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The Veiled
Biographical information
Faction:	The Dread
Rank:	Ultra
Template:	The Witness/Subjugator
Purpose:	Leader
Combat information
Abilities:	High durability Teleportation Witness's Shatter Resonant Seekers Suns of Lubrae Resonant Outburst Summon Dread

"Forged in our image, few in number but strong in purpose. You serve as extensions of our will - The Witness"

The Veiled are elite Dread emissaries shaped in the image of the Witness to serve as interpreters of the Final Shape. Bearing merged Subjugator headdresses and ceremonial resonance armor, they act as psychic overseers and ideological enforcers across Pyramid operations. Though physically frailer than Subjugators, the Veiled wield unstable imitations of the Witness’s own resonance abilities, allowing them to suppress resistance through fear, perception collapse, and spatial disassembly.

Overview

The Veiled are among the rarest and most privileged entities within the forces of The Witness. Created through direct psychic imprinting from the Witness’s own consciousness, each Veiled embodies a fragment of its unified will stripped entirely of dissent, contradiction, and individuality. They are not independent beings in the conventional sense, but rather extensions of the Witness’s consensus given form through modified Dread vessels. Unlike Disciples, who are elevated mortals chosen to serve the Witness, the Veiled possess no ambition, ego, or personal desire. Their thoughts are derived solely from the obedient aspects of the Witness’s mind, granting them unwavering clarity and absolute devotion to the Final Shape. This intimate connection places the Veiled in a unique position within the hierarchy of the Black Fleet: though often less individually powerful than the mightiest Disciples, they are regarded as beings of greater authority due to their direct origin within the Witness itself.

The creation of a Veiled demands immense resonance energy and direct psychic extraction from the Witness, making the process extraordinarily difficult and unsustainable on a large scale. As a result, only seven to nine Veiled are believed to exist simultaneously at any given time. Their destruction is considered a severe loss, not merely of military capability, but of a literal fragment of the Witness’s unified consciousness. The Veiled act as ideological overseers, interpreters of the Final Shape, and emissaries of the Witness’s will. Across Pyramid operations and Dread warfronts, even Disciples are known to treat their presence with caution, for to stand before a Veiled is to stand before an echo of the Witness itself.

Gameplay

The Veiled are highly mobile elite Dread units that specialize in battlefield suppression and resonance-based area denial. Unlike most Dread forces, the Veiled prefer to engage from range, frequently teleporting across the battlefield to reposition, avoid retaliation, and pressure opponents from multiple angles.

The Veiled wield several resonance abilities derived directly from The Witness and its Disciples:

• Shatter — Conjures razor-like shards of glass from open air before launching them toward enemies in devastating volleys.
• Resonant Seekers — Forms a Sphere of Resonant Energy that deploys Scale Drones which aggressively home in on a marked location.
• Suns of Lubrae — Marks up to five target locations before firing concentrated resonance beams at each point, similar to attacks used by Rhulk.
• Resonant Outburst — Summons a Pyramid of Resonant Energy that focuses a powerful triangular blast onto a designated area after a short delay.

The Veiled are most dangerous when allowed to control positioning and overwhelm enemies through overlapping resonance attacks. This in combination to its high amounts of Dread Reinforcements.

Known Veiled

• The Vessel of The Lord of Every Nothing

Variants

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Trivia

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List of appearances

• D&Destiny: Fractures: Wrath of the Hive