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11 The Tyrant is the unnamed surface ruler the original Underdwellers fled, long before the surface knew their underground successors' name. Pre-launch material describes the Tyrant as an overlord the ancient people could not overthrow, prompting a faction of them to flee underground. Beyond that role, almost nothing about the Tyrant has been revealed.
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33 What is Confirmed
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55 The Tyrant ruled the surface civilization that the future Underdwellers belonged to.The Tyrant could not be overthrown by the faction that fled.The Tyrant eventually forgot the people who fled, while they in turn forgot the surface.
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77 What is Not yet Known
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99 The Tyrant's name, species, or title.Whether the Tyrant survived the centuries that followed the descent.Whether the Tyrant or any successor still rules in any form.Whether the Tyrant is connected to the current surface society of Solace or to a fully different region.
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1111 Open Speculation
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1313 Pre-launch material treats the Tyrant as ancient backstory rather than active threat. The opening lore is structured to leave the question of whether the Tyrant matters in the present open until a future dev blog or in-game material answers it.
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17+The 2026-03-04 Lore Part I dev material introduces the Tyrant in a single deliberately spare sentence: "Fleeing a tyrant they could not overthrow, a faction of an ancient people descended into the deep places of the world." Everything else about the Tyrant is what the dev blog withholds. The figure exists as the trigger for the descent, not as a present-day threat in any confirmed scene.
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19+Mutual Forgetting
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21+The dev material adds a second phrase that defines the Tyrant's present-day status: "Forgotten by their former overlord and hardened by their subterranean life they developed a thriving technocratic society." The forgetting runs both directions. The Tyrant forgot the people who fled; the people who fled, over centuries, forgot the Tyrant. By the time the Underdwellers broke back to the surface, the Tyrant was lore rather than memory.
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23+Value-Systems Frame
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25+The Tyrant is the structural reason the surface-vs-underground conflict has a value-systems dimension. The Underdwellers' culture was forged in opposition to a surface tyranny; the surface civilization the Druid serves is "rooted in revived beliefs" per pre-launch material. The two are not the same surface civilization. Whether the Tyrant or a successor of the Tyrant still rules anywhere in the present is one of the central open questions.
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27+What Is Not Yet Known
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29+The Tyrant's name, species, and title are unrevealed. Whether the Tyrant survived the centuries that followed the descent, whether the Tyrant or a successor still rules in any form, whether the Tyrant is connected to the current surface society of Solace or to a fully different region, and whether the Tyrant ever returns to play an active role in the campaign are all open.
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31+Narrative Structure Implication
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33+Pre-launch material treats the Tyrant as ancient backstory rather than active threat. The opening lore is structured to leave the question of whether the Tyrant matters in the present open until a future dev blog or in-game material answers it, which is consistent with the team's broader hedge-rather-than-promise approach to lore.