Temper: Devout (having or showing deep religious feeling or commitment.) Breed: Frosted Spider Breed Appearance: Hippo'lona Height: 15.1 hands Personality:
Devout to her beliefs and her culture, Eala perseveres in her beliefs that she can find the lost ancestors of the Spider Queen. She is resolute and hopeful, with unfailing courage. She can come of as a bit sharp sometimes, but her intentions mean well.
Her frosty looks contribute to what seems like a haughty demeanor, but is actually a reserved and calculating one.
Quirks/Character Traits: ✶ She believes that she is the last of her people. ✶ Is undergoing a crisis of faith ✶ Hates too much warmth
Backstory:
"Hear my prayers, oh Neferet, Goddess of the web. Deliver us from the White Walkers that come upon us in the snow. Thaw our frozen hearts. We keep the faith, do not forget your devout. Save us from the white winds, and bring us strength to endure. Let your mercy continue."
Eala Liante was born into the Frosted Spider Herd and from a very young age, it was determined that she would become a priestess in servitude to Queen Neferet the Spider Queen (their protectors from the Walkers).
One night as a yearling she was whisked away in the darkness and snow with the eldest priestess Natsëlondë. It was not until they had fasted and hid for many days in a cave during a snow storm that Natsëlondë (meaning "haven of the web") told her the truth.
The group of priestesses knew of the coming danger, but it was too late to move the entire herd. They hid the youngest and the oldest mare in the mountains. So that the ancient crone could pass on her knowledge to the maiden. It was in this secret place, that the maiden would learn about being a priestess from the old crone.
She explained all these things to Eala, and how it was by the grace of the spider queen that they yet lived. There was a reason/purpose for their survival. When it was time, Eala would seek out the family of the Spider Queen and any of the survivors of the herd (if any yet lived) and restore the faith to it's former glory.
When her mentor died, Eala set off to restore what was lost. Little did she know what a failure the whole thing would wind up being.
úva véna.....winter is drawing near to us.
And to find the ancestors of the spider queen (who have long since died out but she doesn't know that) so it's this huge spiritual journey that deadends
The queen of the spider adopts Ungwe as her own When she found him wandering in her woods
Eala can go searchjng for a spider and gets Ungwe, the one who brought the death upon them
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The Continuing Story...
After leaving her sanctuary, alone and scared, she encountered Jon Snow who asked her about the walkers in the woods.
Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.
Meaning of (name): In Mesopotamian legend it means "Queen of the Great Earth". Ereshkigal was the goddess of Irkalla, the land of the dead or underworld. Sometimes her name is given as Irkalla, similar to the way the name Hades was used in Greek mythology for both the underworld and its ruler, and sometimes it is given as Ninkigal, lit. "Great Lady of the Earth" or "Lady of the Great Earth".
Aliases: Eresh, Dark Queen, Judge
Date Found: March 2, 2014 Found:Baskets Dropped! Date of Maxing:
Temper: Harbringing (a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.) Breed: Angeni/Mutant Breed Appearance: Angeni Height: 16.1 hands Personality:
Ereshkigal has always felt the heavy weight of duty as the first born.
Her grandfather taught her that there are laws, and that laws must be obeyed. She understood that. There were some things that must be inflexible. He had taught her the words over and over. Dura lex sed lex "The law is hard, but it is the law."
Laws were not guidelines to follow by, they were absolutes. As she grew, she believed in it more and more clinging to the rigidity of the absolutes when faced with uncertainty. Laws are not meant to be broken.
Her sister Inanna's carefree and light nature troubles her. How could one sibling be so dismissive of laws and absolutes, so unworried while one suffered for it?
The divide grows between them as Ereshkigal fears for her sister and then begins to pity her. Her sister was obviously not cut out for the job, did not take things seriously as she should--and so she did not deserve the honour.
As often happens, envy and pity turned to indifference, and then to a form of disrespect, perhaps even hate.
Ereshkigal is haughty and proud, strong and resolute. Often seen as rigid or cruel, she believes and obeys the laws perfectly. She believes that a soquili's good actions never negate the bad, and vice versa. She would both punish a soquili for their misdeeds and reward them for their good ones, because for her one action does not cancel out the other.
She holds everyone, even her siblings, to this high standard.
Quirks/Character Traits: ✶ Believes in absolute balance. If one does something bad and something good, they should both be punished and rewarded. ✶ Believe Seraphiel to be dead at the fault of her sister Inanna. ✶ She believes she's heir apparent to her grandfather's Haides work.
Backstory:
Born to Westrion and Lament, she and her siblings came at a troubling time for her parents--which seems to have marked them with discord among themselves.
