<div align="center"><em><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">Echidna</span></em></div><br/><div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7a/Motherofevilt.jpg)</div><br/><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ligeia</div><div class="spoiler_body">" Has your mind become as withered as your face, Lenore? The daughter of Titania, princess of the Seelie court, is in route to meet her betrothed and you want to spend our precious time looking for the Diamond of Erebus?  No,  we must use the powers that are disposal already. I will intercept her myself and bring her here so that we may call devour her heart and claim her Essence for ourselves.  Then we shall truly be the rulers of this world." Ligeia said to her sister.  The three hag sisters were the oldest and most powerful beings in the world of Aeon. The realm sat between the realm of the faery and the material plane. The three sisters collectively called the lilim we're fear not only in their world but in the realm of the faery to. But their power was not Limitless even together they could not enforce their will against every other power within their world and there were greater things still among the seelie and unseelie courts in the realm of faery. Ligeia the youngest of the sisters and a green hag had learned how to gain power by perverting the life with in nature. Together they devised the ritual that would grant them immense control over there world by siphoning out the power of the fairy queen. Titania herself never left her court and was too strong even for the lilim, but opportunity presented itself in her only daughter. A trip to meet with her betrothed took her from the safety of her in her court and presented a rare opening for the lilim. Ligeia would capture the girl and bring her to The Hags Castle where they would defile her and consume her heart to gain Authority over nature and fairy.<br/><br/>The G is plan was temporarily thwarted when the princess took an unexpected turn. She had no intention of ever meeting with her betrothed instead planning to meet with her true love a eladrin paragon of the Stars, who she would elope with. The eladrin was quite a powerful bladesinger but legit took a rare moment they were parted to lower the girl to the castle. The bladesinger followed closely and an epic battle culminated for the princess. Ligeia manipulated her own sisters to fight against the eldren while she stood back conserving her strength. She watched her sisters die then thanked the knight for allowing her to have all the princesse's essence to herself. She conquered the eladrin and forced him to watch as she consumed his beloved, then proceeded to rape him in till she was bored enough to finally let him succumb to death.<br/><br/><br/>With her new connection to the realm Ligeia consumed all natural life to involve herself into something great her then the powerful Green hag sorceress she was. The world became a wasteland to feed her transformation and the races of men begin to succumb to a slow death of starvation as they could dine only on dust. Having evolved into a different creature known in some rooms as a dragon king, Ligeia turned her own kingdom into a cradle of life and offered sweet Refuge to the people of the land in return for their unquestioning loyalty. She shed her appearance of a green hag and took on one of exceptional Beauty. To the people was there Queen and savior of the world. She was a beloved goddess they would do anything for because she shielded them from the wretched death that befell those that did not come and submit to her. She kept her realm verdant do her own magic augmented with rituals involving the sacrifice of pregnant women to imbue great fertility in the lands.<br/><br/>From her seat of power she was able to make many allies and claim worlds Beyond her own. But such powerful evil would not be unnoticed forever. She had violated true love to gain her position and it would be through true love she would fall. In the war that came to her many fought her and many died but among her greatest opponents was a Celestial paragon who's love was a diabolic duchess. Neither found comfort among their own and eventually found solace with each other. When they fought Ligeia the diabolic princess was pregnant with a Nephilim who's Destiny was already written. The child would become a god that would spread peace through the cosmos. Even from within his mother's womb he was aware of all that transpired around him and could exercise his power. It seemed Ligeia would lose in her war against the Two Lovers. Desperate not to fall she used her Ultimate Backup Plan destroy all life within her Realm to empower an attack that would surely kill both her enemies and all those that fought with them. The Unborn godling used its own power to sacrifice his existence, his life, to absorb the brunt of Ligeia's attack. The fetal deity died but his parents lived and together they vanquished The Dread Queen, leaving her body to rot upon an empty world that no life would ever again touch.<br/><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ligeia the Defiler</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://img00.deviantart.net/36b8/i/2016/144/2/a/witch_necromancy_by_borisdigitalartist-da3n1u5.jpg)</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ligeia the Beloved</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/23/TheLadyLegia.jpg)</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Feast of Flesh</div><div class="spoiler_body">Not every damned soul in he'll is destined to be a lemure. Some mortal servants were too useful in life to render their minds to nothing.  