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The Grand Empress
The Grand Empress is a figure mentioned in the lore of Signalis that is mostly surrounded in mystery. Being the founder of the Eusan Empire, and a very powerful Bioresonant gestalt[1], she holds great importance in the history of the universe in Signalis.
Lore[edit | edit source]
There are only two mentions of an empress in the entire game: The banned book Song of the Gods in Rotfront, and The Empress' Hand note in Nowhere.
The Foundation of the Eusan Empire[edit | edit source]
The foundation of the Empire was a direct result of the Grand Empress' actions. She likely used her Bioresonant powers to influence the minds of people[2] to bend all of humanity under her control, which allowed her to establish a new unified state, the Eusan Empire. The banned book Song of the Gods states:
Her (The Grand Empress) immense will bent humanity into the Empire of Eusan and lifted us to the stars. It was her power that imbued life into the first of the machine-servants that now carry the weight of the Empire on their carbon-steel backs.[1]
Theory[edit | edit source]
Within Nowhere, there is a shrine to an empress, which in the code is referred to as the Icon of Knowledge. It is also the location where the Plate of Knowledge is acquired. Since there is currently only one known empress in the Signalis universe, the empress in Nowhere and the Grand Empress are likely to be one and the same.
If that is the case, then The Empress' Hand note can shed some light on her rule:
On the first day she was crowned,
On the longest day nothing was done,
On the next day she was wed,
On the last day she took her life.
This document is used for the Empress' Hand Puzzle in order to obtain the Plate of Knowledge.
With the room's funeral parlor-esque aesthetic, as well as the decayed form of the body on which the rings are placed, it is likely that this room exists in memorial of the now deceased Empress.