Doloras (DOL-OR-AS)
Our Lady in Pain - LE female Queen of the Night of detachment, dispassion, and pain
Former general in Erastil's celestial armies.
Fallen Angel
Sister of three solar angels of heaven, Sarandiel, Arariel, Barachiel
Servant of Mephistophelese, Lord of the Eigth.
Doloras was charged with holding the line against a decades long incursion of demons rushing the outskirts of Erastil's realm in Heaven, but when several solar angels were dragged off as prisoners into the Abyss, including Doloras's three brothers, Sarandiel, Arariel, Barachiel, Doloras followed, alone, to hunt the demons she thought responsible. When she finally came up to them in an upper pocket of the abyss, she trapped and chained the demons. Full of fury, for 66 days, she tortured them for information about her brother's wherabouts.
While she tormented those demons, something broke within Doloras's mind. At first she was torn by the moral quandary that her deeds created, but she eventually became entirely inured to the demon's guttural screams of agony and cries for mercy. She even found herself enjoying the act of inflicting pain on the helpless souls so much that even when it became clear that these demons weren't part of her borther's kidnapping party, she continued. Thrice an emissary of heaven found her and informed her that her brothers had returned home relatively unharmed, and thrice, Doloras murdered the messenger. She told herself that they were demons or other fiends in disguise—but in truth, she simply relished the feeling of her greatsword slicing through new flesh.
Shortly after cutting down the third angel, Doloras accidentally destroyed the demons she was tormenting. Annoyed, she looked down at her hands and found daggers in the place of her fingers. Her eyes and skin had turned to solid ebony, and her once plumose wings bristled with needles. Atop her head sat a crown made of tears the exact size and shape that her former kin had shed when she tore the life from their bodies. Passing through the Outer Sphere, Doloras discovered what came as no surprise: the gates of Heaven were closed to her. She had fallen from grace, but as she had now found salvation through an absence of emotion, she set herself about finding a home that suited her better. Embracing the title She Who Betrays Her Own, Doloras realized she no longer cared about her brothers. As for her angelic siblings, to this day they mourn her as dead, though they harbor deep suspicions about their sister’s true fate.
Although she eschewed good, she still found chaos inimical. Thus, while looking for a new home, Doloras explored the depths of Hell. While there, she came across the imprisoned kytons, in whose sadism and wickedness Doloras saw much of herself, and so she unleashed the fiends. She was exploring Caina when Mephistopheles, Lord of the Eighth, found her and offered her a deal. Doloras would have her choice of spire and all that she wished to outfit her new home, in exchange for viciously torturing specific souls whenever he asked. Without reservation, Doloras agreed, and ever since she has resided on the Spike of Our Lady’s Pain.
Unlike many fiends, the Sadistic Angel does not seek dominion; she wishes only to inflict her emotionless, bloodthirsty vision on those set before her. She was willing to ally with the other Queens of the Night when Eiseth drew them all together, so long as Doloras was free to torment her choice of captives—a condition the other queens have happily granted. She regards the mortal-given title of Whore Queen with characteristic indifference, and those who try to hurl the epithet at her often find themselves upon her rack, thus providing Doloras as much joy as one such as her can feel.
Locations used to hide abducted victims
Torture chambers
kyton-binding diabolists
merciless torturers
sadists
Eremite kytons
Evangelist kytons
Ice devils
Sacristan kytons
Children
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