Eriato Bati

Level 8 Changeling Demonic Sorcerer/Flame Oracle

"*I. Have. No. Master."*

*-Eriato Bati*

Eriato Bati is one of the Player Characters in Extinction Curse, played by Luna. She is a fortune teller in the Circus of Wayward Wonders and part of the Wandering Three. A hot-headed and sometimes violent teenager, Eriato has to deal with her own demons, literally and metaphorically, as a result of the unfortunate circumstances surrounding her birth.

## Description

Eriato is short, standing at around 5'1. She is a Dream May Changeling, the spawn of a deadly Night Hag and a human man. She is of Tien descent-- specifically, Minatan, making her the equivalent of a Fillipino. Eriato has heterochromia, with one eye burning red and one eye totally silver. She has a long streak of silver in her hair, and her skin is slightly paler than is normal for her ethnicity. She usually wears a black bow in her hair.

## Personality

In a word, Eriato is feral. She has a short temper, and is quick to resort to threats and violence. She is impulsive, and often follows said whims (usually egged on by Volio Via, especially if they are particularly chaotic). A lot of her more rowdy behavior appears to be at least partially a front, however; she is prone to anxiety and evidently struggles with self-worth, often demoting herself to be subhuman when her bloodline is brought up. This is particularly evident when she needs to use demonic powers; for example, using Glutton's Jaws tends to spark revulsion in her once the spell is complete. Eriato has a tendency to sleep in late, despite her confirming herself to have a very good internal clock; she just "hates mornings". Overall, however, Eriato is plucky and happy go lucky, and is prone to flashes of keen insight and wisdom.

## Abilities

As a Demonic Bloodline Sorcerer, Eriato has access to divine magic with some particularly destructive spells, such as Bane or Searing Light. One of her more powerful spells is Glutton's Jaws, which transforms her mouth into a vicious maw which rips through flesh easily and steals the life force of the victim to heal herself. Eriato also has very deep sleep thanks to her Dream May lineage, allowing her to heal more when she rests and avoid the effects of sleep magic easier.

Eriato has some minor oracular abilities, potentially tied to her Bloodline. These Oracle abilities give her some minor precognition, allowing her to predict the future and see visions of the Gluttondark and its denizens through the flames of the apocalypse. Her Oracular gifts are where the majority of her fiery abilities come from, with spells such as Produce Flame, Fireball or Burning Hands.

As a Godling, Eriato has some abilities granted to her by the Aeon Orb of the Erran Tower. The Reflection of Life accelerates her natural healing overnight, meaning she always awakens at full HP. Furthermore, she can focus to accelerate this magic, giving her Fast Healing for a minute.

## History

Some time prior to the events of Extinction Curse, Eriato was a member of Mistress Dusklight's Celestial Menagerie, a circus with cruel policies and poor treatment of performers. Eriato was very poorly treated during her time here; she was often kept in a cage and made into a freak show spectacle, labelled by Mistress Dusklight as Eriato Demonhag. Eriato often fled from the circus during this time, but was unable to get away for long as she had nowhere else to go. Dusklight was the only mother she had, and she was a keenly terrible one. Ultimately, Eriato was finally able to escape in early 4719 AR, hitting the road with Volio Via and Royari San Sarnax. They were among those to join The Circus of Wayward Wonders in late 4719 AR. After a few months of training alongside the circus, the show came to the town of Abberton in early 4720 AR, ready to put on
its first show. However, just before the opening act, Myron "Thunder" Stendhald, the Ringleader of the circus, was found, dead. Eriato banded with the other adventurers to quickly form a plan of action, and performed The Big Number, pulling Jae Abber, the Mayor of Abberton, into a Fortune Telling performance involving strange lizard people and a tower. She helped deal with other interruptions to the show quickly after, such as intimidating gamblers betting on injuries out from the tent, and helping restrain a drunk couple during the Grand Finale.

Soon after the end of the show, Eriato helped in investigating the murder. She ultimately aided in confronting and beating Nemmia Bramblecloak, the Halfling who murdered Thunder. Eriato used her Glutton's Jaws in the encounter, causing some surprise and shock in Nemmia. She chose to spare Nemmia's life, bashing her into a caravan with her jaws instead of eating her soul. That night, while having dinner around the fire with a few other circus members, Eriato had a vision at the camp fire where flames consumed her entire world, and in the fiery apocalypse that remained, shifting, lizard-like monsters killed and ate one another senselessly as they burned, and high in the sky above, the moon started to hatch like an egg. It is implied that Eriato had this vision a long time ago as a child, too. This vision marked the beginning of her oracular abilities.

Following Nemmia's arrest, The Wandering Three spent some time investigating Abberton. Ultimately, they concluded that the local druidic monastery to Gozreh, The Hermitage of Blessed Lightning, had been converted into a cult of demoniacs, and found evidence of a large-breasted woman manipulating them from behind the scenes. Eriato kept the sketch made of this woman to seek her out. Upon investigating the Hermitage and fighting against some of the demon cultists present, Eriato committed her first murders, killing two half-fiendish cultists, including the cult leader, Enkrisha Thrindel, who was intent on wiping out Abberton to impress the large-breasted woman. Though the deaths shook Eriato, she recovered, and even befriended another half-fiend; a wolf she named Scarlet, who had been partially turned into a Babau by the other cultist she killed.

