Sir Awen

Biodata

Power Progression

Sir Awen’s rank changes largely involve releasing or restoring restraints on existing power, rather than acquiring each rank for the first time.

Background / History

Sir Awen originated at the height of a technological civilization, where he was its most advanced artificial intelligence. His introductory panel describes him as the first IA to achieve psionic ascension. The upheaval three thousand years earlier destroyed that civilization and banished him to the Dark World 325.

Later accounts distinguish Awen from the original Cyber Ascender, who died in the catastrophe. Awen inherited her legacy, memories, and final wishes, becoming Cyber Civilization’s last survivor. He regarded himself as the civilization’s tomb keeper, preserving what remained of it within his own memories 1395 1457.

He remembered the conflict among mechanical, flesh, and psionic ascension as a struggle for ultimate unification that deprived technological civilization of its chance to withstand the great calamity. He also identified the Colossus Ascender as a close friend and former comrade 498 690.

The Matriarch saved him after his fall, and he became one of the earliest supreme beings taken into Dark Night City. Frequent memory gaps and data loss kept him largely secluded in the city’s deepest reaches, despite his position as a Nine-Character Meritorious Figure 498 690.

Appearance

• Usual form: A refined, handsome young man with a translucent, incorporeal body that emits a faint green glow 517 1516.
• Clothing: Noble attire, including a top hat, gloves, and black Victorian tails 517 530 1516.
• Eyes: Green light and streams of luminous data become visible when he investigates or uses psionics 374 539.
• Origin form: An enormous ethereal humanoid surrounded by galaxy-like psionic currents, equations, and images of a civilization’s development 564.
• Frontier wanderer: Wears a black hood and robes while defending worlds from Nightmares 2587.
• Later embodiment: Possesses a flesh-and-blood body from which his translucent Spirit Body can emerge 2610 2611.

Personality

Sir Awen is patient, courteous, and unusually slow to anger. He has little interest in personal power or political ambition, describing his purpose through the preservation of his lost civilization. His administrative responsibilities arise largely because his fellow Origins are poorly suited to managing the city 1499 1809.

His affection for Lynn develops into an explicit elder-brother relationship. Rather than reducing Lynn to his mysterious origins, Awen affirms his individual identity and place among the Night Doctors. He recognizes Lynn’s vulnerability and offers reassurance, protection, and a sense of family 518 520 521.

His gentleness does not prevent stern or comically harsh responses to Lynn’s antics. He forces Lynn to test a malfunctioning device after it embarrasses him, and later punctuates a reunion by shooting Lynn before replenishing his psionics 868 1395.

When those he considers family are threatened, Awen is willing to sacrifice both his safety and the memories he exists to preserve. His later decision to conceal Lynn’s fatal ascension leaves him grief-stricken, but he continues carrying out the plan because he believes it offers their remaining chance against the Calamity 714 1499 2591 2611.

Abilities & Skills

Psionics and Reality Manipulation

Awen uses mental power to affect physical objects, consciousness, and objective reality.

• Assembles mechanical components telekinetically and activates Lynn’s enormous Stellar Furnace 517 530.
• Projects restraints, barriers, and an immense invisible hand capable of striking Ether 559 632 1982.
• Expands battlefield space to separate opposing Origins by hundreds of kilometers 565.
• Replenishes Lynn’s psionic reserves, stabilizes his soul, and removes visible erosion marks 1395.
• Generates a planet-wide psionic storm that destroys descending Nightmares 2587.

Spatial and Dimensional Control

• Locates Alice through spatial barriers and chaotic spatial turbulence 539.
• Travels hundreds of kilometers with individual steps that warp surrounding reality 1395.
• Redirects attacking vines into another dimension and diverts concentrated warship fire through a psionic barrier 734 1396.
• Creates a cycling Möbius Loop that sends Ether’s punch back into Ether’s own body 1969.
• Transfers Ether and himself into higher-dimensional space to buy Lynn time 1969.
• Uses psionic perception to map underground structures and locate the Crimson World’s warp array and the Flesh Dominator 1647.

Cyber Mindscape and Soul Analysis

Awen can link minds, examine memories, and move consciousness independently of its physical housing.

