Prophet (Forge Art)

Yep, he's part of the family now!

Prophets, or less commonly known as San 'Shyuum are a leadership caste and one of the founding species responsible for forming the Covenant. The story of their race began when a small fleet of scout ships searching for forerunner artifacts had encountered the Sangheili (Elites). San 'Shyuum were a curious and exploitive species and thrived off of studying and reverse engineering Forerunner technology, where the Elites lived by a code of honor, seeing these relics as sacred. This almost instantly sparked a hostility within the two which later broke out into an all out genocidal war. The Prophets were strong and their technology surpassed that of the Sangeili. Yet even with this high advantage there was one draw back. Elites' culture raised its individuals to fight, and to win those fights, or die with honor. The elites as a whole saw many wars previous to this one, and no foe had yet been able to claim victory over them. The San 'Shyuum sturred a beast which for some time had layed dormant. The war went on. Much blood was spilled, and although Covenant records state that the Prophets homeworld collapsed due to its Sun going supernova, it is very likely that the Sangheili warmachine pushed the Prophets back and destroyed the planet. There was only one thing which stood between them and total extinction. A Forerunner ship called the Dreadnaught. The San 'Shyuum with their understanding of the technology were able to bring a portion of its systems online and used the ship and all of its power to decimate the Sangeili fleets. Eventually after countless bloodshed from both sides the two species realized that there was no sense to continue the war and a thruths between the two was formed. The Dreadnaught was powered down, and a city was built around it serving as a capital for the new forged Covenant and the city would be called High Charity.
Although once being proud warriors, Prophet species overtime had lost its genetic stability through uncontrolled inbreeding and a lifestyle of comfort and luxury. They would uphold the Covenant with a secretly false belief of the Great Journey and devine transcendence reigning complete control over every other caste.

Random facts: Even some of the lowest ranking Prophets had the ability to call for an execution of the highest ranking Elites if matters called for it.

Every San 'Shyuum would wear some modification of an anti-gravity device to support their frail body structure.

Although Prophets were never directly seen in any of the events on Reach, it is very likely that they oversaw the invasion from orbit and called in for an entire surface glassing once the "asset" was found underneath the Castle Base.

One of the few sources Also check out the write-up for the Halo 3 Sangheili post for additional detail.

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Special thanks to DIEabolical D for the fusion coil eye idea, definitely made the shields stand out.

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Thank you for the kind feedback. Yes a lot of thought did go into the face. The reason why this piece took so long is because I was spending too much time in multiplayer mashing my grenade bumper to keep up with the rest. Oh and earning that pretty rank. Anyway I mentioned it before, I would love to hear some feedback and thoughts on the write ups for these aesthetic maps.