Vaena Askari
Lady Cadalthor
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Name: Eiletthya Saedaris
Loyalties: The Great Goddess Ashira, Kaeshana Confederation.
Role: Priestess of Ashira, healer, psychologist, cryptic space elf and general troll.
Development Threads:
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/44059-everything-is-not-always-what-it-seems-siobhan/page-2 Eileitthya appears in posts 27-35 in order to provide healing for Cara, display her empathy and make cryptic comments. Also has snarky exchanges with Siobhan Kerrigan.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/55629-on-the-run-siobhan/#entry834651Eileithya provides shelter and medical care for Laina Silvias, post 8-28, performs a check-up on Laina and her unborn child posts 114-128.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/50199-two-words-nine-letters/ Healing Galina Kerrigan-Alcori's old wounds and extracting an almost fatal bullet, post 6 - 32.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/38359-do-robots-dream-of-electric-sheep/?p=816342Eileithya provides healing and unorthodox relationship advice for Mirien Valdier, posts 131 - 143.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/50906-each-days-a-gift-and-not-a-given-right/ Provides healing for Coryth Elaris and trolls her a lot, posts 8 - 26.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/53518-first-contact-levantine-sanctum-dominion-of-tygara/page-6#entry856403 Healing wounded folks in Tygara after a battle.
Age: 149
Species: Eldorai
Force-Sensitive: Yes, very much so. Master rank. But she is quite specialised in her use of the Force. By temperament and training she is not a fighter. While she is proficient at using pyrokinesis, her true focus lies in healing. Likewise she is a natural empath and skilled in telepathy. The latter is presumably useful to keep her phone bill down by holding long-distance conversations in her mind. The primary power she has poured most of her focus and training into is healing though, hence her position amongst Ashira's healers. Her skill at pyrokinesis and telekinesis are only knight rank, since she is not much of a combatant.
Appearance: Very attractive, traditional Eldorai slim build, pointed ears and, more unusual amongst her people, a long firemane because everything is better with redheads. She has blue eyes and very pale skin. Usually she dresses in elegant but rather simple robes. Whilst pretty, Eileitthya is by no means unblemished and owing to her past as a slave and the abuse that came with it her body is viciously scarred.
Personality: Compassionate, kind, witty, very snarky and a troll when the mood hits her, which is a lot. Eiletthya has lots of empathy for victims and those in need, whom she is sworn to help. She is very dedicated to helping the helpless and delivering healing to those who need it, having pledged herself to serve as a healer in Ashira's name. At times she has a habit of being terribly cryptic because we need more space elves like that since unfortunately Malya Helindan is dead. Needless to say this annoys Siobhan Kerrigan to no end. Of course, although she is easy-going most of the time, like every redhead Eiletthya has a temper. Redhead rage is...not pleasant for whoever is on the receiving. Especially since this one has the Goddess on her side! She knows what's best for her patients and will not hesitate to say so most of the time. For their own good, they better take heed and pay attention!
In her views, Eileitthya is a mix of conservative and liberal by the standards of Eldorai society. She dislikes modern medicine and distrusts droids, viewing them as soulless. She is a fervent believer in the Eldorai deities and an upholder of the monarchy, though she is far from uncritical when it comes to past Star Queens. Likewise she is not one to demand something so absurd as gender equality. However, she not only favours accommodation with outsiders, but is the proponent of a 'modernist' variant of the Ashiran faith. The believers that belong to it wish to spread the faith to non-Eldorai, rather than clinging to the notion that the Elves are a superior race and should purge or subjugate the 'human monkeighs'.
Whilst she still sees the Eldorai as the Goddess' children and thus deserving of a special place, she thinks this has made many grow haughty in the past and that the Goddess' love can extend to anyone who opens their heart to her. A non-Eldorai who genuinely converts and strives to follow the path of light is far more beloved by the Goddess than a arrogant Eldorai aristo who believes she has the Goddess' grace as a birthright and looks down on everyone else. Since racialist supremacy is one of the pillars of traditionalist Eldorai society, this means the movement exists on the fringes and in the past its members would have been hunted down as heretics to be burnt at the stake, but in the new, permissive and more liberal reign of Queen Tirathana the Seventh, it is allowed to operate openly. That said, in many ways she is still rather culturalist, seeing Eldorai culture as superior and rejecting modernist ideas such as gender equality for men.
