Characters / Codex Equus: Shadowpact Pantheon

Here is a list of characters from the Shadowpact Pantheon, the ruling pantheon of the Shadowpact Empire.

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Shadowpact Pantheon

At the very top of the Shadowpact Empire lies the Shadowpact Pantheon, a group of 'Shadow Gods' who either Ascended from the mortal ranks or joined afterwards by initiative or invitation, watching over the empire directly or indirectly as its immortal divine superiors.

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General

• Dark Is Evil: Played with. The ruling pantheon of the Shadowpact Empire is the Shadowpact, and many of its gods and goddesses have names, epithets, and/or titles that are based around shadows and/or darkness. However, many of them are firmly on the side of Noble Demon and/or Anti-Villain in morality, due to the widespread empathy and compassion of the Third Age, and thus has lines they will not cross. A few like Kardin and Queen Eclaira also have sympathetic backstories to explain their rise to power as divine sovereigns of the Shadowpact Empire.
• Even Evil Has Standards: The Shadowpact Pantheon is one of the most prominent villainous factions of the Third Age, whose presence kept their heroic and empathetic opponents from going complacent and stagnant. However, as is the case with many Third Age villains, even they abhor doing things that they consider beyond the pale.
• Evil Is One Big, Happy Family: As if reflective of the general disposition of villains in the Third Age, much of the Shadowpact Pantheon so far had been depicted to be getting along nicely with and devoted to each other, whether mutually respecting each other as peers, in platonic relationships or even act as mentor/surrogate-parent figures to their younger members.
• Theme Naming: Shadows, whether in their name, epithets, and/or titles.

Vondur, the Overlord of Shadows

Classification: Ethereal/Elemental/Ascendant, Dark/Evil

Portfolio: Evil, Freedom, Chaos, Dark Magic

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

Affiliation Shadowpact Pantheon (Leader), Alvslog Deer Herds (Formerly)

Overlord Vondur (His entry here) is the god of Evil, Freedom, Chaos, and Dark Magic, and is the ruler/founder of both the Shadowpact Empire and its namesake pantheon.

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• The Ace: Was a brilliant sorceror and hero who later became a brilliant Evil Overlord.
• Ambition Is Evil: Vondur is as ambitious as any Evil Overlord and God of Evil worth their salt, and sees the whole concept positively.
• Arch-Enemy: While he has several major rivals and enemies among the factions of good and evil like Sekra, he considers Böser Anführer to be a particular one for him, as he was responsible for corrupting him and many other heroes and sovereigns of his homelands into vice and villainy, trapping it in a Vicious Cycle which caused untold ruin. Breaking his homelands free from his influence was one of his main goals early in his Evil Overlord career, and one of his long term (if likely impossible) goals is to one day usurp him as the embodiment of sapient evil so he can redefine it to be more like his schtick.
• Ax-Crazy: In a preview drabble, Vondur is shown to punish insubordination by boiling the transgressors alive and used the pot to make potions and stews to buff and feed the rest of his forces.
• At Least I Admit It: Makes no excuse nor hides the fact that he and his fellow shadow gods and overlords are bad guys or at least dark to varying degrees. Whether they are nastier than average back in their day or nicer than the mean by earlier or later Ages, they're still villains, and Vondur believes it's pointless and even counter-productive to deny that even to themselves.
• Back from the Dead: After being killed in the First Linearan War, he broke out of imprisonment in Demon Lord Molokh's hells and returned to life for a rematch with the aid of Molokh's brother, Olokh the Infernal Mage.
• Batman Gambit: During the struggle between Vondur and Böser after he conquered Lineara, upon realising that only virtue and goodness can truly defeat the incarnation of sapient evil that is Böser, Vondur arranged for a group of Linearan heroes and champions held captive after Lineara's fall to 'escape' his forces' custody and guide them towards Böser and his minions, knowing being noble paragons they are they will naturally oppose Böser's evil as much if not more than Vondur's own. It works, with Böser defeated by the heroes and banished, freeing the region from Böser's manipulations and the Vicious Cycle it was trapped in once and for all.
• Benevolent Boss: Surprisingly, he's a very good boss to his subordinates (so long as they remain loyal and up to standards. If not...), which partly explains why he is so effective and dangerous an Evil Overlord.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He is rather Laughably Evil and quite laid-back when not properly motivated - but it should be noted that he is still exceedingly dangeorus and effective. This guy and his Shadowpact Empire were both once legitimate rivals to Sekra the Indomitable and her Old Cryptan Empire back during their hay-day in the Third Age. He also has a mean-streak which shows when he's infuriated enough, as seen in how he punished insubordinate minions once by boiling them alive (And use the resulting potion and stew to buff and feed his forces).
• Big Entrance: How he made his grand return as an active Evil Overlord and God of Evil in the 'Fourth Age': interrupting a battle between Cryptan forces led by his arch-rival, Sekra the Indomitable, with other heroic factions and nations, leading his own army with the intent of fighting her then and there and proclaiming his presence in full Large Ham mode.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He outright admits and describes himself as being a 'bad-guy' to many, honestly and without irony nor regrets.
• Dare to Be Badass: He gave a Rousing Speech version of this in his book "The Overlord's Guide to Evil", where he speaks highly of ambition and encourages people to not be afraid to pursue their wants and dreams and becoming as great as they want to be and more, never letting oneself be satisfied and be ever-willing to take it to the next level. Notably, the then-rising Princess Eclaira was inspired to take the path she took because of his speech.
  Overlord Vondur: Something I was once told was this: ‘the cup you choose to fill has no bottom.’ A simple message, really, but that’s when I realized something. There are plenty of games in this world that have no ending, you just try to get the highest score. Ambition is that sort of game. There is no limit to how high you can go, no end, just how far you will eventually fall.
  
