Xenagrosh (Zoreth)

**Xenagrosh** (pronounced "Ksenagrosh"), formerly known as **Zoreth**, is a troll-Shadow Dragon hybrid Abomination, one of the Master's Chosen and closest allies, as well as one of Leegaain's first-born daughters.

## Appearance

### Human Form

Xenagrosh's looks are described as "kind of plain"; she looks like a woman in her mid 20's, around 5'3" (1.6 meters), with light brown hair that has streaks of black and youthful chestnut eyes. Her skin is naturally so pale that it almost looks sickly, and is full of freckles. She has sharp features, a squared jaw, and a nose a tad too long.

### Human Form (Clone)

Xenagrosh' troll double was a woman of great beauty with grey skin, silver hair, and golden eyes. She wore a comfortable mage suit and had perfect body proportions, though sported a second set of arms.

### Human Form (Original)

Zoreth has the same appearance as when she was still a human Awakened. She looks like a woman in her early 30's, about 1.6 meters (5'3") tall, with black-shaded brown hair and youthful chestnut eyes. Her skin is naturally so pale that it almost looks sickly, and is full of too many freckles to be easy on the eye. She has sharp features, a squared jaw, and a nose a tad too long to be considered cute.

### Shadow Dragon Form

Xenagrosh's Shadow Dragon form is so big it encompasses the village of Lutia. She stands over 30 meters (100 feet) tall, with two sets of yellow eyes. The first set is where it is supposed to be and the second is horizontally lined up with the first on the Dragon's snout, giving her perfect peripheral vision. Her wings are translucent due to the thin layer of shadows that fill the space between the bones where most Dragons have a membrane. Her black scales constantly change shape and size, but they always overlap to perfection, forming an impenetrable natural armor.

### Life Force

Xenagrosh's life forces are partially fused, with the black hole of the Abomination near the white hole of the troll. One never stops sucking in the energy and matter that the other produces. As for her cores, instead, the troll core sealed the black one, keeping a perfect balance that allows the Shadow Dragon to retain the best of both worlds (akin to Lith's life forces as a Wyrmling).

## Abilities

Shadow Dragons can alter their weight by turning part of their body into black smoke. She can also shroud her body with a burst of Origin Flames released from her skin instead of her mouth. Xenagrosh's troll half grants her regenerative abilities on par with a Ghoul's. Xenagrosh possesses mastery over Origin Flames to the point where she can merge the conflicting energies with another's Flames to create Primordial Flames. However, her being an Abomination means her life force is flawed, meaning that every time she uses Origin Flames, she has to purge the Chaos out of her life force or it would destroy the balance in the world energy.

Due to her hybrid nature, Xenagrosh is unable to use Accumulation, Invigoration and Life Vision, and cannot Awaken.

## Background

### Childhood

Zoreth's mother was a genius, not a stunner, and she took after many things from her. This caused her to feel as part of the family only in her Wyrmling form. Her mother cared more for her research than her, leaving her to be raised by Leegaain and her siblings. She asked them the secret about Awakening many times, but they always refused to teach her, saying that she wasn't ready, that she would just hurt herself. She became obsessed with body refinement and becoming as beautiful as the rest of her family, eventually running away from home after her growth spurt put an end to the effects of body refining, subsequently giving up her dragon half to spite her family as soon as she became of age.

Zoreth spent years studying magic, learning to appreciate her father's many teachings about mana and world energy, until she self-Awakened a few days after her 31st birthday. After discovering that body refinement still worked to a lesser degree, she obsessed with practicing Accumulation. When she tried to achieve a violet core, she ignored the signs and pain just to be able to return to the fold and show her father she made it on her own. Her core cracked, but her mastery of magic and willpower were so strong that instead of dying she became an Abomination. Once she evolved into an Eldritch, she started to regain the same draconic power she discarded.

