<br/><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/><br/>Echidna joined in Vholdrans conversation once she was free from her.  Numerous primordial powers lied in the abyss,  true.  Many of their locations are long lost.  Were they found wars would be fought to collect them. "This fortress of ours isn't even in the Abyss,  but in the more neutral ground of the gray waste. There still seems to be some guests unaccounted for,  but I think it's a good time to ask the question ; what now?  I am very pleased with what has transpired here but my goals remain personal.  Are we a resources network,  or did you have some grand goal you were hoping we would all march off to?"<br/><br/>In the early phases of plans Echidna tended to be more of a manipulator than an overlord capable overpowering all competition. With as many as there were, If they did pursue a mutual goal it would have to be something they would all benefit from. Echidna was surmising they were going to become more like a close network rather than a singular force. She looked at Anasil. "We see the lady is a necromancer, probably a very good one at that. There is something to be said for the use of cheap meat. I, personally, find life to be stronger than death. Creation is power, and by perverting the essence of life we all evolve together." Echidna said as a vine from her triclinium seductively wrapped around her body.<br/><br/>"Orpheus, you are correct. Our holdings will not be waiting for us to simply  move back in as if we never left. The real question is do we want to reclaim our crossroads or shall we move to something loftier. Perhaps start a kingdom in a land thought to wold to be tamed, or a place of exceptional abundance evacuated because of the heavy magical fallout that makes it dangerous. We could even consider claiming a place in the lower planes but I much prefer the prime. We will set up ways to get out own influx of souls."<br/><br/><br/>The newborn monster of Echidna had no material body, it was there and no there at the same time. Two faces appeared in an archway that looked like a gate to some far realm. Echidna looked at the orbs of eyes that swirled around the central gateway like a vortex. "I look forward to the scripts we will write together. This is your older brother and commander Orpheus. I will come up with a name for you soon, but as lovely as you are my son you can't go everywhere looking as you do. Perhaps you should adopt a handsome seeming for me. As young as you are you were born a scholar of many subjects including the workings of humankind. I'm sure you'll find something suitable to please me." Echidna said to the Nightmare Being and smiled  "Most of the others you see here are members of the same court your Mother is. I'll introduce you to them all once I'm finished giving you two more brothers."<br/><br/><br/>Echidna threw her hair back, snakes bouncing in her hair like curls and she laughed throatily. "I thought it only polite to warn everyone that this next son I'll be gestating is particularly dangerous if the process goes wrong. So if it does attack any of us I suggest we take it very seriously and don't leave anyone to try and fight it one on one."  Her waning was true but it was a boast just as much as it was genuine concern. She had never defiled the essence of the upper planes in as great a capacity as she was about to.<br/><br/>Echidna coiled back in the ground and the cocoon grew around her, this one growing faster and larger then before.<br/><br/><br/>- - - -<br/><br/><br/>If anyone wants to identify the first son Echidna gave birth to<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> Knowledge (The Planes) or Knowledge (Psionics) DC 28</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>It's a Quori Kalaraq<br/><br/>Kalaraqs are the nobility of nightmare—creatures formed of shadow and surrounded by a host of spectral eyes. They are also known as eyebinders. <br/><br/></div></div>