turn was destroyed by Chattur'gha. This left the remains of Mantorok who slowly died but its languish would remain forever allowing it to reside in its tomb to plot for the future.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Compared to the other Ancients, Mantorok is actually much more benevolent towards humanity, once serving as a god of fertility to the ancient Khmer people and setting in motion the 2000-year plan to stop Pious and the Ancient being summoned via giving the Tome of Eternal Darkness to the chosen few. However, Edward Roivas in the full third ending implies that Mantorok had ulterior, less-benevolent motives for doing so beyond trying to see the Ancients stopped.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Mantorok was created by Denis Dyack and Ken McCulloch where he featured in the setting of the Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem universe.
Appearances
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem:
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