Ligeia wasn't a servant of the hells,  so her powerful soul had no favored status.  Her soul was stretched and torn,  milked for power,  then turned into a great fleshy pit for painfully rendering down souls and rebirthing them into Lemures.  She was mindless,  unregocnisable,  and so very hungry.  The flesh pit continued in that manner for ages, yet through chance or circumstance it break off a piece of itself giving birth to a large worm like creature that hunted down devil and non devil alike to devour within itself. <br/><br/>It takes vision and ambition to rise in the infernal hierarchy.  At least one powerful diabolic power felt the Charybdis of the hells that was born of the flesh pit had some sort of potential.  So the ravenous remnant of Ligeia's soul was housed in an infernal citadel and fed a steady diet of mortal men.  As it fed it would invert itself into a womb and rebirth itself as a smaller smarter creature.  The old form would die and the new form would get less and less interested in devouring the men given to it.  Instead it would sexually violate them in horrid violent ways until they died, their bodies little more than a pile of broken bones and gore.  In time it's incarnations became more anatomically distinct,  they learned to speak first with mind then with mouth.  They stopped eating all together except for consuming the sex organs from it's poor victims.  The creature,  now called "Echidna" had long conversations with it's keeper.  He never identified himself,  but he was flattering to the forming mother of monsters.  His voice was deep and sultry.  Echidna's forms became things of alien beauty and strange sex appeal.  She reached her peak and stopped giving birth to her next incarnation and dying.  Instead devils,  angels and more came out of her tainted womb.  Her body created these beings on it's own,  not needing the base form of a petitioner and soul power or anything else.  Sadly , it meant they could not truley last forever.  <br/><br/><br/>Echidna's keeper was apperantly satisfied with her , so she was cleaned and brought to his chambers where they spend days having sex. He was cloaked in illusion Echidna could not see past, she never learned who he was. Their sex was both passionate and rough. At the moment of his final climax she bit his genitals off inside her vagina and consumed them. The act impregnated her. After they finished, he affectionately said goodbye to her and sent her to Aeaea where she would reclaim some of the magic she once knew in life. She also gave birth to a very special son from her mystery patron. He was born a full adult with many skills, but still had more to learn. They moved to a roman style villa in the upper end of The City of Dis where she used her children to gain knowledge and favors to leverage for power. She thought she might try to gain worship and claim a realm in Godstreet. Instead she found the material plane calling her. She found a world that suited her, a place where powerful warriors devoted body and soul as slaves to their masters. A decadent place where magic was rare and the hierarchy firm. Male children came frequently in mtiple births and females more rarely on their own. She dominated the powerful for patronage and gained some nice holdings of her own in the form of a great keep frontier settlement that existed just a few days travel from the greatest city in the land along a popular trade rout between it and many sea ports. She had first clain of many goods and slave livestock. <br/><br/>She still traveled the plains, looking to further spawn unique and immortal beings in her brood. It was in the city of Sigil she Acquired something that once belonged to her previous incarnation: an elaborate crown. The sight put many old memories back in her mind, but she only realized the crown was a trap after she had put it on and it was too late. She and her son became trapped inside a huge gemstone. They remained there for years, but very recently someone found them and wants them free.<br/><br/><br/>*I purposely left Echidna's original benefactor a mystery. Good possible Identities include Belial, Dispater, the Archwitch Belphagor (in an opposite sex form), Mephostophilies, Hecate, Gargauth, Malkizid, and Elder Titans like Typhon, Prometheus, Even Grazzt could work. </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1484492 (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1484492)</div></div><br/></div><br/><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Magic</div><div class="spoiler_body">Spells Known <br/><br/>All  Sor/Wiz Divination<br/>All Sor/Wiz Conjuration<br/><br/>8th<br/>True Domination<br/>Polymorph Any Object<br/>Shield of Law<br/>Clenched Fist<br/>Moment of Prescience*<br/>Discern Location*<br/>Greater Prying Eyes*<br/>Greater Planar Binding*<br/>SM 8*<br/>Minimus Containment*<br/>Maze*<br/>Greater Plane Shift*<br/><br/>7th<br/><br/>Dictim<br/>Grasping Hand<br/>Mass Suggestion<br/>Avasculate<br/>Amber Sarcophagus<br/>Stun Ray*<br/>Greater Teleport*<br/>Teleport Object*<br/>Plane Shift*<br/>Magnificent Mansion*<br/>Brain Spider*<br/>Greater Arcane Sight*<br/><br/>6th<br/><br/>Hold Monster<br/>Stoneskin<br/>Geas<br/>Superior Resistance<br/>Ruby Ray of Reversal (F)<br/>Greater Dispel Magic<br/>Fire Seeds<br/>Tactical Teleportation* -<br/>True Seeing*<br/>Freezing Fog*<br/>Wall of Iron*<br/>Eyes of the Oracle*<br/><br/><br/>5th<br/><br/>Righteous Might<br/>Dispel Chaos<br/>Greater Command<br/>Telekinesis<br/>Mass Fire Shield<br/>Draconic Polymorph*<br/>Fabricate<br/>Phantasmal Thief* <br/>Dimension Shuffle*<br/>Dimension Jumper*<br/>Secret Chest*<br/><br/>4th<br/><br/>Dominate Person<br/>Spell Immunity<br/>Orders Wrath<br/>Dimensional Anchor<br/>Ruin Delver's Fortune<br/>Spell Enhancer<br/>Wings of Flurry<br/>Assay Spell Resistance*<br/>Orb of Fire*<br/>Scrying*<br/>Identify Transgressor*<br/><br/>3rd<br/><br/>Suggestion<br/>Magic Circle vs Chaos<br/>Magic Vestment<br/>Mass Snakes Swiftness<br/>Anticipate Teleportation <br/>Greater Magic Weapon<br/>Explosive Runes<br/>Greater Mage Armor*<br/>Corpse Candel*<br/>Acid Breath*<br/>Sepia Snake Sigil*<br/>Sleet Storm*<br/>Absorb Mind*<br/>Arcane Sight*<br/>Alter Fortune*<br/><br/>2nd<br/>Enthrall<br/>Bulls Strength<br/>Calm Emotions<br/>Ray of Stupidity<br/>False Life<br/>Command Undead<br/>Wings of Cover<br/>Alter Self<br/>Create Magic Tatoo*<br/><br/>1st<br/>Command<br/>Protection from Chaos<br/>Enlarge Person<br/>Silent Image<br/>Protection from Evil<br/>Magic Missile<br/>Nerveskitter<br/>Bloodwind<br/><br/><br/><br/>Reborn of Echidna<br/><br/>Echidna's STEM cells can infect lifeforms and overtake them.  They are, in fact, the next level of evolution set to acquire new genetic codes, convert them and bring them to Echidna's body to be assimilated. So far none of Echidna's spawn have shown they have the ability to have parts of them absorbed into her, or to be able to merge with each other. Such things could be centuries and generations away.  Or they could be just one tiny piece of missing genetic code away from assimilating entire worlds to channel their lifestreams into Echidna. <br/><br/>Spawn of Echidna are made when a Humanoid, Monsterous Humanoid, or Giant succumbs to her Forced Impregnation and dies within 24 hours of it. Within an hour of their death their cells are completely rebuilt by her DNA and they rise again with half their total maximum hit points. Upon rising any infertility problems of the being are cured. Women tend to grow slightly taller while the size of men's genitals grow at least 50% larger. <br/><br/>Type becomes Abberation<br/><br/>+2 STR<br/>+2 CON<br/>+2 CHA<br/><br/>Natural Armor improves by +2<br/><br/>Gain one 1d6 Bite attack &amp; two 1d4 Claw attacks (if Medium)<br/><br/>The Conqueror Worm (Ex):<br/>At some base level the Spawn of Echidna's bodies and minds acknowledge their connection to her.  The creatures attitude toward Echidna Improved by one step (or to Neutral if originally Hostile), and their Alignment moves a step closer to Law and Evil. Nothing prevents their attitude toward her from worsening again due to outside influences. All spawn of Echidna also take a -2 to all saving throws against spells and affects generated by Echidna. <br/><br/></div></div></div><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Crown of the Titan's War</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 16pt;"><em>Titanomachia</em></span></div><br/><div align="center">(http://www.bathat.de/images/demoniac/f11g.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Alternate Reality</span><br/>Titanomachia allows Echidna to cast the following spells from her own spell slots twice per day each. <br/>8th, Bestow Greater Curse<br/>6th,  Move Earth<br/>5th , Sending<br/>4th,  Stone Shape<br/>3rd,  Heart of Water<br/>2nd,  Wood Shape<br/><br/>Titanomachia provides a +5 bonus to all Cha based checks, <br/>Sleight of Hand and,  Leadership.  It ensures Echidna's voice can be heard up to 100 ft.  Away.  It also provides all allies within that range a +2 morale bonus to attack roles,  skill checks,  and saving throws.  Some of that aura gets overwritten by her son,  The Black Saint's own inspiration.  <br/><br/>It provides a +1 to her caster level. <br/>It allows her to use Deceptive Spell three times per day.  <br/>Finally it provides a +4 enhancement bonus to her Charisma and outfits her in 7,000 - 10,000 gold worth of jewels and revealing garments made of fine fabric and furs.  <br/><br/>Once per week it may conjure a palatial tent that can shelter , feed,  and provide for up to 100 people for 24 hours before vanishing.<br/><br/>Market Value: 148,200*<br/><br/><em>*Echidna has Craft Wondrous Item putting the expenditure from her starting gold at half market value.  Most of the added qualities were put on at direct market value due to being doubled as added qualities then halved due to going on a slotted item</em><br/><br/>51,000 Admirals Bicorne base, + 32,700 (Runestaff of Alternate Reality), +25,000 (Rod of Splendor), +24,500 (+1 Greater Metamagic Rod), +1 CL on slotted item +15,000 = 148,200<br/><br/></div></div></div><br/><br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Orpheus, The Black Seraph</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/e/e9/Cocked_Alucard_Castlevania_Castlevania_Lords_of_Shadow.jpg/536px-Cocked_Alucard_Castlevania_Castlevania_Lords_of_Shadow.jpg)<br/><br/>https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1487918 (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1487918)<br/><br/>Athasian Maenad + Bard 3 + Tyrant 3 + Warblade 9 + Half Minotaur + Half Dragon (Battle) + Dark Saint + Unselie Fey<br/><br/></div></div></div>