  But that’s the point. That’s why ambition is what it is, what makes it so exciting. To never be satisfied with your place in the world, to always take your wants and dreams to the next level. The point is never to fill the cup, it’s to see how much you can pour in. That is the nature of ambition. Don’t be frightened by it, embrace it! Always be willing to take it to the next level.
• The Determinator: Vondur is known for his persistence and determination, not stopping until he achieves his goals and ambitions no matter how difficult or impossible. Not even being killed and tormented in hells at the end and after the First Linearan War stopped him from eventually coming back to life for his more successful rematch.
  Overlord Vondur: Not my finest hour, admittedly. But no great things are accomplished if you give up at your first death and damnation!
• Didn't See That Coming: He notes in hindsight that he should had expected how Princess Praline would react over Eclaira and Vondur's plan to ascend Eclaira by kidnapping one of Praline's daughters, use her as bait to lure Praline into a trap to be de-powered and swallowed alive, allowing Eclaira to drain Praline of her beauty and primordial quintessence, then use a ritual when Eclaira drained enough to ascend her to godhood before the Virtusidae could stop them. This led to a supremely pissed-off Princess Praline responding after all that by tackling Eclaira and beating the absolute crap out of her for what she did.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Like many Third Age villains, Overlord Vondur have many lines he would not cross. If his advice to Eclaira is any indication, having standards is precisely why and how the Shadowpact had been so successful, differentiating them from unscrupulous villains even they don't like and generally making things easier and more fun in the long run.
  • When a young Eclaira asked if the ritual he suggested to her would also allow her to consume souls as well, Vondur was appalled and made it clear that neither he nor the Shadowpact would ever entertain such a thing. Eclaira was relieved that it wasn't the case, since neither did she want to bar souls from their rightful afterlife herself either.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: His 'evil bad jokes' are considered as terrible as his spells, rivalling even Phykti, the Baroness of Torment's bad puns. Reportedly, several heroes facing him experienced a seizure merely from listening to him cracking one.
  Overlord Vondur: You will be baked... and then there will be cake!
• Evil Overlord: A surprisingly capable and dangerous one from the Third Age.
• Evil Virtues:
  • Idealism - Vondur believes that everyone deserves a chance to achieve all their wants and desires and should be free to do it in any way, good or bad (so long as they don't go too far). He encourages others to do the same, especially those whom he mentored/influenced, and also to have fun while doing it.
  • Ambition - Vondur considers ambition to be a positive thing and strives to achieve all his goals and dreams with nothing to hold him back but standards and principles.
  • Honour - Vondur possess like many villains of the Third Age moral codes, principles and standards that he will not cross, and respects his enemies if they prove to be a Worthy Opponent to challenge and be challenged by. His Shadowpact Empire have strict rules dictating what members can or cannot do, and realizing one of his greatest rivals has returned in the Fourth Age was what finally spurred him and his Shadowpact back into action.
  • Honesty - Vondur never deny the fact that he and his fellow villains, overlords and dark gods are 'bad guys' and makes no excuses that they pursue villainy for selfish and egotistical reasons. They care more about not overdoing it and avoid causing any more suffering than necessary, as well as actually having fun all the way.
• The Faceless: His face is almost never seen clearly, being always shrouded in darkness underneath his hood and cowl for pretty much all his existence. Most ever seen by anyone was a pair of glowing green orbs which leaked purple and red smoke.
• Fallen Hero: Vondur was once a renowned adventurer and hero who saved Lineara and its neighbouring lands several times, most notably during the war with Malevia and Mactan. Then he was tempted by the tainted Tear of Arvan thanks to Böser whispering to him through it and corrupted by its power, turning him into the Evil Overlord he became.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Böser Anführer served as one to Vondur, having whispered and tempted him into evil through the corrupted Tear of Arvan artifact, corrupting the once noble hero into ambitious villainy as he had many other previous valorous heroes and sovereigns of his homelands. Vondur was NOT amused when he found out.
• He's Back!: Hearing his old Arch-Enemy / rival High Queen Sekra return was enough to spur him back into action.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Having survived with his empire into the Fourth Age at a much reduced state... until he heard his old rival Sekra returned. He immediately got to work getting back up so he continue their struggle.
• I Regret Nothing: Played with. Vondur emphasizes on the need for villains to be honest about themselves being, at the end of the day, bad guys who are out for selfish or egotistical reasons, yet also even while pursuing villainy they should hold themselves to standards and don't cross too many lines. Be evil (or good) if you want, but don't do anything that you would regret. This philosophy is partly what made Vondur and his Shadowpact Empire quite effective as villains.
• Large Ham: Oh, HELL YES.
  Vondur: [Meeting his rival once again] HELLOOOOO, SEKRA! Did you MISS me?!
• Laughably Evil: He's known to have a VERY dark sense of humour, but is still incredibly dangerous. He is also quite hammy and fun-loving despite being villainous, perhaps stemming from his Third Age background.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Implied. A major reason why Vondur went into a funk following the end of the Third Age was due to many of his heroic and villainous rivals disappearing in the catastrophic end and aftermath of the era. It took the return of his major villainous Arch-Enemy Sekra the Indomitable and Crypta to snap him out of his ennui and give him a reason to live his villainous life to the fullest again.
• Oh, Crap!: Even he realised they were in serious trouble when, after helping his protege Queen Eclaira ascend to godhood through abducting and using Princess Praline, a supremely pissed-off Praline (who are older and more powerful at the time than both him and Eclaira) marched towards them with physically violent intent. He quietly scoots out of sight and motioned Eclaira to come with him while Eclaira stood still like a critter caught in the headlights of a moving vehicle.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Overlord Vondur had demonstrated flexibility and keenness in how well he could take advantage of chances offered to him when they showed up. This is best demonstrated when he sensed a young Princess Eclaira's yearning desire to be the fairest mare of her kingdom and eat all she wants through an enchanted copy of his infamous magical tome which happens to be confiscated and held in the palace archives of Eclaira's homeland. Seizing this opening, he used his sorcery to lure her to secretly access the book, and upon hearing her sad story and dreams happily help her achieve them, earning him a powerful and loyal 'Shadow Lady' and eventually 'Shadow Goddess' for his then rising Shadowpact Empire.
• Parental Substitute: Acts as one to many fellow Shadow gods/goddesses and notable Shadowpact minions, such as Queen Eclaira, the Voracious Shadow and Zil, the Shadow Dancer, never depicted to judge or demean them for arbitrary reasons and are actively encouraging and supportive of them so that they might fulfill their full potential, whether for themselves, for him or for the wider Shadowpact Pantheon.
• The Rival: Was apparently one to Sekra the Indomitable, High Queen of Crypta according to Nevermore813, the feelings of which were mutual. No sooner had he heard his old rival Sekra had returned, Vondur immediately went straight to work getting his empire up and running again to its former power and menace, just so he could fight her again on equal grounds.
  • From the same source, he also doesn't get along with the infamous Vicearch Iniquitous of the Malrègnar Empire. Their conflict stems from the contrasting natures of their Evil: the 'Lawful Evil' Iniquitous finds him and his ways too wild for her taste, while the 'Chaotic Evil' Vondur considers her a 'stick-in-the-mud'.
• Squishy Wizard: While a powerhouse and genius in magic, Vondur is lacking in both durability and strength, leaving him hapless if he's caught in the open with his magic disrupted or negated without his physically powerful allies. Best exemplified during the Shadowpact Restoration when Terran Prince Fanged Paw's own Disruption domain allowed him to put the much older and normally more powerful Vondur on the backhoof with his dark magic neutralised, leading to him having his lights punched out and his head ringing from a suplex by the physically more capable and martial Alicorn demigod.
• Villainous BSoD: The end of the Third Age drove Vondur as it did the remnants of the Shadowpact into a period of ennui and dormancy, having lost his villainous drive due in part to the disappearance of so many of his rivals. The return of Sekra in the Fourth Age however snapped him out of it and lead the Shadowpact Restoration.

Kardin, the Broken Shadow

Classification: Ethereal/Corrupted

Portfolio: Fertility, Arts, Passion, Corruption

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"Shadow and stone, hear my call."

Kardin, the Broken Shadow (his entry here) is a sombre dark Deer divine member of the Shadowpact Pantheon, the oldest 'Shadow God' among its ranks. Once, he was a much happier and down-to-earth member of what would become the future Eltenteil Deer Pantheon, who loved throwing revelries with his mortal worshippers and teaching them and creating art. However, his life took a terrible and tragic turn like many of his siblings and mortal Deer worshippers when Grogar and the Tambelon Empire attacked Deerkind during the 'First Age', with him being among the siblings who would be captured by the Shadow King of Tambelon. Tortured and twisted irrevocably by dark magic into a pale shadow of his former self, the now madden and corrupted Deer god was set loose upon his former race and family like rabid beast during the war, and was eventually struck down by his own tearful father High King Irminsul with a blast of purification magic that many hope would put him out of his misery.