### Master's Organization

Xenagrosh tracks Jarok's remains, mistaking Lith for an Eldritch Abomination and competitor to the Master. When the Master experiments with infusing monsters with Eldritch Abomination tissues, Xenagrosh's troll clone appears at their hideout and attempts to assimilate the original. The troll takes control of the artifacts from Xenagrosh's omnipocket and uses the her own spells against her, but the Master subdues the troll, allowing Xenagrosh to consume her. Consuming the mana cores and flesh of her doppelganger empowers Xenagrosh, making her Shadow Dragon form more physical than ethereal, strengthening her black core, and even allowing her human form to recover some of its features.

After consuming her troll double, Xenagrosh becomes able to recover her human body, as well as assume her Shadow Dragon form again. When Korgh (original) fights and loses to her goblin-Abomination clone Bytra, Xenagrosh intervenes, only to allow Bytra to consume her original due to Korgh's lust for power that Xenagrosh deems unfit for the Master's cause. After Bytra moves to the Master's headquarters in Lamarth she gains the Master Forgemaster title. The Master directs Xenagrosh to help Bytra and she spends a month training in using Origin Flames. She nearly overuses them and is forced to learn Tier 5 Healing magic to keep her own life force in check. Bytra crafts her a pair of Orichalcum dragon claws.

Feeling lost about her inability to Awaken and being unable to access her old abilities, Xenagrosh contacts Leegaain asking for help. He reveals that the Master had merely created vessels and cores capable of storing Chaos energy, but it didn't cure their status as Eldritches. Xenagrosh's troll core makes her unable to process darkness energy while the black core is unable to process light energy, creating a symbiotic relationship that maintains her human form, though that is the extent of it. Both are fallen cores, so she is unable to Awaken. He offers to help study her and find a solution for the price of revealing the Master's identity, but Xenagrosh refuses and leaves.

Bytra and Xenagrosh undertake Operation Hostile Takeover to rob the local branch of the Dusk Court in the Gorgon Empire and seize control of their black market and smuggling routes. They meet up with their contact Wren Nian, the deputy head of the Red Gorgon cartel, in an arrangement for the Master's Organization to take the Dusk Court's place while making Wren the new boss. Xenagrosh exposes several thralls and undead in Wren's group, earning the name Xenagrosh the Slayer.

Xenagrosh and Bytra crash the Dusk Court meeting. After a show of might, Xenagrosh offers the undead a choice - fight and kill Bytra to survive, or die, in order to force Bytra to grow and evolve.

Xenagrosh is invited to Lith's Awakened Council trial to discuss the terms for allowing monster-Abomination hybrids join. She chooses to join out of curiosity for the Council's justice system and Lith, as the Master has mentioned him multiple times. Lith's Hybrid Form reveal makes her think he is Leegaain's offspring and one of her siblings, causing her to vouch for him. When Lotho the Treant threatens her and draws Leegaain's wrath on the entire Council, she shields Lith, later giving him her contact card and contact rune.

Xenagrosh lays siege to the Dusk Court branch in the Gorgon Empire's city of Tarmen, forcing Dusk to Warp there to rescue his subordinates. Despite having nearly been killed by Dusk when she was a regular Abomination in the past, Xenagrosh's regenerative abilities, draconic powers, and Chaos magic give her the upper hand against him. When Dawn intervenes, Bytra and Tezka ambush them and they begin summoning the remaining hybrid-Eldritches, forcing Dawn to make a distress call to Night who Warps the Horsemen away.

Lith contacts Xenagrosh when he is ambushed by undead during Night's attack on Lutia. Xenagrosh and the other 6 Chosen arrive, wounding Night until Baba Yaga is forced to intervene to save her daughter. At the Chosen's insistence, the Blood Mother punishes Night by removing part of her daughter's free will and destroying her host to let her suffer their pain.