As someone who once fell into darkness and turned to evil before the Goddess, as she sees it, humbled her and gave her a second chance, Eileitthya is a believer in redemption and second chances...within reason. If someone wants to turn a new leaf and make amends for misdeeds, they must make reparation and cannot escape punishment appropriate for their crimes simply by proclaiming that they have seen the light. And some evildoers have simpy gone beyond the pale and must be killed. After all, Ashira is merciful and caring, but also a wrathful protector who smites the wicked.
Weapon of Choice: The Goddess is her light and salvation, whom shall she fear? On a slightly more serious note, Eiletthya, though brave and ready to do battle when needed, is not primarily a fighter, though she can set people on fire.
Wealth: Very limited. She is not a healer to make a profit out of it and though the Church of Ashira receives regular donations, most of her money goes to various charities.
Combat Function: Limited. She is a strong pyromancer, able to summon flame, heat objects by touch and burn opponents. But conversely she is a poor duellist, has only limited experience in the use of ranged weapons and suffers from the usual Eldorai physical weaknesses (high metabolism, pain threshold below the human norm). If need be she will defend her flock and her patients with her life, but will otherwise avoid combat.
Skills: Force healing, also skilled at using traditional Eldorai remedies for illnesses, pyrokinesis. Good knowledge of Eldorai history, religion and language. Is fairly skilled at speaking Basic, with a slight accent.
Notable Possessions: Ring of Ashira, Canticles of Light (contains inspirational Ashiran sermons and psalms). She also has a fondness for Atrisian tea and...Mirai cookies. Seriously, they're delicious! The aforementioned ring is completely mundane and does not confer any special powers upon her.
Other Notes:
On OOC note, this NPC will not be used to fight player characters. She is meant for private and faction threads, not PvP. Eileitthya is supposed to provide another perspective on Eldorai culture and religion, which so far has in many instances mainly been depicted from the cynical perspective of being a means of the aristocracy to exert social control over the people, in other words as opiate of the masses. Whilst there is a truth to that, as the revelations about the true origins of the Eldorai and the effects of religious fanaticism in the Kar'zun war, show, there are two sides of the coin.
As for the background, Eileithya is a member of the ever-growing Saedaris clan. Her parents were well-off merchants, she is the older sister of Elanil and Elayne, two twins. Whilst Elanil would ironically become a staunch atheist who put her faith in science and devoted herself to creating death machines and deadly weapons and Elayne put her proficiency in terrakinesis and aeromancy to good use by joining the Angelii, Eileithya was supposed to manage the family business but after her talent at Force healing was discovered her path inevitably led her to the clergy of the Church of Light, which she joined at an early age.
In that time Eileithya was a different woman than she is now. A product of an insular culture and from a rather affluent background where she wanted for little, she was haughty, arrogant and quite materialistic. Likewise she was very keen to secure her advancement within the hierarchy. Coincidentally the Church of Light was just as much a scheming nest of vipers as the Eldorai royal court. Power plays were common and often ended in bloodshed as the clerics vied for power and the Star Queens sought to use the church as a tool to further their agenda, for the Eldorai monarch is both a temporal ruler and the High Priestess of Ashira, thus making rebellion an offence against the Goddess.
Unfortunately for Eileithya she soon fell victim to the vicissitudes of Eldorai court politics. She had caught the eye of a Cenobite, a powerful official in the Ashiran clergy, called Elrialanna. The Cenobite was a conniving, ambitious woman who dreamed of rising to the top of the Church. However, during one of the many incessant struggles over the succession to the Eldorai Throne, Elrialanna allied with the Evosca branch of the royal family, who lost out in a struggle when Tirathana the Sixth seized the throne, thus beginning the reign of the Venari. Needless to say it did not take long for the Investigators to begin a purge of the Ashiran Church since anyone who had not backed the 'rightful' Star Queen was obviously a heretic.