His story, however, did not end there. Although the blast neither killed him nor restored his once pristine form, it did banished Grogar's perfidious influence from his mind and restored much of his sanity. His corrupted form, damaged even more than it was but still alive, was sent flying off a cliff and into the ocean, where he eventually drifted onto the shores of a remote volcanic island. Despondent over what he became and knowing he could never return to his people and home in his still corrupted state, he was content to stay on the island, falling into a slumber to heal himself - only to find himself no longer alone in the forsaken land when he awoke years later.

While the Deer kingdoms and pantheon eventually prevailed over the Tambelon Empire and drove Grogar back to the Shadow Realm, the mark left behind by the Shadow King cannot be erased. One of those marks were the Deerggle - twisted, hideous hybrids of the forests' Deers and Tambelon's Troggles created by Tambelon's vile Ibexian Necromancers. Escaping purging and persecutions by those who saw them members of Grogar's hordes of abominable monsters, a group of Deerggle refugees adrift at sea arrived on the island, bereft of hope or future. Taking pity on those wretched hybrids, who suffered horribly like he did, he became their saviour and god, giving them the ability to reproduce, teaching and giving them art, culture and magic, and working together to make their volcano island - which would become known as the Black Isle - into a habitable place where they could build a new society and civilization.

While he would forever be haunted and marred by his trauma and tragedy, Kardin would take to his new purpose with dedication, protecting and leading his new people well into seclusion of the Second Age and a new beginning in the Third Age, where in the course of helping them colonize and expanding their home to stave off overpopulation, he would accept an invitation from Overlord Vondur to join his Shadowpact alliance and bring his people into it with him, becoming one of the founders of the Shadowpact Empire. There he would remain to this day, through the empire's decline and restoration in the Fourth Age, serving as a font of wisdom and history for the pantheon and the empire and a patron of its artisans and craft-makers.

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• The Aloner: He's one of the less public members of the Shadowpact Pantheon, and a god of Arts and patron of artisans within the Shadowpact Empire.
• Benevolent Boss: He loved his Deerggle people, sympathizing with their plight which mirrored his own, and was the one who saved them as a race, taught them art and culture, build a society/civilization with them and led them to become more than what they could had been despite their wretched beginnings and lingering reputation as a 'dark race'. This earned him their Undying Loyalty and unconditional love.
• Body Horror: It cannot be understated just how horribly Grogar had done a number on his body, made worse by the wounds he suffered from his father and others on top of that. He is first and foremost described as looking like a Deer god that had been 'horrifically injured', a mess of deep torture scars and black batches from being charred by purification magic covering all over his dark and tainted pelt, while still open and sore wounds which can never be healed properly bleed black, corrupted divine blood constantly. His body's condition is so bad he had to resort to fusing obsidian plates onto his own flesh just to hold his broken body together and restore his strength.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Yes, but also not quite. While member of a villainous pantheon, he's not exactly evil himself, merely a dark and corrupted god as a result of his present nature and domains. He was more this trope during his time as Grogar's 'attack dog', having been driven mad by torture and corruption into little more than a rabid beast turned against his former people and family and had to be (almost) put down.
• Broken Ace: Downplayed. He was once a pure, pristine and powerful Deer divine, but it is clear following his tortures and corruption by Grogar and injuries inflicted by his father he is a pale shadow of what he once were. He is still very powerful and experienced, however, between his age and wisdom.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He loved his Deerggle worshippers and subjects dearly, having sympathized with their plight as kindred spirits and becoming the saviour of their people. In turn, he has earned their unconditional love and loyalty for all he had given them.
• Hates Being Touched: He understandably dislikes physical contact after going through excruciating pain from being tortured and corrupted.
• Ice Queen: Gender-inverted version. Where before he was jolly and playful, now he is cold and distant.
• The Quiet One: Once more talkative and outgoing, Kardin's trauma had made him presently this trope, being aversive to long conversations.
• That Man Is Dead: Sees his old self and life as having ended even after recovering his sanity, given that he's still a shadow of his former glory.
• Tragic Villain: Both as Grogar's 'attack dog' and later as a member of the villainous Shadowpact Pantheon. Tambelonians' tortures and dark magic had turned him into a mad and corrupted being which was let loose back upon his former worshippers and pantheon during the Tambelon Empire's incursions into the Deer realms. Even after he regained his sanity, his still corrupted and broken form meant he could never return to his family and people, and the fear and disgust many have for both him and his new Deerggle worshippers and subjects meant that he have little choice but to join the Shadowpact when they were invited to, partly because the Shadowpact are among the few who would ever accept him and his people with neither reservations nor revulsion.
• I Have No Son!: Tragically and on the receiving end. As far as his original Eltenteil Deer Pantheon family are concerned, Kardin died when High King Irminsul (almost managed to) put him out of his misery, and considers anything else as too painful to contemplate. Kardin knows in his corrupted state he could never go back to his own people, and thus similarly view his old life being good as dead.

Queen Eclaira, the Voracious Shadow

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant, Dark, Devourer

Portfolio: Gluttony, Feasts, Vanity, Beauty, Desire

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"We are all what we eat. I just take it more literally."

Queen Eclaira (her entries here and here) is the Shadow goddess of Gluttony, Feasts, Vanity, Beauty, and Desire, and is one of the Shadowpact Pantheon's more infamous members.

