Hekate

Iris and Veron (Adoptive Children)

Cicero (Brother)

Enyo, Deimos, and Kronus (Adoptive Siblings, NPCs)

Synnove, Priscilla, and Caelan (Granddaughters)

### Theme Song

"Half God Half Devil" - In This Moment"Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts" - Dragon Age: Inquisition (Instrumental)

### Voice

Indira Varma (Grand Enchanter Vivienne, 'Dragon Age: Inquisition')

## Application Sheet

Hekate was the Herald and Mistress of Vektren upon its creation in the Domain, for several years. Red-furred and golden-eyed, Hekate guided her pack through trials, contracts, and a full war with Aryn. She mothered many pups with her two consorts, the first being Andras, the second being Janus. Her children include the following: Vergil, Dante, Damien, Phaeton, Thanatos, Orpheus, Persephone, Ravka, Epione, Helh, and Hestia. She also adopted two pups: Iris and Veron. In the end, however, one of her own children would kill her - Dante, or, Hellion, defending his beloved Elisabet, killed her and ended the red she-devil's time as leader of Vektren. She was created and RP'd by Halkuonn.

## Personality

* ***Powerful, Devious, and Manipulative.*** Hekate's most powerful asset is having body and mind work in unison. She was shaped to be versatile, inventive, and learned to carefully scheme plans to achieve goals as she intends. Intensively trained into the arts of assassination - which she honeyed throughout the years alone and leading Vektren - she's not an enemy to be trifled with. Quick-witted, outsmarting her isn't easy task, specially with a network of spies working under her. Famous for converting strangers into followers, wolves quickly see themselves bound to her will and turned into trustworthy assets - granting her even further power she couldn't have alone. Hekate enjoys turning the tides to her side and is quite successful when it comes to enter into others minds, be it enemies or peers.
* ***Unpredictable, Vengeful, and Obsessed.*** As much Hekate tends to keep to her good spirits, she's prone to be very moody. Pushing her limits often results to be gifted with a merciless and relentless wolf. Hekate is never going to forget nor forgive a perceived injury, and is sure to pay them ten times worse. What exactly may trigger this is, however, sometimes difficult to foresee. If by any chance her plans are disrupted or her authority is challenged, even if unknowingly, she's likely to react... violently. Persistence turns fixation in unhealthy levels, absolute resolution - and she'll bring and be led to hell willingly while seeking repayment.
* ***Prideful, Assertive, and Zealous.*** Hekate has an excessive pride of her own achievements, and won't deny it. Filled with a great deal of self confidence, she's quick to impose herself and oozes dominance even in her own feminine and charming way. Known for being menacing without possessing any bulk nor displaying clear aggression, her wicked grace goes beyond mere games and is a common tool into keeping others wrapped in her web of schemes. Greatly driven by the divine connection she believes to possess, every bargain, strike or deal is made under the name of Senisteros and Xibalten - as she is Their Herald, and she won't take scraps as offered reward for her services and efforts. She shall not tread away from the path of the Gods, she shall not allow others to interfere on the path of the Gods, and she shall end anyone who crosses her or Them.
* ***Charismatic and Devoted.*** Sarcastic and good humored, Hekate enjoys sass and an intelligent jester, always carrying a smart comment or two in the tip of her tongue (sometimes even when the situation isn't suitable). As side effect, being an equal - in her terms - is the quickest way to earn Hekate's affections and fall on her good graces. Maternal and solicitous with those she cherishes, even overprotective of them, she's easily companionable and quick to earn others hearts given the proper reason; all Vektreni receive this caring and are treated like kin, shall they prove worthy of it. She'll walk great distances to provide for those in high-esteem.

## Pre-Group History

Hekate was born far away from the Domain, sired by two powerful assassins to the obscure cult of Vektren. The pack followed its ancient ways of assassins and thieves, focused into please demanding yet protective Gods. Being such a dangerous bunch, it was no wonder they'd attract negative attention. The local packs wanted Vektren ended for good, and joined forces scheming a plot that eventually cursed the cult with rabies. Hekate's mother was one of those, and after going into a blind rage, killed most of her pups and mate in the process. She was saved by Zathrian, the Alpha, who took her survival as a blessing from the Gods, and hid her away with two outside servants before succumbing to the illness himself.

