Eiveah

"There's never a need to retrospect."
== Overview ==
Eiveah is a unique and frightening creature unlike any before her. She has been identified as a Pulsekaw of white coat, and thus has likely escaped from the confines of a Mint Garden in the past. Her pursuit of Wonder inadvertently initialized the chain of events which the story follows.
== Appearance and Personality ==
Being a Pulsekaw, she is covered head to toe in fur, with a tail, sharp fangs, and claws. She is completely white and grey through her entire body, except for her eyes, which are blood red. Her body is a constantly shifting nightmare of blinking eyes which she has eaten, pushing to the surface of her skin and sinking back within her. The only consistently present eyes through her body are over her breasts, groin, and at the tip of her tail which is three times bigger than any other dotting her body. This massive eye is known as Hex's Gift.
Despite her wild, imbalanced, and aggressive nature, Eiveah has shown many displays of intelligence which keep her tethered to a sense of self. She has stated on many occasions that her biggest joy is derived from tearing out eyes and devouring them whole, but is also able to keep her bloodlust under control, shown when she was manipulating the Grajita Combine. She is prone to fly into short-lasting rages, but overall keeps a rather psychotically gleeful outlook as she roams Soly.
During her battle with Wonder and her party in the ruins of Jiarum, her skin was pierced, revealing her lack of blood. Instead, her body appears to carry an immense amount of a chalky-white powder substance instead.
== Story ==
Spoilers - At some point long in the past, perhaps even the early Pulsekaw Era, Eiveah was forced deep into a Calamity Tree. The tree's descent from its roots deep into the Pilfering Depths is likely the cause for many of her eccentricities. Though Eiveah was able to leave the tree whenever she liked, the Pulse of the Plane was therapeutic to her, and she felt right at home living there for many hundreds of years. It was in the depths of the plane's Calamity Tree where she met a wandering Hexwhize, who was beckoned deep into the tree by The Singularity's voice. This being the first person Eiveah had spoken with in centuries, they became fast friends.
Spoilers - Shortly after meeting Eiveah, Hexwhize became a Soaring, thus leaving Eiveah to linger once more in isolation for nearly two thousand years. However, once Hexwhize became The Observer, she bestowed Eiveah a gift - a remnant of her inner voice in the form of a sentient eye imbedded in her tail. This provided Eiveah with someone to speak with and even a hazy link between the two beyond Hexwhize's Soaring.
Spoilers - After Akkaz completely massacred the researchers in the Deid's Pits, he fled in search for a place to hide from The Lorekeeper's imminent search parties. He settled on the Calamity Tree that Eiveah was dwelling in. Strangely, Akkaz's Lymibody prevented him from feeling the effects of the tree's sanity-altering effects, and he was able to safely descend without worry. It was here he met Eiveah, who once more quickly became friends with the newcomer. Akkaz convinced Eiveah to leave the tree with him somehow, which would lead the two to travel for a few months together. Eventually, Akkaz would find The Soaring as well, with Eiveah not far away from him when it occurred, perhaps even encouraging him. Upon the Soaring of Akkaz, Eiveah - along with every other highborn Pulsekaw in existence - became trapped inside a Mint Garden. It is unknown how she was freed or who did so, but eventually her Garden collapsed, supposedly killing the Mintborn who was responsible as well.
Now free in the dangerous world of Soly, she set her sights on Wonder, pursuing her through the forests of the Gryusch Wilds for nearly a whole week before finally chasing her inside of a castle ruin. Wonder managed to find an underground tunnel system which she would desperately navigate trying to flee from Eiveah, but was ultimately unable to escape, and became cornered in a dead-end. Eiveah took the chance to lunge at Wonder, driving them both through a stone wall, and mortally injuring Wonder in the process.
However, on the other side of the wall laid the gate to a Mint Garden, which protected Wonder from Eiveah's flurry of attacks. As she realized with an exasperated disbelief where she had landed, she cursed the Gardens before leaving in a frightful rage.
