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Barra
Alti'ul
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| Lesser
Deity: Dark Sister |
Lesser Deity: Dark Sister |
| Symbol:
On a silver coin one side is Barra. To each side of her
touching her out spread wings is on the upper left a shadow
elf assassin female, on the right is a drow priestess at her
feet holding her up is a shadow dragon bull with his wings
extended touching the feet of the shadow elf and drowses,
its tail is curling downwards. (see Lox’ceri for the other
side to the coin.) Also she is pictured sitting down with
her wings open and tail upwards like a scorpion’s within a
sphere of energy. |
Symbol:
On a silver coin one side is Lox'ceri. Her elven form
is supported by eight spider legs. Her eight spider legs are
along eight points of the coin. |
| Gemstone:
Shadow Gem |
Gemstone: Ametrine |
| Alignment:
Neutral, Neutral Evil |
Alignment: Chaotic Evil |
Worshipers:
While the followers of the Sisters are primarily
Drow, Shadow-drow or Shadow Elves; a fair number of other underdark races such as Kobolds, some
Duergar, and the occasion Mindflayer, also worship them. Barra has also begun to receive some notice of the surface races among humans, tieflings and some half-elves.
Cleric Alignments: N, NE. (Click
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Worshipers: While the followers of the Sisters are primarily Drow, Shadow-drow or Shadow Elves; a fair number of other underdark races such as Kobolds, some Duergar, and the occasion Mindflayer, also worship them. Barra has also begun to receive some notice of the surface races among humans, tieflings and some half-elves.
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| Portfolio:
Shadow and Soul |
Portfolio: Chaos and Darkness |
| Domains:
Shadow, Spirit, and Subterfuge
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Domains: Power, Domination, and Chaos
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| Favored
Weapon: (none) Possessions and material goods are a sign
of weakness to her.
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Favored Weapon: Spirit Whip
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| Aspects: Velg'larn
(Shadow-Elf shadow-dancer/assassin), Du'ased d' Velve (drowess
priestess), Iratuf’Phuut (Bull shadow Dragon)
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Aspects: None
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| Dogma:
Use the weakness of your foe to your strength and collect them into your service. Through shadow, skill and subterfuge the self-righteous of lesser ways are undone by their own ideals and you shall reign in our name. |
Dogma: By challenge and trial the weak will fail, the strong and clever will prevail and beget the next generation. Those weaker or not of our faith are doomed to serve and the whims of those above you shall not be questioned. |
Description:
Barra was made from three upon three creatures (9).
She has the form of a shadow elf with their black skin and
hair. She also has the red eyes and sharp white teeth of the
drow as well as the wings and barbed tail of a shadow
dragon. She is of human size and extremely beautiful. Often
the only thing one sees of Barra is her red eyes and white
smile before she sucks the soul out of their body. As a
Keeper she was always hunger and figured that mortal beings
had no use for their souls. Often she would leave her
victims to wander about still alive but uncaring for others.
Either they would die or become cruel tyrants causing pain
and suffering on others.
Barra phases in and out of the shadow plane to the corporal
world so much of the time part of her is only a slight
outline while others are very solid. She is totally nude
with only two exceptions. A necklace of shadow and the red
tattoos along her arms and legs that appear as the 300 year
cycle of the goddess draws near. But since she is now a
goddess in her own right and the cycle is no more they are
her badges of honor.
She is so black that it often takes people a while looking
at her to realize she is naked. Her wings are stuff of
shadows and while huge often phase out to just tattered
outlines at the edges. Her long tail is like that of a
cat’s only it is covered in hairy scales that end in a
barb that drips green venom. Her tail is never still and is
always wagging or held up like a scorpion’s ready to
strike. It will strike if someone touches it or if she is
trying to stop her prey. The venom renders the victim
paralyzed but they are very much aware of her actions much
to their horror. Barra has no shame for her form and cannot
understand why some folks try to cover her up. Clothing is a
total mystery to her since she never feels hot or cold.
Barra is very much like an evil house cat playing with a
mouse. She is very evil and uses an innocent child like tone
to her very sexual exotic voice when asking questions or
causing trouble but she is far more than what you see there
is an intelligence that has kept her alive for thousands of
years and help to keep the drow at each other’s throats.
She has three main personalities that of a insane shadow
elf, a matronly drow priestess and a very wise dragon. These
three personalities are all that survived the blending of
nine creatures to form a Keeper of Shadows.
While Barra can appear on the
surface she tries to keep a low profile and will often
channel through the Herald. She can appear also as any of
her aspects.