Known as "the Voracious Shadow", she is well-known for not only how she satiates her obsession with beauty and ravenous gluttony, but also for being one of Princess Praline, the Princess of Beauty's most well-known adversaries, and is widely considered to be a villainous foil to the Virtusidae goddess of Beauty, Fashion and Baking.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Ironically, Eclaira is and remains this for Princess Praline, as she idolized her beauty and bakery and she was an inspiration for her even despite being each other's Worthy Opponent Arch-Enemy, with Praline still abhorring her and Eclaira still wanting to eat her and add her beauty to herself.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Deconstructed and played for drama. She had the sheer misfortune of being born an ugly-looking Princess in a kingdom which extremely obsessed with beauty and fashion on top of delicacies and cuisines. Because of the social pressures that resulted, both her subjects and her own family shunned, bullied, and abused her for her inadequate looks, causing her to develop stress-eating as a way to alleviate her own misery and in turn making the problem worse and only give her detractors and tormentors more ammunition to demean her. At the same time, her miserable situation gave birth to ambitions and desires regarding becoming the most beautiful Pony in her kingdom and eating however much she wants, all which drove her into the hooves of Overlord Vondur, who became her mentor and friend. After years of learning under him, Eclaira, now a powerful sorceress, conquered her childhood kingdom and punished almost every single person who participated in her foalhood abuse by devouring them and stealing their beauty and vitality for her own, eventually followed by most of the kingdom.
• And I Must Scream: Downplayed, but the fate of everyone swallowed by Eclaira is to be trapped and squirm inside her forever, where her body would drain them endlessly for their beauty and vitality, with her magic sustaining their lives and only dissolving and absorbing them completely when they are finally spent in life, vitality and beauty. Given she's a Third Age villainous goddess, however, it's not actually as bad as it sounds: the endless maze of gastrointestinal chambers and tunnels inside her is actually quite spacious, giving them plenty of room to settle in; apart from feeding on their beauty and vitality she leaves them alone, and the draining/dissolution processes are more-or-less painless, only making her victims lethargic and increasingly mediocre in appearance; she doesn't consume the souls of the innocent or unwilling so they could pass on if they actually perish or runs out of vitality and beauty for her to feed on; and last but not least it's implied that she allows them to try and escape if they can, finding it fun to challenge them and see if they can succeed, even though as a gluttonous divine she has complete control over her internal dimensions and could had make it impossible for anyone to escape. And of course, as Prince Knight Shade demonstrates, there are ways for others to set those trapped inside her bottomless belly free.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: She's a Shadowpact goddess who embodies Gluttony, Feasts, Vanity, Beauty, and Desire.
• Apocalypse How: Class 0, regional devastation. Eclaira's unending hunger for food and beauty is such that even before her ascension she could strip whole kingdoms and lands of food, people and life within a few years of conquering and ruling it, consuming nearly everyone and everything. Often the only reason there are anyone/thing left is due to her leaving just enough to regrow, rebuild and repopulate, which allows her to return to take over and feast upon them all over again centuries down the line.
• Arch-Enemy: One of Princess Praline's most persistent and well-known adversaries, though by the Fourth Age they had become each a Worthy Opponent and a Friendly Enemy to each other. The irony here is that Eclaira idolized Praline from the very beginning and still looks up to her, as much as she wants to eat her and feed on her beauty to sate her gluttony and vanity.
• Asshole Victim: While a lot of those she enthralled to her beauty and eventually devoured did not deserve it, a considerable number of her victims arguably did, in fact, had it coming.
  • The entire forgotten early-Third Age kingdom where she was born and razed arguably had it coming, having ostracized Eclaira all her life for her mediocre appearance and her indulgent appetite because of their cultural obsession with beauty, from the commoners who disrespected her, the high-society nobles who disregarded her, to her parents who are always disappointed with her, and everyone in between who scorned, picked-on and bullied her. They had only themselves to blame when they found themselves conquered, enthralled and eventually all-but-devoured by the vain and gluttonous sorceress-queen they unwittingly created and unleashed onto the world.
  • Because of her past experiences, in both her first and subsequent reigns Eclaira despised any and everyone who ever demeaned and scorned others for not being beautiful enough or as beautiful as they are, and made it a matter of principle to devour them and take their beauty for her own.
• The Assimilator: Her most notable modus operandi is eating others and add their beauty and vitality to her own, making her ever more beautiful and gorgeous. A throwaway line or two suggests on occasions her victims perish inside her or depleted of vitality and beauty beyond recovery, she dissolves and absorbs them completely into herself, releasing the souls of those who are innocent or unwilling to afterlives elsewhere or those installed within her, while everyone else are converted into incorporeal beings of beauty/vitality energy and become a part of her for all eternity.
• Ate It All: From many a Mountain of Food taken as tribute to entire nations in her gluttony and vanity.
• The Bad Guys Win:
  • Queen Eclaira succeeded in becoming a Vain Sorceress, achieve supernatural-levels of beauty and power, taking over her kingdom in a coup, turn her kingdom into a massive farm/temple dedicated to feeding her hunger and stoking her vanity, devour most of her subjects partly as punishment for years of looking down on her, and at the end of her first reign gets to meet her idol who would become her Arch-Enemy, and get away thanks to her mentor Vondur before the Virtusidae could put a permenant end to her villainy.
  • Queen Eclaira succeeded in achieving godhood with Vondur's help by kidnapping Princess Praline's daughter, using her as bait to trap and devour Princess Praline, drain Praline for weeks while she's inside her body of her beauty and Primordial Quintessence and then used the accumulated power and divine 'spark' to ascend in a magical ritual before the Virtusidae could stop them. She got the stuffing beaten out of her by an enraged Princess Praline afterwards for her trouble, but she and Vondur still manages to get away with her divine beauty and immortality intact.
• Beauty Is Bad: In contrast to Princess Praline of the Virtusidae/Coltic Pantheon, who uses her Beauty and Baking domains to benefit the world, Queen Eclaira is an insanely beautiful sorcerer-queen turned 'Shadow Goddess' of the Shadowpact Pantheon who is so obsessed with beauty and eating that she combined both and became a cannibalistic villainess who consumed countless other beings and imprisons them inside her body so she could assimilate their beauty into her own, making her eternally fair and forever more beautiful and gorgeous.
• Benevolent Boss: Queen Eclaira is nice to those who had been loyal and adored her, rewarding them well for their services and sparing them from her hunger.
• Best Served Cold: Her Royal family and kingdom ostrasized her for failing their culture's expected standards of beauty and mocked her further for indulging herself in eating to cope with her misery over it. When Eclaira turned herself into a vain, gluttonous and insanely beautiful sorceress and took over as queen, she would pay back her family and kingdom for all her years of mockery by feasting on them and draining them alive inside her for her eternal beauty and vitality, eventually devouring nearly her entire homeland and her subjects in her voraciousness and vanity.
• Big Eater: Is known as 'The Voracious Shadow' with a good reason. Desiring to be the most beautiful of all (and to indulge the insatiable appetite she developed without limits), she became a vain, cannibalistic god-queen who achieves supreme fairness and power by devouring people, trapping countless victims inside her innards to be slowly drained or eventually dissolved, adding their beauty and vitality to her increasing power and beautification. She is also an enthusiastic Foodie who loves to savour delicacies and cuisines of all kinds and endlessly feasts on many a Mountain of Food given as tribute or plundered as she does people. Either way, lands she conquered and dominated under the Shadowpact Empire would often end up being largely stripped barren of living things as everyone and everything is eventually made to sate her endless hunger and added to her ever-increasing beauty. Is even classified as a 'Devourer' in her Divine Classification.