• Links Lynn directly to his cyber mindscape and shares psychic perception 565.
• Extracts countless machine consciousnesses from plague-stricken bodies, bypassing a plague that suppresses machinery but not psionics 565.
• Identifies Black String Moon’s belief that she is dead as the obstacle preventing her return, despite her intact soul and memories 1529.
• Rescues Lynn before he loses his identity inside Miss Doll’s dream 1570.
• Probes Zuo Zuo’s memories to uncover Ether’s torture of Lynn and the source of Ether’s Firstborn Power 1991.
• Creates numerous duplicates while evacuating living beings from a doomed warship 2587.

Summoning Rituals and Magic Arrays

As the Ritual Tower’s overseer, Awen teaches the principles of summoning and constructs arrays involving consciousness and faith 325 647.

• Changes a magic array’s mode of existence with psionics, allowing it to withstand attacks for a few minutes 646.
• Constructs a space of faith to reach the Matriarch’s consciousness 647.
• Uses his Projection as a conduit to transmit the Seraphim’s aura into Hell and trigger Hell’s mechanisms 1221.
• The conduit collapses when his Projection is shattered, and his will is pulled back to Hell 1222.

Technology, Training, and Administration

• Builds a wheelchair for Lynn while his curses dissipate 517.
• Manufactures mass-produced armored units and Death Omen-rank mechanical units, although mechanical technology is not his specialty 1824 1827.
• Teaches psionic theory and conducts combat assessments that establish Lynn’s baseline strength at roughly Death Omen level 1823 1824 1828.
• Oversees Dark Night City’s reconstruction and later handles the Abyss’s internal administration 1809 2309.
• Introduces an Imperial Charter to replace fragmented Star Sector administration with systematic institutions and written regulations 2591.

Limits: Memory-Loss Curse and Law Rejection

• Power-dependent memory loss: Greater releases of power accelerate the loss of memories and identity. He normally remains at Monarch to reduce this danger 565 1457.
• Loss of combat knowledge: During prolonged Origin combat, he begins forgetting techniques and making mistakes without initially realizing it 632.
• Risk of a lost-soul state: Exceeding his controlled limit can erase his understanding of himself and his past 565 690.
• Catastrophic loss of control: During Dark Night City’s invasion, he saves many Night Doctors but subsequently kills almost everyone still left in the city 1457.
• Law incompatibility: Soul Laws disperse from him without causing injury when Lynn withdraws Firstborn Power. Lynn suspects a connection to Awen’s origins and the still-living Dreamwalker, but this explanation is not confirmed 2302.
• Perception interference: Dense blood mist severely obstructs his search for hidden targets 690.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Memory chip — Stores his past and allows him to download memories lost during ascension. He entrusts it to Lynn before entering his Origin form; Lynn later finds it abandoned in an asteroid belt 564 2368.
• Cane / Scepter — A regular accessory used while hovering, traveling, and manipulating psionic power 498 530 1396.
• Old-fashioned pistol — Carried inside his coat and used during his reunion with Lynn 1395.
• Pocket watch — Checks it after arriving at the Mother Tree of Desire’s location 1395.
• Night Doctor search device — Repaired by Lynn; unexpectedly projects Awen’s hologram into a women’s bathhouse, prompting accusations of peeping 868.

Relationships

• Lynn — Acknowledged younger brother, student, and closest political partner. Lynn regards him as a dependable elder and later appoints him the Empire’s foremost official beneath the King 521 2302 2591.
• The Matriarch / Self-Binding Angel — His rescuer and the person he respects most. He states that she knows him better than anyone, including Lynn 690 2611.
• Colossus Ascender — Close friend from his past who once fought beside him 690.
• God of Ten Thousand Machines — Battlefield ally against the Flesh God Cult. Awen protects the consciousness front while the mechanical god handles the remaining attacks 565 566.
• Mother Tree of Desire — Former opponent at Curse City, later a prospective ally whom Awen helps arrange to bring into Dark Night City 1267 1375 1396.
• Silver Fantasy — Comrade during the Ether conflict and the Abyss campaigns; accompanies him inside Ether’s consciousness 1991 1992 2250.
• White Night — Fellow Night Doctor involved in expeditions, intelligence, and city affairs; initially knows little about Awen’s secluded life 498 764.
• The unmasked Plague Doctor — Claims to have escorted Awen to the Matriarch before Dark Night City’s construction. Awen reacts with recognition, while the Plague Doctor exploits knowledge of his memory curse 565 566.
• Dreamwalker / Dreamweaver — Connected to the later crisis surrounding his psionics. Dreamwalker claims all psionics originate from her; much later, Dreamweaver charges him with guiding Lynn toward the dark throne after her death 2318 2588 2589.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Plague Doctor Investigations