A clearer understanding of The Descent of Inanna is available to any reader acquainted with the Sumerian work The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2700-1400 BCE), which, whether extant in written form at the time of the composition of The Descent of Inanna, was certainly known by oral transmission. In the Epic, after the great heroes Gilgamesh and Enkidu have killed the demon Humbaba in the Cedar Forest, their fame is great and Gilgamesh, after washing and dressing himself in royal robes, attracts the attention of Inanna (who, in the Epic, is known by her Akkadian/Babylonian name, Ishtar). Inanna ties to seduce Gilgamesh to become her lover, promising him all good things but Gilgamesh spurns her, citing the many lovers she has had in the past whom she discarded when they no longer interested her and who all met with bad ends. He says to her: "Your lovers have found you like a brazier which smoulders in the cold, a backdoor which keeps out neither squall of wind nor storm, a castle which crushes the garrison, pitch that blackens the bearer, a water skin that chafes the carrier." Then, after detailing the misery her lovers have endured at her hands, Gilgamesh concludes saying, “And if you and I should be lovers, should not I be served in the same fashion as all these others whom you loved once?”(Sandars, 85-87).
Inanna, upon hearing this, falls into a “bitter rage” and appeals to her father-god Anu (as she has Ninshubur do to Enki in the Descent) in tears over the insults Gilgamesh has heaped upon her. Anu’s answer is that she has only gotten what she deserved through her “abominable behavior” (Sandars, 87). Inanna, in no way pacified by this response, demands that Anu give her Gugalanna, the Bull of Heaven, that she might avenge herself on Gilgamesh and threatens that, if she does not get her way, she will break the doors of the underworld open, “there will be confusion of people, those above with those from the lower depths. I shall bring up the dead to eat food like the living; and the hosts of the dead will outnumber the living” (Sandars, 87). Gugalanna, the Bull of Heaven is the husband of Inanna's sister Ereshkigal.
When Anu consents and gives her the Bull of Heaven she brings Gugalanna down to the city of Uruk to destroy Gilgamesh. The bull snorts and the earth opens and “a hundred young men fell down to death. With his second snort cracks opened and two hundred fell down to death” (Sandars, 8cool.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu then join in battle with the Bull of Heaven and kill him. Inanna, enraged further, appears on the walls of Uruk and curses the heroes, prompting Enkidu to tear off the bull’s right thigh and hurl it at her. This presumption, on the part of a mortal, cannot be endured by the gods and they decree that Enkidu must die lest more mortals come to think more highly of themselves than they should. Enkidu is stricken with illness and suffers for days before finally dying (Sandars, 88-95).
If a reader is acquainted with the story of Gilgamesh then The Descent of Inanna is more easily understood within the context and culture of ancient Mesopotamia. Inanna, showing no more regard for her sister’s feelings than she did for the three hundred innocent young men she killed with the Bull of Heaven, decides she will attend the funeral of the brother-in-law whose death she is, herself, responsible for. Once a reader understands that Inanna caused the death of Ereshkigal’s husband Gugalanna, the Queen of the Dead’s response upon hearing of her arrival is completely understandable, as is Inanna’s subsequent judgment by the Annuna and death at Ereshkigal’s hands. The “word of wrath” and the “cry of guilt” make perfect sense in this context as Ereshkigal is confronting the one responsible for her present grief; a grief made even greater by her pregnancy and the imminent birth of a child who will have no father.
http://www.ancient.eu.com/article/215/
http://www.soulrebels.com/beth/bos/inanna.html
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The Continuing Story...
Ereshkigal has met Seraphiel, their love already doomed.
Epitaph is incredibly sweet and outgoing. He’s someone that you can always depend on. He has this fascination for heartbeats (inherited from his mothers) and has super keen hearing.
Despite his rather morose appearance with a graveyard on his back, he actually is quite jovial. He loves to tell stories and has a huge repertoire of folk tales/adages/proverbs to live by that his mother Aella has told him.
He can be poetic, especially towards dusk when the fireflies come out to dance. It’s his favorite time of day, it’s as though magic is happening. He likes to think the fireflies are souls being released from the earth. It’s the time he feels closet to his mother Chanterelle and his two lost siblings.
He is an omnivore as the mood strikes him. Though he doesn’t kill often (and never snakes because his sister loves them).
He shares a special relationship with his sister Witness, they are inseperable and seem to be able to communicate on a level that doesn’t always need words. From a young age, they formed the theory of WE. Witness (W) and Epitaph (E) would always have each other, no matter what. They would always be family no matter the distance or the difficulty.
Quirks/Character Traits: ✶ Can hunt though he doesn't often eat meat ✶ He along with his siblings have an unusual talent of knowing which of their family member's are there by the sound of their heart. ✶ Loves fireflies and their dance at dusk.
Backstory:
Born to Aella and Chanterelle after Chanterelle’s disappearance, he was raised for awhile alone. Eventually his mother Aella asked the wishing star for another gift so that he would not be lonely during his childhood (and the loss of his two siblings). Before long they were a family of three. Epitaph brings a joy and light that is hard, if not impossible) to most everyone he meets.
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Born after his mother and two baskets went on a trip, it's assumed that those family members died in the Great Kawani Fire. He never was able to meet any of them, but he remembered the sound of Chanterelle's heart. It wasn't long before Witness came and they became WE, an inseperable unit.
Wishing on a star one final time with their mother Aella, they begged for a sibling-Thierry and were blessed with not just Thierry but Rigel Trinity too.