• Bigger on the Inside: The ritual that turned her into a vain cannibalistic sorceress and eventual god-queen made her body this by implication, considering she feasts on hundreds if not thousands of Ponies and others at any given day and she needed all the space inside her to store all those she devoured and drain/dissolve and absorb their beauty and vitality from.
• Black-Hole Belly: Thanks to her Third Age dark sorcery and later her divine domain of gluttony and beauty, she can ingest whole kingdoms worth of food and people without affecting her figure.
• Caged Inside a Monster: The inevitable result of Eclaira's modus operandi for her victims: those who consumed by the vain, cannibalistic god-queen are left trapped inside her belly to be drained for their beauty until they are absorbed completely into her, freed post-mortem if they are innocent or unwilling to be assimilated, or they are rescued. It's not as bad as it sounds, but still very unpleasant, and with an appetite to rival Giant deities the prisoners within her number in the millions from feasting upon whole lands and kingdoms. The same also applies to her top subordinates, most prominently the Ravenous Regents.
• Cain and Abel: Justified. Being an 'ugly duckling' among royals who were obsessed with beauty, fashion, and food meant that she would be endlessly scorned, bullied, and abused by her own brothers and sisters. Eventually, her ambitions to become more beautiful than her siblings caught the attention of Overlord Vondur, who encouraged her and taught her everything she needed to take revenge against her childhood kingdom and establish herself as its beautiful tyrant-Queen. During her conquest, one of her sisters who constantly demeaned her in their youth begged to be spared, only for her pleading to be willingly ignored and made to join the rest of the her family now in her sister's belly.
  Eclaira's sister: No, please! Sister, I'm sorry! I'm sorry for calling you names and making you look bad all the time! I'm BEGGING you! Don't eat me! I'M – !
  Princess Eclaira: You should had done that sooner, sister... Now you can tell our dear mom and dad that you're sorry!
• Card-Carrying Villain: Like her mentor/adoptive uncle Vondur, she makes no excuse as to what she does, caring only that she doesn't take it too far and do anything more which she could regret. She even turns down Princess Praline's offer of a chance to atone for her sins and become a benevolent hero, feeling that she is satisfied with her current way of life even though she admires Praline.
• Close to Home: She abhors those who demean people who were born 'ugly' because when she was a filly, she was born a rather mediocre-looking Princess in a kingdom that was obsessed with beauty and fashion, giving her no shortage of bullying, abuse, and scorn from even her own royal family. While she proceeded to treat her childhood kingdom like her own buffet after conquering it afterwards, she granted her 'ugly' subjects a portion of her own beauty (especially if they diligently provided her with great loyalty and service) and punished those who demeaned said subjects by eating them. She also reacted with genuine horror and disgust when she learned that Princess Winter Opera used to be bullied for being beautiful in her mortal youth to the point of wishing she was ugly for a time.
• Create Your Own Villain: She wouldn't have become the goddess she is today if her foalhood kingdom actually looked past her mediocre looks and loved her for who she is. Instead, they scorned and abused her for being 'ugly' by their standards, turning her into an utterly miserable foal who eventually gained the desire to become the Fairest of Them All. And for their mistreatment of Eclaira, they would become the first among the many a vengeful Eclaira would devour to sate her own ravenous hunger and vanity.
• Creepy Children Singing: A (in)famous children's folk rhyme in the Shadowpact Empire is often sung about her, especially in areas under her direct control. It basically sums up how she sees the world and everyone else in relation to her, and warns listeners what happens to those who fails to give her what she wants when asked.
  "All the world is her show stage,
  And all folks who lives her buffet.
  Worship, adore, when you are told,
  Or down her gullet, you will go!"
• Crushing the Populace: For Eclaira, rebellions in lands she rule over are just excuses for her to have population-feasting buffets.
• The Dog Bites Back: Or in her case, 'Eats most of her kingdom and drains all their precious beauty and vitality for her own inside her belly after a lifetime of mockery for her appearance and appetite'.
• Deity of Human Origin: While a mortal Vain Sorceress and 'Shadow Lady' of the Shadowpact Empire at first, she did eventually ascended to godhood and joined the empire's ruling/overseeing Shadowpact Pantheon.
• The Dreaded: Eclaira is very well-feared in the Third Age and even in the Fourth Age as a villainous deity, for the same reason anyone would be when they hear the description 'Vain cannibalistic god-queen' as well as being member of the Shadowpact Pantheon.
• Eat Me: One of the more disturbing results of Eclaira conflating her supernatural beauty's enthralling wiles with her insatiable cannibalistic appetite is that a sizeable fraction of the population she rules over become so infatuated with her and her euphorically-gorgeous looks they sincerely and enthusiastically take the initiative to offer themselves as willing sacrifices to be eaten by her and have their beauty added to her own. This would had been considered creepy in ANY Age, both in-universe and out-.
• Eaten Alive: The terrible fate of anyone who had the unfortune of being caught by Eclaira and fed to the vain cannibalistic god-queen's hunger and vanity. While it's not actually as bad as it sounds thanks to her being a Third Age villainess goddess, it's still unpleasant.
• Energy Absorption: Another way Eclaira had shown to consume her victims is to convert them into streams of magical energy which she would then swallow en-masse, reforming her victims once they are taken completely into her body.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Being a villainous goddess from the Third Age, even she has standards.
  • She was both disgusted and horrified when she learned of Princess Winter Opera's experiences with being bullied and shunned for resembling her handsome yet villainous father, War Rock, which were completely opposite to her own experiences yet no less hurtful.
  • While she would happily consume Ponies and others to be drained repeated and eventually dissolved and absorbed physically for their beauty and vitality, both processes are relatively painless, and in the latter case the draining only causes lethargy and increasingly mediocre appearances, and overall her victims are generally left to their devices inside her. She maybe a vain cannibalistic god-queen, but she isn’t a sadist.
  • When Vondur advised her on the ritual that would allow her to absorb beauty and vitality from consuming others, she was worried that she might end up consuming her victims' souls as well, and was relieved when Vondur reassured her that no, she wouldn't and the Shadowpact would never contemplate it. Aside from being an unthinkable taboo under the 'Primeval Laws' to steal and keep souls from their rightful afterlives, even she like Vondur considers such a practice too abhorrent to contemplate.
  • She also like many Third Age villains adamantly refuse to harm children below a certain age. They are completely off the menu, and in the event some are accidentally eaten, they are let out as soon as they could be (if at all possible) or are otherwise protected from the depredations of her endless innards. When she read about another villain, Queen Gossamar, the Blood Hawk, actually goes about eating Pony foals as Griffons ate Ponies in the old days, she's absolutely horrified and enraged by it and wishes to eat Gossamar herself so she could "give her a taste of her own terrible cooking".
  Queen Eclaira: THAT ROTTEN MONSTER!!!
  • While she expects and takes lion's share of food as tribute from her yet-consumed subjects, she also makes sure that whatever happens they still have enough food to eat on their own. While this is partly done out of Pragmatic Villainy by ensuring they would be in good condition to continue supplying her with food and people to eat and drain, her gluttonous nature made her personally hate the very idea of starvation and truly did not want anyone to suffer from it.
  • Despite their goals being similar by her own admission, even Eclaira considers her renegade former minion/worshipper Insectora, the Prodigious Mnoarch's final insane plan to choke the world of Equus by fusing with, corrupting and spreading the Dreamstalk and feed on all life that lives on it for eternity as sustenance on her ascension to beauty and divinity as going way too far. Queen Eclaira wanted to do more or less the same thing - feasting on the lands and peoples of Equus to eternally increase her own beauty - but she doesn't actually want to consume the whole world and destroy it all for her vanity and gluttony, or be excessively cruel and heartless about it unlike her insanely narcissistic ex-minion. This goes to the point she's willing to join forces with Princess Praline helping Vol, the Hungry Hero and his allies in defeating Insectora at the final battle.
