Alki
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Backstory: In the early years of this world, Arl brought many of the gods he had met and created into it as First Ones, rewarding their aeons of service with a second chance, with reincarnation. Orakt, Agashn, Adyl, all these are names that are remembered from these dark and mysterious annals of history, but few are spoken of with more fear than Alki, the bane of gods.
Knowing her to be dangerous to the others, Arl created her as a lesser First One, but she was not content to remain such. Vengeance in her heart and ambition in mind, she set her eyes on the first of her old enemies that she found, of Orakt. Now he had, as the tales go, remained mighty, leading legions of mercenaries and winning battle after battle; when flanked by his family it was rumoured that he was nigh on invincible.
Events conspired to remove Orakt's greatest supporter, a rift forming inevitably between the two of them, leaving him with just a battle-brother, a First One called Thord who had watched his back through countless engagements. Watching for months, Alki saw the opportunity to draw this Shield from Orakt.
During a battle against Trchkithin's vanguard, Alki weaved spells, luring Thord to her as a siren does ships to rocks. The young warrior charged in headlong, beating back the warriors of Trchkithin that Alki had charmed, saving her. From that day forth Alki stayed in his entourage, acting as a scout for the mercenaries, and fighting alongside Thord. Orakt begrudged her her position, but intervention by Thord always stopped him, the younger man always trying to persuade him that she had changed from the woman the elder had once known.
Alki's plans came to fruition, luring Thord away with hints of romance. He was unable to fight at the side of his brother-in-arms when Orakt fought Trchkithin. Thord was all but destroyed, having failed his commander. During this time Alki soothed him, secretly enraged that Orakt had not been annihilated, instead surviving on as a spirit to eventually ascend. At that moment she swore that he would not escape her.
For months the two First Ones lay in hiding, Orakt's mercenaries scattered and destroyed without a figurehead to rally them, until Alki found the next step of her plan. With her guidance, Thord gathered what men they could find to him, to create the Avowed. Thousands of men, failure in their past, who swore an oath of loyalty and allegiance to one another. Alki smiled, for this was a force she could use.
After the end of the Trchig wars they spent many years hunting down remnants of Trchkithin's forces. Striking deep behind enemy lines it was in this way that Alki got her first taste of the demonic, using the soul of an old First One, one of Trchkithin's governors, to Transfigure.
With the knowledge that she might be able to some day become a god herself, and fight Orakt on equal terms, Alki led Thord and their Avowed in the hunt for more individuals of power, slowly becoming more powerful.
Over the centuries Alki's manipulations slowly turned into real love, and the couple fought happily alongside one another through many a fight, with Thord gaining another power, and Alki growing more demonic with each victory. Despite her growth, the wings, and the multitude of unpleasant chagnes occurring to Alki, he never looked upon her with anything other than genuine affection.
Seeing that she was but a step from completion of her long-term aims, Alki sent her lover to fetch for her the last thing she needed, the ancient Nasgont artefact. Fearing the combined might of the four dragons there, she remained in hiding, to conserve her power for what was to come.
The tales of Thord and his brother-chosen fighting the dragons is long and perhaps for another time, but suffice to say that with brave men at his side they slew all of the wyrms, taking from them their keys, and were able to activate Grakkus' artefact. The Slayers took a fraction of the artefact's power each, but were interupted by Alki herself.
Years away from her loved one was enough for her to question their relationship, and to focus once more on her long term goals - that of becoming a god. As she entered the Nasgrak fortress, rage filled her once beautiful face as she realised Thord's folly. She attacked the chosen there, stopped from utterly destroying them all only by the combined might of the Slayers drawing on the artefact, and the timely intervention of Jaegis of the Greymin. Dealing a terrible wound to Thord, she took the artefact, and disappeared, to ascend.
Written by Strife