It is unknown what Eiveah did after that, but she was seen not long afterwards at the gate to the Mint Garden under Widerain's control. She was unable to contain her bloodlust and killed all four soldiers exiting the Garden, tearing out their eyes and devouring them all. It sated her enough to muse about devouring the eye of a Pulsekaw, which were supposedly superior to Humans. The inner voice advising Eiveah offered no opinion on the matter. When Eiveah heard approaching footsteps, she quickly shifted into a much more approachable form, donning a robe, and shaping her face into something far softer and less threatening.
It turned out to be Device, on his way to the Garden under a mission from the Grajita Combine. Eiveah quickly identified the man as a Mintborn, and devised a way to use him for her own goal of eating a Pulsekaw's eyes. She would use the very same method that freed her from her own Mint Garden, and the advising voice gave her the coordinates to one that had never been visited.
Claiming she held the location to an undiscovered and unclaimed Garden, she was taken back to the Combine to share her knowledge with the leaders. Skeptical, they tasked both she and Device to find this supposed Garden, which was located at the top of the nearby mountainrange.
The journey to the summit must have been relatively smooth, and she quickly parted with Device at the entrance to the Garden after a brief thanks from the man. Eiveah quickly shed her disguise and resumed her natural form, consulting once more with the advising voice. It was now much more demanding about breaking this Garden, and devouring the Pulsekaw eyes, which was music to her ears. She quickly descended the mountain to find the mushroom connecting the Mint Garden to Reality. Once there, she dispatched of the Pulsekyn guarding it.
After some time, the Mint Garden collapsed, and she cheerfully returned to admire her work. Device and Uocali were both laying within the rubble, injured and unconscious. Eiveah managed to tear a single eye from Uocali and devour it, before he surged to his feet and fled so fast even Eiveah was caught off guard. Irritated by her inability to eat both of his eyes, she gave chase, but eventually lost all trace of him and gave up.
As she descended the mountain, she passed by the hut which housed the Mint Garden's tethering mushroom. There she met Maevrix, who was trying to figure out what had happened to his Solam brewery. Eiveah was fascinated by the existence of the Canickaw, and after he begged for his life, she allowed him to live, claiming that his eyes looked "utterly grotesque".
The next time Eiveah was seen, Maevrix - though still uncomfortable in his involvement with her - led some Solam addicts into the forest for her to ambush and sate her hunger. This was done with the presumption that after obtaining her grisly meal, she would free Maevrix from his service to her. Eiveah debated this, but her internal adviser said he was not free to leave. During his pleas for his life, Maevrix let slip that he had knowledge about an ancient Pulsekaw ruin, and it was enough to intrigue the adviser to let him live, and force the Canickaw to lead Eiveah to it.
During the journey to the ruins of Jiarum in eastern Gryusch, Eiveah complained about hunger, and even threatened to eat Maevrix's eyes, despite how unappetizing they looked. The Canickaw urged her to wait and try Foreckaw eyes before making such a rash decision, as his eyes were literate, and were needed to read inscriptions for her at the site. Eiveah spotted a very thin outline of The Lorekeeper on a hill, and pounced for it immediately. This attack would have been fatal, but many different fakes of the girl materialized around them. Having no interest in fake eyes, Eiveah dropped back down, threatened the girl she attacked, and continued on her way to the site with Maevrix.
During the pair's trip to Jiarum it is assumed that they lured/captured, and killed some Foreckaw wandering the region. Eiveah was not too pleased with the Foreckaw's eyes, but it satiated her enough to keep her mind focused on her main task of finding Jiarum and searching for an object there.
As Wonder and her companions began to delve into the Labrynth beneath Jiarum, Eiveah watched in awe from the city's high walls, astonished to see two Pulsekaw, the girl she had previously chased, and The Lorekeeper all in the same place. When asking her Gift if she could finish the job and kill them, it hesitated, which caught her off guard. The Observer itself began to speak to the Gift, in order to relay orders to Eiveah, who got distracted by Maevrix returning from his Solam collection. He warned of intruders, but Eiveah sternly told him she knew already.
