Seneschal

Description
The Seneschal is the keeper of the world. He watches over it and makes sure the world remains in peace and continues to thrive. He has the power to create life and the power to bring about destruction.

However the world they live in exists in a loop, an eternity. It always repeats itself and no soul can quite escape their existence in this world.

But the world is stagnant, never changing, and to prove whether or not the world is still worth watching over, the Seneschal sends in a Dragon from the Rift to find the next Arisen. Those who are chosen as Arisen by the Dragon display courage by confronting the beast and more importantly, display the will to survive.

One becomes Seneschal by defeating the current Seneschal and releasing his soul from the world with the Godsbane.

Once the Arisen has taken the place of Seneschal he/she will be able to visit both Cassardis and Gran Soren as an invisible entity, although access within Gran Soren is limited as only its Craftsman, Urban and Noble Quarters are available.

The player will be able to visit both Cassardis and Gran Soren as an invisible entity, although access within Gran Soren is limited as only its Craftsman, Urban and Noble Quarters are available.

It is said by the Pawns that they exist in other worlds, and that quite possibly there are more than one Seneschal.

Gameplay and Effects
While The Seneschal is different everytime depending on New Game + and if you're Online or Offline, He/She functions the same way as the boss but with key things to note.
 * All Seneschals can teleport
 * All Seneschals have Trail of Light as an attack
 * The Seneschal and his/her pawn change otherwise depending on if you are online or offline. If offline, the Seneschal and pawn will have the same Equipment, skills, and Vocation as you and your Main Pawn at the moment you killed the previous Seneschal. If Online, the game will choose a random online player and main pawn instead of you. So if the player was a Fighter with Blink Strike when they last defeated the Seneschal, your Seneschal will have it too.

Keeping those in mind, You can effectively form your own Final Boss for both other players online and yourself offline. And if really lucky online, encounter your friends' Arisens too as the Seneschal. The only exception being your first ever playthrough.

Quotes
Fathom Deep The Final Battle: Trial of Power
 * "If you would heed my call, prove now your worth."
 * "Show that you've the strength to break the yoke that binds you."

Introduction Battle
 * "Well met, Arisen. I'll not waste time on rhetoric: Defeat me, and take my place as keeper of this world."
 * "You saw it awaiting you at the end of your descent. Aye. The same world you've travelled to arrive at this place. A world you may well now inherit."
 * "It is a simple proposition. No different than any you've faced. You need only the will to claim what is offered you... The will to survive!"

A taste of power
 * "Yes, fight, Arisen, as you ere have fought in coming here!"
 * "What is it that impels you? What force spurns you on?"
 * "What sustained your wanderings and led you here?"
 * "I ask you: What is it that makes you alive?"
 * "'Tis volition. Unbending will."
 * "'You are here because you willed it, Arisen. That alone has brought you here."

The Final Battle: Trial of Will
 * "Consider... The infinite potential..."
 * "Just as you call forth pawns, so I command all life into existence. Call it divine creation if you must. But expect none of the mercy men seek in their gods. This is cold truth. The unbending reality of a world without compassion."
 * "The world and all its denizens are but empty vessels. In that regard, no different than the pawns..." 
 * "Without volition, there is no true life. The world falls stagnant, dead as an ocean with no current to guide it. That volition is tempered by the struggle for survival. The decision, just like yours, to fight."
 * "Just as the pawns need a master's command, so the world thirsts for the will to live."

Battle Defeat?
 * "Let us continue, Arisen."
 * "Show that you are more than an empty vessel, animated by forces unseen..."
 * "Show that the temper of your soul is strong enough to command far more than mere pawns..."
 * "Show that your will is fit to bind the fraying circle of this world and hold it fast..."
 * "Fight tooth and claw, Struggle now, and cling to life."
 * "Show that living holds worth enough to fight for!"

The Final Battle: Trial of Resolve
 * "It is time to decide. Will you claim your right as Arisen? Or shrug the burden and seek peace in oblivion?"
 * "Just so. One foot after the next, come what may. That is what it means to live."
 * "Turn back now and I will grant you a merciful death."
 * "The choice is yours, Arisen. Yours alone."

