Leakhena Vong

'Loque'

Unknown Gibborim son

A downtrodden and highly traumatized gluttony demon that was once a slave chef to Thorgran, Icon of Gluttony, and routinely abused by him. Leakhena Vong is a troubled woman who found herself joining the Beaumont Mission for a chance to strike back at her former master. At least, until she finally realized how dangerous going back to the Abyss was.

## History

While her past as a kitchen slave and other torments still scar her deeply, life was not always unendurable for Leakhena. She was born to a loving father and mother a year or so sometime before Taranoch's overthrowing of Kaizen, the rightful king of the Abyss. Her father, a Northern Wastes demon and personal chef to Kaizen, and her mother, a Redonian bandit turned gluttony demon, raised her with as much love and care as they could give. Her father would teach her how to cook so that she might one day serve the king herself, while her mother taught her how to nurture and grow crops in a way that they would become plentiful. Leakhena's early years with her parents, even after Taranoch's insurrection concluded and her family forced to serve Thorgran, were joyful. Even when her father came home wounded after being beaten by Thorgran's men, and even when her mother's crops started to die off with the good ones being sent to Thorgran himself; though not when her parents were executed by him after a dish her father cooked came out not to the icon's liking. Still a late teenager by demonic standards, she was put to work right away; filling in the position her father left behind. As she cooked, she too was subjected to the same physical abuse and mistreatment by Thorgran and his men. Every moment of hesitation, every slip of the hand, every error was met with a baton strike, a whip crack, or a pummeling from fists.

Countless centuries pass as the brutality continues, culminating in an incident in which Leakhena's signature dish was sabotaged by a greed demon while it was en route to Thorgran's table. It caused him agonizing pain moments after he had eaten it, and the punishment for serving him a failed dish was death; ripped apart by his teeth and consumed by him. Though just as Thorgran had finished taking bites off of her arms, her legs, her body, a very coincidental visit from Taranoch himself spared her head. She made her daring escape while Thorgran was too busy preparing himself at his door for Taranoch; although she didn't get too far and ended up collapsing from all the pain and exhaustion on her way home. Shortly after she fell unconscious, a pair of fallen angels had found her unconscious on the dirt and decided to take her to their home in Naraka. They kept her for a while and tried nursing her back to health, and while they did promise to assist her in escaping to the mortal realm away from Thorgran, they had no actual intentions to do so. Instead, they kept her bound and tormented her in manners only those in Naraka could do. Fortunately, an opportunity to escape opened up as her captors were about to leave through a portal leading to Escaria. Sensing this opportunity, she was able to convince them to undo her binds; allowing her to kill one of them and leave through the portal herself. It closed shortly afterwards.

Now free in the mortal realm to do whatever she wished away from Thorgran and the Abyss, she adopted the moniker of 'Loque' (her father's nickname for her) and started her new life by immediately taking over a noble household for herself. Things would only get worse, as the wounds of living in the Abyss still bled no matter how far in the back of her mind she put them. Desperate, she succumbed to many vices just to keep the bad memories away, but it never worked, and it only made her sink deeper and deeper until she finally lost herself among money, food, wine, blood, and other sins she never thought she'd ever attempt.

## The Sin & Sentence

Leakhena's reasons for joining the Beaumont mission were both petty and selfish. She didn't care about finding the missing inquisitor, reclaiming the artifacts, or even killing anyone. She just wanted to tag along just so Velin could owe her something for her "service". A chance to humiliate a goddess by having them owe a favor to a lowly demon is just something she couldn't simply pass up. She knew returning to the Abyss might've been dangerous as she ran the risk of encountering Thorgran or any of her tormentors again, but these second thoughts didn't surface until *after* she walked through the abyssal gate. Further circumstances would show just how much of a mistake she had made the more she had to endure constant infighting from the party, close brushes with mortality, past memories of harder times, and worst of all, being told her surviving captor was now tracking her down.

Yet, the possibility that it might not have been a mistake to come home also started coming to mind. For every time she was in a verbal fight with another member of the party, or caught in the crossfire of an argument, she still managed to make friends among them; friends that would slowly help her understand that the way she's been living for the past decades in the mortal realm was nothing less than self-destructive and evil. Finally, after a split-second decision while fleeing the land of gluttony, she decided to pay her old home a visit. Seeing how she used to live in a poor farmstead, as well as remembering how much her parents loved her and wanted her to grow up into a kind woman, made her finally understand the error of her ways. She confessed her sins to the group and sought a proper way to atone for all her crimes in the mortal realm. She still isn't sure what to do, but helping Tariun fix the Abyss is a good enough start.

## Trivia

Though she might be a gluttony demon, she was born resembling much like her mother: a Redonian woman whom had been rewarded demonhood after years of good service to Tastrin, the previous Icon of Gluttony. Her mother had fully ascended by the time Leakhena was conceived, and so Leakhena resembled her mother greatly until Thorgran's abuse corrupted her appearance.

## Media

Her attire after returning to the Abyss.A portrait of herself painted to celebrate her coming first day of service to Thorgran.