Zohrah

Zohrah is the heir to hell's rule should the current rulers perish or resign. She's known as 'The Kaunniiro' or 'The Bringer of Shadow' by her followers. Her followers used to be killed in mass by extreme believers, who believed that they would be sent to heaven for killing the non-believers.

## History

Zohrah was born as Zori to Lilith and Nioll, along with her younger sister, Cio. Zori would stay at home, caring for their younger siblings, while Cio went and faced hell's crowds of sinners. Cio was thought of by the masses of hell as the older, and thus more powerful of the sisters. But as Zohrah showed herself more calculating and calm of the two, people started paying attention to her.

The Raid would take place shortly before Zori turned 1,200 years old. Zori was not permitted to follow Nioll and her troops, but she snuck out, and would witness Nioll killing a mother and nearly killing the child as well, before she confronted her, and threatened her into giving her the child, who would be named Mori, and become Zori's adopted son.

Lilith was not friendly to Mori, and threatened him multiple times once he reached his teens, driving a wedge between Lilith and Zori, leading to Zori renaming herself Zohrah, to distance herself from her mothers. She'd also take place as Hell's Judge, sending people to their proper places in Hell. She'd start being worshipped by some for being a fair and unbiased judge, who didn't allow arbitrary things to get in the way of justice.

As Zohrah turned 1,300 years old, Cio started becoming jealous of her, eventually planning to kill her out of envy and anger. Mori would find out and get into a fight with Cio, nearly being killed by her, before Zohrah found them and intervened. Zohrah would kill Cio, and Zohrah would blame herself for Cio's death.

Zohrah would cut herself off from her family even further after that incident, with her work and Mori becoming the only things that she could focus on. Mori suggested at one point that she take a break and go up to the surface, and that he would take her place while she's gone. She eventually complied, and took a break on the surface.

This is where she would meet Fidelia Alberoson. After a few years of knowing each other, three angels would start manipulating Fidelia, convincing her that she was born to an angel, and that it was her destiny to kill Zohrah, who was a demon. Fidelia had become very close with Zohrah over time, even beginning to fall in love with her, but she decided to follow her 'destiny'. She went through most of the plan, until it came time to kill Zohrah, when she caved and decided to simply trap the woman.

Zohrah was able to conjure a fake body every so often, using it to keep up with technology and culture, as well as meeting new people, and making deals.

Whenever Zohrah wasn't out and about, she would be stuck in the Mirror Room, where she could see different moments in time through doors. The mirror itself was what was most interesting, as, on rare occasions, would show the memory of someone that she'd never met, but at one point the mirror showed that person holding Mori as a child, with what could be assumed as their family surrounding them.

Zohrah would have multiple depressive episodes when in the room, leading to her breaking the mirror at one point, and attempting to attack Lilith when she saw her through one of the doors. There was a long span of time where she sat in the middle of the room and did nothing, leading to her staying in the room for over 300 years, and only coming out in 1998, when she forged her documents and created a new identity.

Zohrah would avoid the room for years, leaving the only notes that she hid in the backing of the mirror to collect dust, only to venture back one last time, finding that the mirror had been moved, and some of the notes taken. She would soon be released from her prison after that.

## Trivia

### Names

#### Zori

'Zori' from the Shera word 'zore' [flame, fire] and the suffix '-oi' [small, young], meaning 'Young Flame'.

#### Zohrah

'Zohrah' from 'zore' [flame, fire] and the suffix '-eah' [large, strong]), meaning 'Strong Fire'

#### Xoro

'Xoro' from the word 'xiro' meaning 'Hidden', or alternatively, based on the name 'Xero', meaning 'Fearful'.

### Epithets

#### The Kaunniiro

Meaning 'Bringing Darkness'
Thought of as the opposite of 'Kaunnominn', which means 'Bringing Light', which was the epithet of the woman who trapped her in the catacombs.

#### The Bringer of Shadow

A translation of 'Kaunniiro' into English.