The Weavers of Dread

The triplets Zoratha, Agasyl, and Eryndra were born during the final days of the Great Eclipse War, a cataclysmic conflict that reshaped the known world. The goddess Krorone blotted out the sun with her dark power and cast the land into eternal twilight. In the city of Hacuito the sisters were born under this cursed sky. Their mother, a priestess of the sun god, was caught in a tragic paradox: her children’s birth coincided with the fall of her god's light. The unnatural eclipse stained their souls, filling them with Krorone Goddess of Darkness's influence. Their cries echoed with eerie resonance and strange phenomena surrounded their infancy: clocks stopped, shadows deepened, and the fates of those who crossed their paths seemed inexplicably altered.

The aftermath of the eclipse and battles brought great distrust and paranoia, and the leaders of the city declared the sisters an omen of doom. Their mother, defying orders to surrender them for execution, fled into the desert sands that night. Her desperate attempt to protect them failed, as she perished to the cold and harsh conditions, leaving the infants to the mercy of fate.

It was Lorthys, the Nightsewn, a powerful hag who prowled the edges of mortal civilization, who discovered the sisters. Drawn by the dark power emanating from the children she took them into her lair. Lorthys, though cruel and manipulative, saw in them a potential to reshape the world—and perhaps challenge the divine and those that stood in her way. Under her tutelage, the sisters grew, unlocking their latent abilities. Zoratha, The Time Hag manipulated the very fabric of time learning how to bend it to her will. Agasyl, The Somberweave Hag drew her power from the very shadows, becoming a conduit between this realm and the shadow fell. Eryndra, the Fatestring Hag who was the youngest of the sisters by order of birth unraveled the threads of destiny, weaving and cutting them to shape the very fabric of reality itself. Despite their immense power, the sisters retained a deep bond. They trusted no one but each other, and even Lorthys tread carefully in their presence.

The sisters’ hunger for power grew beyond even Lorthys’ capabilities to satiate. They craved dominion not only over mortals but over the forces that governed existence. It was during their search for ultimate power that their paths crossed with Lord Vrothak, the Decayed Sovereign , ruler of the The Decaying Mire in The Hells . Vrothak, drawn by their potential and the residual mark of darkness on their souls offered them a pact: he would grant them immortality and dominion over their respective powers, but in return, they would be bound to his will as agents of corruption and decay and feed him souls to wither. Desperate to rise beyond even Lorthys’ shadow, the sisters agreed. The ritual that sealed the pact reshaped them forever and Lorthys fled before her fate was sealed. Zoratha became the chronarch exalting her capabilities to expand not only around her, but across the known world itself to grant her mastery over time. Agasyl became the somberweave and her very form entwined with the shadowfell, her presence existing in both worlds and capable of bending the mirrored image of the world as she could in the shadowfell. Eryndra became the Fatestring, puppeteering reality, severing and entwining lives as she saw fit. The sisterhood became known as the Weavers of Dread.

At first, the sisters’ power as a triad was unmatched. They carved their influence across mortal and fiendish realms alike. But as decades passed, the seeds of decay sown by Vrothak’s pact began to fester. Zoratha who was ever-ambitious, sought to use her mastery of time to undo the limits imposed by Vrothak, aiming to rewrite history or perhaps prevent a future that was determined by fate to happen. It was Agasyl who had been content in her dominion over despair, grew resentful of Zoratha’s recklessness, fearing her sister’s ambition would lead to their destruction. She pleaed with Eryndra who had become the most enigmatic of the three withdrew from their conflict, choosing instead to weave her own mysterious schemes in the mortal realm. Their final confrontation came when Eryndra attempted to sever their connection to Vrothak, aiming to control their pact herself and allow them to live freely. Agasyl and Zoratha intervened, afraid that the severed pact would sever the connection to their elevated powers, and Eryndra was cast out of their coven.

Zoaratha displaced herself from the stream of time and her presence is felt wherever time behaves erratically. Fragments of her essence flit in and out of existence as she exists whenever and never. Agasyl became bitter and brooding and retreated back to the shadowfell, her lair becoming a labyrinth of sorrow and decay, nuturing a festering hatred for both her sisters and Vrothak. Eryndra wanders the realm and brandishes a different identity with each step she takes. She eventually became a myth and a manipulator of destinies who appear when the threads of fate demand her intervention or her amusement.