Black Emperor Pathway

For other uses with the same title, see Black Emperor (Disambiguation).
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### Sefirah

The **Black Emperor Pathway** manipulates rules to suit their interests. They are proficient at loophole exploitation, possess extreme physicality, use bribery to achieve various effects, distort words, actions, and intent, disorder all sorts of things, and dominate others.

At High-Sequences, they could exploit abstract laws, manipulate the environment to their advantage, magnify the effect of their actions, isolate the location from the outside world, and infinitely resurrect if "Their" order was still in place.  can endlessly resurrect and cheat death if "Their" order still remains. "Their" authority represents **Disorder**, the hidden faults of **Order**.

The Beyonder Characteristics of this pathway originated from the Outer Deity, Son of Chaos.

The title of Above the Sequence of the **Black Emperor Pathway** is , and the corresponding Sefirah is the . This Pathway is adjacent to the Justiciar Pathway.

## Pathway Symbol

The official symbol of the **Black Emperor Pathway**. The color is jet black.

## Corresponding Tarot Card

* Description
* Card of Blasphemy's Appearance
* Star Phantom

The corresponding tarot card of the **Black Emperor Pathway** is **The Emperor**.

**The Emperor (IV)** is the fourth card of Major Arcana. The Emperor sits on a ram-adorned throne. He holds an Ankh scepter in his right hand, and a globe, symbol of domination, in his left. The Emperor sits atop a stark, barren mountain, a sign of "sterility of regulation, and unyielding power." He symbolizes the top of the secular hierarchy, the ultimate male ego. The Emperor is the absolute ruler of the world.

Inactive: An ordinary bookmark that depicted Roselle in royal Emperor clothes.

Active: A bright light emitted, bit by bit, from the bookmark, and the image of Emperor Roselle on the outside was being replaced by an entirely new image.

He (Roselle) was sitting on an ancient stone throne as he wore a black crown embedded with various precious stones on his head. He wore pitch-black armor, and a cape of the same color was draped over his body. He held a scepter, and he looked forward with cold, aloof eyes.

On the upper-left corner of the bookmark, there was a line of text condensed from the bright radiance of stars: “Sequence 0: Black Emperor!”

— *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 323
 Star Phantom Tarot *(星之幻影塔罗牌)* is an official limited edition Rider-Waite tarot deck with the card designs based on the events occurring all throughout *Lord of Mysteries*

**The Emperor (IV)** card depicts a smog silhouette of Roselle Gustav overlooking a city.

## Notes

1. ↑ The Sequence titles are noted to have no suffixes (i.e only Corruption, Confusion, The Fallen, Disorder, etc.), but the Beyonders added their own suffixes to match the Black Emperor.
2. ↑ Initially the author set it to be a human-like/humanoid form. However, Chinese fan started self-proclaiming as Curly Haired Baboon. So the author changed into Curly Haired Baboon.

## References

1. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1271
2. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 237
3. ↑ QiDian Book Settings: Power System
4. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 323
5. ↑ Tarot Card Correspondence by Cuttlefish
6. ↑ Wikipedia:The Emperor (Tarot Card)
7. ↑ Interview with the Author