Arkady

Arkady


When She began to bring forth children, she produced a litter of six strange beings, resembling Brith in body (for

She still bore his elven flesh, having been cut from it) but rich with the darkness that She had absorbed. They were so steeped in darkness that they were more shadow than flesh. Only their bones were wholly solid.



One child, wilier than the rest, crept away unseen. The rest began to tear and devour each other. When the victor finally killed the last of his siblings, it fell asleep in the pile of picked bones – and that is when the lurking one killed and ate it. This child, the last born and the only survivor, was Arkady.



Arkady is the grand vizier of the drow deities, second only in rank to She. She stands for intelligence, without which power is only unenlightened force. As such, she is the Goddess of all drow archivists, scholars, researchers, alchemists and wizards. Arkady acts as adviser to She, whispering counsels in her ear, telling the secrets that others believe are safely concealed. The drow, a people who cherish their own secrets, do not like other people to keep secrets from them. The presidency of

Arkady thus extends to spies, interrogators and torturers, as she also has dominion over darkness and the fear of darkness. In truth, Arkady is almost more feared than the primary Goddess of the drow. The head of the Secret Police is always more terrifying than the monarch.



Her form is that of a drow woman whose dark flesh is as translucent as thin smoke. Her pale skeleton can clearly be seen beneath. Her teeth are filed to sharp points. Her symbolic weapon is the scythe and her symbol a mirror of obsidian glass. The drow create statues of Arkady by encasing sculpted silver bones in molten dark glass, which creates an effect as macabre as it is beautiful. Violet flames burn continually before these statues in offertory shrines.

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