Saego Vetaa

*"Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi." -* Saego upon being confronted by Evan Derwent over the destruction of Karel.

**Saego Kadarys-Zatale Vetaa** is the mysterious Elven matriarch of the house of Vetaa and the Shroud Priestess of Kadarys, seeking to use the Mooshadow's power for her own goal of terminating human suffering by removing what she calls "Fate" from the world.

## Appearance

Saego Vetaa is a tall, well-kept and buxom woman with long white hair, stark but inviting features and eyes of an almost golden colour that shift in intensity as observed. Her skin also seems to elicit a whitish glow, that while dazzling does not hurt the eyes. While often obscured by the lavish clothing she wears, her build is imposing and athletic.

The Shroud-Priestess dresses in a regal if perhaps provocative manner, displaying the affluence of both her birthplace and her station. She wears an ephemeral, flowing, white dress on most occasions she appears, switching over to a more formal, form-fitting and decorated gown, inlaid with golden plates, sewn into the fabric when appearing for her speech in Erwent. On Burningland she wore her hair in a braid, each second segment adorned with a golden ornament, alongside a robe decorated with the fur of some exotic beast.

## Personality

Saego's personality is enigmatic and occasionally even contradictory, as seen in both her attempts to communicate with Evan Derwent about his dreams, guide The Grey Ghost and Ezra in their pursuit of Aimego and the opposing destruction of Karel, as well as supposedly her creation of Pseudohumans at the Tarx manor in Sen-Jari. She seems to be however, ultimately caring or concerned for humanity, seeing her actions as beneficial and as opposing the seemingly malevolent cosmic force of Fate.

She is rather outspoken and open, often engaging in rhetoric conversation even with those that seem to wish her only death. She also tends to be fond of cutting insults, deriding Kaus brutally for his weakness and selfishness, or dismissing Seimora's raison d'etre as entirely pitiable and pathetic. Saego also seems to hold little to no maternal affection for her daughter-Taimez, showing no reluctance in destroying her and pulling out the Moonshard piece implanted in her, when she was assaulted by the former, during her speech in Erwent.

Saego later is revealed to be a truly compassionate person, though this compassion is pierced and propped up by an obsession with controlling others, seeing herself as wiser, more benevolent and more informed than all of humanity. She nevertheless cherishes uplifting the destitute and downtrodden, both materially and spiritually as seen by her compassion towards Horak - a socially isolated, but bright apprentice in the temple of Zivdaal, even if it culminated in the murder of his parents and his abduction and induction into her dreaming machine. Her latter name Kadarys-Zatale was also earned by her humanitarian efforts. Interpersonally Saego seems to be pleasant if overbearing, always willing to hear out others, and offer advice or assistance, though often becoming annoyed when they question her primacy.

The Shroud-Priestess seems to be obsessed with the idea that what she calls "Fate" is a true force in the universe and rules reality, causing intelligent creatures, especially humans to engage in constant cycles of war, progress, destruction and rebirth and sees the removal of Earth from the material universe as the ultimate salvation from this cycle. She is a true follower of elven philosophy, seeing progress and strife for technological advancement as needless and embraces simplicity and comfort, though she seems to have a penchant for the grandiose regardless.

## History

### Earlier Life

Little is known of Saego's life, besides her at some earlier point in her life being involved in a casual intimate relationship with Kaus Teilantirv, which she cut off, supposedly due to Kaus' over-attachment to her. She is also known to have participated in humanitarian work and headed efforts to bring peace and prosperity to regions of Maeror struck with famine. She received the nickname "Kadarys Come-Anew", due to her extraordinary compassion and dedication to improving the lives of every single being she ruled over. Around the year 1026 she had her daughter - Taimez.

She also around the year 1126 revived the brutal retainer of House Colding - Angelbert Nebelsson, returning his life to him in a bid to give the man a chance to reevaluate his decisions, only to have him join her and assist her in her plans - whatever they may have been.

### "Tannavet" Arc

Saego appeared to Grey Ghost and Ezra as they chased down Aimego through a grove near the village of Vestaad, directing the two to where the invoker hid. She later also appeared several times atop several buildings in Tannavet, tracking both Yuliko and Grey Ghost, before disappearing.

