Valkyrie feels an incredibly powerful shock wave when the Faceless Ones are released through the portal. Only three Faceless Ones escape out of the portal as Fletcher escapes when Jaron Gallow loses his grip on him. In The Battle of Aranmore Farm, Fletcher Renn was forced to open the portal. In the third book, the Faceless Ones were finally seen. At the end of this book, all that remained of the Grotesquery was its Faceless One torso. He did, however, succeed in burning the parts that were not made from a Faceless One. When Valkyrie destroyed the Grotesquery, at the battle at Clearwater Hospital, Mr Bliss attempted, and failed to destroy the parts which came from the Faceless One. The Grotesquery was a hybrid of a Faceless One (the torso) and other magical creatures. Their true appearances have never been shown in the books, as laying eyes upon them is enough to drive you insane. Meaning that there are trillions more banished to other realities, so it was extremely lucky that they have not been invaded by alternate reality Faceless Ones then. During Kingdom of the Wicked when Valkyrie travelled to the alternate reality the Sceptre of the Ancients and one of the God Killers was present, meaning that in that reality there were Faceless Ones as well. It has been implied that the Faceless Ones are based on Howard Phillips Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos series, although it is said Lovecraft based his dark gods on the Faceless Ones (most likely a reverse of the actual truth, especially given the fact he passed away in 1937). In the sixth book it is also mentioned that the Death Bringer could fight a Faceless One without the Sceptre. However, it is said in the fifth book that one who knows their True Name has the power to take on a Faceless One without the weapon. The Sceptre of the Ancients and the 4 other God-Killers (spear, bow, dagger and sword) were the only known weapons able to destroy them.
The Faceless Ones were evil gods, and the rivals of the Ancients.
For the book of the same name, see Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones.
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