Elrialanna was among those put on trial, as was Eileithya, who now suddenly found herself being accused by her former patron of having 'bewitched' her and led her astray to embrace the 'Dashdae Sciia', that is the Dark Side. Such accusations were quite commonplace in Eldorai politics in order to discredit a rival. Eileithya launched an impassioned defence, in the process airing plenty of dirty laundry about corruption in the Church, and thus was spared execution. Rather she was cast out of the Church and exiled from Kaeshana. Whilst obviously not death, for any orthodox Ashiran this was still a grave punishment since everything outside of Kaeshana was seen as the domain of Chaos. Moreover, it was a cause of shame and stigma for her family, the Saedaris Clan.
Adrift and alone in an unknown galaxy, Eileithya had to pay some foreign merchants to take her off planet. However, the ship she was on was soon boarded by pirates and though she defended herself bravely with her powers and caused a blazing firestorm, she was beaten and taken a slave. Suffice to say the experience was...unpleasant. In the interest of keeping things PG-13 we shall not elaborate more on that. As chance or perhaps the Force would have it, she was taken to a world called Sigma 957. The planet was rocked by a brutal civil between Mages, who wanted to subjugate all the 'mundanes', and Rebels who wanted to prevent that but had undergone a case of 'he who fights monsters'. Galina, Siobhan and Tegaea's future daughter, was born on this planet and a child soldier in the rebel army before her parents escaped with her.
Eileithya's fate was to become a slave to one of the powerful mages, used for the sorceress' pleasure. Her rage grew with every day of oppression and after a...particularly unpleasant encounter she managed to escape and, after a brutal fight that almost ended her, slay her oppressor and wreck a good portion of her residence. Consumed by her anger and a desire to never be a victim again, she eventually ended up claiming the sorceress' resources and assets. Grudgingly the Mages accepted her as one of their own because of what she had to offer them. As can be imagined, the hand that heals and gives a life can just as easily take it.
Her fall from grace came soon though. Long story cut short, the most powerful Mages of the land assembled on the eve of battle with the Rebels to cast a ritual that was supposed to give them access to great eldritch power. All those who failed to obey them would be drained of vitae and left only as lifeless husks. Drawing upon the darkest magicks the Mages cast the spell...and it backfired horribly. Vast swathes of land were destroyed, Mages and their soldiers and Rebels alike perished in the storm they had unleashed.
By chance or fate, Eileithya survived. Having been sceptical of the ritual she had tried to flee and shield herself from the onslaught...but it came at a price. Once she came to and found that the city lay in ruins, she would find that she could no longer touch the Force. Driven half mad and in a delirious state, she claims that it was the Goddess Ashira who appeared to her in a vision, telling her in very clear terms that this was punishment for her sins. A very lenient one at that, for she still lived though she had murdered the innocent for selfish reasons.
This caused a marked change in Eileithya, resulting in a penitent personality that wanted to make amends for her misdeeds. Lacking the Force, deprived of her minions and riches, she wandered across the wasteland of Sigma. Eventually she fell back on her gifts as a healer after having wound up in a refugee camp, using traditional Eldorai remedies to try to aid the sick and the injured.
She spent twenty further years on Sigma before eventually finding a way to leave the planet. From then on she wandered across the stars as the Dark Age came to an end and new galactic powers rose to exact their will upon the Galaxy. Eileithya stayed aloof from galactic events while the Republic claimed Coruscant and what would eventually become the Sith Empire of Moridin and Desmius rose to power. Having regained her faith and dedicated herself to helping those she had once tormented, she among other things worked in a clinic on Nar Shaddaa, even at times fighting thugs who wished the hospital ill.
