High Priestess Sinxariel

**High Priestess Sinxariel**, also known as the Archpriest, and High Sorceress of the Shadow Cult. Serving as the nominal day to day leader of the faith, Sinxariel tends to the spiritual needs of the devoted in her own 'caring' ways.

## History

Born as triplets to Lucaerna and the Demon Hunter known as Malakarth, an independent hunter who lived and died before the coming of the Illidari, this Satyr is the inheritor of the elve's magical aptitude, if not their martial prowess. Like many of Lucaerna's children before she began to deliver countless broods, she benefitted from a unique tutelage unavailible to her later brethren.

Schooled in Sorcerous ways and secret rituals, Sinxariel's devotion to her Mother, Lucaerna, is absolutely unwavering. As a testament to her devotion, Sinxariel pledged to depart from Lucaerna's side along with the totality of her siblings at the time that would heed her, along with a host of bound demons of the Covenant of the Dark Embrace into the deep reaches of the Nether. In doing so she would demonstrate her devotion to her Mother's cause of the destruction of the Burning Legion.

Here she was tested, and the powerful magics she made use of, taught personally to her by Lucaerna, allowed her and her brethren to win many small battles and skirmishes. The unholy rituals empowered her forces, and their potency only served to convince her of the 'righteousness' of her cause. Though as ages dragged on in that timeless realm, Sinxariel began to learn important lessons that she could not learn from her mother; sacrifice, hatred, revenge, and relentless dedication to duty and belief. For as she struck out into the legions peripheral worlds, she could not have known the cost of upholding Lucaerna's goals. By necessity she sacrificed allies, and she hated those who slew her siblings, and took pitiless revenge on those that did the deed.

She emerged 2,197 subjective years later, a mere two years later in realspace time. Gone was the dependent who believed blindly in faith and Lucaerna's causes, and in her place was a galvanized demoness who was the veteran of a thousand battles at the head of a remnant army of devotees, all loyal to the cause Sinxariel promulgated. That the rites saved them, that the rituals of the Cult were a match for the Legion's power, and that through conviction all things can be done.

As such, Sinxariel is a proud and strong woman, devoted entirely to the Dark Faith and its magics. She is caring, patient, and slow to anger. She is quick to invoke divinity, but over those long eons in the nether, and given Lucaerna's ascension to broodmother and great producer and provider for the cult, her teachings and invokings have begun to shift accordingly. Whether the great mother approves of, or knows, of this topic is left unspoken of among her disciples and brethren. Who is the true Mother after all?

## Work as Archpriest

Sinxariel is responsible for the shift in worship over time in the cult. As Mother Lucaerna grew more distant in the day to day teachings of the cult, retreating into her sanctums with her Handmaidens of the Mother , Sinxariel and her high clerics began to take over.

Over time, the imagery and invocations of the The Goddess began to fade from the sermons, replaced instead with The Mother, an enigmatic entity, a source of life, fertility, creation, and destruction of those who opposed such practices. In truth, Sinxariel worships Lucaerna as great patron of the Cult of the Great Mother, as the provider and source of all blessings. Her worship and dedication fed back into Lucaerna in a perpetual feedback loop which saw a fall to darkness beyond anything Elune demands, sanctions, or tolerates from Her followers. But the mission remains, the facts remain, and the powers taught to her by her mother remain. Each brood birthed by Lucaerna is a boon to the Cult; more sisters to raise, more powers to spread around, and the blessings which bloom in each of them is anouther piece of the grand plan of the Mother. A plan for a new world and a new society, and a promise that all shall eventually be one with the Mother, returned to Her embrace to be born again. And in their service, they shall never truly die.

## Status as Broodmother

Sinxariel is one of the cult that seems to forever teeter upon the edge of the status of Broodmother. Heavy and laden with blessings from her mother, she seems to easily maintain her mind; not giving in to the temptations and easy ecstasies of that exalted state. Though she has not become the fleshly portal to the Nether that so many other have, she routinely takes partners, keeping her vastly swollen body full of dozens upon dozens of children at any one time, requiring durable belly bands and the lifting strength of mighty Felguards to move around. Somewhat uniquely, she maintains the tethers to her children, such that if they perish, they return to her to be born anew.