The Hornsent Empyrean Grandam is the oldest surviving member of the Hornsent, the horned race who built the great tower of Belurat and worshipped a god of the Crucible long before Marika rose. She was alive when Messmer the Impaler led Marika's army into the Realm of Shadow, when the divine beasts were 'gored and hung upon Messmer's spears, then burned in his flame,' when the great tower's funeral pyre was the tower itself. She survived. By the time of the Tarnished's arrival in the Land of Shadow, every Hornsent of her generation is ash, but the grandam remains.

The Watchful Spirit incantation she offers the Tarnished is the canon's most direct curse against the family that betrayed hers. The flavour text quotes her plea, unaltered : 'Take vengeance upon Messmer and his lot. They who betrayed us, aye, they who burned us... Let them face in thy wrath their just deserts.' She is one of the only named Empyreans whose Two Fingers neither chose her nor knew her, Belurat predates the Greater Will's chosen Order. Her vengeance is the canon's reminder that the Erdtree's golden age was, for someone, a holocaust.

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Item / MiscWatchful Spirit

An entreaty received from the Empyrean grandam. 'Take vengeance upon Messmer and his lot. They who betrayed us, aye, they who burned us... Let them face in thy wrath their just deserts.'

IncantationDivine Beast Tornado

The majority of divine beasts were gored and hung upon Messmer's spears, then burned in his flame. Those who witnessed the deed likened it to a funeral pyre for the tower itself.

Item / MiscMessmer's Kindling

The kindling that burned inside Messmer the Impaler. A dark thing, eaten away at by a wicked serpent.