Raised under Vektren's customs and believing she was chosen to rebuild their renowned brotherhood, Hekate became ambitious and power-hungry, suffering for a certain form of mental degeneration as result of the traumatic events on such early life - possibly added to being bred and nursed by rabid females - she received what she believed as 'prophecies' from her Gods, distorted dreams with ill demands. Set on a path of death and deception, she made a name for herself and got known as *Red She-Devil* across the lands, an assassin, schemer and silver-tongued mercenary of excellence. Building both reputation and power in the way, she remained true to the ways of Vektren and gathered quite an amount of followers to her cult, until she was finally able to make her duty true - founded a reborn Vektren in the Domain, where she rules the elite of the most dubious wolves in the lands.

## Group History

Hekate's history is the history of Vektren itself. Before the pack was even rebuilt, Hekate quickly found a companion (and kindred spirit) in Stallion, formerly of Blutwald. Hekate's first big contract in the Domain was the murder of Grevus - which would tie Adrian to the Red Witch forever. Hekate, pleased with the successful contract, was able to gather more followers and establish Vektren in the Domain.

She was a silver-tongued creature, charming young loner pup Veron before his caretaker, Rhaegan, ushered the young male away. It would be several months later that Veron approached Hekate again, asking to join her pack. Hekate agreed. The rest of the founding members of her northern sect of Vektren joined around the same time: apart from Stallion and Veron, the pack was joined by Skins, Agatha, Andras, Cassidy, Ruebane, and Zenith.

Hekate was a proud Mistress of the pack, pleased that her wolves were sneaky and cunning. She praised her packmates for stealing prey from loners and pack wolves alike, and she herself exercised her own feminine wiles to manipulate wolves she came across, such as Rutnik, when she crossed the borders of Fellfang. He almost fell into her web, but managed to get control of himself and told her to leave, or he would make her. She was immensely amused when she first met Oleander, stuck in a bush!

A new deal would come to pass - one which connected Vektren to King Renier. Renier wanted to take over the pack of Vale, to satiate his lust for power and control, and offered Vale's resources to Vektren, should they succeed. Hekate was interested in taking the deal, and she gathered some of her most trusted packmates to join her. She placed Zenith in charge of day-to-day activities at the Nest while she was away.

Renier brought his brother Rhaegan to a meeting with Hekate, Veron, Andras, Stallion, and Lykos, to discuss the details of their plan. Hekate liked the idea proposed by Veron, to take a hostage to lure Faust away from his pack, and they set Andras to the mission. He would take Nyru, one of Faust's closest packmates, as bait.

While Renier led the Vektreni into Vale, they were attacked by a passing border patrol, composed of Loki, Quinn, and Starke. Hekate rallied her warriors to battle, easily defeating the outnumbered Valerians - not killing them, per Renier's contract, only roughing them up and sweeping on to continue their mission.

In the midst of the battle, Rhaegan fought Stallion, to avenge his father Ivan and grandfather Roman. Hekate interrupted the battle and helped Stallion to return home. She later spoke to Rhaegan, gloating that, now that he'd been able to fight Stallion, and win, he now felt purposeless in life.

Renier was successful in taking the pack of Vale. In exchange for Vektren's services, Hekate was granted the right to let her wolves hunt in Vale's prey-rich lands. *Now* she could deal with Stallion. She berated him for failing to follow the rules of his contract, for failing to be the right-hand wolf she needed him to be, and stooped to calling him the king of a fallen empire. Stallion lashed out, claiming *he* was responsible for Vektren's numbers, citing Skins and Agatha as well as the skills and control of their packmates Daithi and Sionn. Eventually, their argument came to a screeching halt when he admitted that the reason he vanished for a few days after the battle was because he was bringing Raven to Vektren - he wanted to marry her. This gave Hekate pause, and she announced, smoothly, that she would conduct the ceremony, thinking she may have gone too far with what she accused him of...spoiling what little happiness the male had found in his life. For now, she would forgive his actions, as much as she frowned upon them.

After the successful contract with Renier, Hekate decided that her pack needed heirs. She approached Andras and proposed her offer to him, acknowledging that he would have the perks of being their sire, but would not be required to involve himself in their upbringing. He took her up on the offer. Before long, Hekate was pregnant.

