| The One King {{{jpname}}}, {{{roname}}} | |
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| Gender | Male |
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| Race | Unknown |
| Voice | Tsuchida Hiroshi (ST) |
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The One King (一なる王, Ichinaru Ō) is the ultimate antagonist of Suikoden Tierkreis. He is a god-like being aiming to merge every world of the Infinity into a single moment and place to preserve perfect peace for eternity.
Biography
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The One King is a presence that exists throughout the Infinity, in all times and places. His goal is to merge every single reality of the Infinity into a single, perfect world where the Perpetual Day repeats forever. His power is such that he is able to interfere with the True Chronicle of a world, rewriting its future so that it collides into another world. By repeating this, the One King has destroyed many, many worlds. The One King descends on a world when twelve world fusions occur on it, carried out by those who believe he offers the world a true, guiding path such as the Order of the One True Way.
His identity is thought to be that of the "Nameless Hero". His name was the only one that remained on the Tablet of Stars located inside the Statue of the One King, all other names having been scratched out. It was believed that the only way to stop him was to use the power of the 108 Stars against him, in such a way that would cause the sacrifice of all those save the hero.
Instead, this would have the effect of transforming the surviving Tenkai Star into the One King. As the One King exists in all of time simultaneously, it is believed that he is essentially any and all heroes who sacrificed their comrades to stop him. This is because the light of the stars which inhabit the Stars of Destiny represent the possible futures of people. Therefore, sacrificing those stars essentially creates a single future, fulfilling the maxim of the One King and allowing him to continue to exist.
The One King would eventually be vanquished when the hero realised the folly of the sacrificial plan and used the power of the Chronicles to strip away enough of the being's power than a coordinated combined attack from forces fighting the One King throughout the Infinity, representing all the potential futures, could finally bring an end to his ultimate goal of a world suspended in time for all eternity.
References
- Genso Suikoden Kiwami Encyclopedia, pages 699-700