The King in Binds

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The King in Binds (O-01-20-12) is a WAW-class Abnormality that is fought on Station 13 of Line 4: Masquerade.

It can also be encountered in the Mirror Dungeon through Abnormality events and as a potential boss.

It is the source of the E.G.O Binds.

Appearance

The King in Binds is a skinny humanoid with an uncertain form sitting on a black and gold throne. Crimson curtains and ribbons from the environment the figure resides in converge towards them, binding around the throne and enveloping the humanoid that sits on it. A small, golden crown sits atop the entity's head.

During battle, it is shown that the entity is fully capable of leaving its throne at will, though it always returns to the throne shortly after standing up. It attacks using a black-and-gold sword also wrapped in red ribbons, with an elaborate semicircular knuckle-guard (extending some length down the blade of the sword) with ray-shaped spikes. It is capable of manifesting the sword at will, or summoning one or multiple instances of the sword through portals.

Observation Logs

Log Writer: Yi Sang

We emerged into a great hall of crimson ornamentations.

Its appearance summons to mind the shape of a banquet hall.

A man wreathed in red fabric rested atop the throne of the crimson hall. He raised his hands in an endeavor of effort and gingerly gestured toward a gathering of masks manifestly made for a masquerade.

A spectrum of emotions were carved unto a spectrum of masks laid about.

There was a mask of sorrow, a mask of wrath, yet I found myself most partial to the mask of joy.

I know not the reason for which this mask embodies such expression of euphoria; yet, shan’t it be enough that it shall share the selfsame joy with others?

Two birds with one stone; solace shared, sorrow shrouded, the twain under a blanket of elation.

I wear the mask and feel my thoughts grow clear as an autumn sky.

Upon my approach, the king tensed his shoulders for a moment so brief that it was nigh unnoticed.

Perhaps it was a gesture borne not out of thought but of instinct, shaped by the cloth-suppressed will to express.

We had but a moment to regard it before those akin in appearance to us appeared.

Though their forms were opaque and their shapes half-shrouded in shadow, they held certain similitudes to our own forms.

The monarch, with certain torpidity, tipped his head to the side in a show of intent to behold our battle.

The long years spent in binds have filled the void left behind by your long-gone interests with tedium, have they not?

A terribly tragic tale. Yet we battle in hopes that our clashes may bring this king in binds the smallest revelry.

Such is all I have to say.
These umbral reflections of us bring to mind the ‘Identity Cards’ Dante holds.

An egoless incarnation of ‘Identities’ manifested may hold a certain resemblance to the way they appear before us.

Defeating one of them merely makes a vacancy for another to fill, for they number the same as we do.

Now that I have spent some time in observation of their operations, I have noticed a conspicuously considerable collection of similitudes between us.

I can presume that their number is most likely equivalent to our own; their techniques in parallel to ours.

Yet what those Peccatula lack is the will to make decisions of their own.

Like cards to be played with and discarded at the king’s whim.

Kings, both of eld and new it seems, enjoy plays of puppets, a musical of manikins.

Wielding men as cold tools, brandishing and flourishing them with abandon, breaking them. And upon their inevitable shattering, the king shall fill their spot with another puppet, its absence unnoticed.

Yet, this king may be quite fond of his own.

To shower his retinue with ceaseless blessings while leaving naught for the rest of us.

Mm… such is all I have to say.

→ H-how many of them are there? (Sinclair)

→ If the king seeks to watch an evenly matched battle, then it can be assumed that the entities have the same number of allies in their ranks as we do. If such is not the case, however, any further speculation may be a meaningless effort. (Outis)
Thus the battle came to an end with our victory.

Thus concluded it seemed the banquet, yet the King's tedium was yet to be sated; the bound monarch rose from his throne, tearing free his corpus from the bandage-chains.

The long time spent in confinement has rusted his joints, yet his imposing presence and grace have only grown to touch the formidable grandeur of his sublimity.

His resolute resolve roused awe in the hearts of those who beheld his emergence.

Yet awe was not the only sense it roused; a question arose as well.

For what did the king remain tethered to his throne, when he had the might to rise on his own?

I… know not why the king remained in sedentary silence, bound not by the threads but by his own will.

I write a few words here still, for I cannot very well put to sleep the simmering ruminations…

It appears that the king has aught to convey.

A monarch fettered to this spot, ere the hail of those who may discern his fathoms. A wraithlike state the sovereign has taken.

This somber musing heaps and heaps with every blade-clash unto a mound of sorrow as sympathy falls sunken.

Whyever does he hold one such banquet, his corpus bound to the throne, only to revel in such bizarre festivity?

