The Sunless Sovereign, splash art

Enemy

The Sunless Sovereign

Keeper of the Swallowed Sun

  • Final Boss
  • Act 4
  • Ranged
  • Final Boss

Orevan was the first name ever written on the Vermilion Roll, for holding back the first flood with his back, and the first keeper of the brush. When his age ended and the Wheel of Offices came round to turn him out, he sat down on the empty throne instead, swallowed Solenne the Sun and nailed the wheel still. He says he did it to hold the sky up for one age, until the roll wrote someone worthy of his seat. It never has. For nine hundred years her sun has burned black in his chest. He raises Grave Knights from the legion of dusk and burns defiant bands with flares of black light. He does not hate them. He wants to be understood.

I held the sky still for one age. Show me someone worthy, and I will stand up.

The Sunless Sovereign
Show attributes and skills at

Level 1 to 36

Attributes

Health (HP)
4000 9950
9950 at level 36 +5,950 from level 1
Mana
1600 3350
3350 at level 36 +1,750 from level 1
Attack (ATK)
68 187
187 at level 36 +119 from level 1
Armor
70 140
140 at level 36 +70 from level 1
Magic Resist
70 140
140 at level 36 +70 from level 1
Attack Speed
0.8 1.22
1.22 at level 36 +0.42 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

Halo of Black Flame, skill art

Skill I

Halo of Black Flame

Active
  • AoE
  • DoT
Cooldown
9s
Cost
90 mana
Cooldown
9s
Cost
90 mana

100 magic damage within 4m and a burn of 35 per second for 4s.

350 magic damage within 4m and a burn of 122.5 per second for 4s.

Orevan holds the swallowed sun in his chest, radiating the stifling dark heat of the throne he refused to yield. The Sovereign thrusts his gauntleted hand forward, releasing a shockwave of condensed shadow and soot. A ring of pitch-black fire expands around his iron silhouette, searing nearby foes with suffocating heat and clinging to their armor in lingering, tar-colored embers that refuse to extinguish.

Legion of Dusk, skill art

Skill II

Legion of Dusk

Active
  • Summon
Cooldown
30s
Cost
120 mana
Cooldown
30s
Cost
120 mana

Raise 1 Grave Knights for 25s.

Raise 1 Grave Knights for 25s.

Remembering the fallen soldiers who helped him hold back the first flood, Orevan summons those whose names were struck from the ledger. He raises his blackened scepter toward the sky, driving the pommel against his obsidian throne. Pale armored shades of forgotten heroes rise from the churning dusk as grave knights, spectral warriors clad in rotted bronze-scaled mail and gripping heavy notched longswords. The disciplined guardians march forward in eerie unison, swinging their whistling blades in wide cleaves to defend the throne.

Gloom Lance, skill art

Skill III

Gloom Lance

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

A lance of shadow pierces a line 11m long: 125 pure damage to every enemy in it.

A lance of shadow pierces a line 11m long: 437.5 pure damage to every enemy in it.

Orevan forged this piercing discipline during the ancient wars when he held the heavens upon his own back. Leveling his blackened iron scepter with a rigid arm, the Sovereign channels the lightless void festering beneath his ribs. A narrow spear of solid shadow shoots forward in a blinding line, skewering armor and shattering bones without losing momentum as it tears through every adversary in its path.

Doom Sigil, skill art

Skill IV

Doom Sigil

Active
  • Single
  • Execute
Cooldown
15s
Cost
100 mana
Cooldown
15s
Cost
100 mana

Mark the weakest enemy: after 3s it takes 120 pure damage plus 30% of the damage dealt to it meanwhile, and dies if it is below 8% HP.

Mark the weakest enemy: after 3s it takes 420 pure damage plus 30% of the damage dealt to it meanwhile, and dies if it is below 8% HP.

Orevan held the brush of the Vermilion Roll and still claims the right to dictate when a mortal name is ended. Extending a single armored finger toward the most battered enemy, he traces an ancient character in the air. A smoldering black seal burns directly above the target, drinking in the agony of incoming blows before violently imploding to reap their lingering soul.

Deathless Throne, skill art

Skill V

Deathless Throne

Passive
  • Buff

Passive: below 50% HP the Sovereign rises in fury: +20% attack speed, +12% ATK and 5% less damage taken.

Passive: below 50% HP the Sovereign rises in fury: +20% attack speed, +12% ATK and 5% less damage taken.

Having nailed the Wheel of Offices shut to keep his throne, Orevan refuses to succumb to mortal wound or weariness. When grievous cuts bring his vital essence low, the blackened sun inside his hollow chest flares through the seams of his plate armor. His towering silhouette surges with furious dark vigor, swinging his scepter with terrifying speed while hardening his iron frame against incoming blades.

Black Sun, skill art

Skill VI

Black Sun

Ultimate
  • AoE
  • CC
Cooldown
34s
Cost
280 mana
Cooldown
34s
Cost
280 mana

Ultimate: a black sun burns every enemy: 120 magic damage and a 0.6s stun.

Ultimate: a black sun burns every enemy: 720 magic damage and a 0.6s stun.

This cataclysmic eclipse unleashes the full horror of Solenne the Sun, consumed and twisted within Orevan's breast for nine centuries. The Sovereign levitates above his seat, spreading his gauntlets wide as his chest cracks open in a blinding corona. A massive orb of pitch-black sunlight rises overhead, casting negative rays that scorch every enemy on the field and freezing their terrorized limbs in complete paralysis.

Four views

Character sheet

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

Appearance

The Sunless Sovereign is a divine act boss and Keeper of the Swallowed Sun, standing nine feet tall as King Orevan commands from his obsidian throne. He possesses a commanding royal figure with gaunt, porcelain-pale skin, aristocratic features marked by nine centuries of sorrow, and hollow black eyes that absorb ambient light. He is encased in ornate ceremonial plate of midnight-black star-iron engraved with eclipse glyphs, draped in a tattered mantle of dusk-purple velvet lined with shadow-fur. In his chest burns the devoured heart of Solenne the Sun, venting flares of pitch-black fire through cracked seams in his cuirass, while his right gauntlet grips a blackened iron sceptre that hurls gloom lances and commands the dead legion. A suffocating halo of black solar fire radiates from his frame. Palette: eclipse black, dusk purple, crown gold. Silhouette hook: an imposing dark-armoured sovereign levitating before an obsidian throne with a chest glowing with black solar fire.