The Monk

The Monk, as called by the Villagers in The Wheel, is the masked leader of the Drones. The Monk is also called the "Cannibal Monk" by Gadya. The Monk instigated the territorial war between the Villagers and the Drones in order to take over the Wheel and escape the island. The Drones believe that the Monk is a spiritual figure who will lead them to salvation by helping them escape the Wheel, and will kill for the Monk. In the Forsaken Trilogy, there have been two individuals who carried the moniker of the Monk.

First Monk: Roland Harka
Roland Harka was the authoritarian Prime Minister of the UNA until his own corrupt staff believed he was "too soft" and was subsequently banished to the Wheel where many of his political enemies were exiled years ago. Harka was brutalized by his enemies before they fled. Eventually, drugged tenagers exiled from the UNA after failing the GPPT arrived on the island and turned to the former dictator for salvation, as they believed him to be supernatural because of the extent of his life threatening wounds from his torture. Harka, playing off the desperation of the teens to escape the island as well as his own desire to escape the island, Harka played along with what the teens believed him to be and became The Monk, promising the teens, called Drones, salvation by escaping the island.