• Evil Chef: Feasting being one of her domains, Queen Eclaira is a highly-capable divine chef in her own right, with a focus on quantity. She had challenged and had been challenged by heroic mortals and gods in cooking contests, and also organized great feasts for her minions and fellow villains.
• Evil Feels Good: She turned herself with Vondur's aid into a vain, cannibalistic, supernaturally beautiful sorceress/god-queen to escape the misery of being scorned for her appearance and appetite, and had never regretted it nor stopped since then. She regarded the first reign that saw her taking over and eventually consuming most of her own homeland for beauty and nourishment (with a pinch of payback) as one of the best times of her life, having got everything she wanted and more, even seeing her being defeated by her future Arch-Enemy Princess Praline as Worth It since she gets to meet her beauty/cooking idol.
  • The mere act of her eating people and draining/dissolving them endlessly of their beauty and vitality inside of her is described as being incredibly pleasurable for her, causing her to crave for more and becoming ever more beautiful and ravenous with every being she consumes.
• Evil Overlord: Eclaira started out as one herself, and since her ascension to the Shadowpact's goddess of Gluttony, Feasts, Vanity, Beauty and Desire has two major groups of evil overlords as her top subordinates, under her patronage or otherwise allied to her, each sharing commonality in being incredibly beautiful female Sorcerous Overlord like herself: Vain Vicereines are those whose magical powers and modus-operandi lean towards Eclaira's domains of vanity and beauty, while the Ravenous Regents are those who lean towards Eclaira's domains of gluttony and feasting. While this is a general categorization, there are probably overlaps between the two groups.
• Fairest of Them All: Having been ostracized all her life for her mediocre appearance (and her appetite from drowning her misery in eating), Eclaira burned with such a desire to one day be the fairest of her land that it attracted Overlord Vondur's attention, who taught her how to. To the horror of many, especially by 'Third Age' standards, she eventually achieved this with dark magical aid by eating people.
• The Famine: Zigzagged. On one hoof, because of Pragmatic Villainy and Eclaira hating the very idea of starvation, she always makes sure no matter how much food (and people) she takes to eat, there will be still enough food to go around for her subjects. On the other hoof, given the ever-growing nature of her appetite and desires, the final and inevitable result of her voraciousness and vanity would not only end up depopulating lands, but picking them clean of nearly all food and life like a horde of locusts, resulting in this trope around the empty, barren lands which she had conquered and eventually consumed.
• Foil:
  • To Coltic and Virtusidae Pantheons' co-goddess Princess Praline, the Princess of Beauty, being in many ways a perversion of her domains on top of being opposite in moral alignments, which is lampshaded even in-universe. Both are goddesses of beauty, but where Praline is selfless and humble about hers and work to inspire and promote it in others as a divine muse and patron, Queen Eclaira is selfish and haughty about her beauty, obsessed with becoming the Fairest of Them All by taking beauty and vitality from others and assimilating them to enhance her own. Both have domains revolving around food and are each a Big Eater, but where as a goddess of bakery Praline uses her domain to feed others, Queen Eclaira is a villainous glutton whose ravenous hunger goes up to cannibalistic levels, and in her insatiable voraciousness had deprived whole lands of food and depopulated whole kingdoms of people.
  • She is also one to Fragile Beauty/Fairest Monarch, a vain super-villainess from the 'Second Age' who was redeemed by Praline's mother Bon Bon, the Faithful Designer, given their similar villainess motivations but presently different moral alignments. Fragile Beauty even noted how much she is a reflection of the vain super-villainess she once was.
  • She's also one to Princess Winter Opera. While Eclaira was tormented and abused for being born ugly in a kingdom obsessed with beauty, Winter Opera was bullied for being both beautiful and the splitting image of her villainous father, War Rock. And while Eclaira was raised a Princess by a royal family who scorned her for how she looked, Winter Opera was raised by loving adoptive parents which impacted her positively in the long run. Both were driven to the brink because of their miserable foalhoods, but Winter Opera was saved by Luminiferous and Blue Suede Heartstrings, who became her mentors and helped her become a heroic goddess, while Eclaira became a villain in part thanks to Vondur's influence and never looked back since. Eclaira also represents what happens if Winter Opera decided to use her great beauty and powers for selfish, vain ends much like War Rock did in life, and Ascended to godhood with a villainous morality.
• Forced Transformation: Even during her Evil Overlord Vain Sorceress phase, she could use her magic to turn Ponies and others into 'living food' temporarily which she could eat like normal food without painful, gory and messy results.
• Friendly Enemy: She has a few.
  • It's implied both Eclaira and Praline's adversarial relationship had become this by the Fourth Age, where it was much more hostile from the start especially from Praline's end. Praline still abhors her villainy and Eclaira still wants to eat her and feed on her beauty, but apparently they got along outside of their clashes.
  • She also became this for Princess Winter Opera, another goddess of great beauty. While they oppose each other due to being of different moralities, goals, and pantheons, Eclaira sympathizes with Winter Opera's foalhood experiences with bullying and respects her for resisting her temptations.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She went from a little Earth-pony Princess who was bullied by both her subjects and her own family for her ugly appearance (and the appetite she developed to alleviate her own misery), to an insanely beautiful Sorcerous Overlord who was both worshiped for her beauty and dreaded for her extremely voracious appetites. Thanks to the influence of her mentor, Overlord Vondur, she later managed to Ascend to godhood and become a member of the Shadowpact Empire's ruling pantheon.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: With her being the 'Bowser'. By the Fourth Age her adversarial relationship with Praline and other heroic forces had evolved to the point they can be considered legitimate friends. When not battling heroes and trying to eat Praline as usual she goes shopping, dining, modelling and making movies with them.
• God-Eating: Queen Eclaira wants to devour her Arch-Enemy Princess Praline ever since their very first confrontation, knowing as the Princess of Beauty Praline would provide her with an unending feast of beauty and vitality more abundant and sumptuous than all the mortals she had consumed and drained. Her succeeding the first time and draining her for a few weeks in her belly was instrumental to her ascension into godhood. Upon her apotheosis, she was gleeful over the fact that even the gods won't escape her hunger, so there's no telling how many other gods and pantheons she had consumed since then, including other gods/goddesses embodying beauty.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: There is no better to reason to call for divine or heroic salvation from ones' queen when she has a habit of feasting on her own kingdom and subjects to make herself eternally and ever-more beautiful, eventually devouring every land and most of their population she conquered if not defeated.
  • Literally invoked at the end of Eclaira's first reign as a vain and cannibalistic mortal Sorcerous Overlord by Fragile Beauty/Fairest Monarch once the reformed immortal super-heroine realizes that she is outmatched by Eclaira's sorcery. This results in Praline inflicting a Curbstomp Battle against Eclaira, though by then she and her allies realized they were too late to save most of the kingdom from going down Queen Eclaira's gullet and having their beauty and vitality fed to her.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The forgotten early-Third Age kingdom Eclaira was born in was famous not only for its cuisines but also its cultural obsession with beauty, to the point society ostracized those who don't fit their standards of beauty from bottom to top. They were undone by this when their constant disappointment, scorn and bullying of Eclaira led to a chain of events that turned her into a vain cannibalistic Sorcerous Overlord who would take over the kingdom, turning their beauty from a blessing to a curse when her desire to take it from them to become the fairest of them all eventually caused her to devour most of her own kingdom, becoming little more than food to feed her insatiable gluttony and unquenchable vanity.
