Demeter

Rhea (mother)

Demeter is a former druid of the Wild Wood. Shy, often socially awkward, but occasionally forthright and morally self-righteous, Demeter is skilled with a double-handed glaive and an adept at shapeshifting. She regularly takes the form of a panther, crow, and occasionally a mouse; it is unknown whether she is unable or unwilling take other forms. Demeter joined the party in Harasi after having wandered from place to place for over a year since her exile.

Approximately in her mid-twenties, Demeter is currently engaged to Prince Talebot Basorium and is a member of his organisation, the Benefactors.

Demeter was exiled after disgracing herself with the druids under unknown circumstances. However, it is known she was exiled after her mission to retrieve an important druidic artifact and return it to the Wild Wood. She is particularly private about her past, her family, and her home.

Unbeknownst to Demeter - or indeed her companions - is that she possesses a fragmented soul. This fragmented soul has previously manifested in high magical environments in a manner akin to a split personality disorder. It is likely that her unexpected transformation into a beastly creature atop Cloudhome was related to this condition.

In Hell Breaks Loose, Demeter used a mysterious wand to maintain the balance in the fight between the Crusader and the Diabolist to hold them at bay from the Golden Wyrm, inadvertently providing an opening for an erinyes to strike. This temporarily displaced the Wyrm and dissipated the magical barrier he was maintaining over The Abyss, allowing the Devil city of Karhorzat to escape. Unbeknownst to her companions, Demeter secured the erinyes' sword - which briefly transports the wielder and a struck victim to The Void - in order to ensure it did not fall into unsafe hands.

Later, in Perfect Match, after being gravely injured down by (presumably) Saint Troya, Dalsa discovered the sword in an invisible scabbard on Demeter's unconscious body. Concerned at what she had found, Dalsa - with the aid of Laurie - performed a ritual that transported the sword to an unknown location, but possibly related to The Echo. Demeter mistakenly believes that Saint Troya has stolen the erinyes' sword from her, and she was desperate to recover it before it was used with malicious intent. Later, Demeter recovered the erinyes' sword - funnily enough from Saint Troya, who found it in The Echo.

In Transgress the Natural Order, Demeter returned to her original home in the Wild Woods, learning that her parents had been stigmatised as a result of Demeter's exile. Her father, Cronus has become a recluse and alcoholic, whereas her mother, Rhea, had allegedly transformed into a dire beast - specifically, a dire lion. Later, Demeter briefly encountered her mother as a dire lion, but Rhea vanished shortly thereafter.

In that same episode, and despite her best efforts to save him, Demeter's ex-lover Aren plummeted to his death after an altercation with Demeter became violent.

In Iconoclasm, Demeter used the Fate Snarl on top of the spire of the fortress of First Triumph to strip Shalia Blackrain and Maximillian Frommler of their destiny and briefly become as if a god. Using her temporary divine powers, Demeter transported Shalia and Frommler to The Void; translocated Aster's soul (within a soul orb) to her hands and passed it off to Alina Heartsoul; lifted the geas on Rhith; removed any lingering ill-effects upon Thamra Lotho's brother, Fingo Lotho; and ensured that Emperor Arvan Basorium would not object to her marrying Prince Talebot.

Later, when Demeter learned that her mother, Rhea, had died in the fighting against demons at First Triumph, she was wracked with guilt from not using her brief divinity to exorcise those demons to save her life.

## Adventures

* Wasteland Empire
* Late Returns
* Political Debut
* Market Forces
* Soul Survivor
* Hell Breaks Loose
* A Birthday Party
* Realignments
* Providence
* Places Between
* Self-reflection
* A Window of Opportunity
* Comeback Tour
* Star-crossed
* Monster in the Well
* Masquerade
* Perfect Match
* The Tomb of Nazerick
* All Along the Watchtower
* The Joker and the Thief
* Transgress the Natural Order
* Trial of the Century
* Infernal Machinations
* Last Supper
* Gazing into the Abyss
* Iconoclasm
* The Harrowing
* If Only
* Citizen Science
* Scavenger Hunt