Over time Eileithya reconnected with the Force, though she is elusive about how this happened, only saying that a confrontation with a Dark Master forced her to open herself to it again! Closer to the current timeline, she ran into Siobhan Kerrigan when the latter's career as a Jedi was coming to a close.
This was after Kerrigan had lost her teacher and lover, Adril Tythorin. Tormented by survivor's guilt, angry at herself and the world and still grieving, Siobhan was hunting down cultists she believed to be connected to the awakening of the abomination that Adril had sacrificed herself to kill. Coincidentally the Priestess was on the same trail and for a while they worked together.
What ensued was a brief relationship where Eileithya helped Siobhan through this rather dark phase in her life, though nothing more came out of it, but the two remained friends after taking down the darkside cult together. Only later would Siobhan learn that it had, in fact, been a Bando Gora sect she had run into.
Eventually Eileithya returned to Kaeshana, which by then had experienced great changes. Queen Tirathana still reigned upon the throne and conformity was the order of the day, but with more and more Eldorai being exposed to foreign contact, both hostile and benevolent, it was becoming difficult to maintain. With her nonconformist, liberal views, Eileithya stuck out like a sore thumb and soon made herself unwelcome when she spoke out against the stultifying conservatism that prevailed.
For a while her gifts as a healer saved her, but then she was arrested and thrown into the Angelii's not so secret prison on the so called Island of Fallen Angels. Here some of the most dangerous heretics were incarcerated. Back in the day the Eldorai judicial system was considerably more brutal than it is now. Physical abuse and torture of so-called unbelievers was common as a way to break them and make them see the error of their ways, with the punishment being administered by Ardarvian Inquisitors. Eileithya speaks little of this time, but still bears the scars, though she remained steadfast in her convictions and refused to recant.
She would have probably remained imprisoned if unexpected change had not come to Kaeshana. Long story cut short, after Tirathana died a brief civil war ensued between Silaqui and the Queen's niece Nalia. The exiled princess Anya returned to Kaeshana as part of an Omega Protectorate mission ordered by then-Exarch Alcori.
Silaqui backed Kaeshana's entrance into the Protectorate in return for their aid and when Nalia tried to seize power her followers were defeated and she was slain by Siobhan. Silaqui ascended the throne as Star Queen. Slowly change was brought to Kaeshana, though its court remained a nest of intrigue and it would take years before the new order was fully stabilised. As part of the reforms introduced by Silaqui, some more reluctantly than others, there was an amnesty for most political prisoners.
This included Eileithya after Siobhan had enquired about her fate. She was officially cleared of wrongdoing and rejoined the ranks of the priesthood, though for a long time she remained a stranger amongst the clerics. Having no interest in the power plays that still prevailed in the Church, she devoted herself to the practice of healing those in need and spreading the faith to those of Kaeshana's citizens who had not been born as Eldorai, but were just as much a part of the world as the natives.
After Firemane was founded following Tegaea and Siobhan's resignation from Protectorate leadership, Eileithya began working closely with them. Aside from providing an Eldorai perspective outside of the byzantine schemes of the Court, she also served as a healer, helping patch up their soldiers after battles - and especially patch up Siobhan since the woman had a tendency to get maimed and stuff. As outsiders began streaming into Kaeshana, she opened up a small clinic on the Tirathana Skyport that catered to both foreigners and Eldorai.
Aside from Force healing, she also provides traditional Eldorai remedies and potions due to her dislike of modern medicine. She has also been known to perform house calls, as she did for for Galina, Sio and Tegaea's adopted daughter, and Laina Silvias. She is one of the chosen few Eldorai who were made privy to Kaeshana's impending doom. Though outwardly she remains devout and as easy-going as ever, it has been a strong test for her faith to know that her homeworld is doomed to be destroyed and that no force, not even the Goddess, can avert this. However, she still accompanied the joint Firemane-Eldorai task force to make first contact with the elves' 'lost cousins' on Tygara, determined to both help assure her people's future and to make sure that Tygara's natives are not oppressed in a bloody conquista.
