Rhaaga

Description

Rhaaga is the tyrannical queen of the Abyssal Spheres, a vast and monstrous goddess of darkness who commands legions of nightmarish demons. She lies coiled at the core of Midora, entombed in the infinite abyss, where she watches the world above with an insatiable longing for something she can never possess — the radiant light of Horus, her eternal foe.

Her form is said to be a serpentine or tentacled colossus draped in shadow, with countless tendrils across her body. From her presence spills the darkness that gives birth to her abyssal children, who rule the outer spheres of the abyss and guard their queen against all intruders.

Among her mortal cults, Rhaaga is often depicted in a humanoid guise, a form that embodies both terror and allure. She is envisioned as a tall, statuesque woman with ebony skin as dark as the endless night and flowing jet-black hair that drapes like a curtain of shadow. Her eyes are often veiled beneath a blindfold of woven darkness, a symbol of both mystery and the unseen truths of the abyss. This blindfold is said to represent her denial of Horus’s light as much as her dominion over the hidden, the unspoken, and the forgotten. Sometimes she is depicted with beautiful purple eyes that are said to pierce through any mortal.

In this form, she is portrayed as both captivating and dreadful, a figure who draws mortals into her embrace with beauty while concealing the ruin that follows. Artists among her secret worshipers often exaggerate her features—elongated limbs, claw-like fingers, and a crown of thorns or serpents—to remind followers that what appears divine is in truth monstrous. The imagery of her humanoid form serves as both icon and warning: a mask of beauty stretched over the eternal hunger of the abyss.

History

Born from a Dream

Rhaaga’s origins trace back to the slumbering titan Bjorr, whose dreams shaped the fates around him. From one such dream, a serpentine goddess was made manifest—Rhaaga herself. Alone within the titan’s realm, she began to create and populate her surroundings with self-fashioned horrors, twisting reality to suit her dark will.

Her unchecked power soon drew the attention of Bjorr, who, enraged by her defiance, banished her from his realm. Cast out through the void of time and space, Rhaaga eventually arrived on the primitive world of Midora, where she first encountered the fledgling mortal races and began to weave her influence into the fabric of their world.

The Mother of Night

In the early days of Midora, Rhaaga was revered as the Mother of Night. Tribes and settlements believed her to be a protector, shielding mortals from the horrors that lurked beyond the veil of darkness. To them, her demons were not destroyers, but sentinels who patrolled the night.

Yet Rhaaga’s favor was fickle. Those who failed in their reverence were swiftly punished — her demons descending upon villages, dragging mortals screaming into the night. Worship turned to fear, and fear to hatred. Over time, her reputation darkened, and entire tribes abandoned her for other gods.

The Shadowfall

The Shadowfall was a period when Rhaaga’s influence spread across Midora, her presence felt not through grand signs, but through whispers of power, fear, and darkness. She first gained followers in the desertlands of Agera, where fractured tribes and endless conflict made mortals receptive to her promises of strength and unity. Under her guidance, scattered warbands became disciplined armies, cities were unified under her banner, and blood oaths and secretive rites of darkness became commonplace. Her priestesses, the Daughters of the Abyss, enforced her will with ruthless efficiency, transforming entire settlements into bastions of shadow.

Despite her growing power, resistance persisted. In Vikholm, the Old Gods maintained sway, while Diion, the God of the Nagan Empire, marshaled his followers to counter her corruption. Elven remnants, including the Valarith and Therannis, established sacred groves and magical barriers, halting her expansion. Observers like the Umbraith remained enigmatic, neither aiding nor opposing her.

The Shadowfall ultimately became a battle of faith as much as force. Rhaaga’s cults spread across the continent, using belief, fear, and devotion as instruments of conquest. Midora became a land divided between her encroaching darkness and the forces of divine light, with the struggle for the continent’s soul defining this era of shadow and unrest.

The War with Horus

Rhaaga’s growing dominion reached its peak before the coming of Horus, the radiant god of light. His brilliance was anathema to her shadows, and the two became bitter enemies. Their war shook Midora: flashes of searing light clashing against tides of suffocating darkness. Ultimately, Horus banished Rhaaga into the abyss, severing her dominion over the surface.

