The Red Haunt is noted to deeply dislike both Falkovnia and Lamordia, albeit for different reasons. ![]() Every time she discovers a new field of study, a new identity is born within the seething, insane matrix of the fiend's essence, allowing her to tackle her studies with a fresh perspective and expand the knowledge and skills available to the whole. The demon has studied arcane magic at the University of Il Aluk has honed her combat skills as a bandit and mercenary for Josephine Chantreaux of the Council of Brilliance in Falkovnia has mastered science in Lamordia and pursuing post-doctorate studies with Victor Mordenheim she has become an influential priestess of Brightwell and scholar of religious lore she has studied many fields of knowledge and gathered power almost as an afterthought. This pattern has repeated itself over the following centuries. Rather than fight, the two personalities were delighted to discover each other's existence. One was the primal fiend who had awoken near Nevuchar Springs, eager to learn, breed and feed the other was the bandit, hungry for battle and brigandage. It was at this point that the demon discovered the second effect of the curse she had forgotten placing on herself as she engaged in the bandit's life, she found herself with two personalities coexisting in one body. Of course, an education would cost money, and so the demon created a persona that could earn her the cold, hard cash she needed a ferocious bandit who would wander Darkon's roads and cities, forever on the lookout for chances to shed blood and reap funds. Keenly aware of the void in her memory, the demon decided to fill it with knowledge. As she travelled around Darkon, the demon eventually came upon Il Aluk, where she felt a great attraction to the University. A fiendish tabula rasa, the demon awoke near Nevuchar Springs the next morning, vaguely aware of what she was, but wholly unknowing of the who, where, when and why. The curse wiped clean the demon's memory in one fell swoop - but it also prevented Darkon's influence from supplying her with new ones. ![]() ![]() Remain unfixed by all hands let all what would chain you suffer and moan! In her extremity of emotion, the fiend took a desperate gamble, and placed a curse on herself as she had observed Vistani do from afar: No name, no past, no self, save that which you make by efforts your own. In spite of her reality wrinkle, Darkon's 'residential curse' was rewriting centuries of the demon's memory, including her memories of the one person she had ever loved. Just as her frustration was reaching its peak, the fiend realized something dreadful: her memory was being eroded by some unknown force. She attempted to bully locals into revealing the way out, to no avail as none could answer her questions. The fiend attempted to escape Darkon and the Demiplane of Dread with all its might, trying again and again to pass through the Plane of Shadow, only for her to be delivered back into Darkon. When the fog lifted, the demon had arrived in Darkon. The plan was for the fiend to seduce a male mortal and conceive a child, then to channel Girin's soul into the pre-natal fetus, allowing her to be reborn as a half-fiend.Īs the fiend plunged further into Shadow, she was surprised to notice a dense fog rising around her. Together, they sealed Girin's soul in a ring set in the fiend's navel. ![]() Girin suffered lethal wounds, but the two companions had set up a contingency plan before fleeing. The two of them plunged into the Plane of Shadow, managing to retain their hold on the Shadow Weave that empowered them, but Shar sent assassins to hunt them down. Girin returned the sentiment, and together the two dark arcanists decided to flee to some other world, where Shar could not reach them. When Shar demanded a report on the progress of the inquisition, the fiend realized she was far more ' fond' of Girin than she felt loyalty to the goddess who had created her demonic strain. While Girin continued as a Specialist Wizard and Shadow Adept, the fiend studied as a Bard and Shadowcaster. Rather than treat the demon as a tool or a slave, as most who fell for the deceptions offered by Devoratrices did, Girin treated the demon as a partner, an equal, even as a friend, and together they plumbed the stygian depths of the Shadow Weave for secrets and power. The fiend's last target in service to Shar was a Mulan Red Wizard/ Shadow Adept named Girin.
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