Making the choice Peace
 * "'Tis a simple choice, Arisen: Step forward, or retreat."
 * "Accept the quiet emptiness of a false peace. Of false life."

A simple life Step forward
 * "Then you would choose peace?... That, too, is a valid fate."
 * "Leave now, and you will never again come to see this place."
 * "Then fear has bested you as well... So be it. Go, and seek your peace. Your guttering beacon in the churning dark. And I shall await the coming of the next..."

The Final Battle: Trial to End All
 * "You are close, now... So very close to me!"
 * "Come, Arisen. I shall meet you on your own terms, joined by my own companion of old."
 * "You stand now at its end, Arisen. See your jouney through!"

Battle Conclusion
 * "Yes, stoke the flame of your will to survive. To be victorous! Temper your soul in its heat!"
 * "The forge of my heart grows cold, and the world shivers for it."
 * "Know this, Arisen: The world is merciless... Cold and empty, for all its beauty."
 * "It is an ever-turning wheel, perfect beyond compare."
 * "I stand at its center, as you may come to stand in turn."
 * "It is my will that keeps it spinning. My will that urges time onward through enternity."
 * "Our kind must fight, and through fighting prove the temper of our will."
 * "It is a fight that knows no end."
 * "It repeats upon itself, that all the world may repeat with it. And so the cycle continues, forever and ever and ever..."

Final Judgement Question the seneschal
 * "Arisen... Forgive me. All I've done was to test your will. It is the fate of all Arisen... You and I are swept up in the current, same as the rest. Each tempers the volition of the next, and the endless cycle continues."
 * "And so, until the coming of a new soul fit to craft the will to live -- Someone like you. Until that day, may you guide the world ever justly."
 * "I present you with the Godsbane blade... Those who arise to oversee this world are undying, save by this brand's kiss."
 * "I ask that you, as the world's new seneschal, use it now to vouchsafe freedom to your weary servant."
 * "New-crowned sovereign and keeper of eternity, grant me now this single boon:"
 * "The fire of my life is spent and guttering. Give me freedom with the kiss of the Godsbane blade."
 * "If there is aught you wish to know afore my death, you need but ask."

What is the Seneschal?
 * "My knowledge, and my all, is yours to take. What would you hear of me?"

How is the world composed?
 * "The Seneschal is steward to the world... The world you travelled now rests in your care."
 * "Just as the Arisen calls pawns into being and sets them to motion, the Seneschal holds dominion over all living things."
 * "There are those who would call such a being Maker, or God."
 * "I cannot deny the claim, any more than affirm it. In the end, they are but words."
 * "Call it what you will, such is the office I have served, just as those before me and you beyond, unto eternity..."
 * "The pawns exist astride the rift. They speak of a multitude of worlds, each infinite unto itself."
 * "Limitless in span and lost to time, these worlds extend in an eternal, perfect loop."
 * "Just as a ring lacks start and end, so this world has no origin, no final terminus."
 * "If it does, they lie beyond our ken."
 * "We are prisoners of unpassing time, wandering an unending land. What lies beyond, we cannot know."

What is eternity?
 * "Aye, there is life in the world, and with it death. Naught lasts forever. Each rises and falls in its time."
 * "But such is a death akin to that of pawns."
 * "They appear in this world, then vanish only to appear again, like bubbles in a mountain spring."
 * "As so it is with all that lives within this eternal world."
 * "In time, you will come to see it happen under your watch as Seneschal."
 * "Each beast, each blade of grass, each human life is born to die and be born again in endless rhythm."
 * "Naught lasts forever, yet all persists unto eternity."

What is will? Wield the Godsbane blade
 * "Will is that which led you to this place, and that which turns the eternal wheel of the world."
 * "Along the endless string of life and death, there are some born with a hunger."
 * "They yearn for some other, better place."
 * "They are the Arisen, nascent fountainheads of will."
 * "And so the dragon is sent into the world to guide the Arisen, and refine them. To temper their wills into aught capable of sustaining the world."
 * "And so the cycle of our world has e'er continued."
 * "Mourn me not, for I welcome the release. At long last, I am free of eternity... Of infinity... Free of the cruel, unending ring!"