Bytra (Korgh)

**Bytra** is a Goblin-Raiju Returner Abomination hybrid, **Korgh**'s clone, and one of the Master's Chosen. Korgh was the original Bytra, Ripha Menadion's former apprentice and the 4th Ruler of the Flames. Korgh was also the inventor of modern runes and had taught the Guardians how to unlock the true potential of Davross. She became an Abomination after her passion to find Menadion's legacy and surpass Menadion turned into an obsession.

The original Bytra renamed herself Korgh when she became an Abomination but was killed by her goblin clone after Xenagrosh deemed Korgh unfit for the Master's cause due to her lust for power. Bytra becomes an upcoming star in the Master's Organization due to her Forgemastering skills and develops a close relationship with Xenagrosh, eventually marrying her.

## Appearance

### Abomination Form

Korgh (original)'s Abomination body was humanoid and covered by small black scales. She had small horns on her hair and head, the only remnant of her old Raiju appearance.

### Raiju Form

Bytra (clone) has black scales covering her horse body, with large branching horns over their head, long whiskers, a thick blood red mane, and a long, scaled draconic tail. She has the yellow eyes of Abominations instead of the former red.

### Incomplete Hybrid Form

Bytra's (clone) appearance is that of a humanoid creature, about 5'3" (1.6 meters) tall, with thin limbs and a head too big for her body. Half her skin is yellow so pale it's almost translucent, the other half is a pitch black gelatinous substance that seems to constantly move and change its shape like it's a flowing liquid. One second it resembles the slimy skin of a toad, the next it's full of hair like that of a beast's.

### Humanoid Form

Her humanoid form resembles that of a woman covered in small black scales, with horns on her head and long blood-red hair dancing in the air as if she is amid a storm.

### Human Form

As a perfect hybrid, Bytra's Raiju and human forms are almost identical to their original appearances. She looks like a lovely woman in her mid 20's about 1.75 meters (5'9") tall, with golden eyes and silver hair. She has a pixie cut that emphasizes her oval-shaped face and delicate features. She keeps her hair short because she is both a Forgemaster and a blacksmith.

## Abilities

Bytra (clone) is a skilled dimensional mage and extremely skilled at manipulating light, able to make herself invisible even to Awakened ones. However, her condition as a monster-Abomination hybrid prevents her from using Invigoration, Accumulation and Life Vision.

After updating her Forgemastering techniques to a modern level, Bytra becomes the only individual alive able to recreate an outdated artifact with modern techniques. Her Forgemastering technique **Spirit Anvil** earned her the Ruler of the Flames title where she performs the Binding of the mana crystals, the Runesmithing, and the Forgemastering at the same time. It allows her to freely manipulate all the single parts of the enchantments, from the pseudo cores' shape and size to the mana circulatory system's pattern. Unlike normal Forgemasters, she bends the metal to her will, so that the materials she use fit her spells and not the other way around. This guarantees her creations to always be perfect and to reach their full potential as she devises them. She is able to empower it further using Menadion's Fury.

## Background

### Menadion's Apprentice

When Bytra evolved into a Raiju, she learned the Forgemastering arts of the Raiju bloodline before testing herself against the first Ruler of the Flames Ripha Menadion. She lost in experience and skill, but their mutual admiration for each other's creations led Menadion to offer an apprenticeship. Over time, Bytra became the 4th Ruler of the Flames, but grew envious of her inability to make creations surpassing Menadion's due to the latter's empowerment by her mage tower.

Even though Bytra's breakthroughs with Runesmithing had allowed the Forgemasters around Mogar to bring their crafts to the next level, it still was not enough to quench her ambition. She felt sick and tired of being second best, to the point of belittling her own achievements. In her mind, she had just improved something Menadion had created instead of inventing a new Forgemastering technique. Moreover, Menadion's friendliness misled Bytra to think her master didn't see her as a rival. After many failed attempts to create her own tower, Bytra stormed the tower and killed Menadion's apprentices as well as her successor/daughter Solus before wounding Menadion and stealing Menadion's Fury.

Bytra fled and practiced Accumulation non-stop to achieve a purple core to fight Menadion on equal footing. The two Ruler of the Flames battled for days until Menadion's injured life force due to her attempt to save her apprentices and lack of focus and vigor allowed Bytra to take the upper hand. Afterwards, however, the battle caused her mana core to crack from the strain, turning her into an Abomination, and thus Korgh was born.

