Auranka
Drider Mistress Auranka
Auranka, aka: The Keeper, The Drider Mistress
(Ah-ron'-kah), - , was once a Davrin, born in Sivaraus. Though she still answers to her birth name, Auranka was chosen by the Valsharess to undergo the transformation to become the Drider Mistress serving the Goddess Braqth. The Dark Elf as she was born no longer exists.
Background
The Drider Mistress, also called the Keeper, both creates and controls the Driders within the Pit, a labrynthine "nest" of tunnels sprouting from an arena-like rock quarry where Dark Elves are sacrificed to her. Driders are generally kept out of the city as even with a mistress they are difficult to control. One Drider alone may be compelled by a Priestess of Braqth to guard a specific area, to chase away or kill the overly curious, but only the Keeper prevents them from running amok in Sivaraus.
Sometimes called Braqth's Blessing (ironic and unironic depending on the speaker), Auranka's "children" are living proof of the Abyssal power wielded by the Valsharess, of the destruction of the will and memory for a Davrin, a stripping of their beauty to serve as a warning and sentence of servitude. They are an effective weapon of intimidation for the Valsharess; rarely, the Driders are set loose to suppress rebellion. Even still, the total number of Driders is strictly controlled by the Valsharess, and Auranka is presumed to consume Driders that become damaged or uncontrollable to keep the number of the damned down.
Current
The Davrin Queen has chosen and controlled Her Keeper for millennia; Auranka is merely the most recent form. How much she resembles her previous personality would only be known by those who once knew her.
Auranka is known to take at least two physical forms: that of a large-breasted Drider - much like her children yet larger still - and that of a feral Dark Elf with some spider traits such as venomous fangs, black bristles on her arms and legs, and dark spots around her eyes and temples mimicking the eight eyes of a true spider. She is not known to wear clothing or adornments at all, and will don only the simplest of garments when called before her Queen in an official capacity. In either shape, her breasts tend to leak a yellowish milk at random.
Auranka is ageless in her feral Elf form. Many elder Priestesses remember her as the Keeper since their own caithood; most would not realize this was not always the face worn by the Queen's top enforcer. Auranka still appears as a flush youth of two centuries, as if the ritual has paused the passage of time for her.
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2350 S.E., upon the altar in the Drider Pit Affiliations
The Valsharess,
the Drider Pit,
Braqth
biological unknown;
post-transformation: Braqth chaos-child
Siblings
unknown
Mates
all Davrin sacrificed to her
Children
all Davrin sacrificed to her