• Hot God: Gender-inverted. She became so insanely beautiful from all the people she devoured and drained of their beauty (among other things) inside her belly that she became a goddess of Beauty and Gluttony upon Ascending to godhood. And unlike her rival and Arch-Enemy Princess Praline, she is not adverse to using it to her advantage.
• I Am a Humanitarian: One of if not the biggest reason for Eclaira's infamy in the Third Age is that in her obsession to become the most beautiful being there is and eating to her heart's content, she at Vondur's suggestion combined both traits and used a ritual to become a vain cannibalistic sorceress/god-queen. By devouring people alive, draining or repeatedly dissolving and restoring them, she can become supernaturally beautiful and powerful via absorbing their released beauty and vitality. Given her ravenous appetite and vanity, she would constantly crave for more Ponies and others to consume as she does normal food, and in her insatiable desire to feast and beautify herself, her appetite would literally consume whole lands and kingdoms' worth of population, with everyone literally existing to sate her endless hunger when not adoring and worshipping her looks to sate her vanity.
• I Am a Monster: Openly admits to being a monster when Princess Praline told her that she could walk away from being one, and claims that she is fine with it since it was turning to villainy with Vondur's influence and aid which finally net her true happiness. She even rationalizes her true hideous monstrous inner self she had saw in enchanted mirrors when shown by her enemies to be 'beautiful' in its own exotic way.
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Being a Vain Sorceress and a villainous goddess of beauty foil to Princess Praline, she's not afraid to use her supernatural beauty - which she took from all the people she consumed and drained inside her - to enthrall others to her wiles and whims.
• I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Being looked down upon by her beauty-obsessed kingdom for being mediocre in appearance and being so miserable she seeks solace from it by indulging in her appetite, she dreamed of becoming a beauty admired by all, even comparing herself to the 'Ugly Duckling' from the famous fable (which she was derisively nicknamed after) who would grow up to become a beautiful swan. With Overlord Vondur's encouragement and help, she succeeded.
• I Regret Nothing: Given how miserable she was before and had gotten everything she wanted through her villainy, she had never looked back from her decision to become the vain, cannibalistic and ravishing Sorcerous Overlord and God-Queen she is today.
• King Incognito: Gender-inverted and Downplayed. During much of the Fourth Age, while the rest of the Shadowpact Empire and Pantheon sank into dormancy and ennui, Eclaira had remained active, and had spent much of that time in an inconspicuous manner. She didn't exactly hide her identity or presence, and still occasionally gone about her villainous ways, but she kept enough of a low profile that it still surprised people when she revealed herself and her return to villainy when the 'Shadowpact Restoration' began.
  • When news of the 'New Crypta Conquests' and soon afterwards the start of the 'Shadowpact Restoration' spread, it found her while she was living in a semi-permeant basis in Equestria, where she had became both a popular movie starlet after entering Applewood with one of her Friendly Enemy's help and proprietor of several restaurant and fashion chains with outlets across Equestria and the world. The hilarious part is that in spite of everypony in the studios apparently knowing she is actually a vain cannibalistic god-queen from the Third Age, their infatuation with her beauty and Fragile Beauty/Fairest Monarch's vouching still managed to keep her presence and true identity under wraps until the 'Shadowpact Restoration' began.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Through a villainous scheme Queen Eclaira succeeded in achieving divine beauty and immortality, but before she could go celebrate she got the stuffing beaten out of her by an enraged Princess Praline for using the Princess of Beauty to achieve that end.
• Laughably Evil: On top of having sympathetic traits, she also have comedic traits in spite of her dreaded, villainous status, which could be attributed to her mentor being Overlord Vondur.
  • Having idolized her legendary beauty and cooking, Eclaira's first reaction when Princess Praline confronted her for the first time is to Squee and ask for her autograph, much to Praline's stupefied surprise.
• Life Drinker: Eclaira drains not only the beauty but vitality of all the beings she consumed and trapped in their belly, using it to empower herself as much as to endlessly beautify herself.
• Physical Heaven: Her belly being practically bottomless in volume, Eclaira had enough space for several Heaven-Realms installed for departed souls of those whom she consumed and perished inside her because they are trapped too deep inside her to escape to other heaven-realms. She is also one herself for her adoring worshippers who wants to stay within her beautiful greatness forever.
• Putting the Band Back Together: When the 'Shadowpact Restoration' began, Eclaira played a major role in getting the Shadowpact Pantheon members back up and together again, having been keeping them in contact while she remained active through the Fourth Age. She also helped recruiting new members as new Shadow Lords/Ladies and Shadow Gods/Goddesses.
• Planet Eater: By the late Fourth Age/early Fifth Age, the dawn of interplanetary/interstellar travel to other populated worlds opens the way for Eclaira to devour far more beings than she ever dreamed of. Her ecstatic reaction to encountering a City Planet for the first time exemplifies this, indulging in an on-and-off century-long feast to fully devour its trillions-strong population.
  Queen Eclaira: There's - there's so many people here! So many new subjects to adore me... and SO MANY TO EAT - !!!
• Magic Hair: Her mane and tail is designed to superficially resemble various desserts and pastries, such as cannoli, biscuit swirls, and donuts. It's noted, though, that her Beauty domain lets her change the way her hair looks at any time.
• Meaningful Name: Her name Eclaira is a play on Éclair, a French confectionary, the same way Praline's name is also based on a French confectionary.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: She was subjected to this on several occasions - both literally and metaphorically - by her enemies, which more often then not sends her into a terrible rage as it is implied her true inner self, consumed with gluttony and vanity as it is, is monstrously hideous.
• More than Mind Control: Her supernatural beauty as both an insanely beautiful Vain Sorceress and eventually a villainous beauty goddess allows her to enthrall weaker minds to her whims and will in sheer euphoric adoration and appreciation. This goes to the point that her worshippers and admirers willingly offer themselves to be eaten by her and add their beauty to hers (Which as far as Eclaira herself could tell makes up nearly half of those she consumed), when not fighting over her approval, trinkets or even just for the right to be in her presence for more than five minutes.
• Never Accepted in His Hometown: Deconstructed. Despite being a Princess, she was born so mediocre-looking that by the standards of her beauty/fashion/food-obsessed kingdom, she might as well be ugly. The sheer bullying, abuse, and scorn she endured from both her subjects and her own family made her absolutely miserable, but also gave her ambitions to prove her kingdom wrong by becoming the Fairest of Them All. Once she became a student of Overlord Vondur, who accepted her for who she is and not her appearance, she would later come back armed with dark magic and punish/devour a large majority of her childhood kingdom for their mistreatment.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: On the receiving end of one right after her apotheosis, when Princess Praline, enraged over her daughter's kidnapping, Queen Eclaira eating Praline and then draining her beauty and primordial quintessence for weeks to achieve ascension, responded to what she did by tackling and beating the absolute crap out of her. Eclaira would concede many years afterward that she probably had it coming, and could only beg Praline not to hit her in the face during the beatdown.
• Not in the Face!: As a reminder of her vanity, one of the thing she shouted while Princess Praline responded to what she did to her to achieve apotheosis by beating the absolute snot out of her was to beg her not to hit her in the face.
• Odd Friendship: Being a Third Age villain, Eclaira developing friendships with those who represent the opposite of who/what she is and are even her heroic enemies would not be considered entirely unusual by Third Age heroes' and villains' standards.
  • They are well-known rivals and foes through the Third Age and still is in the Fourth Age: Princess Praline still abhors her for her villainy and for being perversions of her domains, while Queen Eclaira still wants to consume her and feed on her sumptuous beauty and vitality to add to her own. Despite this, by the present day they apparently got along well enough outside of their clashes to be considered friends.
