The Sisters of Sorrow
A group of 7 Dayan women living on the edge of the great lake, Erisea, following the ways of Akaila - Goddess of the Underworld. Practicing more ancient rituals and prayers than the typical Dayan followers of Akaila, the Seven sisters possessed secrets of the spirit passed down from generation to generation with roots going back to the origin's of Wan. See year 1084. Created all those years ago by Altur's seven daughters, the Sister's of Sorrow believed in replenishing Akaila's spiritual houses (also known as the Spirit's of Cairis) and protecting Akaila's mystical sword - The Sword Woethorn. 

One day  when she was 16 years of age she went out foraging on her own. When she returned, she found her six sisters lying mutilated and dead, the Holy sword of their Goddess stolen from its altar. Alyx wept for hours until eventually pulling herself up and gathering her things. She knew she had to report the theft to New Risen - The Dayan Holy Isle. There she would find the High Priests of Dayan religion, representing the other gods like Berle, Thand and Luna.

She traveled as fast as she could but it was already too late. Men of Ungmar, led by a Sorceror called Kurakal, had invaded the isle through stealth of magic and slaughtered everyone. With no one else to turn to, Alyx knew it wasdown to her and her alone. She resolved to find the Sorceror, kill him, kill all his servants and reclaim the Holy sword - She would have vengeance !

Her journey brought her into the company of a Wizard called Naschu the Red - a fire mage of great destructive power. Naschu seemed trustworthy so Alyx confided about the sorceror and his Ungmarian allies, but not the sword. It was enough to stoke the Wizard's fires.

The Wizard soon gathered a party of stalwart heroes, ready to face the sorcerer in his very lair; a land of living ghouls with transparent skin. The ghouls had fallen foul of the sorcerers power, their prince already banished and their temple defiled. But Naschu had found Guildencrantz - Prince of the Ghouls and told him of the horror in his homeland. Guildencrantz rushed back to his people with the Wizard, Alyx and the other heroes by his side. But little did they know, Kurakal had a master - The Titan Dragon Eskanu.

Kaylay of Berle, Sebastian Brook, Mathias Winterborn, Guildencrantz, Alyx and Naschu all stormed the sorcerer's lair but failed to stop him. When they did kill him the sword Woethorn brought him back as a Wraith Lich and the skull of Eskanu, seeking to resurrect itself with new flesh, dominated the entire group bringing causing them to kill each other. Alyx was the only one to survive, plummeting down a gorge out of Eskanu's range and breaking her leg.

She managed to heal herself and sneak away but it took her a very long time to come to terms with her failure. She wandered Daya like a vision of death, watching as Kurakal led his Ungmarian horde across the plains, slaughtering village, town and city of Gost Iren. She knew his power came from the sword of her Goddess but was powerless to stop him.

Like a spider she waited for chance to fall into her hands. Eventually it did. Alyx encountered the High Doman of Wan and in the young boy (who she began to love as a brother) she found the same devotion, the same pain and loss. Together they forged an inseparable team in the fight against Laylak, Kurakal and Eskanu, preserving both their religions and faiths.

Even as a little girl, Beth loved music. She was raised to sing in a choir at the local church to Miah. There she excelled at solo's and dreamed of growing up to be a famous bard. However dreams sometimes are not meant to be. Her parents both grew sick and she dedicated all of her time to caring for them. She studied as a nurse at the Temple to Rian, even toying with the idea of being a priestess. 
But when her parents both died within days of each other, Beth could not be consoled. She packed her bags, sold everything she had inherited and hit the road. She made enough for food and board by healing wounds and selling herbs, traveling the length and breadth of Esium on a quest for happiness.

She eventually settled back in Esia at the city of Esium. There she made friends with Adunathel and Tess Hardy the Enchantress. Being a bunch of adventurous girls of like mind, they formed The Sisterhood of Magic and began their rise to infamy.

It was through the Sisterhood that Beth met Benedict Thorfin, the cursed brother of Laylan Thorfin (alias Laylak the Wraith King). She fell in love with Ben and dedicated the rest of her life to keeping him alive.

He in turn allowed her to indulge her passion for singing and unleash the hidden talent within her. She had always heard fragments of song in her dreams and everyday life. Now she began to understand the power of the World song.

