Hemple

**Hemple** was a high priestess of Lokka, the earth demon, who appears to be Satan/Lucifer. She's the second wife of Roman General Aulus Plautius and the stepmother to Cyrus. (His first wife had died.)Before Aulus left for Britannia, and before he left for Egypt, Hemple sacrificed Cyrus to Lokka in a horrifying ceremony.

Three years after the Roman invasion of Britannia, Hemple arrived at the Roman Fort while Aulus was meeting with the Druid Veran. When Aulus came back, Hemple wanted to be alone with him to talk about failing Lokka's will, among other things. She asked about the whereabouts of Prefectus Lucius, but Aulus lied and said he was injured in the landing and sent back home. She also asked where Aulus' sword was, but he again lied and said it was out for polishing and engraving. However, Hemple had picked it up out of a tree stump on her way to the fort, where it was left by a spying Lucius. Hemple was able to smell that Aulus shared a bed with Cantii Queen Amena whom she sent for. When Amena arrived, Hemple told her she was on very important business, to uncover who was a friend and who was a snake. Later that night, Hemple and her entourage feasted on Vitus' corpse before having a BDSM sex orgy.

Hemple gives Willa a task to send a bird to the Druids with a message that Rome will meet with them, and is later seen joking with Willa about Aulus' forthcoming trip to the underworld, which she does not believe to be dangerous.

Hemple goes to the meeting in Aulus' stead, while he is in the underworld. She was disappointed to find that the Druids sent Ania instead of Veran. She tells Ania to tell Veran that she wants to meet with him, and believes that when he knows Hemple wants him he'll soil himself and come straight to her. She then hexes Ania and leaves.

Having returned to the Romans, she catches Amena trying to poison Aulus and has another BDSM sex orgy. After this, Hemple imprisons Willa and cuts off her arm, and eats it.

Aulus begins to have hallucinations of Cyrus, claiming he misses him every day and that he was the hardest sacrifice he has ever had to make. He does not, however, say that he was sorry for sacrificing him, because he loves the demon Lokka too much. Hemple walks in on Aulus talking to the hallucination, telling him it's the first step into madness. Much to Aulus' confusion and surprise, Hemple picks up Cyrus and caresses him as if he were really there.

Hemple visits an imprisoned Willa to taunt her about cutting off and eating her arm. She asks Willa to think of Veran's worst nightmare so she can to get underneath her skin before leaving and promising to return. Upon her return, Willa gives Hemple a ball of red twine. Delighted by this, Hemple begins to snort like a pig.

The next morning, Widicus enters Hemple's bedchamber where she's talking in her sleep. A flapping bird wakes her and she demands to know why Widicus is there. He says he has received word from Aulus that his return will be delayed by a few days, and that he has captured her associate Blaine. She forces him to leave.

Hemple meets with Amena and tells them they shall hold a feast for Lokka that night. When Divis is questioning Ania with Big Pebble, Hemple channels herself through Ania and uses Big Pebble herself to reveal that they are Lokka and throws Big Pebble in a nearby lake. Later on, during the feast, Hemple leaves to visit Amena who is still in her room, Veran sends poison smoke into the hall, leaving everyone inside lying on the floor barely conscious. As Veran enters, he is dressed as Death, but they hallucinate him as a large tree. As Veran starts killing everyone with a large scythe, Amena recognises him. Amena tries to convince Hemple to leave, but Hemplewants to stay and speak with him. As they flee, covering their mouths to not breathe in the poison smoke, Hemple falls down, gets up, and charges Veran. They start fighting and she tells him that if he kills her, every Druid will die and all their gods will be forgotten (which is actually what happens in Druid history IRL). Veran then speaks directly to Lokka and tries to exorcise him from Hemple, but Amena knocks him off her and they run away, leaving through Willa's secret exit. Veran chases them, but stops when he reunites with Willa.

Having barely escaped with their lives, Hemple and Amena find themselves lost in a field. Hemple asks Amena why she saved her, to which Amena replies she wants Lokka. Hemple tells her that Aulus is going mad, and that he sacrificed his only son, Cyrus. Amena asks why he did that, and Hemple replies that Aulus started seeing things. After relieving herself in the field, Hemple asks Amena who she is. Hemple knows Amena wants revenge on Aulus for twisting Amena's family to pieces. Reacting to this, Amena pushes Hemple and tells her if she wanted her dead, she could have left her burn to Veran. Hemple continues to mock Amena about what happened to Andra and the incest with her father that produced Andra, claiming Amena was Lokka's from the beginning. Hemple channels herself through a hallucinated Cyrus and tells Aulus that Cyrus belongs to her now. She makes Cyrus repeat "Spill the blood, drink his love" over and over again, driving Aulus into a breakdown.

When Cait's band's attempt to rescue Lucius on the viaduct bridge goes wrong and Cait and Divis/Lokka jump after her, Ania helps Cait up from the ground, having survived her fall, but Cait sees that Ania is controlled by Hemple.

Hemple and Amena make their way back to the Roman stronghold, and as they arrive at the gates, they see Aulus dancing happily with the hallucination of Cyrus. Hemple tells Amena that Aulus has gone crazy, and then goes to see Lucius in prison. She starts torturing him to get him to tell her where he has hidden the spear. Lucius begs her to stop, and admits he's a coward and a monster.

After she is done torturing Lucius, Hemple welcomes Cait into the Roman courtyard. After the Romans come under attack from the Belgae Tribe, Hemple makes her way to the prison, where she kills Lucius with a crossbow after he tells Cait where he has hidden the spear. Amena then slits Hemple's throat from behind, and Hemple non-lethally shoots Cait. As Hemple starts to fight Amena off her, she is knocked unconscious by Antedia and captured by Cait's band.