Eisheth

> "Human...."
> "I, Princess of the Qliphoth, Mother of the Estries. Chosen of Truth."
> "Eisheth Zenunim."
> "Welcome you, to my domain."
>
> - Eisheth to Bernhardt Gunvald

Eisheth is an extremely powerful, and intelligent S-Class monster working with S.I.N. She is an ancient 1st generation monster of the 9th Apostle's line and as such is a member of The Chosen. She appears to be a unique form of the M66 and displays many of the same personality traits and powers.

## Background

### Origins

Eisheth appears to have spent millennia among mankind; one of the first monsters to have ever walked on Earth. Her species - the M66 - naturally draw in sycophants, worshipers, and cultists. They tend to view themselves as objects of worthy of worship and fiercely covet the attention and desire of other beings. They have an intense desire to spread their influence, to be worshiped across the land. Eisheth herself has - over the eons - been feared as a "Demon Queen" and a "Foul Corruptor". She has ruled kingdoms and been worshiped as a god. At some point, she sired and raised a child monster, who turned on her and nearly devoured her. The trauma from this has left a deep longing in her for another child. Eisheth is an impulsive and fickle creature with a highly varied appetite. Like all monsters Eisheth enjoys consuming flesh but her species can obtain nutrition from anything. Even earth and metal can nourish them, but consuming flesh is act of tribute to her Gods and fuels an addictive need inside her.

### Current

In its unknown when, but at some point Eisheth came into contact with Tanos Xanthe. He appears to have made a project of sorts out of her, teaching her the modern human tongue and using her unnatural charisma to sell the idea of humans and monsters coexisting to S.I.N agents. Eisheth for her part seems to care for Tanos, however being a monster, that care is obsessive, controlling, and violent. It appears she devoured his wife, hoping that his attentions would then focus on her instead. Eisheth is also wary of Tanos's agenda with monster-kind, fully aware that he considers Superhumans superior to monsters in every way.

### Twins Arc

Eisheth is the monster behind the abductions of twins from all across the various sectors. At Tanos's behest, she would abduct twins for his research; research that most likely produced the Moon Twins. He allowed her to eat the bodies of the failed experiments, unintentionally creating an addiction for the taste in her. Even after the research is completed, Eisheth would continue to hunt and kill twins to feed her addictive hunger. No one is able to stop her because with the death of Ella Vulpe, S.I.N no longer has any Level 5 superhumans who can restrain the great monsters.

Eisheth is first seen by the MC during his infiltration of the S.I.N initiation while disguised as Nathan Foxglove. The MC, along with Met Freitas, Rina Mori, and the other new S.I.N recruits are all introduced to Eisheth when Langdon Wilson brings her out onto the stage to prove a point about being able to communicate and coexist with monsters. Eisheth's otherworldly beauty and charisma easily charm the assembled new Superhumans and she quickly develops a fan following. The MC can approach her and convince her to spend some "private time" with him; where she reveals that he smells more like a monster than a superhuman. She is also able to tell that his smell and form don't quite match up but doesn't probe any deeper than that.

During the infiltration, the MC does get an opportunity to spy on Eisheth's conversation with Tanos and follow them deeper into Tanos's lab. This leads to a dead end where, after Eisheth kills a chimera she mates with, she detects the MC and captures him.

Eisheth is seen again at the end of the initiation ceremony. If the MC chooses to tell Met and Rina about S.I.N's mind control, they will all attempt to leave the initiation together. While being escorted out by Shen, Eisheth stops the group and asks them why they are "leaving her". Her mood swings violently, and she quickly dismisses Shen before advancing on the party to kill Rina, who Eisheth accuses of "seducing" the others. She is interrupted by Nico breaking into the dimension, and in that moment of distraction, both the MC and Met immediately attack only to be instantly smashed away into the ballroom floor. Rina is able to conceal and drag away the critically injured Met while Eisheth prepares to confront Nico. If the MC doesnt tell Met and Rina about the mind control, he instead attempts to change his mind and leave the initiation alone. While being escorted out by Shen, Eisheth stops the two and calls the MC a liar. She dispels Shen's form and uses her power to "puppet" the MC's body back to the stage to undergo initiation. He is marked by Zara but before he takes Charlie's oath, Nico breaks into the dimension, distracting Eisheth.

Regardless of how the initiation ends, Nico and Eisheth face off. Nico attempts to send Eisheth into the sun but Hex interferes, disrupting her power. Eisheth responds by crushing Nico in her telekinetic grip, shattering her ribs and severely bruising her body. Nico is able to teleport closer to viciously stab Eisheth but it doesn't do much damage. The MC is able to snaeak up behind Eisheth and knock her into the basement, giving Nico enough time to warp the MC and herself deeper into the dimension to hide and recover. Eisheth searches for them - at one point even pulling entire buildings out of the earth - but is unable to find them before Nico recovers enough energy to escape.

Eisheth is then told that another set of twins are needed for Tanos's experiments. She targets Amber and Liz for the hunt. H.E.R.O. is able to divine this and uses the twins as bait to lure Eisheth to a relatively abandoned area. Once she arrives there Cthulhu Squad, led by Kira Kelsey and Elijah Gunvald, attack her. She prepares for the fight with relish.