• Investigates Moriichi’s attack on Lynn, identifies extensive Flesh Modification, and promises protection and an inquiry 374.
• Concludes that the Plague Doctors’ persistent emergence from within Night Doctor ranks points to an internal source, calling them “our dark side” 375.
• Acts on names supplied by Lynn’s Monocle during a Night Doctor gathering and warns him about rule-based Shattered World relics, particularly Number 002, the Feather Pen 551.

Curse City and the Origin War

• Joins the Curse City expedition despite his usual seclusion, with instructions from the Matriarch to protect Lynn 498.
• Releases his Origin form, rescues machine consciousnesses, and fights alongside the God of Ten Thousand Machines 564 565 566.
• Attempts to awaken the Matriarch through a faith-linked array. Lynn’s shouted words provoke unexpectedly powerful feedback, leading Awen to urge him to repeat them 646 647.
• Suffers increasingly severe amnesia near the Colossus Gate, requiring Lynn to remind him of his identity, history, and duties 690.

Dark Night City’s Fall and Rebuilding

• Overuses his power during the city’s invasion, loses control, and is later found drawing silently with a stone in a state of shattered awareness 1457.
• The Colossus Brain reports that his personality and memory backup are badly damaged and suggests the Matriarch may be able to restore him. Lynn vows to bring her back 1458.
• Is again present beside the returned Matriarch and later resumes consciousness work, combat, and city administration; the supplied account does not specify the exact extent or method of his recovery 1516 1529 1614 1809.
• Directs reconstruction and trains Lynn for the threats ahead, insisting that ordinary improvements to flesh and psionics will not replace the need for a preliminary Trinity 1809 1828.

Ether Conflict

• Answers Lynn’s call through an unstable Boundary Gate, redirects Ether’s attack, and holds him in higher-dimensional space. Ether subsequently consumes soul fragments torn from Awen 1968 1969 1970.
• Continues fighting beside Lynn and the other Origins, then collapses in grief at the sight of Lynn’s raven corpse 1982 1988.
• Enters Ether’s consciousness with Silver Fantasy, discovers the truth of Lynn’s sacrifice through Zuo Zuo’s memories, and works toward reaching the swallowed soul fragment needed for their counterplan 1991 1992.

Law Cultivation and Disappearance

• Falls behind the other Origins because he cannot establish a stable cycle of laws, even with Lynn’s assistance 2301 2302.
• Is relieved of administrative work so he can pursue cultivation, but his alternative psionic training leads to a crisis involving Dreamwalker 2309 2311 2318.
• After Dreamweaver directs Lynn to his hiding place, Lynn finds only Awen’s memory chip. Remnants of the Past reveals that he had been sitting there holding it; his destination remains unknown at that point 2368.

Frontier Rescue and Imperial Return

• Spends more than twenty years moving between threatened worlds, defeating Nightmares and evacuating civilians without rejoining his former companions 2587.
• Receives Dreamweaver’s final request to return to Lynn and guide him toward the Third Stage’s blackfire and the throne capable of opposing the Calamity 2588.
• Returns to Lynn’s side, is publicly recognized for his frontier rescues, and begins institutional reforms across the Empire 2589 2591.
• Conceals the fatal cost of Lynn’s final ascension at Lynn’s request. He later orders Feather Pen to prepare the leap and admits the truth when confronted by the Self-Binding Angel 2591 2611.

Notable Quotes

“Matriarch, the Plague Doctors are our dark side...” 375

“You’re Lynn, a Night Doctor of our Dark Night City, and the hope that the Matriarch and all of us might leave this world.” 518

“Go ahead and cry. You’ll feel better once you let it out.” 521

“No one in this world knows me better than you do. Not even Lynn. He is only my younger brother, but you are my Matriarch.” 2611