The Placid Lord

An ancient wraith of collosal proportion, The Placid Lord was created by the god Gran Cynosure to be his vassal on earth.

"The other was a softer voice, as soft as honeydew.  He said, 'The man hath penance done, and penance more shall do.'"

Description
Though The Placid Lord has been known to assume many shapes, he is traditionally depicted as as a ghost of titanic proportion, wearing a great grey cloak, faded armor and a featureless mirror-mask over skeletal limbs. He bears a sword the size of a tower, which legend names 'Music of the Spheres'.

History
The Placid Lord was created by Gran Cynosure in the Second Age, reigning over The City of Peace Abiding. Though he possessed sovereign authority over the Servants, he never chose to exercise it, instead waiting for the first metamorphosis. When The Reasonable Folk finally arose from the lights of the sea, he took the first of them under his wing, training them in arts mortal and divine.

When the first of The Reasonable Folk had finished his apprenticeship, The Placid Lord named him Commendatore Silence and awarded him a powerful sword, naming him the first member of The Knights of the Silent World. For a full century afterwards, The Placid Lord continued to teach and mentor the newly-arisen race. Soon afterwards, he retired to The Shrine of Reflection for good.

Although his Knights claim that they still recieve their commands from the Regent of the Stars, he has not walked the streets of the city openly since long before the dawning of the Third age.

Abilities
The Regent's powers are little-known but presumably great; while he lacks the divine power of true gods, he has been recorded performing feats beyond the means of even the greatest mortals.

Misc.
A fragment from the poem To Dwell As Angels by the oracle Tamerlain Szu, cleric of the Order of the Azure Hand:

And then accursed, mine eyes did see

a spectre, black as night and fullest

high as the trunk of the redwood tree

and lord of death's dominion he

and quietly then spoke.