Halaesa

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**Halaesa,** also known as **Halasea** is a chaotic higher being and self-proclaimed Goddess of Destruction most known for orchestrating the Dark Incursion. She was defeated and banished to the nether at the end of the Dawn Era.

## Appearance and Personality

In all of her appearances in the overworld, Halaesa is presented as a black, humanoid creature wearing an equally black crown. The colours purple and magenta seem to be connected to the goddess, as her eyes brightly glow magenta, and all her clothing is covered in stripes of violet and dark purple. She wears a chest plate covering the top half of her torso, with a magenta orb situated in its centre.

Halaesa is arrogant, sadistic, wrathful and callous. She consistently belittles even her most loyal supporters for being 'mortals', and is easily offended by perceived opposition to her actions and demands. As the Goddess of destruction, she has a keen interest in destruction itself, and has attempted several times to completely destroy Sazius, as well as finding amusement in the wars of the overworld.

However, she is also incredibly impatient. as seen with both Dark Incursions, where she began them in spite of not being at full power, and took to the battle herself when her initial waves failed to defeat the Insula Viridi defences. After the events of the second incursion, where she lost a fragment of her soul to a mortal Vorceful, she detests the overworld and wants nothing to do with it, even going so far as to instruct her worshippers to stop summoning her.

## History

### Origins

The true origins of Halaesa can only be speculated, what is known however is that she has prevalence in several civilisations' mythologies across Sazius.

She is also tied to the nether, with it being her place of dominion and banishment as well as most beings connected to Halaesa originating from that realm.

#### Deorsum

Deorsan legends tell of a great Star God that devoured planets and fought against the Cascadian empire in a battle of cataclysmic proportions, leading to their shattering and power being sealed in several tombs

#### Ochre Horde

According to Piglin history, Halaesa had always had a presence in the nether under many different names. She was responsible for several Piglin massacres as well as creating wither skeletons, beings universally despised by Piglins, to continue perpetrating it.

### First appearance

During the late part of the Dawn Era, an explorer by the name of Jzcars had visions from Halaesa urging them to travel to a set of coordinates. Once he arrived, he found an unpowered nether portal in need of a sacrifice. Returning with several other adventurers, they, in their madness, sacrificed one amongst them to activate the altar, allowing for Halaesa to be summoned into Sazius. Demanding the submission of the explorers, she obliterated all who refused, and granted an essence of her power to Goose, one of her new worshippers. Halaesa instructed him to take her shard to a temple that sealed her power and to destroy it, granting her full abilities back and allowing her to reign chaos upon the world.

### Dark Incursion

Afraid of the threat the Goddess could be to the world, a fellowship of adventurers: FutureSamurai, Jzcars, Goose, Simp and later Sothas, travelled to what they believed to be a shrine to banish Halaesa from the world. They arrived, seeing a large nether portal and, once inside, travelling through a gauntlet full of wither skeletons until they reached the final room. In it was a large pool of lava which Goose urged the rest of the adv

enturers to throw the star into. However, some of the adventurers had doubts and at the last minute intervened in the sacrifice. As a result, the star was never destroyed, and Halaesa never regained her full power. Yet, when the adventurers left, the Goddess appeared at the altar, and Goose returned the shard of her power to her, albeit without the goddess able to use it to its capacity.

Halaesa informed Goose to gather as many people as possible to his town of Insula Viridi, where she would sacrifice them all. When enough people had gathered, she revealed that she had manipulated Goose and intended to completely destroy the town and stage her invasion of Sazius from it. Summoning her Army of Darkness, Halaesa wreaked havoc upon the citizens of Insula Viridi, forcing them to fight a swarm of Dark Minions. Despite, this, the adventurers repelled the attack, forcing her weakened form to attack directly, where she was defeated and sealed once again in the nether.

This event marked the end of the Dawn Era and the beginning of a new Era.

### Second Dark Incursion and Death

Halaesa would return during the early Evolution Era, where a group of religious fanatics, consisting of ambitious mortals and those driven mad during the Incursion, attempted to free her from banishment. Halaesa informed them they ritual required 5 sacrifices amongst them, and, madmen that they were, the cultists gleefully slew each other to resummon the Goddess. Upon the ritual finishing, Halaesa sent a warden through the nether portal, only appearing herself after it was slain. Frost, the leader of the cultists, requested the one thing from Halaesa which he had sacrificed so much for - Mangrove. Granting the request, Halaesa gave him a mangrove plank, only to be told that this was not what he wanted and that Frost had expected saplings. Insulted, Halaesa flew into a blind rage and summoned a second army to ravage Insula Viridi again.

Her new Dark army would clash with the resistant cultists, many dying until the mortals yet again persevered. Enraged, the Goddess of Destruction took the field, slaying countless people. However, much of her power, which had already been reduced before in the first incursion, had been reduced by the destruction of her forces, and her essence was now weak. Though she had become weak for a Goddess, she was still far more powerful than the mortals, and decimated them until Vorceful's ghost, which could interact with other's essences, attacked her weakened soul directly, absorbing a fraction of its power unto himself and turning him into a demigod.

As her last act of defiance, Halaesa exclaimed she despised this dimension and fled, presumably to the nether or realm of Gods.

### Vorceful's Shrine

For a third time, a group of people attempted to bring Halaesa back into the world. Led by Vorceful, the cult built a temple outside of Insula-Viridi and made a sacrifice to the Goddess of Destruction. To their awe, Halaesa reappeared, demanding to know who was trying to end her slumber. She then revealed that she had never died after the incursion, and had left the world of her own free will out of irritation, along with giving her soul to Vorceful in hopes of it causing more chaos. Vorce requested assistance in conquering the world and to revive an ally of his; both of these were refused, with Halaesa saying that she had 'already gave [him] the power to conquer [the world], you just don't use it!' and that she had already given him '0.1% of her power'. As recompense for his effort, she gifted Vorce several of her 'blessed arrows' before leaving and instructing Goose to prevent any more summoning of her.

## Trivia

1. Randombirdboy, the creator and player of Halaesa, stated that the Goddess could have taken over the world if she wanted to, and only retreated to the nether out of boredom.

1. ↑ Withers, Skeletons, and a Warden. These beings are Halaesa's Dark Minions and directly under her domain
2. ↑ The same range of mobs from the first invasion, but this time with blazes as well
3. ↑ Strength 2 arrows. By giving Vorce arrows that directly benefitted an enemy when shot, Halaesa was insulting him.