Eiveah then mused that, from the things Maevrix had read, and the uncanny tension of her Gift, the Soaring were readying to fight each other, starting in Jiarum. This shocked Maevrix, but Eiveah seemed unphased, musing that she was only there for her friends Akkaz and Hexwhize, who didn't like each other very much. She then received her orders from her Gift, directly from The Observer: let the Pulsekaw live, and kill the Foreckaw, with heavy emphasis that The Lorekeeper must die.
Maevrix, confused and in a panic at the looming Soaring War, began to rush back to finish his gathering of Solam. Eiveah stopped him, stating that they were likely clever enough to bring down the Solam Gates blocking their way, and bring them what she was looking for. Eiveah then led the reluctant Maevrix through to the back entrance of the Labrynth, to lay in wait and ambush them should they do so.
As The Lorekeeper went ahead of the others in an attempt to enter the Garden with the mythical relic of passage known as the Rain Delay, Eiveah intercepted, gravely wounding the Jester's throat, and forcing her to drop the relic. Maevrix was then instructed to collect it, which he did with only a minor delay. Eiveah then began to taunt and play with the wounded Lorekeeper, reminding her that she made good on her threats, unable to resist speaking with such a gravely wounded figure. The Lorekeeper determined they were somewhat kindred spirits, to which Eiveah heartily agreed, noting that Lorekeeper's hunger for knowledge was on par with her very own hunger for eyes, willing to sacrifice anyone and anything to get them.
Right as her Gift redirected her focus to killing The Lorekeeper, Vacant quickly interfered, dashing in to parry her claws, and pull Lorekeeper's bloodied body away from the scuffle. As the others joined, Wonder was stunned to see Eiveah right before her, and drew her weapon, readying instantly to settle the score with the nightmarish creature. Eiveah then noticed that there was an eye missing from the sudden collection of trespassers, which allowed her to be instantly ready for the erasure ambush Uocali had prepared. Stunned by her readiness, he froze, and Eiveah nearly gutted him. Wonder dove in to parry the assault, driving Eiveah back briefly, and elicited some taunting once more. Her Gift quickly, and sternly, reminded her to kill The Lorekeeper, like The Observer commanded.
As the tension grew, Eiveah's madness began to take over her rationale, and she began to wildly stomp, laugh, and scream threats as she readied to attack the group in an effort to end Lorekeeper's life. During the ensuing fight, however, Maevrix's chest was fully pierced by Feyule's hand. Eiveah was willing to let her minion die in the moment, but hearing his weak calls for help reminded her of times spent with Akkaz and Hexwhize, long long ago. In a rare moment of weakness, Eiveah lamented that she didn't want her friends to die again, and hoisted Maevrix onto her shoulder, leaping onto a nearby rock to escape with him still clutching the Rain Delay. Eiveah's internal Gift instructed her that there was another Garden nearby she could leave him to save him from death.
As Uocali questioned her sudden change in disposition, Eiveah stated that "Hex" wanted Maevrix to live more than she wanted Lorekeeper to die... which was fittingly opposite of Feyule at that moment. She then mused that the Labrynth carried the scars of all three Soaring Pulsekaw, and that they all must be quite unhappy with their space being encroached upon like that. She instructed the group to stay alive through the coming chaos, stating that she wanted to eat their eyes herself. With a final, tilted question about what The Eternal's eye might taste like, she dashed off with Maevrix on her shoulder, laughing all the way.
== Quotes ==
"Let me see your whole world, before I TAKE IT!!"
"What I would do for another Pulsekaw eye... compared to that, these scruffy Human ones are just..."
"I'm going to rip all Pulsekaw from their damned Gardens and eat every last eye they have! Every last one!"
"The only thing more delicious than taking the first eye from someone... is taking their last."
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