Yet in her defeat, Rhaaga felt a twisted yearning for the very light that had cast her away. She longed for Horus, not in love but in hunger — desiring to merge her shadow with his radiance and claim what she could never truly have.

The Queen in Exile

From the depths, Rhaaga rebuilt her influence. Her abyssal children claimed dominion over the spheres of the abyss, warring endlessly to establish their rule. Through them, she extended her corruption into the mortal world. Whispered promises from her demons seduced mortals, sparking cults and heresies.

Those who succumbed to her whispers often face swift purges at the hands of the Executioners of Light and the Obsidian Sons, militant orders devoted to resisting her. Despite these efforts, her shadow lingers over Midora — a reminder that her schemes are never-ending.

Personality

Rhaaga is tyrannical, capricious, and consumed by longing. She embodies both mother and predator, seeing her children as extensions of her will rather than individuals. To her, mortals are pawns: at times cherished, at times devoured, but always hers to command.

Her desire for Horus defines her. She craves his light obsessively, not out of purity but as an act of domination — to consume it, to own it, to twist it into something new. This unfulfilled hunger gnaws at her constantly, shaping her schemes and feeding her spite.

Worshipers

In the earliest days of Midora, entire tribes once honored Rhaaga as the Mother of Night, believing she and her demons shielded them from unseen terrors in the dark. Over time, her cruelty revealed itself, and those same tribes abandoned her in fear, though the memory of their old devotions lingers like a scar upon their descendants.

In later ages, her faith survived in the form of cultists and forbidden orders, mortals who succumb to her whispers of power, vengeance, and secret knowledge. Many of these are warlocks or demonkin, bound to her abyssal essence whether by choice or curse, wielding her darkness as both weapon and shackle. Though her worship is outlawed across most realms, her followers endure in the shadows: hidden in ruined temples, caverns deep beneath the earth, and shrines left to decay. There, they pray for her return and plot against the servants of light who strive to erase her name.

Abyssal Children & Spheres

• First Sphere: Contested by Visarius(shadow & illusionary chaos) and Xinon (cold violence & misfortune). Mortals entering here face fiery legions or shadow elementals.
  
• Second Sphere: Ruled by Hushaz (strength & destruction) and Elinyrami (knowledge & lies). A place of hulking beasts and twisted paranoias.
  
• Third Sphere: Held in tense balance by Braxus (hunt & hunger) and Anennepher (tyranny & domination). Here, politics, slavery, and blood-games dominate.

Each sphere is both battlefield and prison — realms of endless conflict where mortals are often caught as prey, soldiers, or sacrifices.

Abilities

• Abyssal Dominion: Rules over the abyssal spheres, her will shaping their storms, landscapes, and horrors.
• Mother of Demons: Creates abyssal progeny, each embodying aspects of fear, shadow, or ruin.
• Dream-Corruption: Her whispers seep into mortal dreams, seducing them with promises or driving them into madness.
• Eternal Hunger: Her presence devours light, extinguishing flames and shattering divine radiance.

Possessions / Relics

• Crown of the Abyss: Said to be forged from the first shadows of creation, worn by Rhaaga as a symbol of her eternal dominion.
• The Serpent’s Chains: Shackles of divine light left by Horus during her banishment, still binding her deep within Midora. She has learned to twist their power into her own.
• The Blackened Idol: A relic worshiped by her cultists, carved in her serpentine image. Those who touch it hear her whispers more clearly.

Legacy

Rhaaga’s legacy is one of fear and fascination. Once a goddess of the night, she became the eternal enemy of light itself. Her shadow still stains Midora — in the cults who whisper her name, the nightmares that plague mortals, and the eternal war of her abyssal children.

Though banished, her presence lingers. To many, she is not dead nor gone but waiting, plotting revenge in the depths. Her struggle with Horus has become the archetypal war of light and darkness, an endless cycle woven into Midora’s history.