Singing - 93 Skill ranks.
Knows the Lay of the Heart, of the Land, of the Sun.

Born 8/ 1 / 2585.
Honey blonde hair that later grows beyond shoulders; fine and straight. 5'8" tall.
Eyes - dark green and misty. Parents - Daras Marsa * & Semilla Hane.

When she was born, a part of Palleah's spirit carried the essence of the last of the Shy're - a group of pure spiritualists who channeled immense power from Eldahar's other realms.

Bearer of the Flute of Shandar

Brief description of Shandaria
From 002 to 196 Shandaria existed as a small country devoted to Titan worship. Primarily following the Titan Vorshim (of the Earth) Shandaria's nobility were viewed as arrogant, stuck up and pompous. They lorded themselves over the general population for several generations indulging in wild parties, banquets and executions whilst the serf's working their land dealt with plague, famine and war. The best things to ever come out of old Shandaria were its marvelous operas and musicals. 

Ankha was born in the year 184 in the then small province of Shandaria (later called Shandar). As the prodigal daughter of Mekhailo Khazarad (a noble of the palace) Ankha wanted for nothing. But even after being given intricately crafted toys, the best clothes and several servants to attend to her every whim, all she ever wanted was time alone with her father.

Ankha's mother had been the Lady Isendara who died from a plague sweeping Shandaria in 187. Left with Mekhailo to raise her, Ankha had a lonely childhood among servants at the Shandarian palace as Mekhailo was kept increasingly busy with his inventions.

In 189 Mekhailo's genius brought him to the attention of Orion - Father of the Eldar Qual. Orion wanted to manufacture stones so intricate and flawless that souls could be kept locked within them. Orion's tasks began occupying Mekhailo's every waking moment. Eventually by 194 he began using Ankha to help him with calculations and experiments, keeping the whole thing secret from the Shandarian royalty.

The Shandarian Rebellion of 196.
Under pressure to succeed from Orion, Mekhailo failed to notice to the increasing political turmoil wracking his country. The King had made a few decisions and chopped off one too many popular heads after the plague of 187, making him a target for the angry serf population to rebel against.

By 196 the serfs had mobilized, thrown off the yoke of Shandarian nobility and attacked several castles before moving on the Capital of Dahl Lore.
As fires and riots began spreading through the city and King's soldiers quelled what they could with violence, Mekhailo continued working unawares, making a sudden and startling breakthrough.

Fearing for his daughter's life at the hand's of the rebels (as other Lord's and Lady's had already been drowned in the river or thrown from the walls) Mekhailo took his one and only prototype Heart stone - a black gemstone able to indefinitely contain a soul and operated on his daughter's body. - replacing her heart with the mystical stone.

Ankha survived and as the rebels began running through the palace halls, Mekhailo sent her away with his most trusted servant Duan and a bundle of strange objects. Minutes after Ankha had entered a secret escape tunnel, Orion arrived to take his notes.

Orion perused the notes and thanked Mekhailo.
"What shall be my reward? Will you transport me away from here?" Mekhailo asked, already knowing Orion's mind and answer.
"You have served me well Mekhailo, but no one must know the secrets of these Heart stones. No one must know their weaknesses bar me." With that Orion vanished leaving Mekhailo to die at the hands of the rebels.

Duan took Ankha far away from the burning palace, hiding in the countryside for several weeks. News soon spread that the entire Shandarian nobility had been found and executed - all bar Ankha Khazarad. Ankha was now heir to the throne but the rebels wanted to set up their own form of government and own royalty. They knew they couldn't do this whilst one of the original Shandarian line still lived and began scouring the countryside offering a huge reward.
With places to hide rapidly running out, Duan took Ankha to the Shandarian Barrows - an ancient strip of burial barrows dedicated to past Kings, Queens and Lords. Believing no one would look for her in such a desolate and dead place, Duan broke into one of the Barrows and set up somewhere for her to live.

Mekhailo had given Ankha the Flute of Shandar- a Titan made object of incredible beauty entirely made of yellow tinged laen. The Flute had been the symbol of Shandarian nobility for over 100 years, possessing strange powers and blessings from the Titans.

One day their food ran out and Duan said he would have to fetch some more. He kissed young Ankha good-bye (she was still only 12) and said he'd return in five days time.