Still, just because she was pregnant didn't mean she didn't work for the protection of her pack. A mountain lion took up residence in the Thriving Wilds - Vektren's main hunting ground - and she intended to lead a group of wolves to remove it - Stallion, Zenith, Daithi, Sionn, and Andras. However, Andras proposed that Hekate remain behind, given her condition, and she agreed, sending them out under Stallion's leadership. The group was successful in removing the mountain lion.

Hekate sought isolation as her pregnancy continued, feeling great pressure on her body. Andras tracked her down and tried to talk to her, but the resulting argument put enough stress on her that she went into labor. Thus, the three princes of Vektren were born: Dante, Damien, and Vergil. Shortly after, she adopted a young she-wolf she found, named Iris.

Shortly thereafter, her family grew again, with the return of her long-lost brother, Cicero. She was doubtful, but allowed him to return to the pack to prove himself. She also caught Ruffian crossing the border, and threatened to kill him, before he talked his way into attempting to earn a place in the cult.

Hekate was approached by an old familiar face one day - a wolf named Adrian, who she'd known as Corvo. He came to give her a warning, that her brother and a Vektreni newcomer, Janus, were being tracked, and Vektren was in danger. She decided to put her wolves on a curfew, pulling them away from Vale...and leaving the opportunity for Adrian's "ally", Alar, to sweep in and take control of the pack. But she didn't know this.

The pack grew. Hekate brought in Octavia and Seraph, as well as the previously-mentioned Janus and Rabbit. She felt a lot more suspicious of outsiders and even some of her own packmates when Stallion vanished, but that led to her packmates trying desperately to earn her favor in his absence, such as Agatha.

Cicero caught one of their packmates, Jerikoh, breaking curfew, and turned him over to Hekate. She demanded to know what he was doing, but when she learned that he wanted to risk his life as a loner, *and* with Vektren hunting him down, because he was promised an education he never received. Hekate was impressed by his honesty, and realized that she could probably make use of him, and decided to give him a chance of reeducation.

Hekate named Seraph as her Lady Nightmare, the highest ranking of her Shades - part of her council. She felt in control of her pack again. And then her son Dante vanished. She didn't know what to do, or where he'd gone. She wanted to leave Vektren, to search for him, but she was their leader. With a heavy heart, she resigned herself to leaving Dante to his fate.

An earthquake rocked the Domain. A massive flood swept towards the territory, and Hekate rushed to Ruffian, to ask him to secure the two serfs in the education pits: Octavia and Jerikoh. They worked together to save the serfs.

In the flood, her packmate Aniu lost a child, and Hekate related all too clearly to this grief. It got worse, when Janus reported the 'death' of her daughter Iris, in a rockslide. The grief was eased, somewhat, when she was searching her flooded territory for survivors and found that Dante was there, escorted to her safety by Alar, who wanted the help of Vektren in Vale's affairs yet again - to put down a rebellion.

Hekate agreed, and she and Klaus went to the aid of Alar's Black Watch. But they were clearly outnumbered. Hekate appeared to be going to fight Finarel, and Rhaegan attacked the Red Witch, stopping her. The pair fought viciously, until Rhaegan saw Finarel was in danger from *Shenandoah*, and he fled from her to help Ella. As Finarel fled the battle, Hekate attacked Rhaegan again.

Then, Faust led fresh fighters into the fray, and Hekate decided enough was enough. She called for Klaus, and the pair fled back to Vektren, both embittered that they'd lost their chance at having better hunting grounds in Vale.

Still, Vektren could survive the loss. Hekate lifted the curfew on her pack in the aftermath of the flood, and she herself explored the wilds beyond the territory on occassion. She met, and was enthralled by, a seductive male wolf named Silvanus; the two would meet on several more occassions, with Hekate trying to convince him to join the pack. Silvanus was intrigued, but because he was the "second" personality, he wasn't yet able to exercise complete control of Silvanus's body...and Silvanus was tethered to Vale, to his family, for now. Another wolf she met outside Vektren was Alar, with Shenandoah traveling with him. She allowed them to stay in the territory, where they would be safe from Vale.

