<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>+29, <strong>Listen</strong>+25<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/>Orpheus's concerned threat against Vholdran was heard even in Echidna's trance, but it took several minutes before she was able to say anything. Whipe his ass with Vholdran's tongue? No doubt her son would make good on the threat too, if he was an actual match for the archfiend and Echidna doubted he was.  Orpheus was powerful but his greatest strength was leading his brothers and sisters into battle. He led from the front while Echidna commanded from the backlines. She was certain her son was a better commander than even<em>The Dark Eight</em>of Baator, and was probably a more proper champion of Despotism than any of them as well. Not that uneven odds would stop Orpheus if he actually thought Echidna was in serious danger. The one weakness Echidna saw in such zealotry has amusingly just been solved. If Echidna was in a truly doomed situation Orpheus would rush to save her whether he has a reasonable chance of success or not.  If both of them were destroyed who would bring them back? With the power she recovered from traces of her past that answer was now obvious. She would.<br/><br/>"Orpheus, look at you. I'm only out for a little bit and you're already flirting with the demon lord." Echidna teased. She knew Vholdran wasn't her son's type, pansexual or not. No, the only thing that would make Orpheus want to copulate with Vholdran would be to brutally rape him after defeating him in battle. Her son didn't do that for<em>*physical*</em>gratification. He did that to humiliate and subjugate someone toppled from a place of superiority in order to redefine the power structure.  Vholdran was mighty enough to be worth raping, but he was no enemy of theirs. "Relax, my darling, we are all friends here. I see that now. I knew this man long ago, before the mother you know ever existed. I was a great queen once. I would lay upon this bed while adored by my favorite lovers while plans for inter-planar domination were being discussed. During that time I would find and devour entire worlds leaving them void of life forever. It was on one world I consumed that I met the people that I believe your base lineage was derived from. They were once the embodiment of darkness within the soul of all life. Their High Arcanists almost succeeded in a ritual that would have dominated the races of men across the planes with that same darkness locking the natural hierarchy of evolution to their advantage.  A brilliant idea but they were sabotaged and their ritual tore them out of the material world and anchored them forever into darkness. The ones that joined me after I destroyed their world came from an eldritch plane called "The Black" something of a mix between deep ether and deep shadow. They served me well, but in the end I consumed most of them too. I had no choice and that was their place beneath me.<br/><br/>When powered the life I took my magic was greater then that of Hecate herself. Perhaps she knew who I was all along and that's why she provided us with the assistance we once required. Tell him, tell him "Alexander" how even your magic could not match mine when I defiled. I sadly, do not know how I did it or else we would be planning my first meal already. Fragments of what I once possessed have been revealed, though. That alone has been worth the trip here. Wait until you see how I fuck the life out of a man and lead lesser witches in ancient ritual" The Mother of Monsters crooned in satisfaction.<br/><br/>She looked to other arrivals, some of which seemed to be getting directly to doing what she did. For a few moments she could see them as they once were. Yes, she knew them too.  Neither the pirate queen or the slaughterer were particularly sophisticated in comparison to what Vholdran and she had once been but they were magnificent in their own way. The beefcake satyr looked like he might have goals other then killing everything that moves now. That had it's benefits but he had once been a very useful weapon to aim somewhere and forget for a while. Now perhaps he would be more a co-conspirator.  The gigantic sea monster seemed much more primal and bestial than ever. Like a massive devolution into an ancient antediluvian form. How does one connect to such a thing, and what was her purpose now?<br/><br/>Who was that blonde woman? Echidna wasn't getting the same sort of feeling from her as she got from the others. She could gather that the Alu-Fiend was an acquisition of Vholdran and not Alexander. Much as Orpheus was there for Echidna and not Ligeia. Echidna had always wondered what hell had taken from her, but she was someone else now. She felt much more connected to Orpheus than she did any of her working relationships from a previous life. Even if they had been trustworthy before they were not guaranteed allies now. Yet Echidna felt like they were one of the best things that had come her way. Their interplay and give and take as well as plots for mutual power acquisition could pay off wonderfully. Baator was one of the most feared planes of all and the united front the lords of the nine presented was a large part of why that was when devilkind had not the age or numbers of other forces in general. How much stronger perdition would be still if the Archdukes did not have to spend so many resources against each other.<br/><br/><em>"More will come, my firstborn son, and they will all need your discipline and leadership even if they are too proud or addled to ask. These archfiends need you, but they need not know the full extent of your control. Do not bother pretending to serve them as you do me. We only need them to think your ideas and strategies are their own. Even the demon lords will have a part in the perfect principal of hierarchy. They just won't know it. . . " </em>Echidna plotted telepathically with Orpheus.<br/><br/>Then Echidna looked at Orpheus with a predatory smile. "Now, are you going to cum for mommy or should I just bite your dick off again?"