Ankha never saw Duan again as he was captured by the rebels, tortured and killed.

Without food or anywhere to go, Ankha retreated into herself, discovering by fluke one of her new Heartstone's abilities. Without realizing it she accidentally triggered a form of hibernation - putting her mind, body and soul into a perfectly preserved sleep.

Unfortunately her lack of experience meant she slept undisturbed for over 2400 years !

In 2601 she was discovered by the Spiritualist Adunathel and Ceraph of the Living Dark. Awakened into a strange new World, Ankha began trying to find the Titans whom her people had worshipped. But the Titans were no more - imprisoned, banished or slain.

Later in 2601 Ankha used the Flute of Shandar to free Vorshim from his imprisonment under the Born Mountains of Esia. Vorshim stepped into the Ids on a journey through them to Eldar Prime.

Ankha - 12 years of age
STR 6, INT 13.50, WIS 14.25, DEX 15, AGI 13, CON 10, 
CHA 14, COM 14, SEN 17, SIZ 9, POW 11, MHP 22

Description
Height 5'2", Weight 100 lbs, Hair - Raven black, Eyes - Dark brown.
Heart Stone of Mekhailo +50% Magic resistance.

Special Ability - Will of the World; Ankha can use the Will of the World to lift non sentient objects up to a total of 300 lbs in weight and move them (up to 3 at a time) approximately 500' from her person. As an exception to this rule she can also lift herself and up to 300lbs of weight, flying at 25 mph. 

Easily able to make friends, Kit still chose to play alone, taking long walks with Barnaby around the local village and its scenic countryside. It was on one of these walks with her Grandfather that a landslide nearly claimed both their lives. About to be swept over a fifty foot cliff by a giant boulder Kit somehow turned it away with her mind.

Miles suspected something odd about his grand daughter from that day on. Then one day he caught her levitating toys in her room. He was stunned. Due to the Law regarding mental powers he would have to turn his daughter over to the Soul Sanctuary - unless they kept it a secret. He told her to never reveal her powers but to keep them a secret and only practice them in private. He made her swear, because if anyone else found out what she could do, she would be taken away.

Kit took her grandfather very seriously and did as he asked, but as the years passed, her powers grew more varied and powerful. She could travel out of her body across thousands of miles, teleport anywhere she wanted and create illusions.

In 1269 her grandfather passed away leaving his cottage to her. She decided to live alone and study home based courses on history, architecture and languages. A quick learner, her reputation as an oddball in the community began escalating after she turned down two proposals for marriage and spurned several "would be" friends. You see Kit could also read minds and sense whether people were genuine. No one was, so she turned her back on the rest of the world.

Never having the confidence to use her powers for anything other than her own exploration, Kit took the first chance of her entire life one night in 1271. She spied a being leaping from roof to roof with inhuman agility and a strange, alluring mind. This being was Xenon Von Victor - A Chaos Vampire with a tormented soul.

She decided to speak to this being, opening herself up to his life and his troubles. From that point on her life changed. She and Victor instantly became friends; Kit finding a strength of character in Victor she had always lacked and Victor finding a purity in Kit that would help lead him to salvation.

Appearance & personality
Kit stands 5'7" tall, is slim, blonde haired and attractive. If it weren't for her odd ways, she would be many a man's dream girl, but her unwillingness to share things about herself, especially her secret powers and mind reading (which would freak out most people) acts as a barrier to any relationship. Coming across as a pure minded, virginal young lass with a keen mind and strong inner spirit, she is still completely disconnected from the rest of the world - having never been to a pub, a night club or a supermarket in her life, let alone watch the news. Her favorite type of music is a mix between classical and folk.

Imryssa entrusted Evadne with her daughter's life, sending Evadne and her lover Aegin (head of the Queen's Wayguard) away from the palace under cover of night. In return, Imryssa raised Evadne's daughter Alliath as her own knowing that Alliath would pass as a Saadi until she reached adolescence.

When both girls reached sixteen years of age Imryssa intended on revealing the truth but until that time, for both of their sakes, they needed to stay where they were.

Imryssa grew to love Alliath and Evade and Aegin grew to love Liaze, marrying and even giving her a brother called Bran to dote upon.