Name: Eiletthya Saedaris
Loyalties: The Great Goddess Ashira, Kaeshana Confederation.
Role: Priestess of Ashira, healer, psychologist, cryptic space elf and general troll.
Development Threads:
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/44059-everything-is-not-always-what-it-seems-siobhan/page-2 Eileitthya appears in posts 27-35 in order to provide healing for Cara, display her empathy and make cryptic comments. Also has snarky exchanges with Siobhan Kerrigan.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/55629-on-the-run-siobhan/#entry834651Eileithya provides shelter and medical care for Laina Silvias, post 8-28, performs a check-up on Laina and her unborn child posts 114-128.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/50199-two-words-nine-letters/ Healing Galina Kerrigan-Alcori's old wounds and extracting an almost fatal bullet, post 6 - 32.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/38359-do-robots-dream-of-electric-sheep/?p=816342Eileithya provides healing and unorthodox relationship advice for Mirien Valdier, posts 131 - 143.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/50906-each-days-a-gift-and-not-a-given-right/ Provides healing for Coryth Elaris and trolls her a lot, posts 8 - 26.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/53518-first-contact-levantine-sanctum-dominion-of-tygara/page-6#entry856403 Healing wounded folks in Tygara after a battle.
Age: 149
Species: Eldorai
Force-Sensitive: Yes, very much so. Master rank. But she is quite specialised in her use of the Force. By temperament and training she is not a fighter. While she is proficient at using pyrokinesis, her true focus lies in healing. Likewise she is a natural empath and skilled in telepathy. The latter is presumably useful to keep her phone bill down by holding long-distance conversations in her mind. The primary power she has poured most of her focus and training into is healing though, hence her position amongst Ashira's healers. Her skill at pyrokinesis and telekinesis are only knight rank, since she is not much of a combatant.
Appearance: Very attractive, traditional Eldorai slim build, pointed ears and, more unusual amongst her people, a long firemane because everything is better with redheads. She has blue eyes and very pale skin. Usually she dresses in elegant but rather simple robes. Whilst pretty, Eileitthya is by no means unblemished and owing to her past as a slave and the abuse that came with it her body is viciously scarred.
Personality: Compassionate, kind, witty, very snarky and a troll when the mood hits her, which is a lot. Eiletthya has lots of empathy for victims and those in need, whom she is sworn to help. She is very dedicated to helping the helpless and delivering healing to those who need it, having pledged herself to serve as a healer in Ashira's name. At times she has a habit of being terribly cryptic because we need more space elves like that since unfortunately Malya Helindan is dead. Needless to say this annoys Siobhan Kerrigan to no end. Of course, although she is easy-going most of the time, like every redhead Eiletthya has a temper. Redhead rage is...not pleasant for whoever is on the receiving. Especially since this one has the Goddess on her side! She knows what's best for her patients and will not hesitate to say so most of the time. For their own good, they better take heed and pay attention!
In her views, Eileitthya is a mix of conservative and liberal by the standards of Eldorai society. She dislikes modern medicine and distrusts droids, viewing them as soulless. She is a fervent believer in the Eldorai deities and an upholder of the monarchy, though she is far from uncritical when it comes to past Star Queens. Likewise she is not one to demand something so absurd as gender equality. However, she not only favours accommodation with outsiders, but is the proponent of a 'modernist' variant of the Ashiran faith. The believers that belong to it wish to spread the faith to non-Eldorai, rather than clinging to the notion that the Elves are a superior race and should purge or subjugate the 'human monkeighs'.
Whilst she still sees the Eldorai as the Goddess' children and thus deserving of a special place, she thinks this has made many grow haughty in the past and that the Goddess' love can extend to anyone who opens their heart to her. A non-Eldorai who genuinely converts and strives to follow the path of light is far more beloved by the Goddess than a arrogant Eldorai aristo who believes she has the Goddess' grace as a birthright and looks down on everyone else. Since racialist supremacy is one of the pillars of traditionalist Eldorai society, this means the movement exists on the fringes and in the past its members would have been hunted down as heretics to be burnt at the stake, but in the new, permissive and more liberal reign of Queen Tirathana the Seventh, it is allowed to operate openly. That said, in many ways she is still rather culturalist, seeing Eldorai culture as superior and rejecting modernist ideas such as gender equality for men.
