The Chaos Weaver

## Description

*The demon's body is strangely humanoid, although still very bizarre, made of a variety of muscle held together by rotting tendons as cracked bones jut out through the ruined flesh. Its head is veiled in shadow and yet bears some slight elven features with long pointed ears.*

## Summary

The party first encountered the Chaos Weaver during Sigmund's ritual, with the ritual complete the demon had been successfully summoned and had exerted its influence on Sigmund and his guards. Thankfully, the party managed to arrive just in time to stop this, removing its hold over them and launching a combined assault against the now freed demon. The demon showed a certain familiarity with Reyna as it focused solely on her. As the balance of power began to shift in the party's favour however, the demon attempted to teleport away, catching the escaping wizard, Kraft.

The party still in hot pursuit, managed to catch up to the wizard who had, unbeknownst to them, been possessed by it. In an effort to mislead them, Kraft told them that the demon had headed deeper into the tunnel. Reyna however, wanted to take the wizard's spellbook for herself and stabbed him, inadvertently falling into the demon's trap. As the demon, once more exerted its influence on her and knocked her out before finally disappearing.

Reyna would later learn the true extent of her relationship with the demon, as while on the brink of death, the demon revealed that she was in fact its daughter. A statement which Reyna doubted, however, the demon made sure to explain the gravity of her situation, explaining that it had stolen her soul and she had only a year to live before her body rotted away. Should she wish to regain her soul, she would need to reclaim various artifacts scattered around the world and use them to free it from its prison. It emphasized that in reality it mattered little if Reyna accepted or not, because regardless, it had other servants that would succeed in her stead. After this experience, Reyna is marked with what seem to be small scratch marks on the back of her neck and has pale white skin that is cold to touch.

In the aftermath of the battle in the village of Ardem, the party investigated the beastmen bodies, realising that they all possessed various claw marks that were identical to Reyna's as well as a tattoo depicting a coiled snake consuming itself. The following night, as she was keeping watch, Reyna would also be assaulted by a horrifying vision of a gathering force of beastmen in the forest, seemingly under the thrall of an ashen-skinned hag. She watched, as the hag conducted a dark ritual that once more summoned the demon that granted various boons to its followers, as the hag exclaimed to all the chosen, those present and those granted vision by the chaos weaver, that the promised end had arrived.

The Chaos Weaver would later approach the party under the guise of a resurrected Vincent Krom, the demon would offer the party their leave unmolested as well as a favour should they choose to stop meddling with his plans and leave Lauronne. The party rejected the offer, and were later ambushed by a group of beastmen in retaliation for this.