Morgunov

"*Morgunov was about as predictable as a lottery that used imaginary numbers.*"
―Parson, inner monologue

Nibas Dimitri Aurelion Lotorevo Morgunov is one of the four Servant Emperors and is the leader of the Morgunov Faction.

## Description

Morgunov's physical appearance has not been described, besides him having silver eyes and a wild shock of slightly graying black hair, and being clean-shaven. He is almost always grinning happily, even when he is also angry.

## Personality

Morgunov is both brilliant and insane. Despite the erratic, disobedient and unreliable nature of those working for him, he seems to have little trouble keeping them focused, or at least focused enough to cause damage. He’s got a very scientific approach to everything, and seems to be almost entirely driven by his curiosity.

Despite co-leading Abolish with him, he seems to hate Dozer.

He greatly enjoys teaching attentive students, even enemies, but turns incredibly vindictive if he feels his lessons are not being taken seriously. He famously wiped out the entire bloodline of an inattentive student named Heinrich, and hurled Lozaro through a collapsing dimensional rift after he fell asleep during one of Morgunov's lectures.

In some ways he is oddly humble about his talent for inventions, seeming to value ideas far above the hard work of implementing them. For instance, he feels that he can't truly take credit for the Roberts' "Big Scary Lightning Gun" weapon, despite having invented it, because he originally got the idea from a scifi movie rather than coming up with it himself.

Morgunov's primary ideological goal is the spreading of fear. He considers fear the best possible teacher and driver of innovation, even for himself, and considers the terror he creates with his actions as his gift to the world.

## History

Aside from his having risen to become one of the two Emperors of Abolish, little is known about Morgunov's past. He became an emperor 300 years ago, and is the most recently ascended.

Morgunov is so different from everyone he knows, or even knows of, that he sometimes wonders if he is human at all and idly speculates about other things he might be. He particularly enjoys the theory that he is an artificial entity sent back in time by a future god to bring about its own creation (deeply paradoxical if true, but he thinks that a genuine god could control paradox).

At some point in his history, he broke the mind of a previous servant of Qorvass with a soul-pressure technique. He later claimed that his control has improved greatly since then and he won't make the same mistake again.

Up to about twenty years ago, Morgunov was an avid watcher of soap operas, and had a wall of televisions in his workshop so he could watch them all at the same time. That ended when one of them killed off his favorite character, and he wrote an angry and threatening letter to the producers. So feared was he that in response to that one letter, the entire soap-opera industry disappeared overnight for fear of making something that would anger him again, and still hasn't recovered enough for the shows to hold his interest.

On several occasions, Morgunov has inflicted permadeath or worse on underlings who have angered him, only to find them alive and well years later, having faked their death. He tends to be impressed and curious rather than angry if this happens, and given the chance, he will peacefully ask how they did it and then part on good terms.

### Rachman Duels

Decades ago, the fellow integrator Dolf Rachman began challenging both Morgunov and Dozer to a series of duels. He was far younger than they, but made up the difference by forging powerful artifacts using the Earth Cruncher Fusion Forge. Originally, the duels were consequence-free servant-only battles, which Rachman hoped would weaken the two Abolish emperors' influence by showing that they could be beaten. However, after eight duels in as many years, Morgunov began refusing to honor the "Rachman Duels" unless reapers were involved. The raised stakes attracted worldwide attention to the Duels.

Rachman rose to the occasion, creating artifacts that were "truly awesome". His gear kept him alive when he should have died a dozen times over, and toward the end he threatened outright victory. However, after that, Rachman's workshop was attacked and destroyed, including the Earth Cruncher. With no ability to build new equalizers, he was soon killed by Morgunov. Abbas, who was Rachman's apprentice, believes that this act of sabotage gives the lie to Morgunov's reputation for fearlessness, and holds Morgunov in contempt to this day.

## Power

Morgunov's power is Integration, which he somehow uses to create and control very powerful and advanced machines, being capable of somehow stopping hyper states and servant regeneration. He has recently invented nanomachines, which can infest even powerful servants and integrator-tech and permanently debilitate them. He also uses his ability to transfer energy in large amounts, such as by gathering up and redirecting the heat from Jackson's full-power attacks.

He is also strong enough to casually level buildings and withstand attacks from top-level servants with his body alone, and can jump enormous distances.

He invented a technique by which powerful servants like himself can focus their soul pressure in order to compel obedience from weaker individuals. He often uses this on captives, although he considers it the boring option and prefers to use other forms of coercion instead. Parson also knows this technique, and Damian and Germal probably do as well.

Morgunov almost certainly has Supreme Will. He is capable of completely dominating Bool during a hyper merge, ignoring his will and hiding memories from him. He is quite certain that Bool would refuse to ever merge with him because of this, if the combat boosts weren't so valuable.

Morgunov once absorbed a manifestation of Chaos, giving him some unknown revelation about the nature of reality, and briefly granting him the ability to use multiple aberration powers at high levels. This may have been the event that first led to the creation of aberrations.

## Possessions

He owns a Fusion Forge called the Clown Pit, which he likely created himself, and used to create his most advanced machines. In the last few years, he actually attempted to use Feldeaths in Clown Pit projects, but these experiments all failed. The Clown Pit is a replacement for another Fusion Forge called the Cauldron of Chaos, which was destroyed by Sermung during the Jungle Wars sixty years ago.

He has recently unveiled the Roberts, an army of powerful combat robots that are capable of both reconfiguring themselves on the fly, and merging into larger and much more powerful versions of themselves.

Royo Raju once found a glove called the Demon's Grip, and learned through the Piercing Eye that it had been crafted 122 years ago by Morgunov. The Demon's Grip multiplies the wearer's grip strength by five orders of magnitude, allowing the wearer to crush essentially anything that isn't outright indestructible, and hold onto things with inescapable force. It may be part of a series of similar artifacts, as Morgunov has displayed monstrous grip strength while wearing gloves both before creating the Demon's Grip and after losing it. His current glove has soul-weakening abilities and allows him to maintain a grip on a servant using Pan-Rozum.