Editing Horizon Zero Dawn (section)

===Sylens===

An obsessed scholar of the Old Ones who is too awesome to appear in the first two-thirds of the game. While tomb-raiding, he accidentally discovered a superweapon A.I, which (less accidentally) he would form a cult around. This cult was called Eclipse, and consisted mostly of exiled Carja who thought Jiran had the right idea. Despite all the murders and superweapon-resurrecting that the A.I (called HADES) demanded in exchange for giving Sylens knowledge, Sylens was still surprised when the machine betrayed him and forced him into hiding. Luckily, there was another loose end that HADES wanted to kill: Aloy, the only person with Old One genetics that could shut it down. Sylens, who had learned nothing about morality or basic pattern recognition, promptly set off to use Aloy like he had used everyone else. 

In ''Forbidden West'', Sylens has returned to doing what he does best: organizing foreign rebels into a terrorist army to take down Far Zenith since he knew they were coming. He also leads Aloy into the West so that she can kill HADES (permanently, this time) for him. This is one of two reasons Aloy swears to kill him, the other being that he wants her kidnapped by Far Zenith (he assumed they'd need her genetic code and so would capture her, which would prevent her from messing with his plan. Unfortunately, Beta exists and so Far Zenith tries to kill Aloy). Unfortunately, their sabotage of each other's plans leaves them in a mutually weak situation where teaming up with each other is the only way for anyone to survive Far Zenith's attempt at genocide. Pour one out for Lance Reddick.