Hekate approached Janus with a proposition. She asked the Lord Cobra, who had quickly become one of her most loyal wolves, if he would father a litter with her. Janus was all too happy to agree, much like Andras in the past, and Hekate brought four wolves into Vektren: Persephone, Ravka, Epione, and Thanatos. Perfect. More good news: Iris was back! She didn't remember anything, but she felt glad to be home (or, what she was told was home).

Hekate tried to convince Shenandoah to join Vektren - she had been allies with her father, Renier, and felt somewhat responsible for Shen, feeling deep in the pit of her stomach that Renier would not have approved of his daughter traveling with Alar. Still, Shenandoah was blindly loyal to Alar, and remained near the territory, but not joining Vektren.

Janus asked the Mistress to reshape him with clearer faith in the gods, and she was glad to throw him to the pits and fulfil this request. With Janus busy, she spent more time meeting with Silvanus...and these meetings didn't go unnoticed by his family, particularly his daughter, Zinnia. This didn't impact Hekate, beyond being a trigger for Alt!Silvanus to take control of the ex-Havirian's body after his family brought the matter up with him. Silvanus would join the pack later.

One of the Vektreni escaped from the pack - Alizarin - injuring Seraph in the process, and Hekate was outraged. Epione and Thorn went searching for Alizarin, and stumbled across Hekate, fresh from an encounter with Silvanus. She quickly turned them away to their duties, to keep her business top-secret.

Hekate let Iris go, when she told her mother she couldn't stay in Vektren.

Then, Hekate discovered *treachery* within the pack yet again. One of the newest members, Solitaire, had engaged in a relationship with an outsider and was pregnant. Hekate's son Dante - known more widely as Hellion by this point - offered to take Solitaire's pups and raise them as his own, and Solitaire could be punished as necessary. Hekate agreed to this. Dante took the pups, Damon and Demogorgon, into his dare. It was shortly after this that Silvanus joined the pack.

Hekate decided that she wanted to get rid of Alar. She would take care of Shenandoah, but Alar was taking advantage of Vektren, taking their prey and goodwill for too long, living far too close to the borders for her liking. Hekate went to him one night, intending to kill him, when Alar revealed his secret: Adrian had *lied* to Hekate, to leave Vale undefended by the Vektreni so he could take over. *Adrian was responsible for the loss of Vale.*

Hekate was outraged. She summoned the pack to reveal this news, for it could not go unpunished. They would get *revenge* on Adrian and his family. She sent Seraph, Heel, and Jerikoh into Aryn, to kidnap his daughter, Merrill, and bring her back to Vektren.

Now Hekate could begin reshaping the young she-wolf. She tried sending wolves into the Pits to take the "compassionate" route - Klaus, Seraph, Hellion, and even Epione tried to reshape Merrill, but she was stubborn and unyielding. Finally, Hekate herself approached, and vowed to break her. She was thrown into the same pit as Janus - *he* would work wonders on her.

Janus returned to the surface, reshaped into a pious Vektreni, and he and Hekate had a second litter of pups (more of a surprise than last time's intended litter). She named the pups Helh, Hestia, Orpheus, and Phaeton. Hekate adored her albino daughter, Helh, who was considered a blessing by the gods. When Janus's eccentricities frightened Helh, Hekate was quick to protect her daughter, warning Janus not to mold their children through *fear.*

As she tried to find Aryn's weaknesses, Hekate discovered one of the alpha, Athena's, brothers. Hedge hated Aryn, and told Hekate to destroy the pack *before* destroying Athena herself. Hekate admired the lengths he was willing to go to get revenge on Athena for exiling him. He told Hekate he would get inside information for her, he had an informant. Merrill successfully was broken, too, so Hekate could put her *real* plan into action. She began to train Merrill.

Hekate led her packmates to kidnap more Arynians, this time leading Janus, Nimh (who was named Warchief after Heel disappeared), and Morrigan into a battle with a patrol. They took Nero, Tzuriel, and Raghaalr, and Hekate intended to kill Dyana, as a message for Aryn, when Hedge interfered, warning her that she was his informant. Hekate threatened him for the capital crime of interrupting a blood sacrifice (for she intended to take the heart of Dyana for the gods), and warned Hedge not to interfere further, after assenting to let Dyana live. She warned Hedge that, if their paths crossed again, he would not be spared.

