Sahalia

The Kindest of All the Beasts (Art by SunnyClockwork)

**Sahalia** is an ancient beast from various periods of time in the Wyrdtraum mythos.

## Overview

Sahalia is a living reminder of times long forgotten. Due to the kindness of a strange god, she was granted immortality. During her many years of living, someone managed to scratch out her eyes, making her blind. Despite this, her life has continued for many more years.

## Appearance

Sahalia looks like a green crocodile with longer legs and a longer tail. She has no eyes due to losing them long ago with skin growing over her eye sockets.

## Personality

Despite her monstrous appearance, Sahalia is actually very kind. Sahalia was always charitable, even more so after she was granted immortality. However, her giving nature has wanged over her millions of years of living.

## History

### Origin

Sahalia was once an average reptilian creature born around the time of 100,000,000 BCE. The only difference between her and the others who roamed the lands is that she had compassion. This was considered a defect back then, she couldn't hunt because she would feel bad for any murder she caused, she even helped others' prey get away mostly unscathed. The only thing she could do was eat plants however this couldn't satiate her for long as her species are carnivores.

Sahalia was left a hungering husk on the ancient ground. She couldn't eat anything that was healthy for her, any type of meat would be disrespectful or evil. Before she died however, a strange god became touched by Sahalia's acts of empathy. This strange deity gave Sahalia the gift of immortality, so long as existence was she would also be.

### Wandering

For a longest time, Sahalia could only wander in search for a potential home. A town she came across called Haskid seemed like the perfect fit. The only problem was that they could only see her as a monster. When one of the locals saw her, they alerted officials about her and eventually they came. They used every weapon they could find but nothing seemed to work. That was until someone shot an arrow into her eye. Eventually someone threw and spear at her other eye, forcing her to retreat.

While Sahalia could heal any flesh wound on her body, she couldn't heal her organs. She was forced to be blind from this moment onwards. This may have been a loss, however Sahalia saw this as an opportunity to learn. The locals thought she was a beast because she couldn't speak their language, so she decided to learn it. Once she figured out how to speak, she went on searching for a new town to occupy herself. She couldn't go back to Haskid, they would still attempt to kill her even if she could speak.

Sahalia eventually found a new town called Widan and she was accepted in. This was was both in part due to her ability to speak and the new locals being more liken to pacifism then fighting. She became a sort of mascot for Widan.

### Another Day

Sahalia woke up that day as she did every other day. At this point, she was apart of Widan for a month and a half, and so far everything was considered normal. Sahalia rose out of the spot she usually slept and prepared to greet her neighbors like she did every other day.

However, today was different. Instead of hearing anyone kindly greeting her, she heard nothing. This was strange to her, every other day someone would be there to greet her to the new day. Something was off, and she had to investigate this situation.

What she found was something she never thought she would have to listen to. She heard the scorch of fire, the screams of people and their children. It turned out that the town of Haskid had heard of this little town that harbored a monster that they previous tried to kill, so they decided to try and fix their mistake this time. The Haskidians murdered the Widanians down to their last, until the last remaining member was Sahalia.

Sahalia never felt a feeling like this before. She felt unimaginable sorrow, yet seething rage at the same time. These people she lost her sight too have now made her lose the last thing she called family. Sahalia decided to finally be the monster they thought she was, an eye for an eye, a town for a town. She did unto them as they did unto her, she killed every last one of them until there was only one left.

Something was different when she got to the final one. Sahalia realized that she became the monster she was originally afraid of, the one she was accused of being, the one she fear she was. This realization is what saved the last of the Haskidians, she spared them and ran away, never to be seen again.

Rumors say that she now lies in an unspecified cave, whether she's waiting for death or to be seen again is unknown. It is unlikely we will ever see her again, however we were lucky to get a decade where the world bare witness to the kindest of all the beasts.

## Myths and Legends

Sahalia is an original character created by Nayerb for the *Gods and Demons wiki*.