The Starless Demiurge, splash art

Enemy

The Starless Demiurge

The Maker Without Lamps

  • Final Boss
  • Act 4
  • Ranged
  • Final Boss

Before the court had walls, the Maker Without Lamps took stars from the void to seat the gods and built heaven as an engine that would run itself. Then it sank into silence beneath the throne. When Orevan nailed the wheel, the silence did not stay silence: for nine hundred years it has fed on the stillness, and every star taken for a seat is a star it has eaten. It wakes only when the throne is threatened. It opens fissures of pure null, drinks the magic of intruders and calls up Bound Revenants, the servants it has already digested. It knows neither anger nor pride, only the cold need to keep the engine running.

Show attributes and skills at

Level 1 to 36

Attributes

Health (HP)
5300 11600
11600 at level 36 +6,300 from level 1
Mana
1600 3350
3350 at level 36 +1,750 from level 1
Attack (ATK)
64 179.5
179.5 at level 36 +115.5 from level 1
Armor
68 138
138 at level 36 +70 from level 1
Magic Resist
72 142
142 at level 36 +70 from level 1
Attack Speed
0.85 1.3
1.3 at level 36 +0.45 from level 1
Move Speed
2.8 m/s 2.8 m/s
Fixed Fixed
Attack Range
6.5 m 6.5 m
Fixed Fixed

6 skills

Skills

Skill I

Astral Burst

Active
  • AoE
  • CC
Cooldown
8.5s
Cost
85 mana
Cooldown
8.5s
Cost
85 mana

100 magic damage within 4.2m and silences for 0.8s.

350 magic damage within 4.2m and silences for 0.8s.

Fashioned before the heavenly court took shape, the Demiurge wields the primordial emptiness of the unmade void to silence lesser gods. Floating in eerie stillness, the faceless entity spreads its arms of star-dark crystal and pulses with absolute cold. A sphere of jet-black astral energy detonates without a sound, snuffing out ambient light, shattering enemy sorcery, and sealing the voices of all nearby spellcasters.

Skill II

Void Rift

Active
  • AoE
  • DoT
  • Debuff
Cooldown
12s
Cost
100 mana
Cooldown
12s
Cost
100 mana

Open a rift on the densest group: 45 magic damage per second within 3.6m and 40% slow for 4s.

Open a rift on the densest group: 157.5 magic damage per second within 3.6m and 40% slow for 4s.

An unceasing hunger drives the Maker to carve wounds into creation where devoured constellations once burned. It points a slender geometric finger of dark obsidian at the gathered climbers, tearing the fabric of reality open. A yawning void rift tears into the stone floor, swirling with violet gravitational eddies that drag intruders toward its event horizon and drain their warmth each second.

Skill III

Null Star

Active
  • AoE
Cooldown
10s
Cost
90 mana
Cooldown
10s
Cost
90 mana

A beam of unmaking pierces a line 12m long: 130 pure damage to every enemy in it.

A beam of unmaking pierces a line 12m long: 455 pure damage to every enemy in it.

The Maker Without Lamps holds the divine office of cosmic unmaking, reducing matter to pure silence to fuel heaven's engine. Gathering the remnants of consumed suns into a single pinpoint between its floating mechanical rings, it aligns its dark torso. A searing needle of pure null fires across the hall in a straight, blinding beam of anti-matter, piercing straight through armour and flesh without meeting resistance.

Skill IV

Cosmic Rebirth

Passive
  • Buff

Passive: below 50% HP the Demiurge draws ether: +27% attack speed, +18% ATK and 10% less damage taken.

Passive: below 50% HP the Demiurge draws ether: +27% attack speed, +18% ATK and 10% less damage taken.

Nine hundred years of feeding on the stillness beneath the celestial throne enable the entity to regenerate when its core is breached. When catastrophic strikes crack its obsidian outer mantle, dark ethereal tendrils emerge to stitch the fissures with cosmic vacuum. Its celestial clockwork spins at terrifying velocity, surrounding the Demiurge with a shimmering aura of dead starlight that accelerates its strikes and deflects mortal weapons.

Skill V

Void Servitors

Active
  • Summon
Cooldown
22s
Cost
110 mana
Cooldown
22s
Cost
110 mana

Manifest 1 Bound Revenants for 25s.

Manifest 1 Bound Revenants for 25s.

The cosmic engine disgorges the husks of servants it has digested across nine centuries of cold vigil. The Demiurge gestures with hollow palms, rotating its astral halo to unseal the floor beneath the throne. Bound revenants emerge from the lightless void, faceless humanoid shades woven from cold starless vapor and dark ash. Stripped of name and warmth, the uncanny figures advance in utter stillness, wielding spectral broadswords that slice cleanly through mortal resolve.

Skill VI

Starless Horizon

Ultimate
  • AoE
  • CC
Cooldown
35s
Cost
280 mana
Cooldown
35s
Cost
280 mana

Ultimate: a starless horizon collapses upon the court: 120 magic damage and a 0.6s stun to every enemy.

Ultimate: a starless horizon collapses upon the court: 720 magic damage and a 0.6s stun to every enemy.

The supreme authority of the Maker awakens to erase all life that dares disturb the divine mechanism. The Demiurge expands outward into an immense silhouette of cosmic blackness, collapsing the throne room into a starless horizon. A vast ring of negative space contracts with crushing gravity, crashing down upon every intruder in a concussive shockwave of absolute zero that leaves them frozen and stunned in utter darkness.

Four views

Character sheet

The Starless Demiurge from the front, both sides and the back
The Starless Demiurge, character sheet. Select the image to open it full screen.

Appearance

The Starless Demiurge is a primordial divine construct boss and Maker Without Lamps, standing ten feet tall as an ancient celestial engine floating in absolute stillness. It presents a non-humanoid geometric silhouette formed of interlocking, rotating rings of dark obsidian crystal and celestial brass, revolving around a hollow core of pure cosmic vacuum. Its surface consists of polished plates of star-dark basalt and unreflective void crystal, inscribed with astrological equations that drink in ambient light. It commands reality without forged weapons, extending slender crystal appendages with hollow palms to tear open yawning violet void rifts, fire searing beams of null anti-matter, and summon bound revenants from the dark. A silent, shimmering aura of dead starlight and violet gravitational distortions distorts space around its chassis. Palette: void black, cosmic violet, celestial brass. Silhouette hook: a faceless, floating nexus of concentric obsidian rings revolving around a lightless singularity.