As someone who once fell into darkness and turned to evil before the Goddess, as she sees it, humbled her and gave her a second chance, Eileitthya is a believer in redemption and second chances...within reason. If someone wants to turn a new leaf and make amends for misdeeds, they must make reparation and cannot escape punishment appropriate for their crimes simply by proclaiming that they have seen the light. And some evildoers have simpy gone beyond the pale and must be killed. After all, Ashira is merciful and caring, but also a wrathful protector who smites the wicked.
Weapon of Choice: The Goddess is her light and salvation, whom shall she fear? On a slightly more serious note, Eiletthya, though brave and ready to do battle when needed, is not primarily a fighter, though she can set people on fire.
Wealth: Very limited. She is not a healer to make a profit out of it and though the Church of Ashira receives regular donations, most of her money goes to various charities.
Combat Function: Limited. She is a strong pyromancer, able to summon flame, heat objects by touch and burn opponents. But conversely she is a poor duellist, has only limited experience in the use of ranged weapons and suffers from the usual Eldorai physical weaknesses (high metabolism, pain threshold below the human norm). If need be she will defend her flock and her patients with her life, but will otherwise avoid combat.
Skills: Force healing, also skilled at using traditional Eldorai remedies for illnesses, pyrokinesis. Good knowledge of Eldorai history, religion and language. Is fairly skilled at speaking Basic, with a slight accent.
Notable Possessions: Ring of Ashira, Canticles of Light (contains inspirational Ashiran sermons and psalms). She also has a fondness for Atrisian tea and...Mirai cookies. Seriously, they're delicious! The aforementioned ring is completely mundane and does not confer any special powers upon her.
Other Notes:
On OOC note, this NPC will not be used to fight player characters. She is meant for private and faction threads, not PvP. Eileitthya is supposed to provide another perspective on Eldorai culture and religion, which so far has in many instances mainly been depicted from the cynical perspective of being a means of the aristocracy to exert social control over the people, in other words as opiate of the masses. Whilst there is a truth to that, as the revelations about the true origins of the Eldorai and the effects of religious fanaticism in the Kar'zun war, show, there are two sides of the coin.
As for the background, Eileithya is a member of the ever-growing Saedaris clan. Her parents were well-off merchants, she is the older sister of Elanil and Elayne, two twins. Whilst Elanil would ironically become a staunch atheist who put her faith in science and devoted herself to creating death machines and deadly weapons and Elayne put her proficiency in terrakinesis and aeromancy to good use by joining the Angelii, Eileithya was supposed to manage the family business but after her talent at Force healing was discovered her path inevitably led her to the clergy of the Church of Light, which she joined at an early age.
In that time Eileithya was a different woman than she is now. A product of an insular culture and from a rather affluent background where she wanted for little, she was haughty, arrogant and quite materialistic. Likewise she was very keen to secure her advancement within the hierarchy. Coincidentally the Church of Light was just as much a scheming nest of vipers as the Eldorai royal court. Power plays were common and often ended in bloodshed as the clerics vied for power and the Star Queens sought to use the church as a tool to further their agenda, for the Eldorai monarch is both a temporal ruler and the High Priestess of Ashira, thus making rebellion an offence against the Goddess.
Unfortunately for Eileithya she soon fell victim to the vicissitudes of Eldorai court politics. She had caught the eye of a Cenobite, a powerful official in the Ashiran clergy, called Elrialanna. The Cenobite was a conniving, ambitious woman who dreamed of rising to the top of the Church. However, during one of the many incessant struggles over the succession to the Eldorai Throne, Elrialanna allied with the Evosca branch of the royal family, who lost out in a struggle when Tirathana the Sixth seized the throne, thus beginning the reign of the Venari. Needless to say it did not take long for the Investigators to begin a purge of the Ashiran Church since anyone who had not backed the 'rightful' Star Queen was obviously a heretic.
