Urizen

Urizen the Architect was the name the Eremites gave to the first President of the Great Houses. In Eremite art, they portrayed him as a blind old man using a set of dividers to measure his own dung as spittle hung from his lips. Despite their vows of silence, the Eremites celebrated the "rites of Urizen" by laughing freely. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Behind the scenes

 * The character the Eremites describe as "Urizen" is obviously Rassilon.
 * is the embodiment of reason and law in . In Blake's designs, is usually portrayed as a bearded old man carrying either architects' tools to constrain the universe or nets to ensnare people in webs of law. His opponent is the embodiment of imagination, . The description of the Eremites' art is an apparent parody of Blake's .