The Founder
Real Name: Unknown
Title: The Founder
Species: Presumed Human
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Faction: Obsidian Veil
Position: Founder / Leader
Status: Unknown
The Founder is the creator and highest authority of the Obsidian Veil.
Despite his position, no confirmed member of the organisation is known to have encountered him physically.
This includes The Warden, the second-highest authority within the Obsidian Veil.
Unlike many mysterious figures within the Omicron Galaxy, the Founder’s appearance is not unknown.
His face is known.
His voice is known.
His mannerisms are known.
What remains unknown is where he actually is.
Appearance
The Founder regularly appears through recorded footage, secure video transmissions, and other forms of remote communication.
As a result, members of the Obsidian Veil are familiar with his physical appearance.
He presents himself consistently across communications, with recognisable speech patterns, expressions, mannerisms, and behaviour.
There is little obvious reason to believe the individual appearing in these transmissions is fictional.
There is equally little physical evidence proving that he is not.
Leadership
The Founder remains the highest authority within the Obsidian Veil.
Orders attributed to him are treated as legitimate organisational directives and can influence operations across the faction.
Much of the practical day-to-day leadership of the Obsidian Veil is conducted by The Warden and other senior personnel.
The Founder nevertheless remains above them within the organisation’s hierarchy.
The Warden communicates with the Founder directly.
He has never met him in person.
Communication
All confirmed interactions with the Founder occur remotely.
These communications include recorded messages and direct transmissions.
Personnel have held conversations with him.
He responds naturally.
He remembers previous discussions.
He displays consistent mannerisms and personality traits across separate interactions.
Nothing about these communications inherently suggests that the person on the other side does not exist.
Attempts to establish his physical location have produced no publicly known answer.
The Obsidian Veil
The Founder is believed to have created the organisation that became the Obsidian Veil.
Why he established it, how its earliest members were recruited, and what resources were available to him during its formation remain poorly documented outside the highest levels of the organisation.
The modern Obsidian Veil conducts highly classified operations involving intelligence, anomalous phenomena, restricted research, covert expeditions, and information considered dangerous or destabilising.
The Founder appears to possess knowledge of operations and discoveries occurring throughout the organisation despite his physical absence.
How much information is withheld even from The Warden is unknown.
Physical Presence
There are currently no confirmed records of the Founder physically attending an Obsidian Veil facility.
No verified photograph depicts him standing beside another known member of the organisation.
No publicly documented individual claims to have shaken his hand, occupied the same room as him, or directly observed him without some form of technological intermediary.
This has inevitably produced speculation among personnel.
The Obsidian Veil does not officially encourage such speculation.
Theories
Numerous explanations for the Founder’s absence have circulated both within and outside the Obsidian Veil.
None have been confirmed.
Some theories suggest that his physical location is simply the organisation’s most closely protected secret.
Others question whether the identity presented as the Founder accurately represents the individual controlling the organisation.
More extreme theories question whether the Founder remains physically alive at all.
The Obsidian Veil has provided no definitive answer.
The Founder himself has never offered one.
The Warden
The Warden serves directly beneath the Founder and exercises enormous authority over the Obsidian Veil.
Despite this position, even the Warden has never physically encountered him.
Their relationship exists entirely through secure communications.
The Warden nevertheless appears to recognise the Founder as the legitimate leader of the organisation.
Whether the Warden knows more about the Founder’s circumstances than other personnel remains unknown.
Unknowns
Almost every important detail concerning the Founder’s personal history remains undocumented.
His real name is unknown.
His age is unknown.
His birthplace is unknown.
His current location is unknown.
His life before the creation of the Obsidian Veil is unknown.
No confirmed physical encounter with him has been documented.
The Obsidian Veil knows what its Founder looks like.
It knows what he sounds like.
It knows how he speaks.
It knows how he thinks.
It does not know where he is.