Elrialanna was among those put on trial, as was Eileithya, who now suddenly found herself being accused by her former patron of having 'bewitched' her and led her astray to embrace the 'Dashdae Sciia', that is the Dark Side. Such accusations were quite commonplace in Eldorai politics in order to discredit a rival. Eileithya launched an impassioned defence, in the process airing plenty of dirty laundry about corruption in the Church, and thus was spared execution. Rather she was cast out of the Church and exiled from Kaeshana. Whilst obviously not death, for any orthodox Ashiran this was still a grave punishment since everything outside of Kaeshana was seen as the domain of Chaos. Moreover, it was a cause of shame and stigma for her family, the Saedaris Clan.
Adrift and alone in an unknown galaxy, Eileithya had to pay some foreign merchants to take her off planet. However, the ship she was on was soon boarded by pirates and though she defended herself bravely with her powers and caused a blazing firestorm, she was beaten and taken a slave. Suffice to say the experience was...unpleasant. In the interest of keeping things PG-13 we shall not elaborate more on that. As chance or perhaps the Force would have it, she was taken to a world called Sigma 957. The planet was rocked by a brutal civil between Mages, who wanted to subjugate all the 'mundanes', and Rebels who wanted to prevent that but had undergone a case of 'he who fights monsters'. Galina, Siobhan and Tegaea's future daughter, was born on this planet and a child soldier in the rebel army before her parents escaped with her.
Eileithya's fate was to become a slave to one of the powerful mages, used for the sorceress' pleasure. Her rage grew with every day of oppression and after a...particularly unpleasant encounter she managed to escape and, after a brutal fight that almost ended her, slay her oppressor and wreck a good portion of her residence. Consumed by her anger and a desire to never be a victim again, she eventually ended up claiming the sorceress' resources and assets. Grudgingly the Mages accepted her as one of their own because of what she had to offer them. As can be imagined, the hand that heals and gives a life can just as easily take it.
Her fall from grace came soon though. Long story cut short, the most powerful Mages of the land assembled on the eve of battle with the Rebels to cast a ritual that was supposed to give them access to great eldritch power. All those who failed to obey them would be drained of vitae and left only as lifeless husks. Drawing upon the darkest magicks the Mages cast the spell...and it backfired horribly. Vast swathes of land were destroyed, Mages and their soldiers and Rebels alike perished in the storm they had unleashed.
By chance or fate, Eileithya survived. Having been sceptical of the ritual she had tried to flee and shield herself from the onslaught...but it came at a price. Once she came to and found that the city lay in ruins, she would find that she could no longer touch the Force. Driven half mad and in a delirious state, she claims that it was the Goddess Ashira who appeared to her in a vision, telling her in very clear terms that this was punishment for her sins. A very lenient one at that, for she still lived though she had murdered the innocent for selfish reasons.
This caused a marked change in Eileithya, resulting in a penitent personality that wanted to make amends for her misdeeds. Lacking the Force, deprived of her minions and riches, she wandered across the wasteland of Sigma. Eventually she fell back on her gifts as a healer after having wound up in a refugee camp, using traditional Eldorai remedies to try to aid the sick and the injured.
She spent twenty further years on Sigma before eventually finding a way to leave the planet. From then on she wandered across the stars as the Dark Age came to an end and new galactic powers rose to exact their will upon the Galaxy. Eileithya stayed aloof from galactic events while the Republic claimed Coruscant and what would eventually become the Sith Empire of Moridin and Desmius rose to power. Having regained her faith and dedicated herself to helping those she had once tormented, she among other things worked in a clinic on Nar Shaddaa, even at times fighting thugs who wished the hospital ill.
