Devourer

## First Mentioned

Season One: Soul to Squeeze

**Devourers** are humans who covet the power of Nature as it manifests in chimera, and since humans do not have that power in and of themselves, they have to steal it from the chimera they capture. For the weaker chimera, they need to consume the flesh to acquire that chimera's skill. For the more powerful, consuming their blood will give them the power, with the added benefit they don't have to kill the captive and can 'milk' them for their power. Devourers use magic to use the acquired powers at a distance. Some devourers believe because humans are powerless in the face of Nature, the power they gather is rightfully theirs to take back. While using the stolen power, a violet glow can be seen in the eyes of the practitioner.

On occasion devourers will create ritualistic designs from blood on the face at the very least, and perhaps also the neck, chest and arms. The inspiration for these designs, which are not tattoos, are based on characters that appeared in the 2006 film, *Apocalypto*.

Soul parasites, when they can identify them, consider Devourers to be abominations and thieves. Devourers can, in turn, identify soul parasites, they just don't think enough of them to bother calling them names.

## The Daughters of Circe

The Daughters of Circe, as they call themselves, are a group of three women that have been successfully acquiring the powers of Nature by sacrificing captured chimera in rituals that are based on Neopaganism. The women's ages are indeterminate, but they have lived long past a normal human's lifespan from the power they have stolen. The three of them have been together since at least the 1920s, roughly a hundred years, and possibly longer even than that. That there are three of them is based on the concept of the Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone.

While it is never made clear when they became aware of Joe Gomez as a chimera, they pursue him using one of the Daughters as an agent in Walker's Point High School to keep tabs on Joe's development and eventual emergence. When Ellie investigates Joe's shapeshifting — done while protecting Phoebe from Corkindale's misguided attempt on her life — the Daughters determine Joe is definitely worth harvesting. Later, Ellie contrives to acquire a blood sample from Joe, and the witches use a ritual to scry him, revealing Joe to be the returning Ralabast, and the possibility of endless power excites them greatly.

### The Triple Goddess

The concept of the Triple Goddess is the worship of three extant facets or phases of a single being, in this case the female goddess of modern pagan traditions. The facets of the female goddess are represented as the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone, the Maiden being youth and enthusiasm, the Mother being fertility and fruitfulness, and the Crone being wisdom and experience. Despite stereotypes, the Maiden needs only be sexually inexperienced, the Mother needn't have given birth, and the Crone needn't be aged and decrepit. The facets of the Triple Goddess are also represented by phases of the moon. In modern traditions these are the waxing moon, the full moon, and the waning moon. The Daughters of Circe is a coven based on this belief system, and each member has a role.

### Victorian mansion

The women live in a Victorian mansion somewhere in the suburbs of Walker's Point. The house has an entry foyer with staircase leading to the second floor, where presumably the women sleep when they do, and a door beneath the staircase with another staircase leading down to the basement behind it. The first floor contains a full kitchen where they cook up their 'groceries' and a large living room. The living room has two rows of hospital cots butted up against the walls, with a brazier for smaller spells and scrying set up in the central aisle formed by the arrangement of cots. In the basement is the abattoir where they butcher and store the chimera they capture, as well as a larger room with a magic circle drawn in chalk that they use for casting spells. Cages and chains for restraining prisoners are placed strategically around the room and across the ceiling.

### Eleanor Karnas

The youngest of the women is Eleanor 'Ellie' Karnas. Her appearance is such that she can pose as a high school student, which she does to keep an eye on Joe. Ellie quite often can be seen nearby wherever Joe might be while in school, especially when he's doing something 'interesting'. She has been with the coven for more than a hundred years.

She has blond hair and is the shortest of the three women.

Eleanor is the Maiden.

### Diana

Diana appears to be middle-aged and has the most forceful personality of the women. She has a distinctive beauty mark beside her nose below her left eye.

She has chestnut hair and is of middle height among the women.

Diana is the Mother.

### Cersei

Cersei is easily identified as she is the only one to wear glasses, and she has self-identified as the oldest of the group of women. While perhaps the least outspoken, she may well be the cruelest of the three. She disguises herself by creating a glamour of age, making herself appear to be significantly older than she is.

She has medium brown hair and is the tallest of the three women. She bears a distinctive pair of beauty marks on her right cheek. She appears to be left-handed.

Cersei is the Crone.

## CRAVEN

One of the weapons CRAVEN develops in its persecution of chimera-kind is a Devourer named Sark. Hadrian, the head of CRAVEN, supplies Sark with all he needs to pursue his task, and is his commander.

### Sark

Sark uses the resources of CRAVEN to assemble a system to extract the power of Nature from captured chimera and imbue himself with that power. One captured chimera in particular, known as the Jackal, is used to supply most of the research and power for the project. When he finally faces Ralabast, Sark is nearly successful, but ultimately fails in the face of the power of the oldest and strongest chimera to ever exist.

## References

1. ↑ Bloodsport **Justin\_Jordan** Feb 28, 2020 *in a reply to* **MrMastrmonstr** Feb 8, 2020
2. ↑ The Catalyst **John\_Amor** Sep 21, 2019 *in a reply to* **Dadodoizded** Sep 21, 2019
3. ↑ Blue and Yellow
4. ↑ Blue and Yellow **GamerDude** Nov 23, 2019 *confirmed by* **Justin\_Jordan** Dec 13, 2019
5. ↑ *Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)* "Wikipedia"
6. ↑ *The Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother and Crone* **Learn Religions** Patti Wigington 01-28-2022
7. ↑ Blood In, Blood Out
8. ↑ Blue and Yellow
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Ava Adore
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Soul to Squeeze **John Amor** Mar 15, 2019
11. ↑ My Body is a Cage **John Amor** Nov 4, 2019 *in a reply to* **Dareka Nemo** Oct 6, 2019
12. ↑ Blue and Yellow **Justin\_Jordan** Dec 13, 2019 *in a reply to* **GamerDude** Nov 23, 2019