The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mysteriarch \Mys*te"ri*arch\, n. [L. mysteriarches, Gr. ?; ? mystery + ? chief.] One presiding over mysteries. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete outside fantasy fiction English) One who rules over mystery.
Usage examples of "mysteriarch".
Kornblum among them, looked on, the Mysteriarch, in black cutaway and waistcoat, was fitted with the awful cuffs.
They reach the raven-circled towers and are admitted by a swathed and closely cowled being, the Mysteriarch of Utressor, believed to be ageless, preterhuman, and possessed of demiurgic powers.
Thus, legends of the fabulous wealth of the mysteriarchs, who had supposedly passed through the firmament, evolved.
Hundreds of thousands of trained elven warriors and their sorcerers faced a few thousand humans-without our most powerful wizards, for by then the mysteriarchs had fled.
But if they wanted to rule us, they could bring an army of mysteriarchs down and defeat us easily.
If the mysteriarchs wanted to take over, they could have done it before this.
Up there, far above the Maelstrom, was the High Realm, where dwelt the mysteriarchs in their self-imposed exile, living in a world said by legend to be wealthy beyond the dreams of the greediest man and beautiful beyond the imagining of the most fanciful.
The mysteriarchs claim they left because they'd advanced in culture and wisdom and the rest of us hadn't.
Two fellow mysteriarchs, standing outside the Council Chamber were looking extremely proud of themselves, also extremely fatigued.
The dwellings of the mysteriarchs in the Mid Realm had been renowned throughout the world as the most marvelous of all human creations.
The mysteriarchs woke one morning to find the Sartan gone, their dwellings empty, their cities abandoned.
Most horrifying, it became obvious to the mysteriarchs that the magic of the dome was fading.
Sinistrad might have told his people that one of his son's companions was a skilled assassin-a man who could take the blood of the elves on his own hands and leave those of the mysteriarchs clean.
No one, except the mysteriarchs and the Sartan, had ever flown this high and returned to give an account of their journey.
No one had guessed the mysteriarchs had passed through the firmament to build their realm on the other side.