She has no recorded name. She was the personal assistant to the Coronal Jebrot, the supreme religious leader of Ronahiya’s faith, and she was profoundly devoted to her.
She survived the War of Dominion and the Ritual of Sundered Day as undead. The Coronal did not — or rather, the Coronal’s connection to Ronahiya was so total that she passed into divine grace instead of undeath, and now resides in Ronahiya’s afterlife, unreachable.
The assistant has spent fifty years trying to reach her.
The Project
She has tried everything she could find or devise to retrieve the Coronal. None of it worked. She has now concluded that what she needs is power — specifically, a vessel of sufficient power to either breach the divine boundary or contain the Coronal’s soul if it can be extracted.
The vessel she is constructing is a blood amalgam — an extremely powerful ritual being that requires substantial raw material. The children of the surrounding settlement have been disappearing, one per month, for two years. Their bodies are returned drained of blood.
First Contact
When the settlement hired adventurers to investigate the disappearances, the Assistant emerged to negotiate. She returned the children’s bodies freely and made an offer: she would stop the harvesting if the adventurers promised to leave and never return.
She also offered an alternative arrangement — help her finish the project, and together she and the resurrected Coronal would use their combined power to destroy Kex entirely.
The adventurers considered the offer seriously. They rejected it — too many variables, too many unforeseeable consequences, and an unstable undead with uncertain motives. They also noted the project was far from complete.
They promised to leave. Both sides know the promise will not hold.
Nature
She is not a monster by original nature. She was someone who loved deeply and lost everything, and has been alone in ruins for fifty years with the woman she loved just out of reach. She has become monstrous through methodology — through the calculus of what it takes to do what she has decided she must do.
The original person who loved the Coronal surfaces occasionally in small gestures: she returned the bodies. She negotiated instead of killing. She made a deal because she is lonely, because she still has enough of herself left to recognize that families deserve to bury their children whole.