Weyloran

Weyloran was one of nine Viziers to the first Emperor of the Luskan Empire. After becoming tempted by the devil Ormander, she betrayed the Emperor, and became a cultist, She later used Xánwyr to kill Mielikki and Tyrvok, hence becoming the only mortal ever to kill two gods. She was infamous as one of history's great betrayers. 
== What do People Know? ==
Most of Weyloran's early life had been scrubbed from history. Even the most knowledgeable and studious historians only knew this:
* "Weyloran was a mysterious cultist whose gender, early life, and identity are unknown. They were a servant of the black wish-dragon Tyrvok who killed Mielikki with Xánwyr at the dragon's orders, but then killed the dragon with the sword and disappeared."
== Early Life ==
Véylerhën Azrapi (born -71 TE) was the elder sister of Raüla Azrapi. Raüla and Véy were the two daughters of a rich powerful landowning family from the Luskan Peninsula that had its roots in the 2nd century pre-TE. From a young age, Véy showed intelligence beyond her years and the ability to 'see' spirits, plus possibly a form of psychometry (feeling objects' histories by touching them). For these reasons, when the girls' father Ról died, the Azrapi family power passed to Raüla. Véy was fairly indifferent about this, but her sister was happy to have her as an outside voice of reason and counsel. 
== Vizier of House Azrapi ==
In -32 TE, the lord Olos of house Azoälda united nine powerful noble families of the peninsula into the Lusken Empire. King (reku) Olos was given the epithet rekuäiza, or 'maker of kings' - i.e. his historical name, Regulus Kingmaker. Amongst the united noble families was the house of Azrapi, with Raüla being the House Regent. Regulus appointed each house a Vizier to advise decisions. For her role in advising her sister, Véy was appointed Vizier of House Azrapi. 
Véy had access to the Emperor's inner circle, and was able to eavesdrop on quite a lot of the Empire's politics. It was how she first learned that when Regulus sat as Emperor, the nearby kingdom of the Alderei gifted him a sword made of star-steel as tribute to his rule and to curry favour. This sword, Xánwyr, tempted her greatly.
== Temptation and Betrayal ==
Some time between the year -30 and -27, the devil Ormander appeared to Véylerën. He tempted her with the promise of knowledge and power. Importantly, he assured her that if she betrayed her Emperor and took the sword for her own, then Ormander knew her future would be successful and infamous. He promised he would do his best to conceal her movements if she seized the sword, as long as she used it to help him kill his enemies. This appealed greatly to Véy. He showed her a future where her name was feared and respected.
In the year -26 TE, Véylerën used her influence as Vizier to ensure that on Sun Saint's Day, Regulus would be alone in prayer. Regulus and the nine Viziers were on a pilgrimage to the town of Sanctum. She reassigned guards away, blackmailed them, had them killed by loyal soldiers, etc. As part of Euluskan Maionic religious tradition, weapons are strictly forbidden during prayer. Véylerën took the unattended Xánwyr, the Black Blade, from where Regulus had disrobed of it. She entered the Sanctum Chapel where he knelt, approached him from behind, and speared him through the back with the sword. He struggled, and managed to tip an oil-filled candle dish on her, before dying. Véylerën suffered some burns, but fled the scene. As promised, Ormander covered her escape. He descended a stinking cloud of brimstone upon the city of Sanctum, which many civillians were afflicted from (a few weak ones even dying!) You can imagine the stories - "the day was remembered, for when the Emperor died, a cloud of sulfur appeared over Sanctum!".
== Slayer and Cultist ==
Ormander granted Weyloran powers over shadow and fire, which those of her lineage also would later be able to wield. He granted her leathery wings, and long life. From -26 onwards, she wielded the sword in Ormander's name, slaying his enemies. It was during this time Ormander, in his foresight and wisdom, warned her she should lay low and disguise herself, joining a petty cult because he foresaw it would be rewarding in the long run.
Véylerën joined the Edict of the Seventh Dragon close to the year Zero. The cult was based in the Burning Hills near the modern-day site of the village of Blackfeld. An ancient sect by some eight centuries, they worshipped the living black wish-dragon Tyrvok, who was currently imprisoned in a floating city.
She quickly rose the ranks of the cult, fulfilling their tasks which involved the ritual murder of powerful individuals to use their magic-filled blood to douse themselves and become stronger. During this time, Ormander kept tempting her with the promise of more and more power, driving her to commit more evil acts. 
Véylerën killed her ultimate prey, guided by Ormander's hand - she hunted down the dryad goddess of the Estir Woods, Mielikki, and killed her with the Black Blade in a grove. The druid and later saint, Cordelia, threw herself in front of Mielikki, saving her for but a moment, but Weyloran still prevailed. After Cordelia was killed, so too was Mielikki's soul taken into the blade. After this, the Estir Woods became a joyless and overgrown old woodland, full of darkness and mist rather than flowers and warmth.
Returning home from her travels, Ormander tempted her one final time. She had to betray the cult's god Tyrvok. She recruited a small group of powerful adventurers to help her free him from his restraints - he granted them each a wish. After they entertained themselves with new toys and power and left, she knelt before her lord, and wished for her mind to be unreadable to all others. He granted the wish, assuming she would use it to do his bidding through subterfuge. Instead, when the time was right, she stabbed through his underbelly into his heart and killed him instantly, stealing his soul into the blade.
== Defeat at Withering Ridge ==
Véylerën continued to roam from the Burning Hill to the Fallo and the Danderillon for some years. During this time, she had a child, whose identity is not known, but it's clear they propagated the line, for one of her descendants, Jarren Weyloran, resurfaced 1400 years later and could trace his ancestry back to her. His son Karrus Weyloran was a fairly interesting figure too.
Véylerën's evil deeds eventually caught up to her. Near the village of Malfur in the northeast coastal Danderillon, in the shadow of the Delling Mountains, she was tricked there by someone pretending to be one of the old Azrapi family guards. Rhona Istrina Azoälda, granddaughter of Regulus Kingmaker, lured Weyloran to the neolithic Barrow Downs outside Malfur village in the autumn of the year 37 TE. The location of their meeting was a place called Withering Ridge on the moors.
There, Rhona and Weyloran exchanged words, and dueled. Rhona was prepared with anti-devil magic, which isolated Weyloran from Ormander. So legends say, Rhona carried a weapon that would not be invented for a millennium and a half. A magical revolver of black iron, engraved with golden runes and a white pearl grip - named Sunrise. How she acquired it, it is not known, but stories were told of the fire it conjured and the thunder it called - though no one witnessed the duel that day. Rhona and Weyloran's duel was intense and bloody, with Rhona losing a hand to Weyloran's swing with Xánwyr, but ultimately killing her with the revolver. The Black Blade fell into the swampy moor, and Rhona was able to resist the temptation it provided, leaving it where it lay for some time. Weyloran died and sank into the bog.
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