Over time Eileithya reconnected with the Force, though she is elusive about how this happened, only saying that a confrontation with a Dark Master forced her to open herself to it again! Closer to the current timeline, she ran into Siobhan Kerrigan when the latter's career as a Jedi was coming to a close.
This was after Kerrigan had lost her teacher and lover, Adril Tythorin. Tormented by survivor's guilt, angry at herself and the world and still grieving, Siobhan was hunting down cultists she believed to be connected to the awakening of the abomination that Adril had sacrificed herself to kill. Coincidentally the Priestess was on the same trail and for a while they worked together.
What ensued was a brief relationship where Eileithya helped Siobhan through this rather dark phase in her life, though nothing more came out of it, but the two remained friends after taking down the darkside cult together. Only later would Siobhan learn that it had, in fact, been a Bando Gora sect she had run into.
Eventually Eileithya returned to Kaeshana, which by then had experienced great changes. Queen Tirathana still reigned upon the throne and conformity was the order of the day, but with more and more Eldorai being exposed to foreign contact, both hostile and benevolent, it was becoming difficult to maintain. With her nonconformist, liberal views, Eileithya stuck out like a sore thumb and soon made herself unwelcome when she spoke out against the stultifying conservatism that prevailed.
For a while her gifts as a healer saved her, but then she was arrested and thrown into the Angelii's not so secret prison on the so called Island of Fallen Angels. Here some of the most dangerous heretics were incarcerated. Back in the day the Eldorai judicial system was considerably more brutal than it is now. Physical abuse and torture of so-called unbelievers was common as a way to break them and make them see the error of their ways, with the punishment being administered by Ardarvian Inquisitors. Eileithya speaks little of this time, but still bears the scars, though she remained steadfast in her convictions and refused to recant.
She would have probably remained imprisoned if unexpected change had not come to Kaeshana. Long story cut short, after Tirathana died a brief civil war ensued between Silaqui and the Queen's niece Nalia. The exiled princess Anya returned to Kaeshana as part of an Omega Protectorate mission ordered by then-Exarch Alcori.
Silaqui backed Kaeshana's entrance into the Protectorate in return for their aid and when Nalia tried to seize power her followers were defeated and she was slain by Siobhan. Silaqui ascended the throne as Star Queen. Slowly change was brought to Kaeshana, though its court remained a nest of intrigue and it would take years before the new order was fully stabilised. As part of the reforms introduced by Silaqui, some more reluctantly than others, there was an amnesty for most political prisoners.
This included Eileithya after Siobhan had enquired about her fate. She was officially cleared of wrongdoing and rejoined the ranks of the priesthood, though for a long time she remained a stranger amongst the clerics. Having no interest in the power plays that still prevailed in the Church, she devoted herself to the practice of healing those in need and spreading the faith to those of Kaeshana's citizens who had not been born as Eldorai, but were just as much a part of the world as the natives.
After Firemane was founded following Tegaea and Siobhan's resignation from Protectorate leadership, Eileithya began working closely with them. Aside from providing an Eldorai perspective outside of the byzantine schemes of the Court, she also served as a healer, helping patch up their soldiers after battles - and especially patch up Siobhan since the woman had a tendency to get maimed and stuff. As outsiders began streaming into Kaeshana, she opened up a small clinic on the Tirathana Skyport that catered to both foreigners and Eldorai.
Aside from Force healing, she also provides traditional Eldorai remedies and potions due to her dislike of modern medicine. She has also been known to perform house calls, as she did for for Galina, Sio and Tegaea's adopted daughter, and Laina Silvias. She is one of the chosen few Eldorai who were made privy to Kaeshana's impending doom. Though outwardly she remains devout and as easy-going as ever, it has been a strong test for her faith to know that her homeworld is doomed to be destroyed and that no force, not even the Goddess, can avert this. However, she still accompanied the joint Firemane-Eldorai task force to make first contact with the elves' 'lost cousins' on Tygara, determined to both help assure her people's future and to make sure that Tygara's natives are not oppressed in a bloody conquista.
