The Whisperer

The Whisperer was an Infernal entity, apparently left behind on Earth after the First Invasion.
==Biography==
===Early History===
The Whisperer was present on Earth during the First Invasion, where the Infernals warred with the Celestial Armada. Despite being on opposing sides, she apparently fell in love with a Celestial, and the love returned. However, there was no happy ending for her.
The Infernals were defeated, and the Suppressor left behind to prevent them from re-entering Earth via stormgate. The Whisperer was left behind on the planet without physical form. She was aware of the Suppressor's existence, and knew it would be somewhere remote, but Earth was a large planet. She was left to observe humanity's development, and in so doing, was a witness to all of human history after the Infernals were sealed from Earth. She found humans to be a disappointment—more than once, she thought that humanity might reach its potential, but time and again, humanity failed to do so. She drifted from one host to another, but found no means of achieving her ends, as humanity had a limited understanding of its own homeworld—no closer to finding the Suppressor than she was.
In the 21st century, the Whisperer infiltrated the mind of Preston Swift. Swift was already an unstable individual, and as such, the Whisperer couldn't talk to him directly, but rather subtly influenced him. Through Swift, she was able to learn the secrets of the Sigma Program, and guided him to the Salish Flats in South Africa, where an Infernal artifact was uncovered. While Swift was unaware of the malign influence that had taken residence within him, he was still affected after discovering the artifact, having paranoia, fear, insomnia, and other mental conditions. Swift brought in Dr. Clive Cullin to lead Sigma 6 in the search for more artifacts, believing that they would give humanity the means to leave their dying homeworld.
The Whisperer took Cullin as her new host, leaving Swift looking like a shadow of his former self. Unlike Swift, she talked to Cullin directly, first doing so when he returned to Sigma Central and found his wife had contracted a terminal illness.
===Sigma 6===
In the following weeks, Cullin tried to suppress the Whisperer's voice at first, using pills, alcohol, and meditation, none of which worked. Due to his grief over his wife, he had little will left to resist the voice's influence. Over the following year, the Whisperer guided Cullin to sites in Mexico and Canada, each holding an artifact similar to the South African one. Their third and largest find was in the Amazon, where flooding had revealed a temple—a former Infernal stronghold during their war with the Celestials. As time wore on, Cullin came to the Whisperer's line of thinking—that both humanity and Earth were doomed, as the planet's biosphere continued to collapse. She told him about the truth about the Exodus Armada, and by the seventh month of the Amazon dig, Cullin had come to share the Whisperer's misanthropy. It promised him that her kind would transform humanity, make them extraordinary, and whatever the truth of that claim, the Whisperer stated that if he was able to bring her kind to Earth, she would cure his wife.
After this, the Whisperer fell silent, but her voice returned when Cullin uncovered a Celestial artifact rather than an Infernal one. The sight of the chestplate drew out memories and regret of the war, and the pain of love.
After the Amazon, Cullin led the team north, though the Whisperer remained mum as to what, exactly, he was looking for. It took a year to prepare the dig, at which point the Whisperer explained the nature of the Suppressor. The artifact was uncovered, and the Whisperer told Cullin that they had to destroy it. To this end, Cullin lied to his team, claiming that the artifact would open a dimensional portal, and that with enough energy, they could reactive it. In truth, that same energy would destroy it...or would, if there was any human technology powerful enough to disable the device, which after numerous experiments, clearly didn't exist. Cullin asked if the Whisperer was holding out on him, causing her to angrily exclaim that she was not holding back. The Whisperer fell silent, apparently having given up on the hope that human technology could disable the Suppressor, but Cullin stumbled upon the idea of using the energy of a coronal mass ejection to disable it.
Project Stormgate was initiated, and the Whisperer couldn't hide her glee. However, on the day of activation, Lilla Nassar was absent—the Whisperer suspected sabotage, and it was a suspicion that was correct, as Lilla, apparently under the control of a different entity, assaulted Cullin, demanding to know who she served. The Whisperer, perturbed that Lilla was aware of her influence over Cullin, took direct control of her host, filling him with unnatural resolve. The stormgate was momentarily opened as the experiment began, and the Whisperer made brief contact with the Host. However, Lilla detonated the capacitors, cutting off the Whisperer's brief link with the rest of the Infernal Host. 
However, Lilla had only delayed what was to come, as Project Stormgate Mk. II was initiated. She ordered Cullin to exile Julian Nassar from Sigma Polar, but in a rare moment of disobedience, Cullin refused. Nevertheless, he played the role assigned to him, disabling the Suppressor, allowing the opening of a stormgate, and in so doing, unleashing the Infernal Host on Earth. As the last moments before activation played out, the Whisperer faded within Cullin's mind, her goal complete.
==Personality and Traits==
It appeared that the Whisperer (at least after the First Invasion) was not a full being, or even physical, but rather, part of a much larger whole. She had a low opinion of humanity, and was able to influence the thoughts of the humans she took as her hosts. The hosts experienced mental side effects from her influence. To jump from one host to another, they had to make physical contact. The sensation was like a sudden rush of electricity. While she mostly manipulated them, she could take direct control of their body if the need arose.Bentele, Jack. "Beyond the Brink" (March 5, 2024). Frost Giant Studios. Beyond the Brink.
Despite her mostly malignant nature, the Whisperer was still capable of falling in love, and suffering heartbreak as well.
==References==
Category: Infernal Host characters