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Delegates are synthetic people created from Divines.
They are "carved away" like "slivers" from the whole of the Divine, and so they represent aspects of whatever Divine they were made from. This process is torture for the source Divine.[1]
Many Delegates can be made from a single Divine, though as each Delegate is created, the source Divine loses the aspect of itself that the Delegate embodies. The Divine, Arbitrage describes them as "abominations" and a "failed experiment".[2]
Appearance
Delegates generally have humanoid, human-sized frames. They are compared to the robots in Binary Domain (visible joints, ceramic plates rather than metal, and slits/hatches in place of a mouth. See also comic book Iron Man),[3] or the robots from I, Robot.[1] When Delegates are exhausted they become very still, as if their idle animations have turned off.[4]
History
Delegates were developed as the Crown of Glass and early Divine Principality worked out how to break Gumption apart to put it into other Divines.[3] Divines imprisoned for the purpose of creating Delegates are held in the Caldera Stretch on Palisade, and Delegates are produced there.[5]
Delegates are enslaved by the Fabreal Duchy; they are the lowest on the social hierarchy, whose exploitation enables the function of the Duchy's infrastructure. August Righteousness secretly operated a Delegate resistance movement named Reunion, which is now in open rebellion and works with a group of Swordbreakers and Kalar Anakalar's Giantkillers as the military faction Jade Kill.
Originating Divines
Pre-PALISADE
Many originating Divines are former members of the Divine Fleet who were mentioned at least once in Twilight Mirage.
Divines from whom Delegates are confirmed to have been created at some point prior to the events of PALISADE include:
PALISADE
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After building smokestacks to revive Motion, the Frontier Syndicate siphoned off parts of her essence to make prototype Delegates, described as like her Cell Juniors. These were used as security for the premises.[8]
Known Delegates
- August Righteousness[3]
- Bashful Dissent and/or Casual Dissent[9][note 3]
- Bright Mercy[3]
- Brisk Dissent[10][note 4]
- Cruel Emphasis[2]
- Eclectic Opposition[1]
- Faithful Emphasis[6]
- Free Fidelity[11]
- Gentle Influence[2]
- Gentle Reflection[10][note 4]
- Graceful Communicant[10][note 4]
- Limited Dissent[2]
- Limitless Welkin[10][note 4]
- Lucent Reflection[7]
- Noble Versatility[10][note 4]
- Partial Palisade[12][note 5]
- Particular Emphasis[1]
- Resolute Welkin[13]
- Slow Righteousness[14][note 4]
Notes
- ↑ Inferred from the existence of Gentle Influence.
- ↑ Inferred from the existence of Lucent Reflection.
- ↑ Bashful Dissent and Casual Dissent are a couple. One of them is a Delegate of Dissent, and the other (who may or may not also be a Delegate) took their last name.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 A "temporary exudation" from Wakeful.
- ↑ Resurrected in the corpse of an unnamed Delegate. His existence as a fractured part of a Divine evokes their existence, despite being created in a different social context.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 PALISADE 28: Honesty and Integrity Pt. 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Road to PALISADE 07: Wagon Wheel Pt. 3, dossier
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 The Road to PALISADE 07: Wagon Wheel Pt. 3
- ↑ PALISADE 43: Where They Are Pt. 1
- ↑ PALISADE 45: Where They Are Pt. 3
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 PALISADE 27: Resentment and Frustration Pt. 2
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 PALISADE 14: Upon Our Grace Pt. 1
- ↑ PALISADE 32: Seize the Chance Pt. 3
- ↑ PALISADE 57: Above the Earth Pt. 1
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 PALISADE 51: A Palette of Colors Pt. 6
- ↑ PALISADE 16: Upon Our Grace Pt. 3
- ↑ PALISADE 02: Into the World Pt. 2
- ↑ PALISADE 56: Some New Thing Found in the Light, Or: A Year in Nine Parts
- ↑ PALISADE 53: A Palette of Colors Pt. 8