The Eldritch renounced her title of Ruler of the Flames and her pride as an artisan, preferring to steal the creations of others instead of facing her limits.

### Master's Organization

As a result of The Master's experiment, Korgh's clone is bonded with goblins in the Laroxya Duchy crystal mines. She has easy time manipulating them at first and then overpowering their feeble minds once she grows stronger. Assaulting the crystal mine gives her plenty of time and energy to refine a body similar to the original Eldritch she had been spawned from. The clone is one of the few hybrids still alive on the Garlen continent, with most others having been killed by humans or Emperor Beasts before reaching maturity, or assimilated by their originals. Unlike the other hybrids, she didn't give chase to her original due to her vessel's weakness, instead feeding on the mana crystals and biding her time while building her strength and regaining her knowledge. She encounters Lith, Morok and the academic expedition party, wounding many of the researches and destroying Gatekeeper with her Abomination blood in the brief skirmish before retreating.

Korgh's battle with the two Rangers results in her goblin half being severely injured and near death, causing her evolution to a bona-fide monster-Abomination hybrid progress at an astounding rate. The goblin tissues repair her Abomination side while the Chaos energy strengthens her damaged flesh. Both merge, allowing Korgh's body to essentially revert back to normal. She reassumes her former name Bytra.

Korgh (original) tracks Bytra (clone) down and nearly loses to Bytra's Reversal array until Xenagrosh intervenes. However, after Korgh (original) expresses a lust for power and disregards her origins as a Forgemaster and Raiju, Xenagrosh allows Bytra (clone) to consume her original self before taking her to the Master.

Bytra moves into the Master's headquarters in Lamarth. She slowly begins recalling her memories and skills as a Forgemaster, earning the title Master Forgemaster. She crafts her first Orichalcum weapon for Xenagrosh and discloses the secret use of Origin Flames for Forgemastering. The Master takes her in as a daughter, providing her with all the materials and books she can dream of and even predicting the risks of blood madness, treating her the moment the first symptoms appear. She becomes the Organization's rising star, with many members currying favor with her to get equipment. She updates her Forgemastering techniques to a modern level and reaches an unparalleled level of skill, leading the Awakened Council to become tempted to offer Abominations a seat.

Bytra crafts the Master the Dominator Armor in her foundry located on the mouth of a volcano, the only natural source of heat strong enough to smelt enchanted metals. She and Xenagrosh undertake Operation Hostile Takeover to rob the local branch of the Dusk Court in the Gorgon Empire and seize control of their black market and smuggling routes. Bytra has a flashback to Master Menadion, a tower with a staircase drenched in blood, and wielding Menadion's Fury, nearly entering a blood madness fit.

They meet up with their contact Wren Nian, the deputy head of the Red Gorgon cartel, in an arrangement for the Master's Organization to take the Dusk Court's place while making Wren the new boss. Xenagrosh and Bytra crash the Dusk Court meeting. After a show of might, Xenagrosh offers the undead a choice - fight and kill Bytra to survive, or die. She does this in order to force Bytra to grow and evolve. Bytra struggles at first but eventually gives in to her blood madness and kills scores of undead.

The blood madness triggers memories of her life as an Emperor Beast and Menadion's apprentice. Bytra overcomes the madness by coming to terms with her past mistakes, determined to make the most of her second chance at life with the people who depend on her. She wields Menadion's Fury and destroys the undead.

When Xenagrosh faces Dusk and Dawn during an attack on a Dusk Court branch, Bytra backs her up and chants the Song of Undoing, summoning Tezka and the other hybrid-Eldritches and forcing the Horsemen to flee with the help of the third Horseman Night.

When Night attacks Lith's home and the Village of Lutia, Bytra accompanies the other 6 Chosen to attack Night in order to protect Zinya and her family along with the village, as well as get revenge for Vastor's brush with death at the hands of the Horseman's undead. Bytra constructs a barrier around Lutia to protect the village from the effects of her companions' fury. They wound Night, forcing Baba Yaga to intervene to save her daughter. At the Chosen's insistence, the Blood Mother punishes Night by removing part of her daughter's free will and destroying her host to let her suffer their pain.

