<div class="floatright"><div align="center"><strong>Echidna</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=283007.msg13921610#msg13921610)</div>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7a/Motherofevilt.jpg)<br/><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Quick stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>HP:</strong> 240/240 <strong>AC:</strong>32 <strong>Ini:</strong>+12/+23<br/><strong>Spot</strong>+31, <strong>Listen</strong>+27<br/><br/><strong>Buffs:</strong> See In Darkness, True Seeing, Moment of Prescience, Greater Mage Armor, Anticipate Teleportation, Motivate Intellect (Orpheus), Titanomachia Inspiration, Draconic Aura: Power (Orpheus), "Glows Softly" -8 Hide, Resilient +1 (Orpheus), Magic Tatoo +1 CL </div></div></div></div></div><br/>Echidna listened politely as Vholdran spoke.. "Prophet of the Abyss?  The Abyss can keep itself together long enough for you to actually get insight from it?  The Abyss may be the oldest plane of them all so it must have witnessed quite a bit.  That you can understand any of it. " Echidna sneered and chuckled a bit.  "Now that is remarkable.  . . "<br/><br/>Echidna did not involve herself much in the blood war.  She had considered using her ability to produce numerous children of considerable power for the blood war as a potential bartering chip into the upper court, and hopefully the bed,  of one Arcduke or another.  The material plane held more interest for her so she had yet to form ties with anyone of note.  So she wasn't particularly bias against the abyss and it's inhabitants.  Nor was she trying to offend anyone.  Vholdran had made a very good first impression.  Echidna just felt demonkind in general were inferiour to the devils.  There were so many of them most of them unable to agree on anything other than what to smash next.  If they weren't kept in check they would destroy everything and themselves along with it.  Or so Echidna felt.<br/><br/>Vholdran went on to present her with the crown she had been tricked with in the first place.  She had memories of it,  they became stronger when she placed it upon her brow.  They were so faint they made little sense.  They weren't her memories at all.  "You have our grattitude.  We were truley captured by someone so simplistic?  Assuming he was not answering to a higher authority let us take this as a lesson,  Orpheus.  Even fools can get lucky and while their doom is inevitable it won't be of much comfort if we were already destroyed. Removing random elements is important to long term success."<br/><br/>Orpheus was being very quiet.  Echidna knew he was shameless and prideful at heart. He was both brash and disciplined at the same time.  His silence meant he was alerted to potential danger.  Orpheus obviously did not accept their safty as assured just yet.  Vholdrans insistance that Echidna and her son could go anytime they like put Echidna herself more at ease.  She glided out of her sins arms and down his body,  swimming through the air with extreme grace.<br/><br/>"How many others are you expecting?  One for each ancient throne,  perhaps? " she asked as she glided around the table.  They were all remarkable in their own way but the one that stopped the matriarch's movement was not a throne at all but a particularly large<em>"lectus triclinaris"</em>. The equivilant of three different ones all merged into one u-framed shape.<br/><br/>For a moment Echidna felt like she could see it as it once was: covered with plush cushions and velvet,  covered in platinum fixtures and erotic sculptures long stripped from it.  It was made to lounge upon in a horizontal fashion and was so sprawled out it took up the space of two of the other thrones at the table and trailed long behind them too.  Once a great Queen laid upon it with several favored members of her reverse harem,  and she bound them with exotic vining flowers that grew from it.  Unlike all other luxuries once affixed to the unforgiving black marble base,  the vining roses,  orchids,  and lotus blossoms still remained lush and vibrant now overgrowing the lectus imposing poisoned thorns that might be the only life that remained in the cursed valley.  Echidna slid to lay upon it and the cruel thorns turned away from her body.  Then an orgasmic moan escaped her mouth as she was swept away by ages of memories.