It is but a pitiful tragedy, for this abyss is deep and wreathed in inexplicability.

Such is all I have to say.

→ A tragedy? Bullshit. (Ryōshū)

→ To be in command of others, to reign over another, is a declaration that one shall endure the responsibilities and the suffering that come with power. I would like to take this opportunity to extend my deepest gratitude to our Executive Manager, who leads us with a firm but fair, excellent hand. (Outis)

Mirror Dungeon Event

Mirror Dungeon Event
MD The King in Binds.png

There is an entity bound to an extravagantly ornamented chair.

It appears as though the entity is shooting a stern glare this way.

It tries to say something... but its mouth is bound.

The King on the throne twists and thrashes, trying to approach... but the things that bind drags him away.

The beautiful yet cruel crimson strips of fabric. They pull mercilessly. They are...

... Bandages.
Pride & Wrath Advantage check. Pass to gain a Keywordless E.G.O Gift.
Who will identify the fabric?

LcbSinPride.png Pride / LcbSinWrath.png Wrath Advantage: CoinIconGlow.png ≥ 15
No Advantage: CoinIconGlow.png ≥ 30

CoinIconGlow.png Check Passed

Bandages, made to heal.

But he will bleed out as soon as these bandages are undone.

To maintain his shape... he must remain bound.


E.G.O Gift Grand Welcome obtained!
CoinIcon.png Check Failed

The wounds bound by the bandages rot away little by little; nothing indicates that they are healing.

They serve only to hide the hideous wounds, not to heal them.


All Allies without the Pride Sin Affinity Attack Skill took 20 HP and SP damage!

... Chains.
Pride & Envy Advantage check. Pass to level up currently deployed Identities
Who will step forth?

LcbSinPride.png Pride / LcbSinEnvy.png Envy Advantage: CoinIconGlow.png ≥ 13
No Advantage: CoinIconGlow.png ≥ 26

CoinIconGlow.png Check Passed

Chains, made to imprison.

He will endlessly struggle against the chains to be free.

To regain his authority. To speak the words unuttered, bound by the chains.


All Deployed Identities gain 3 Levels
CoinIcon.png Check Failed

It thrashed once, then ceased its movements evermore.

Perhaps it was because you defined the fabric as chains. Or, perhaps they really were bound by chains. No one will ever know.


Nothing happened.

E.G.O Gift

Mirror Dungeon Encounter:

Grand Welcome Gift.png

Tier: III
Cost: MD Cost.png 267

Grand Welcome
Encounter Start: gain +5 Pride E.G.O resources.

Whenever an enemy dies, gain +2 Pride E.G.O resources and +1 E.G.O resource for 2 other random Affinities.

E.G.O

The Binds E.G.O is extracted from The King in Binds.

Outis and Heathcliff's E.G.O were added in the Season 4 Battle Pass and are obtainable through the Dispenser from Season 5 onward.

Binds E.G.O
Pride3.png
Binds Outis Icon.png
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WAW Label.png
Outis
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Binds Heathcliff Icon.png
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Heathcliff

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Trivia

The Vestiges of the King E.G.O Gift
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Tier: IV
Cost: MD Cost.png 397

Vestiges of the King
Chain Battles) Starting from #7 Deployed Sinner, at the start of the same turn it Substitutes in, heal 10 SP, gain 2 Clash Power Up.pngClash Power UpClash Power Up.png Clash Power UpClash Power +X for this turn., and gain 1 E.G.O resource for each one of their Skills 1, 2, and 3
  • The King in Binds has two unique battle themes that play during its combat encounter:
    • The first theme, which plays during the fight against the King's retainers (Peccatulum Invidiae), is titled Audite, pauper. This roughly translates to "Hear, pauper" from Latin.
    • The second theme, which plays during the fight against the King in Binds itself, is titled Vovete miserias. This roughly translates to "Vow these miseries" from Latin.
  • The King in Binds has an associated E.G.O Gift "Vestiges of the King", which is exclusively found in the Floor Themes Line 4 - Section #3 or Line 4 - Section #4 in the Mirror Dungeon.
  • One of the King in Binds' Skill animations (Present Thyself Before the King) is reminiscent of the Greek parable of The Sword of Damocles, where a King suspended a sword above his throne by the pommel using a single hair of a horse's tail to show a courtier (whom he allowed to take his place on his throne for a day) his constant worries of being displaced.
    • In the case of this attack, the Abnormality unleashes the sword onto its enemies from its throne, which likely instead symbolizes the King's authority over its subjects.

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