The Master scolds the Chosen for their reckless act of facing Baba Yaga without proper equipment or having not yet stabilized their new forms. He thanks them all for their teachings and calls them his children before undergoing the process to become the first artificial human-Abomination hybrid and first Awakened Abomination.

Xenagrosh visits the Verhen family home for Lith's 19th birthday and introduces Bytra as her girlfriend. Bytra exchanges pointers with the other Forgemasters at the party, including Salaark, members of the Nest, and Solus. Bytra doesn't recognize Solus in her humanoid form, though her voice gives Bytra a headache which she suppresses.

With the death of Vareen the Plaguespreader during the Urgamakka Council trial, the Master obtains his legacy. Xenagrosh splits it between the hybrids to make sure that each one of them deepens their understanding of their respective fields. Bytra studies the Plaguespreader's work to find a way to employ Mirror Magic the way Aylen the Lich had, increasing her chances of victory in the case she has to fight a white cored Awakened if not even a Guardian. She pairs up with Nandi to get closer to the secret of tower crafting.

After the Balkor copycat's attack on Lutia, Zinya proposes to Vastor. The hybrids spectating through Tezka's Spirit Tail celebrate when Vastor accepts and begin planning how to participate in the wedding.

## Quotes

* *"Please, let me go. Original or clone, I don't care. I just want to live. I promise that if you spare my life, you'll never hear again from me...I'm tired of hiding and fighting. I want to use my hammer and Forgemaster again. I don't want to be defined by my hunger anymore."* (Bytra to her original Korgh, Chapter 653)
* *"Beg all you want, your destiny is sealed. There's only room for one Korgh on the entire Mogar...Who needs a herd when you can have power? What use can have wasting time to Forgemaster artifacts when I can simply take them from the hands of my fallen enemies? As for my title, do not worry. I will cleanse Mogar in a Forge of Chaos!"* (Korgh to her clone Bytra, Chapter 653)
* *"The Master took us into their home as daughters and risk their life every day to follow the whims of those stupid Royals. The Master even neglects their research to travel through the Great Countries and make sure the Organization has everything it needs."* (Bytra to Xenagrosh, Chapter 945)
* *"There's no time for weakness. Menadion is dead and so is everyone else I knew. All the apologies in the world will not turn back time. The original Bytra was a genius as much as she was a monster, but now it's up to me to carry her burden. I have people who depend on me and a second chance at life. This time, I will not let everyone down."* (Chapter 953)

## Relationships

* **The Master**: Bytra holds unconditional love for the Master, considering them her father for taking her in and
* **Xenagrosh**: Bytra loves Xenagrosh unconditionally the same as the Master, considering her her one and only true friend. Bytra is the only one other than the Master that can call Xenagrosh by her real name, Zoreth.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 735: Prodigal Daughter (Part 1)
2. ↑ Chapter 746: Fallen Cores (Part 2)
3. ↑ Chapter 745: Fallen Cores (Part 1)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 653: Fall of the Mighty (Part 1)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 951: The Apprentice Surpasses the Master (Part 1)
6. ↑ Chapter 629: Sudden Death (Part 1)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Chapter 952: The Apprentice Surpasses the Master (Part 2)
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 946: Hostile Takeover (Part 2)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 652: A Threat from the Past (Part 2)
10. ↑ Chapter 736: Prodigal Daughter (Part 2)
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter 902: Predator Versus Predator (Part 2)
12. ↑ Chapter 945: Hostile Takeover (Part 1)
13. ↑ Chapter 1573: Growing Power (Part 1)
14. ↑ Chapter 630: Sudden Death (Part 2)
15. ↑ Chapter 948: Dreams and Nightmares (Part 2)
16. ↑ Chapter 953: Raiders of the Lost Academy (Part 1)
17. ↑ Chapter 1090: Darkness versus Chaos (Part 4)
18. ↑ Note: Nandi does not join the Organization until Chapter 1113
19. ↑ Chapter 1111: Blood for Blood (Part 1)
20. ↑ Chapter 1112: Blood for Blood (Part 2)
21. ↑ Chapter 1114: A Mage Among Gods (Part 2)
22. ↑ Chapter 1443: Master Plans (Part 1)
23. ↑ Chapter 1572: Breach of Trust (Part 2)
24. ↑ Chapter 1589: Give and Take (Part 1)
25. ↑ Legion on Discord