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Description:
The sisters rule, primarily, from the underdark. They are often referred to as one, though they are two distinct deities.
Lox'ceri looks like a very
young and delicate elven creature with glowing red eyes. Her
hair is loosely held up and slightly beaded and braided. Her
jewelry is make to look like spiders or webbing and is
covered in Amertrines her favorite gemstone. Her gown also reflexes
her love of purple and orange and shows off her figure very
well. She often has a smirk playing on her lips as she plots
some way to use those who serve her. Attached to her back
are eight very ornately decorated spider legs that supports
her form. Several of the limbs have beautiful metal work
that is also very deadly. Crawling throughout her hair
and along her limps are many small spiders. Each represents
a house of the underworld that she controls.
Lox'ceri unlike Barra can not
bring her form to the surface. Instead she channels through
whoever is the current Herald. Otherwise the goddess is
bound to the underworld there she plots and makes plans to
someday send her people to the surface and take over.
The goddess while in some
cases very old over all she is one of the youngest gods of
this world. She is still learning her way around as is her
sister Barra. |
Note: Barra Alti’ui one of eight Keeper of Shadow who were
servants created by the Mother Goddess of the Drow to house her
soul and escape from being banished from the world of Talan’ith
by the twin Gods. Was the last Keeper who survived for thousands
of years she was part of the cycle for the shadow of their goddess
renewal. Until a surfacer asked her to remove the influence of an
outsider shadow god, Barra did that and more she took in the minor
shadow god’s essence and enslaved the surfacer to the drow.
When the time came for the Mother Goddess to cycle into a the body
of a shadow drow Zer’tin a drow from another world planted the
idea that the cycle should end and the goddess come into her own.
To do so would of met having to over power Barra who now had her
own godly powers. Instead both the Drow Goddess and Barra were
reborn as the Sisters - Barra Alti’ui and Lox’ceri.
The only survivor to witness the beginning of the rebirth was
Ou’Ellar a shadow drowses and matron of the only surface house
Talar'Elghinn controlled by Zer’tin. Ou’ became the first
priestess and is called the Herald of the Sisters. Zer’tin
killed himself to show the Sister’s his loyalty. Lox’ceri
still seeing value in the ambitious male brought him back to life
as a shadow drow and made him the one and only priest of the
Sisters.
[The following is an excerpt from a RP
story:
…Upon great wings that were made of torn shadows she rose up and
started to sore towards the ceiling of the great chamber.
Ou’ could not stop her eyes from following Barra as she rose up.
Then for a moment the young shadow-drowesses eyes looked up beyond
Barra and at the hundreds of web
encased crystalline bodies that covered the ceiling. Each one had
been a drowess who had given her body to house the Mother Goddess.
Their bodies had a bluish glowed inside them as the power stored
within pulsated as if calling out with the slow passage of Barra. Her eyes again
watched the Keeper of Shadows as she gracefully flew it was a beautiful
sight to
see against the glow of the fariefire.
The thousand drows below did not move as they prayed, not a one
looked up as their death flew above their heads. Slowly
Barra’s form hit its zenith and started downward gaining speed
as it moved through both the physical and shadow planes. Then it
swooped through a row of five drows. All of them screamed out then
fell over dead their souls ripped from their bodies. Their bodies
crumbled, turning to dust.
Barra swooped again and again through them, their screams echoing
off the walls not dissipating as each drow died growing
into a choir. After a half hour all the drows were dead and their
screams echoing about the chamber like music to the Goddess’s
ears.
Then Barra once again flew towards the platform and landed
changing back into her shadow elf form, her eyes were blazing
swirls of colors as the souls mixed within her, their screams
still echoing in the chamber but blending more into a roar of
agony as she walked towards Ou’…]
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Note:
When the time came for the Mother Goddess to cycle into a the body of a shadow drow Zer’tin a drow from another world planted the idea that the cycle should end and the goddess come into her own. To do so would of met having to over power Barra who now had her own godly powers. Instead both the Drow Goddess and Barra were reborn as the Sisters - Barra Alti’ui and Lox’ceri.
The only survivor to witness the beginning of the rebirth was Ou’Ellar a shadow drowses and matron of the only surface house Talar'Elghinn controlled by Zer’tin. Ou’ became the first priestess and is called the Herald of the Sisters. Zer’tin killed himself to show the Sister’s his loyalty. Lox’ceri still seeing value in the ambitious male brought him back to life as a shadow drow and made him the one and only priest of the Sisters.
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