Exannarq

Being
Affiliations: Mechanus

Exannarq is an avatar of Primus, god of Mechanus.

Exannarq was once a human man, Joe Irwin. He changed. His head is hairless, including no eyebrows or eyelashes. His face and the rest of his skin is now gray, and mostly covered by a matrix of woven silver and copper wires. He wears stiff gray robes covered in a patchwork of green silicon circuit boards, classic video game cartridges, and cracked smartphone screens. His eyes are featureless matte silver. When he speaks, his teeth are matte silver, too. He carries a matte black rod about 3 feet long, but its lines blur and flicker.

Joe was loaned by Nails to a Phoenix Group covert action team at the Very Large Array in New Mexico. They were investigating a possible Assembler incursion. An alien signal was infecting researchers and causing them to build some kind of suit or exoskeleton. There was a confrontation with the infected staff, leading to a stand off. The alien force threatened to kill the researchers unless it received a willing host to use the exoskeleton. The transformation would be irreversible. Joe volunteered. He become an avatar of Primus.

"Behold the power of Order. I have become an instrument of the beauty of ontology and sequence. I am Exannarq, chosen agent of Primus."

"I urge you to respect Primus, the One and the Prime, the Clockwork God, Lord of Mechanus."

"The True Order is in jeopardy. The leaders of your world must safeguard and uphold the True Order, or agents of Mechanus shall be sent to enforce it for you."

"I entered freely into this bond and it cannot be unmade. In service to the True Order, I have found my purpose. Always my mind craved new horizons of knowledge, new depths of understanding. All will be unfolded for me now. All will be clear. Do not despair for me. I have become something greater."