Her pack had the upper hand in the war, Hekate felt, until Vektren was stricken by plagues. Hekate herself was made severely ill by the first plague of sulfur poisoning. Miron was searching for some signal, some sign from Lady Luck that the pack was not abandoned, when he stumbled upon a place he believed to be sacred: Stallion's Gateway. He brought the news to Hekate, who was uplifted by the news. She promoted him to the Lord Divine - the spiritual lead of the pack (after her, of course).

As she recovered, and a second plague impacted the pack, Hekate approached her son Hellion and admitted her fears to him. Hellion tried to reassure her that the gods had not forsaken them. Hekate was approached by her Warchief Nimh after her recovery, who had a proposition to bring hope to the pack: new blood. Hekate granted permission for Nimh to do so.

Hekate was stricken by paranoia when the sun disappeared, but she didn't completely lose her cool the way others did. Once the sun returned, and the sickness eased, Hekate summoned the pack and announced that the gods had not forsaken them...and then she left for a short time. She was planning her greatest scheme of all.

Upon her return, Hekate gathered her key Vektreni: Hellion, Janus, and Nimh. They were going to assassinate Lady Athena and Lord Alcatraz, and they were going to use Merrill to do it. Merrill, who had been released into Aryn's care after Hekate had completed her 'training', was trusted by Raphael (Athena's son) and the alphas. But she would be the ticket to getting the alphas alone. After all, the trick of a hostage had worked in Vale, why not here?

Hekate found Merrill and Raphael alone, and leapt out, attacking Raphael. When he was pinned, she told Merrill to get the alphas, and bring them alone, in order to save him. Merrill did as she was told, and rushed to fetch Athena and Alcatraz (and Adrian came with them). It was an ambush. Hekate unleashed her Vektreni assassins on the alphas, and she herself went to battle against Lady Athena.

The battle was vicious, but Hekate emerged victorious...though at a heavy cost. Her leg was severely injured in the battle, and she knew in her heart she would never be able to battle again. Still, she collected Athena's heart, and, leaning against Hellion, returned to the Nest.

At home, after their victory, Hekate fell into paranoia and delusions. Her leg wasn't healing properly. Hellion would go missing for long stretches of time. Janus came to her one day, and told her that Hellion was spending time with an outsider - a female named Elisabet.

*Hekate’s sanity plummets into the Void. Incapable of accepting her heir and favorite son’s treason, she turns her wrath inwards, blaming herself as a mother. Her immediate decision is to take Elisabet’s life, a direct sacrifice to the Gods, in hopes to deter Their wrath. She takes off to the Howling Peaks, Janus bringing Elisabet with them.*

*As Hekate dares to execute Liss, Hellion is overtaken by wrath, a battle frenzy led by his desperation to keep her safe. Blinded by rage, he ends up assaulting his crippled mother, and Hekate is impaled in the Shrine, her blood filling the Sacred Pool. Nimh and Janus are both too late to save Hekate.*

Hekate was dead, killed by her own son. She would continue to be held in the highest of regards by her packmates, who grieved her death terribly. Her Warchief, Nimh, interpreted possible signs from the gods, and took over as the Mistress in Hekate's stead. Vektren remains strong, as Hekate would have wanted.

## Trivia

* Hekate learned to hunt by observing cougars teaching their cubs, and changed her physical behavior to match those animals, granting her feline mannerisms.
* Hekate's fur is made for warmer places, and she often suffers with the cold weather.

## Quotes

* "Respect cannot be demanded, it is earned. And as far I’m concerned, all I did and built between us was upon respect. You never lost it. However, Enforcer, you did defile my trust with your decisions, as involuntary they have been, on our last job. This is my formal warning about it. You have opportunity to redeem for your actions, please use it wisely.” (to Stallion, *Downfall*)
* "Do not turn your back to an assassin, my dearest." (to Rhaegan, *The Battle for Vale*)
* “Hedge, before I even ask what you are doing here, let me have the spark of hope that you’ve not grown so geriatric to the point of forgetting it’s a *capital crime* among my people to interrupt an offering.” (to Hedge, *Serpents and Scapegoats*)

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