The Master scolds the Chosen for their reckless act of facing Baba Yaga without proper equipment or having not yet stabilized their new forms. He thanks them all for their teachings and calls them his children before undergoing the process to become the first artificial human-Abomination hybrid and first Awakened Abomination. Nandi undergoes a fit of Blood Madness while aiding the procedure, nearly damaging the Master's gene tank until Xenagrosh stops him. She proceeds to explain their loyalty to the Master and the Organization's history. The procedure succeeds and Xenagrosh teaches him true magic.

As Xenagrosh considers Empress Milea Genys akin to a sister, she and the other hybrids help her to eradicate the Undead Courts in the Gorgon Empire. Xenagrosh visits the Verhen family home for Lith's 19th birthday and introduces Bytra as her girlfriend. Lith introduces his half-sister to the Verhen family.

Xenagrosh and Kigan spend several months of relentless training to reach our current understanding of the Origin Flames. If not for comparing our notes and our ability as Eldritchs to quickly recover from any wound, I would have needed years to learn how to purify metals.

During the Verhen family's visit to the Blood Desert, Xenagrosh meets with Lith and teaches him a better way to use Origin Flames for metal purification. She brings him to meet their half-sister Sinmara where they share a meal and a drink. After the two sisters warn Lith away from practicing Chaos magic, Sinmara promises to bring the pair along her next mission.

With the death of Vareen the Plaguespreader during the Urgamakka Council trial, the Master obtains his legacy. Xenagrosh splits it between the hybrids to make sure that each one of them deepens their understanding of their respective fields, she herself focusing on Vareen's research about Chaos Magic. After the Balkor copycat's attack on Lutia, Zinya proposes to Vastor. The hybrids spectating through Tezka's Spirit Tail celebrate when Vastor accepts and begin planning how to participate in the wedding.

Xenagrosh brings Lith to one of Sinmara's missions to confront the First Lich Aylen Nagaar, who is in the process of stealing from an undiscovered mine in Salaark's territory. Lith and Xenagrosh join the battle after Aylen unleashes her golem army, the former summoning his Origin Demons. Aylen withdraws shortly after.

## Quotes

* *"Do you realize how much you are struggling despite your alleged superiority? You're a relic of the past, whereas I'm what we were always supposed to be. Not a weak human but not a filthy monster either. I've achieved the best of both worlds."* (Xenagrosh' clone to Xenagrosh, Chapter 504)
* *"I changed my mind. Feel free to eat her."* (Xenagrosh to Bytra, Chapter 653)
* *"I'm a fucking dragon again and I've to study again. This doesn't bode well. What if I fail? I've always failed in everything I did. The Master considers us Eldritchs to be the top of the evolutionary scale, but to me, we're just the kings of losers. We've lost our bodies, our Awakened powers, and even Mogar has turned its back to us."* (Chapter 736)
* *"What I truly wished for was to be freed from my hunger, to enjoy little things like smelling a flower without it wilting at my touch. Now I'm so close to getting back everything that I lost, but no matter how much I struggle, I can't overcome this new wall and I'm scared of screwing things again."* (Xenagrosh to Leegaain, Chapter 745)
* *"I promise you that I'll use what you've taught me today to make you proud. I'll find a way to redeem my race in your eyes. I hope that the next time you see me, I'll be whole again."* (Xenagrosh to Leegaain, Chapter 746)
* *"Even if you discarded her Abomination name, Korgh, you are everything that Bytra the Raiju was. You reap the fruits of her work, so you should also accept the consequences of what she did as an Emperor Beast first and an Abomination later."* (Xenagrosh to Bytra, Chapter 946)
* *"A Grendel? What an amiable and rare pet you keep in here. It's like a small bird. It fits in just one hand."* (Chapter 951)
* *"Innocents? Each one of them has probably as much blood on their hands as you. They are disgusting pigs, fattened on the flesh of their own neighbors. They know nothing of our hunger or our loneliness. Why do you keep holding back?"* (Xenagrosh to Bytra, Chapter 951)
* *"Memories are everything for a mage. They bring you pain, but also power and experience. Remember who you are, Byt! Remember and come back to me!"* (Xenagrosh to Bytra, Chapter 952)
* *"What the heck has Dad done this time? I remember this smell. It's the mix of human, beast, and Eldritch Abomination scent I found on the scene of Jarok's death. It's no surprise that a simple Rock Worm and an Empowered Abomination were no match for my lil bro. The Master was right all along in wanting to bring Lith into our fold. He might be the key to the perfect Abomination hybrid."* (Xenagrosh after Lith reveals his hybrid form, Chapter 992)
* *"All Dragons come from the same bloodline, so I don't care about who sired you, you're my little brother."* (Xenagrosh to Lith, Chapter 994)
* *"Oh my! Two Horsemen? Such a pity."* (Xenagrosh when Dawn arrives to save Dusk, Chapter 1089)
* *"How dare you attack our family?"* (Xenagrosh to Night, Chapter 1111)
* *"Unhand our prey, Blood Mother, or we'll make sure that your name on a gravestone will be the only thing left of you."* (Xenagrosh to Baba Yaga, Chapter 1111)
* *"I really hope that bastard makes another attempt because I've gotten so many bones to pick with him that I can rise a fucking undead army!"* (Xenagrosh to Lith about the Balkor copycat, Chapter 1603)