Raised in the Village of White Glow, western Sardium, Liaze and her brother Bran became very close. Then in the early part of 2601 their idealic lives came to a sudden end when assassin's of the Monarch came to White Glow, killed Evadne and Aegin, kidnapped Liaze and left Bran for dead.

The assassins had been hired by Morinesa, Imryssa's evil-bitch of sister who had been banished from the country years before. Intent on sacrificing Liaze to a demon and regaining the throne, Morinesa whisked Liaze away to her island retreat, unaware of Bran's survival.

After a lot of adventures Bran won through and liberated Liaze. The truth came out and Liaze accepted her rightful position as Princess of the Saadi. Then within a few short months, Imryssa succumbed to the 3rd Invasion of Mordark and it's demonic forces leaving Liaze as the sole ruler of Sardium. Despite her lack of training or education Liaze carried herself through the remainder of the war with poise and nobility.

Liaze's Personality;-
Liaze can enter a room and bring silence without even speaking a word. Her beauty sums up everything regal and noble, her poise and movements everything elegant and lady-like. For someone raised in a village helping with farm chores, she has always stood apart, shining from within.
Nothing is beneath her attention, no one too poor for her to care about or speak to. If Sardium had saints then Liaze would be the patron saint of saints.

Sinsifel was born in Eternium's Estoan Epoch, approximately 8000 years prior to the Fourth Age and its subsequent conflict between Law and Chaos. Essentially the daughter of Xenon Von Victor and Valris Rylek, Sinsifel's exact origins are extremely complex.

Kutal, Lord of Chaos and Baron of Blood decided one day to create himself a daughter. But like most Lord's of Chaos, Kutal lost the plot and went about this simple task in an altogether more exciting way. Unable to bring himself to do it the old fashioned way, Kutal scoured the Multiverse until he found a suitable woman.

Her name was Esmera and she lived alone, deep in a forest on the tranquil moon of Arboro. Esmera was already pregnant from an unknown assailant and Kutal found himself pitying her. He began frequently visiting her cabin, helping her find food and the strength to go through with the next nine months.

Kutal became her guardian angel and when the child was about to be born, Esmera entrusted her daughter's fate to the kind man she had shared her soul with.

But as soon as the child took its first breath, Esmera died and Kutal did nothing. Instead he gathered the child into his arms, took her outside and before Xenon Von Victor's shocked eyes, swallowed the baby whole.

In explanation of Kutal's strange and seemingly horrific act, Kutal needed to understand and share in the experience of carrying a child. By bringing the child inside his being, he understood its physicality completely. What's more, anything consumed by Kutal would immediately be immortalised and granted some of his own power.

Kutal then reached back into his mouth and drew forth a sword - The first of the Blood Swords and for a while Sinsifel existed in this inanimate form, bonded to Xenon's spirit and blood. Kutal did this so that Xenon could carry her around safely until the time  was right for her to be "born again."

After various adventures (see Eternium's Timeline), Xenon shared his Vampiric blood with Valris (for the second time), passing some of Sinsifel's essence over too. With Sinsifel now existing between them, Kutal manipulated the Time Streams to strand the two Vampires in Eternium's past. 8000 years from any civilisation, Xenon and Valris rediscovered their love and nine months later witnessed Sinsifel's rebirth from inside Valris.

Sinsifel appeared to be a normal baby girl and aged accordingly, playing and learning with a keen mind and strong, healthy body. Even without the regenerative super powers of her parents, she still managed to astound them but being delightful and loveable.

As she grew older, Sin began to talk to the local birds. Soon whole flocks of them descended upon the house Victor had built for his new family and Sin began naming them all.

For more about Sinsifel's childhood and adventures onboard the Evereon Timeship, see Eternium's Time.

Update...
After graduating early from the Celesteen School of Law, Sin and her parents, along with her girlfriend, Tanni Orgath, visit the Castle of Chaos.
There Sin is transformed into one of Kutal's blood children. She then heads via Kudos' time machine to the Nexus of the Idiom and meets Harmony of Eldahar, who reveals to her and her family the fate of the Multiverse.
During the final Campaign of the Annex Animus, Sinsifel allies herself with Duke Maloth to do battle against Arch Duke Morgrim on North's alternate Eldahar.