Upon rescuing Harlock Hamdeel, the leader of the Hermitage before the cult takeover, the Wandering Three were informed of a horrible truth: The Isle of Kortos may be dying. The lifegiving Aeon Orbs that Aroden set up millenia ago were failing, and while he was trying to study this, a travelling priestess named Baleni- the large-breasted woman- stayed at the hermitage and stoked up the flames of insurrection via a love triangle with Nemmia and Enkrisha, hoping to tempt them into violence. He believed that she was staying at the Erran Tower with another demon cultist named Cavnakash.

The Wandering Three investigated the tower, and uncovered a surprising foe- Xulgath, ancient trogolodytes or dinosaur-people from an empire that fell apart by corrupting itself with demon worship millenia ago. Eriato in particular knew more about them than she was aware she knew, even learning of their demon lord's name from thin air when she quetioned it: Zevgavizeb. During their strange exploration of the Erran Tower, they learned that the Xulgath here were in debt to a crusade lord named encountered Baleni, who revealed herself to be a succubus. Baleni taunted Eriato extensively, and attempted to drain her ambition to fuel her own, but was ultimately defeated. The Wandering Three fought their way to the top of the tower, where they encountered Cavnakash in person at last. A brutish warpriest, Cavnakash demanded their aid in destroying the Aeon Orb that circled the tower, and when they refused, he surmised that if a circus is nearby, then there must be people to perform for, and vowed to kill every last person there until someone could figure out how to destroy the orb. The Wandering Three battled him, and ultimately bested him. Once they finished this, each of them were blessed with divine powers directly from Aroden's lifeforce inside the Aeon Orbs, turning Eriato and the others into Godlings.

Soon after leaving, the Circus of Wayward Wonders put on a final performance for Abberton. Eriato met with Nemmia again, now freed from the Demonic Courruption that Baleni had instilled in her. Nemmia and Eriato made their peace, and Nemmia gifted her a Staff of Impossible Visions. The Circus made its way to Escadar, where Baleni's journal pointed out that the Xulgath seemed to have come from, and the old home of the Celestial Menagerie. Eriato aided in securing a place for the Circus of Wayward Wonders to stay with Amdera Paldreen, despite the interference from Delamar Gianvin. She helped fight off Kalkek and defend the circus from Delamar, Ruanna Nyamma and Zarrallel during the circus' first performance in Escadar.

During this time, Eriato visited Braelun Brestil, a Bestiary Maker, in order to sell some of the velociraptor eggs she found in the Erran Tower. Brestil was able to educate Eriato about the Gluttondark, Zevgavizeb's foul home. Later, he shared a journal from an explorer he worked with around 20 years prior named Charano Daksa, who mapped the Gluttondark for a while with a travelling companion named Alinda, who ultimately turned out to be a Night Hag who stole his soul away to sell to worshippers of these demons. Eriato quickly realized Charano was her father, and Alinda was her hag mother in disguise, meaning she was literally conceived in the Gluttondark.

The Wandering Three set out to explore Moonstone Hall, a temple to Aroden buried under the city of Escadar and forgotten. After entering, fighting off some Xulgath and demons present and forming an alliance with a quasit named Givzib, the Wandering Three discovered a ghost named Ulthadar, the high priest of the temple 600 years ago who aided them in finding out more information on the Xulgath in exhange for clearing them out of the temple. They discovered that Aroden had taken the Aeon Orbs from the Xulgath, who were using them for demonic rituals, and now, the Xulgath wanted revenge by destroying the orbs. It also became apparent that Mistress Dusklight had formed an alliance with the Xulgath, trading in sacrifices from her circus in order to flatter them and distract them so that she could plunder its relics. In the end, a vision from the Moonstone Pools used in the temple to tell the memories of this place showed them a vision of Sarvel Everhunger and his army of Xulgath swearing to drive the Isle of Kortos to Extinction, Mistress Dusklight placing a spying tool in the temple and the Aeon Orbs urging them to go to collect their energy, and go to the Kortos Mountains to revitalize the Isle of Erran. Eriato promptly realized they were being watched by Dusklight with the Seeing Eye Stone she planted here, and fled home with the rest of the Wandering Three.

## Relationships

### Royari San Sarnax

Royari is fiercely protective of Eriato, going out of their way to
remind Eriato that she is loved any time she doubts herself in the face
of her own demonic bloodline. Her concern for Eriato's wellbeing is
often quite obvious, usually the first to inquire if she's doing alright
 after a troubling situation.

### Volio Via

Eriato
 shares a similar inclination towards chaos as Volio, something which
the clown greatly appreciates. Volio goes out of his way to enable
Eriato, suggesting she go through with her more unpredictable impulses,
though at times Volio goes too far for even her.