## Relationships

* Sinmara: Xenagrosh's half-sister. Xenagrosh truly loves Sinmara as one the few half-siblings that despite all the atrocities that she had committed in the past don't consider her as a rabid beast to be put down.

## References

1. ↑ Legion on Discord
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 653: Fall of the Mighty (Part 1)
3. ↑ Chapter 1442: Birthday Party (Part 4)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 498: Troubling Guests (Part 2)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Chapter 948: Dreams and Nightmares (Part 2)
6. ↑ Chapter 504: Hollow Victory (Part 2)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 1088:
8. ↑ Chapter 951: The Apprentice Surpasses the Master (Part 1)
9. ↑ Chapter 1544: Quality Time (Part 2)
10. ↑ Chapter 1549: Fire and Metal (Part 1)
11. ↑ Chapter 946: Hostile Takeover (Part 2)
12. ↑ Chapter 1111: Blood for Blood (Part 1)
13. ↑ Chapter 1668: Source of Power (Part 2)
14. ↑ Chapter 736: Prodigal Daughter (Part 2)
15. ↑ Chapter 1546: Phantom Body (Part 2)
16. ↑ Chapter 422: Departure (Part 2)
17. ↑ Chapter 505: The Day After (Part 1)
18. ↑ Chapter 735: Prodigal Daughter (Part 1)
19. ↑ Chapter 740: Menadion's Legacy (Part 2)
20. ↑ Chapter 949: Overwhelming Power (Part 1)
21. ↑ Chapter 953: Raiders of the Lost Academy (Part 1)
22. ↑ Chapter 991: Questions and Answers (Part 1)
23. ↑ Chapter 994: Dragon Bloodline (Part 2)
24. ↑ Chapter 1090: Darkness versus Chaos (Part 4)
25. ↑ Note: Nandi does not join the Organization until Chapter 1113: A Mage Among Gods (Part 1)
26. ↑ Chapter 1112: Blood for Blood (Part 2)
27. ↑ Chapter 1114: A Mage Among Gods (Part 2)
28. ↑ Chapter 1167: Chaos Force (Part 3)
29. ↑ Chapter 1171: New Horizons (Part 1)
30. ↑ Chapter 1301: The Thickness of Blood (Part 1)
31. ↑ Chapter 1442: Birthday Party (Part 4)
32. ↑ Chapter 1550: Fire and Metal (Part 2)
33. ↑ Chapter 1572: Breach of Trust (Part 2)
34. ↑ Chapter 1589: Give and Take (Part 1)
35. ↑ Chapter 1614: Chaos and Flames (Part 2)
36. ↑ Chapter 1611: Origin Demons (Part 1)
37. ↑ Legion on Discord