Nieyamaso

the Goddess and creator of the Nyesaya/Vampire race.

## Appearance

Nieyamaso is a massive demon-like being with large blue glowing eyes, a pure white snakelike face, and long red tusk-like teeth. She has long stringy black hair that flow around the four black horns that come out of her head. Her body is grey, mismatched from her face and she has four long arms with sharp black fingernails. She wears ragged charms around her chest and loin area which bind her to the dream realm.

She has no tongue and must swallow her prey whole, but this does not affect her ability to communicate as she does so telepathically via dreams. Her voice is extremely deep and has a slightly echoey effect to it, she also speaks in a certain rhythm that translates into rhyme in English. It is unknown if she can speak in person or not.

## Personality

She believes in fairness her teeth and eyes glow in the dark to give prey a fair chance of spotting her and escaping and she designed vampires with a number of weaknesses to give the humans a chance to fight back against them.

She's somewhat playful and makes attempts at nonsensical riddles occasionally. Despite her hatred for humans she seems to enjoy teasing them, but this is possibly a result of being mostly powerless in the dreamworld.

## Background

Nieyamaso is one of the three (now two) remaining major gods created by the old God of Magic, it's possible she is the oldest of them. She was created to keep the balance of physical energy (the food chain basically) in check and protect Shetsoucay itself from destruction. She coexisted with humans when they first arrived in Neverryn, she viewed them as regular animals fair to hunt on occasion but as with the rest would keep their population stable. Eventually this changed when more humans arrived and began attempting to conquer/settle the forest, she began eating every human who entered the forest.

These humans eventually attempted to burn down the forest in an attempt to get an upper hand and defeat her but this drove Nieyamaso into a rage and she wiped out multiple settlements. The Grandfather Dragon was so infuriated that he banished Nieyamaso to the Dream Realm. She remained in the Dream Realm ever since appearing to humans in their nightmares to remind them to fear the forest.

## Trivia

* For the humans that have not lost knowledge of her she is thought of as the Goddess of Death
	+ She has a face that is instinctually terrifying to humans but it is likely an acquired reaction over generations of being preyed upon by her.
	+ Her English name may be a misremembered version of her Nyesion name which simply means Vampire God, it's possible she has an older name lost to time.
	+ Shetsoucay is considered to be cursed by most humans though it's uncertain if that's just a superstition or not since most people today have forgotten the reason to fear the forest in the first place
* She has been known to invade the dreams of humans to terrorize them or attempt to convince them to free her
	+ She can also communicate with her vampire children in their sleep and often does with those who practice the religion
* If Nieyamaso were to ever be released from the Realm of Dreams, she would most certainly wipe out all of humanity and leave vampires to starve
* She has become good friends with Yumetsa from her time in the Dream Realm, she appreciates her mischief
* She can technically allow anyone to perform blood magic - it is done with a simply sacrifice of human blood and/or flesh, reciting an incantation in Nyesion and performing varying other ritualistic actions that typically involve writing the spell out either on the ground or the body - this is mostly meant for vampires but she allows humans to access it as well because sacrifice is sacrifice
* Her design influences include Rangda, a Jiangshi (via her charmed clothing), and Jeff the Killer
	+ She's also based on the monster fusion of Saye and Mauvi which now canonically is a reverse inspiration as Mauvi bases parts of her appearance on Nieyamaso
* She's large enough to have developed creation abilities but it's uncertain if Vampires are really considered spirits or not as they seem to have more in common with animals and so she is not considered a god of magic in any capacity.