Dies Entelecheia Glossary 21 - Shankini Rati Rahasya
Shankini Rati Rahasya is the "Creator God" of planet Dhanvantari, originating from Era Zero—the ultimate starting point of the Shinza World. Once a high-ranking leader in the universe's greatest empire and a legendary hero in Akasha's past life, she transformed a barren star into the cradle of history. Though she speaks casually and lacks overt arrogance, her brand of evil stems from a total absence of empathy. Operating strictly on utility, she treats every relationship as a transactional tool and expects others to do the same. She isn't malicious out of sadism, but her psyche is fundamentally broken: she manipulates and corners people without feeling either pleasure or remorse, viewing the entire world as nothing more than a cold web of self-interest.
Her specialized ability, Vidyaraja Kundalini, lets her trace the past and future causality of any object, living organism, or event—allowing her to touch a simple knife and immediately identify its wielder, victim, maker, and the exact site where its raw ore was mined. Because accuracy sharpens through intense personal connection, acts of murder or sexual intercourse are the most efficient ways for her to deeply trace causality. Leveraging this power alongside her civilization's technological peak, Shankini was appointed to lead the development of Dhanvantari as the head researcher tasked with unraveling the "Land of Origins," the era's greatest unsolved mystery. Though she initially undertook this mission for her sovereign, she abandoned all loyalty when war shattered the empire, choosing to transform herself into an undead Vetala purely to ensure her own survival.
Her causality-tracing power embedded itself so deeply into the planet that it generated world-spanning skills that trace bloodlines and past lives, with royal descendants like Rasmairi and Kudlak inheriting variants of her ability. Shankini exploited this by hijacking the planet's Mansion of the Undying (Reinhard's dungeon) into a self-serving resurrection system: once a specific threshold of souls and Rahasya bloodline converges, their inherited causality manifests a "Giant of Light." This entity is a life-harvesting slaughter weapon engineered to sacrifice all living beings on Dhanvantari to fuel her physical rebirth, a mechanism that served as a precursor to Fourth Divine Era technology and the original archetype for the Avatara later read by Sahasrara. However, because Shankini perverted a system originally meant to help souls discover how to live in this world, her resurrection setup is deeply corrupted and glitched, leading to erratic misfires like the Giant unexpectedly spawning when Maitri conquered the Abyss of the Evil Eye.