### "Andria...and What They Found There" Arc

She visited Evan's dreams, dragging the Imperial to a pocket dimension of sorts to converse with him over visions he had been having in his sleep, letting him rest in her lap. However she departed when Evan Derwent refused to engage in discussion. She later appeared during a misty morning in the town of Karel and unleashed some eldritch energy that swept the town clean, transforming most residents' flesh into a strange, white substance and killing most of them instantly-some being reformed into Pseudohumans as well. She later tried to contact Derwent again, only to be accused of mass murder, to which she replied cryptically and left again.

### "Tower of Twilight" Arc

Her next appearance was during her speech in Erwent, made to call for a closer union between Maeror and the Earth-Domain in the wake of the undead crisis that had consumed a large part of Maeror, held in the Maerorian holy city of Erwent that laid in the shadow of the Tower of Twilight-an ancient and holy temple of the Faith of the Twilight. During the speech, Taimez - who had seemingly vanished altogether for the last two months (and had been replaced by a version of hers from another world by Saego) reappeared and confronted her mother on her actions, even having a messenger of Dadashisa at her side. A debate broke out, but it was soon turned violent by two retainers of Saego's. At around the same time Doubter forces rushed into the amphitheatre where the event was being held and attempted on her life. Saego fought back, managing to fight off both Zaree, Grey Ghost and Taimez herself, all the while deriding their efforts, eventually forcing them to retreat, severely burning Kaus Teilantirv with a storm of fire she conjured and defeating her daughter and pulling the Moonshard organism implanted in her out, killing her in the process.

### "Strangers in a Strange Land" Arc

Saego was contacted by Toumego Sei via information crystal from the Exclusion Zone of the Eye of Rhea on Burningland island, the priestess planning to murder Vetaa thusly. This backfired, with Saego instead taunting Toumego with how the priestess of Dadashisa was foolish to use her own method of attack that she invented against its creator.

### "Dies Illi Tremendi" Arc

Upon discovering the Derwent Group's attempt to draw Amat into the fight against her, by revealing to a group of Amati councilors from the city of Karashek which was to be consumed the mechanisms of said consumption she appeared alongside Len Ozvadomi and the Tenshi-now under his control to stop them in the Consumption Zone in Pavdala. She confronted the Derwent Group there, accompanied by the Amati inquisitor Rakab Al-Kazr, Lahi Ashil-the Voice of Taimez and Kaus Teilantirv-her former lover. After the Tenshi destroyed the group's pepelats, trapping them in the city, she went straight after them, with Kaus escaping temporarily. Saego summoned an earthquake and a storm of corrosive rain and controlled lightning to try and strike her enemies down, but in the last minute the god Vavvarav intervened on Kaus' behest, allowing for the enemy to teleport away from a nearby building where the cleric had hidden. Despite this, she chased the group down, and managed to kill Lahi before they escaped, Kaus' soul being destroyed by this powerful invocation of the divine.

About a month later, she led an assault by Seiraban Temple troops,on the fortress on Burningland island in order to reclaim the Eye of Rhea held there, from the Doubters. Upon landing there and advancing into the island, she discovered that the Doubters had instead fortified themselves in the ancient , abandoned Maerorian colony city of Frostspire. There her army discovered that Adaleth Makela , Luther Redgaze and Evan Derwent near the fortified location, all of which claimed to want to treat with her. Saego allowed it, only for Adaleth to immediately confront her, which Saego disregarded. After implying that her intentions towards humanity were good, she let the group go, but not before Evan attempted to gain her favor by saying he would want to find out more about her goals. She instructed him to in some way hinder her enemies, before she told him the truth. After the group left, Saego realized this was all a trap, as several pepelatses left the ruins. She boarded the HAC Altissima and tried to shoot them down to little avail. The Doubters' Preliator and Armis units confronted her and she was forced to escape via the Altissima's teleportation function, it having sustained too much damage in the battle with the Preliator and Armis.