Lady Ilganyag

> *Mother, lock your nurs'ry tight.
>  **Lady Ilganyag** flies at night.
>  She longs to love a child so,
>  but in senet wombs no life can grow.
>  She'll suckle yours and steal it's breath
>  and love it, love it, love it to death.*
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> —Cresian Wright,  Book I, Chapter 17 page 152
>
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Sessine, also known as Lady Ilganyag, is a senet beast currently trapped inside the khert. She is patron of the Black Tongues. She appears to only speak Tainish, and it is implied the black tongues can communicate with each other through her.

## Appearance

Sessine appears as a massive black crow, with light grey legs and beak, and six feathered breasts, stacked in pairs along her chest and neck. Her beak has a symmetrical black tattoo across it. There's a small nick on the right side of her beak. Her eyes have yellow sclera and red irises. Her face as a crow is like a cloak: her torso can emerge from the mouth of the bird, leaving its face and neck around her waist like discarded clothing. She has a human torso, two-fingered hands, and a humanoid face, all colored bright red. Though she has no nose, there is a crest beginning between her eyes. She has long black hair sprouting from her head. Both her hands and her feet have two long fingers, and a small dewclaw. Her humanoid torso still possesses six breasts, which have thorns that can emerge from the nipple at will.

## Background

A rather mysterious plotter who is trapped within the khert's brightlands and can no longer survive on the physical plane.

## Relationships

####  The Black Tongues

Llganyag is the patron of the Black Tongues, worshiped and called a goddess by many of their number despite their organization being claimed agnostic or atheist. They are named for her, as Llganyag translates to Black Tongue

#### Bastion Winalils

Llganyag's current favorite among the Black Tongues this means he has her near undivided attention, something his more intelligent associates understand is to be pitied.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

#### Book I, Chapter 7

Iconography of Ilganyag is seen in Rahm Ripa's house, in several stained-glass windows. She is depicted breastfeeding and watching over children, as well as having adults praise her as she flies away. Later, when Sette is in the Khert, she appears and chases Sette, repeating "*Malakhomit*." When Sette meets Murkoph, she appears to try and warn her, and eventually brings Duane when Sette is endangered. At the end of the chapter, after Sette and Duane escape the Khert, she appears, holding floating fetuses in her beak.

#### Book I, Chapter 13

Sessine appears among Anadyne Frummagem's visions, alongside a young Sette. Prakhuta later mentions her as a method of communications between Black Tongues. Towards the end of the chapter, she converses with Bastion Winalils through thought. She praises the man, but also reinforces her power over him, telling him to go home before reprimanding, choking, and finally magically forcing Bastion to sleep. She is shown once again in the Khert, flying into a great nest with floating fetuses held in her beak. She monologues to a sleeping Murkoph, reflecting on her love of humanity, and her past relationship with Murkoph. She cries for Ssael, referring to their past friendship and a shared mistake. She then holds a young Sette, alongside a sleeping, tailless feline. Ssessine then notices a dreaming Duane, and catches him before he falls into the khert. She questions the man of his woes, and references her knowledge of the Kept Twin Shrines, which is inaccurate to their current practice, though this fact is not mentioned. She tells Duane of her loneliness, the search for joy, and her fear of time and forgetting what she holds dear. When Duane mentions Ssael, she refers to him as a Paper God, in contrast to her earlier lament. She is revealed to be 'mending' and washing Murkoph. A depiction of her is seen in the Litriya Inaktown, implying she, like Shaensigin, was worshiped as god by them.

1. ↑  http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch13/ch13\_91.html