Darkonian Kargatane Record
- Known Name: The Amaranth / The Divine Child
- Race: Unknown - believed to be some form of Outsider taking a human form
- Apparent Age: Early teens
- Birthday: Unknown
- Height: 5'1"
- Alignment: Evil (unknown ethical alignment)
- Affiliations: Nevuchar Springs sect of the Church of Ezra (hypothesized)
- Religion: Unknown
- Character Class: Unknown
- Place of Origin: Unknown
- Player/Type: NPC
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Personality
Little is known about the Amaranth's true personality, only some of her goals - claiming souls. She is evidently extremely patient and plays "the long game" in everything she does. She is immortal, so the span of a human lifetime is little to her.
Other Notes
In the aftermath, many of the newcomers and/or survivors in Leiksburg wonder how the Amaranth managed to pull off what she did - especially in a place as notoriously paranoid, superstitious, and unfriendly as Barovia. The answer is a combination of patience, and using human desire, greed, faith, and desperation in her favour.
Barovia is a dark country. It's always cold even in summer. You can barely see the stars through the clouds. Vampires, zombies, and werewolves (and allegedly worse things) roam the night and the shadows, rumoured monsters in the lakes, rivers, forests, and other places. People marry and start having children at 14 years old and typically have 6 children, of which 2-3 may survive to adulthood due to disease, famine, and other threats. With luck, one child may survive to old age. Barovians are used to high child rates to support the high death tolls. It's simply the way of things.
And this girl comes along with such an innocent face. Her touch cures all diseases and curses, letting the blind see, the deaf hear, the crippled walk, and those with terminal illness recover to perfect permanent health. Her very presence also makes the monsters stay away from the village. This made Leiksburg the most prosperous and safe place in Barovia since her arrival. The only thing she asks of those who seek her blessing is "that you believe in me and give me everything you are in dedication". Everyone who received her blessing appeared to live normal lives and suffer natural deaths. No negative effect of receiving her blessing has been witnessed in generations… leading over time, to a reputation of being a miraculous "divine child".
The truth is that the Amaranth immortal, with the agreement, she owns the soul - she will automatically take it when the human dies. And humans live so little... What is the rush? And the desperate never ask about "the small text"
And a cult that helps her, promised power and that when they die, their souls will be esteemed members of The Amaranth army, not used like shit and tortured like the others. The members of the cult have political power, money, fame, and can do whatever they want (no matter how bad it is) and either the cult or the Amaranth protects them.
Who would doubt the word of the mayor, the politicians and financiers and popular people, when they support the divine girl who performs miracles "without consequences"
Combat Style
No-one has witnessed the Amaranth in combat, but a few witnesses have testified to seeing the Amaranth tear apart with her bear hands a human who threatened to betray her secret. As some form of demonic/infernal entity, she appears strong and is likely also capable of growing claws, horns, or other form of natural weaponry, and will almost certainly have resilient or scaled skin to grant her natural armour. But this is all hypothesizing.
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Signature Equipment
- Ruby bag: a large bag made out of black silk containing many small red rubies that glow faintly - each ruby is created when the Amaranth grants a "wish" and a soul is claimed. When the wish-receiver dies, their soul is automatically transferred into its ruby as property of the Amaranth for eternal damnation and servitude under the Amaranth.
Signature Quotes
- "You are beneath me. You could not ever dream of defeating me in combat. But you have exposed my ruse to the world, and so this place has little worth to me any more. So I shall leave. Congratulations... you win! Enjoy your victory... until the next time." *fades away, and half the village population screams in agony and drops dead as she takes their souls with her*
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