Eisheth quickly asserts her superiority over the two lieutenants, easily deflecting Elijah's spheres with her superior telekinesis and stopping Kira's strikes with her barrier. She tosses the two superhumans through mountains and dominates the fights until a surprise strike from Elijah severs her arm and leg, allowing Kira to close the distance and tear into her. The two lieutenants then further assault Eisheth till she reasserts her barrier and reforms her barrier. Amused at their brief rally, she decides to keep playing and uses her "Actualization: World" ability to assert her domain on the battlefield. Within the barrier she pummels the two superhumans with giant boulders, while using her barrier to reject their attempts at destroying or deflecting the boulders. Feeling cornered, Elijah and Kira plan a sneak attack using the massed boulders as cover. Using Kira's strike as bait to focus Eisheth's attention, Elijah used his orb strikes to blast through her barrier and destroy her heart. Kira quickly takes advantage and quite literally tears her body into pieces. Believing the fight to be over, the two lieutenants let down their guard, allowing Eisheth to simply reform and strike Elijah hard enough to toss him miles out of the domain. After separating the two, Eisheth focuses on and tries to crush Kira. Seeing as her body was too sturdy to outright crush, she decided to try and toss Kira into space. As she begins, Kira fully exerts her power to break the telekinetic hold and crashes back into the domain. She then again violently assaults Eisheth, this time successfully breaking her barrier by herself and once again tearing her to pieces. Eisheth once again reforms before dropping an entire mountain on Kira and then tossing her to the point where Elijah was dealing with Shen Haoran. Wildly entertained by Elijah's human loving nature, Eisheth pulls an entire skyscraper full of people from the closest city and brings it to the battlefield, before pulling the humans from the building and inserting them into the battle between her and the superhumans.

Using Shen's ability to disguise the humans as herself, Eisheth uses the humans as cover to land several sneak attacks on Kira. Realizing the trouble they were in, the two lieutenants plan for Kira to catch and launch Eisheth out of her domain so that Elijah can kill her with his "Orbital Comet." As planned, Kira grabs and leaps with Eisheth out of the domain and Elijah launches his strike, but at the last second Eisheth (in a display of superb telekinetic control) minutely adjusts their relative positions so that Elijah's strike hits and severs the arm Kira was using to hold Eisheth. With Kira severely injured and Elijah reeling from the miss, Eisheth and Shen try and taunt the two into retreating. Undaunted, the two superhumans reengage into a furious duel with Eisheth but she easily keeps up and uses Shen's illusions to gradually rack up an increasing civilian death tole. They are finally able to trick Elijah into outright killing a civilian human and this seems to break him; as Kira once again asks him to prepare an "Orbital Comet", Shen is able to talk into stopping the fight. Elijah seems to comply before using an emergency beacon to summon Bernhardt Gunvald for help.

Eisheth is amused at the two lieutenants retreat and asks whether Bernhardt would like to play with her now. She is initially playful but on sensing Bernhardt's killing intent she quickly seizes the remaining human civilians and tries to bargain - his retreat in exchange for their lives. Bernhardt is dismissive and asks her to try before immediately severing her arm and whisking the civilians away. Enraged, Eisheth imposes her world even more strongly and assumes her true armored form. She once again attempts to bargain with Bernhard but he is unmoved. Bernhardt is unaffected by her first attack and then uses his Anti Pressure to nullify her attempting to crush him. He then cleaves her in two with his air blade. Realizing that he couldn't kill her in her realm, he unleashes a tempest so powerful it erases the entire realized realm. Eisheth is shocked to see his power and relieved to see Hex appear to evacuate her. Bernhard instantly destroys Hex's ring before seizing Eisheth with his wind. He then uses his air compression to crush Eisheth into a ball and capture her for Bramon Xanthe.

Eisheth is then interrogated by Bramon and gives up enough information that H.E.R.O. is able to identify several S-Class dens and prepare them for capture or extermination.

## Powers and Abilities

Being an S-Class monster (and the first noted S+ class) Eisheth is practically invincible. Her body is extremely tough and durable and her energy reserves were practically inexhaustible. She feared no pain or injury and relished the prospect of a fight. According to her, she has been killing since humans were still monkeys and is a unthinkably experienced fighter.

Eisheth is the chosen of the 9th Apostle: The Truth. As a pure inheritor of the trait, Eisheth's abilities revolve around "asserting" truth onto local reality. At its most basic level, this manifests as extremely precise and powerful telekinesis. She seems to exert it by flexing her hands. The control is precise enough to puppet a Superhuman body and even make it talk (moving all the requisite muscles in the required manner) and powerful enough to quite literally pull buildings out of the ground. Her most common offensive tactics is to crush whatever she can capture in her telekinetic grasp. If they are too durable or simply tough she can smash them into other objects, amplifying the damage she deals.

When pressed to use more advanced techniques, she can summon a conceptual barrier which simply reject projectiles or physical actions directed at. Attacks lacking enough energy to break through are simply "rejected by reality". She can also wrap other targets in her barrier, rendering them extremely resistant to damage or letting them bypass the effects of other superhumans' powers. She can also instantly heal herself by reasserting her undamaged self as a truth onto reality.

Eisheth's greatest ability is to quite literally assert a new reality on the world around her. By doing so she transforms the world within the bounds of her powers into a copy of the monster world. Within the domain she is the ultimate source of "truth", effectively changing reality as she sees fit. Within the domain she cannot be killed (instantly returning to full fighting shape in seconds after any injury) and all her attacks becomes much harder to resist. The domain does move with her (slowly) and therefore makes it even more difficult to escape. All objects within the domain are hers to control with Superhumans having to constantly exert their own energy to resist the effects. Only within this domain can she take on her true form. .

## Trivia

* Eisheth is a figure from the Kabbalah known as the "Woman of Whoredom"