The Wandering Titan

The Wandering Titan is one of the four escaped Dreadgods on Cradle. Its Dreadgod cult members belong to Abyssal Palace.

The Four Beasts

The Bleeding Phoenix, the Weeping Dragon, the Wandering Titan, and the Silent King. Plus, the imprisoned first Dreadgod, Subject One

“They are...disasters. Four monsters, big enough to blot out the sky, hungry for destruction, and so powerful that the most advanced sacred artists in the world have to join forces to drive them off. Drive them off, you understand. None of the Dreadgods have ever been killed.” “They're sacred beasts?” “Corrupted ones. Like the dreadbeasts of the Desolate Wilds, they were warped and twisted by their own powers.. .They're scattered all over the world. They burrow into a secure location and wait for decades...but when they wake up, they're hungry. Fortunately for humanity, no two have woken at the same time in centuries. But the last time they did, they destroyed the original Blackflame Empire.” (Skysworn, ch 7)

Dread Wars

A Monarch cannot withstand a Dreadgod. In the Dread Wars, the previous generation of Monarchs was all but eradicated, with only 2 out of 12 surviving following a combined attack on the Wandering Titan, which woke up the rest of his brothers.

Origins

About two or three thousand years old, each of the four free dreadgods were “born” of a dreadbeast experiment, long after the time Ozmanthus Arelius lived. It was a failed experiment to control hunger aura. They were created accidentally by a researcher, later dubbed Subject One, in the Labyrinth under Sacred Valley. All four beasts escaped, but Subject One is imprisoned beneath the valley.

Descriptions

• Too powerful for anyone on the planet to kill. Even Monarchs cannot kill it. Thankfully, it sleeps a lot.
• Hungry. Sometimes tired. Often both.
• humongous warrior with stony hard skin, a tortoise shell on its back like a stone shield, and a long serpentine tail dragging on the ground. It carries a big sword.
• Big enough to scale mountains with a step and to flatten peaks to rubble
• Can hold the gigantic-super-sized Orthos in its hand like a small toy.

Sightings

• Hundreds of years ago, during the Dread Wars with its three brother beasts
• In Book 8 Wintersteel, at Sky’s Edge, just west of Sacred Valley
• In book 9 Bloodline, in Sacred Valley, with The Bleeding Phoenix

Abilities

It creates landslides, avalanches, rockslides, earthquakes, spears of stone spires, etc etc.

Enforcer technique: —

"When the Titan found its leg stuck by Yerin’s technique, it threw a punch at Mercy. A golden nimbus covered its fist: the original version of the Enforcer technique the Abyssal Palace cultists had used. The wind from the punch was like the breath of a hurricane.. .The Titan unleashed a stream of powerful earth madra with its breath." (Bloodline chapter 19)

But, like all four monsters, the Titan tires easily and just wants to feed and sleep. Or, as Dross tells Ziel, “Dreadgods don’t fight to the death. If the prey takes too much energy to beat, they back off.” (Bloodline ch 18)

Madra

Hunger and earth, stone madra, maybe.
Aspects: Earth
Techniques: enforcer technique

Cult

The Wandering Titan is followed by members of the Dreadgod cult aptly named Abyssal Palace. They keep their faces concealed beneath hoods and stony masks.

"Brother Aekin wore a dark stone mask carved to resemble some kind of snarling monster, the right eye of which glowed with a bright yellow light. His robes were black and brown, representing the Wandering Titan’s cult: the Abyssal Palace." (Uncrowned)

Mount Venture, Sacred Valley

The residents of the valley appear to know nothing of the dreadgods, except for maybe the ancient sacred beast, a snowfox called Elder Whisper. Nonetheless, the Titan’s type of aura has been associated with Mount Venture, one of the four holy peaks surrounding Sacred Valley. This is a mining area, rich in mineral deposits. The Titan is drawn to the core placed deep beneath the mountain.