Lady Ereirah

**Lady Ereirah** (pronounced air-ruh) was born of the very first known union between demon hunter and demon hunter during the time of the Long Vigil many long years before the Legion returned to Azeroth. This first pairing brought her into the world, along with her brother Mel'xara, and her sister Sinxariel, born as triplets to Lucaerna Duskstalker in the long waiting. Ereirah served as the once demon hunters greatest servant for decades and decades of mortal time before meeting the end of her service to her mistress when the demon hunter Dryne made an attempt on her mothers life, and the torment of Deronica'torel was inflicted upon her.

## History

When Lucaerna stood the long watch, she did not stand it with her mind fully intact. Darkness and madness ailed her, and the demon hunter did what none else had done; she took a lover. And she bore child. These first three offspring would prove to be a herald of what was to come in the future. In the mind of her addled mother, she was an elven child like any other; impish, mischievous, and competitive with her two brothers. It did not take long for their true natures to emerge in their adolescence and their inborne fel might to emerge. These three children were raised in the isolated wilds of what would eventually become the Blasted Lands, deep in the winding caverns and dens far beyond the sight of those Kaldorei who would annihilate them. From a young age, they were taught to fear other demons and to hate them. And that they stood with their mother are the apex of Elven kind, processed of the powers of the Great Enemy and ready to defend the world. How true that was would be left to the eventual test.

In the many years of the Long Vigil, Ereirah proved herself to her mother time and time again as she showed great aptitude in fel magics. Her brothers, while skilled, could not match her on the magical level, and so decided to hone their mastery of shadow magics and stealth, matching their mother in infiltration ability if not mighty displays of sorcerous powers. Together they made a great team, if a conflicting one, gelled together by their Mother.

### Recent History

When the Legion returned, and the Third War began in earnest, the Demon Hunters were called to the side of their Master, Illidan Stormrage. And their mother abandoned them to heed this great calling, leaving them only with the promise she would return for them, this was good enough for Ereirah, and she maintained her vigil in the Eastern Kingdoms. In time, her two brothers left, uneasy with the world, and vanished.

She would broadly sit out the Third War, giving herself more to magical experimentation than to combat, and would reunite with Lucaerna as the war ended, following her into service with the Covenant of the Dark Embrace and the other demon hunters, becoming Illidari. Her service would remain impeccable throughout the buildup of foes against the demon hunters as the threat of the Burning Legion loomed once more, and she would be pained to deploy alongside the Illidari to answer the threat of powerful Satyr Lords that heralded their return in the Elflands; her own brothers. Deploying in battle alongside the Illidari, she would assist her mother in landing the deathblow on her 'elder' brother. During this time, she began to feel somewhat threatened by the growing number of brethren she was accumulating, and her thoughts at times turned treacherous. Before long, she would come to 'love' them in a sense. As much as one like her could do.

### Legion War

During the Legion War, Ereirah would serve as one of the primary advisors of Lucaerna, along with her younger sister Sinxariel, anouther exceedingly powerful sorceress. And they would begin the building up the magical works for what would become the more solidified Shadow Cult of Elune. Ereirah did not truely appreciate the religion that was overtaking her mother's followers nor approve, seeing herself as an inherently impure thing, and would not forget the teachings Lucaerna had imparted into her; to hate the demon, to hate the fel. Negativity dominated her mind, and only one thing relieved it; the presence of her siblings. Truthfully she had felt lost since the death of her brothers, but she could not find it in herself to tell Lucaerna, instead, she was one of her Mothers most full throated supporters as the nature of her cult changes, and she reveled in the growing number of young that Lucaerna produced. Each one of them she loved and cared for as if it were her own. She could not bear children as her mother did, and did not seek to do so. Instead she served as one of the first handmaidens, caring for her mother, experimenting with dread powers as the huntress wished, and tending to the new young. It was her practices and her acts which would form the basis upon which the Handmaidens of the Mother would forum upon.

### Within the Shadow Cult

As her mother turned inward and the Shadow Cult began to develop into what it is today, Ereirah found herself longing more and more for Lucaerna, guarding her with as much religious fury as any of the acolytes would. She would never leave Lucaerna's presence; eating what she ate, doing what she wished, caring for young as they came. And as she ascended to demonhood and became the Broodmother of the Cult, Ereirah's own devotion only grew, finally blossoming into the same zealotry that the acolytes felt. A goddess worthy of her worship. Ereirah rededicated herself with greater fury, perhaps no longer truly in control of her mind, and for the first time, she took a mate, and was with child upon the asking of Lucaerna, and she would never say no again.

### Sacrifice

The ultimate moment of her service came as the moment of Min'da'shuriel came upon the cult, the time when the most vulnerable of the cult, as well as the Greatmother Herself were at their most exposed. An assassin, having studied the cult and knowing Lucaerna's ways, penetrated the temple and sought to slay the mother for her crimes and her heresies. This assassin, Dryne, a Demon Huntress managed to reach the birthing pool of Lucaerna, where she resided, unable to defend herself as she birthed her next brood, she called her servants to defend her, and they did so, dying where they fought before the huntresses fury. The first daughter born to the Greatmother worked as she could to pull the offspring from her mother as fast as she could, but was too late. She had to interpose herself between the huntress and her mother. As the Greatmother tried to birth, she bestowed her greatest blessing and curse unto her daughter of Deronica'torel, and Ereirah grew into a tremendous monster; erupting out of her garments, growing to match her mother in height, breasts grew from her, wings sprouted from her back, incredible aggression, and the blessings and curses long denied to her flooded her body in incredible overwhelming power, amplified in every way by the need to defend her mother. She bested the huntress, and the Greatmother was able to finish her birthing. In her delirious state, Ereirah was able to carve the rune of devotion onto the invader, and fell, knowing her Mother had bound the invader. She thought she would die, but did not. She craned her neck to look at herself as energy continued to fill her body, flowing from Lucaerna, and she began to bloat up, her belly swelling as she was dragged off to her own dwelling.

## Ereirah the Broodmother

As the blessings and curses took hold of her, the new broodmare slowly swelled in size and girth as she fed, becoming tremendously fat in kind. Unique of the three, she has the blessing of Alah'dalan in addition to her bearing organs, though it goes unused and unseen by most beneath her tremendous size. Handmaidens have used its sensitivity to calm her down and pleasure her during her especially violet fits. Her mind is broken, but she has what she wants. She serves her mother, and her gleeful mewling spills from her lips as baby after baby is pulled from her by her attendant handmaidens, finally having the closeness she always wanted. As a Broodmother, she remains in an eternally pregnant state, swollen beyond any mortal norm, but not matching her own mother. She is not the woman she once was, for the trial of Deronica'torel has broken her, but some part of her has survived; that same nurturing love she felt for her siblings and the furious hatred she feels for the legion remain. Her great sorcerous powers are intact, and amplified, but they are not put to much use anymore. She feels a tremendous attachment to the offspring she produces, and feels a furious resentment and competitiveness with the other Broodmare, Dryne; feeling she was bestowed an honor she was not worthy of. The two are locked in the same birthing chamber in their own pools, and spend their days alternating between arguing, encouraging, fighting, and screaming at each other as their bodies betray them in kind and more broods spill forth from engorged loins.