  • Queen Eclaira also developed a friendship with 'Second Age' superheroine-turn-goddess Princess Winter Opera, the Defiant Symphony, sympathizing with each others' Dark and Troubled Past over appearances, and Eclaira continues to serve as a 'constructive foil' testing and challenging Winter Opera.
  • Downplayed, but despite being the heroine who sounded the alarm that eventually led to the end of her first reign, Fragile Beauty/Fairest Monarch had apparently shared notes with Queen Eclaira over things like fashions and even put on beauty shows and made films together.
• Oh, Crap!: She, together with everyone else present, had this reaction despite her triumphant delight moments earlier when she realized how absolutely pissed-off Princess Praline is over the whole kidnapping her daughter to bait and eat her so she could drain her power for ascension to godhood plan. She barely managed to offer a peace-feeler before Princess Praline tackled and beginning to pummel the absolute stuffing out of her.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: After learning dark magic from Overlord Vondur, the Shadowpact god of Dark Magic, she would later go back to her childhood kingdom, and devour both her royal family and subjects and steal their beauty for her own as punishment for years of unwarranted scorn, bullying, and abuse for being 'ugly'.
• People Farms: What she turned her own kingdom into practically over the course of her first reign as Queen Eclaira: on top of the entire kingdom's economy re-organized entirely to satiating her ravenous appetite, the population were managed such that they would provide an endless supply of people who she could consume and add their beauty and vitality to her own, whether as unwilling sacrifices or willing volunteers. Despite pragmatism and moderation, the kingdom couldn't keep up with her ever-increasing voraciousness and vanity, leading to her devouring most of it and her subjects. In her later conquests she turned every domain she taken over into this as well, as much to feed her hunger as it was to supply other realms of the Shadowpact with surplus mane-power.
• Person of Mass Destruction: As a 'Shadow Goddess' of gluttony, she can devour entire kingdoms and lands of all their food and people singly, picking everything clean and leaving only barren lands in the wake of her conquests and consumptions. For comparison, usually Giant divines are the ones who can and have the incentive of doing this.
• Pet the Dog:
  • While she treated the kingdom of her birth as her own food pantry and source of never-ending beauty to empower herself with, she abhorred and devoured those who demeaned others for being ugly like she was. She also promoted beauty among her subjects, including granting those who were physically ugly a portion of her own beauty, and generously rewarded faithful servants/agents.
  • She was also genuinely horrified and disgusted when she learned that Princess Winter Opera, the Alicorn goddess of Dark Magic, Potential, and Defiance, was similarly bullied and shunned like her as a filly... but for being beautiful. Even worse is Winter Opera revealing that for a time, she wished that she was ugly just to make the bullying stop.
  • Because of her vain nature, she appreciated genuine praise or works about her, whether it be made sincerely or in desperation, so long and especially if it is done well. A desperate bard was once spared from becoming her dinner when he made up a song on the spot about her, which she loved so much that instead of eating him, she made him one of her court's musicians.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • While detesting the very idea of starvation and wanting no one to experience it was one reason for it, she makes sure no matter how ravenous she is her subjects themselves still gets enough to eat. This ensures her subjects would be in healthy condition to make all the food she want, and have enough vitality and beauty with their good health for her to drain when its time THEY serve as food for her.
  • While hungry enough to eat whole kingdoms and lands, Eclaira often leaves just enough life and people to regrow, repopulate and rebuild in lands which she just consumed. This allows her to return and feast upon the realm when it is bountiful again generations and centuries down the line.
• Redemption Rejection: She truly appreciates the offers to turn a new leaf from Princess Praline and others, but ultimately decides to stick to being a villainess because turning to evil was finally what allowed her to achieve happiness. That aside, she loved and felt in-debt enough to Vondur, her mentor and substitute father figure, that she cannot bring herself to turn her back on him.
• Self-Made Orphan: Note quite on account of them technically still alive, but as payback for an early-life of scorn, bullying and disappointment over her appearance and appetite, Queen Eclaira would as part of her crowning ceremony consume her whole Royal family, swallowing them one by one from her parents to her siblings, intending on keeping them inside her belly until they learn to finally appreciate true beauty, and her. Since they were never mentioned again, it's implied they're still imprisoned somewhere deep inside Eclaira to this day, feeding her with their beauty and vitality forever along with the rest of their consumed kingdom.
• Start of Darkness: An early life of bullying by her family and kingdom because of her appearance and appetite filled her with both misery and a desire to be the Fairest of Them All so strong it attracted the attention of Overlord Vondur, who encouraged her to pursue it and taught her knowledge of dark sorcery as means to that end. When that proved insufficient, she developed a ritual at her mentor's suggestion that would allow her to satiate her unquenchable desires for both beauty and food by allowing her to take beauty and vitality from those she Eaten Alive, turning her into the vain, cannibalistic and ravishing Sorcerous Overlord and later god-queen she is today.
• Stomach of Holding: Given her appetite and her domains, it comes to no surprise that her innards are practically bottomless in terms of storage capacity, being implied to be an endless maze of gastrointestinal chambers and tunnels where all the food and people she consumed are endlessly digested for nourishment and drained of beauty and vitality respectively.
• Swallowed Whole: Many of her victims were subjected to this, which is a slightly milder/nicer fate than those who were (non-fatally/painfully) cooked into her regular meals (with them shrunken or meal being giant-sized), zapped into a stream of magic, or even subjected to Forced Transformation temporarily into 'living food' which she could savour like normal food without painful, gory and messy results.
• Undying Loyalty: She felt in-debt to 'Uncle' Vondur, her mentor and substitute father figure, who influenced/supported her ambitions and help made her everything she is today, that she is one of his biggest supporters even to this day and cannot bring herself to turn her back on him and do a Heel–Face Turn. The moment Vondur got out of his rut and return in the Fourth Age, Eclaira wasted no time going back to him and help Vondur get the Shadowpact Pantheon back together and the Shadowpact Empire back up.
• Vain Sorceress: She learnt dark magic and sorcery from a very young age through Overlord Vondur himself, thanks to an enchanted copy of his infamous 'Vondur's Guide to Wicked Wizardry' which her family happened to possess and through which he secretly contacted her. Because she is an Earth-Pony, she had to craft many spell-casting artifacts in the form of jewelry and other adornments to help her cast spell in the absence of a horn or other magic-casting appendages. In accordance to her desires and ambitions, one of the thing she used it for is to make herself supernaturally beautiful.
• Villainous Glutton: Her defining trait besides her obsession with beauty, taken up a notch given how she end up satiating it AND her vanity at the same time via swallowing countless people whole and feeding on their beauty and vanity as they squirm forever inside the endless depths of her belly. She is so ravenous she eats people by the hundreds, thousands and millions, on top of stripping whole lands of most life and food. And no, thanks to her domains of Gluttony and Beauty, it doesn't affect her figure at all and in fact makes it better.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Played with in-universe example. She's essentially a beauty-obsessed, cannibalistically gluttonous evil Vain Sorceress god-queen who once terrorized the world in an Age exemplified not only for its fantastical magic but also its all-prevailing kindness and compassion. Of course, given she IS a 'Third Age' villainous goddess, the way she does that is still actually not as horrible as it normally would had been had she been born and rose to power in other Ages, with more standards and sympathetic traits.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: Despite pragmatism and moderation, her increasingly ravenous hunger and vanity eventually led to her consuming most of her kingdom, stripping her lands clean of life and depopulating the provinces, before she was dethroned for the first time.
• Winged Unicorn: Post-Ascension, she became a tall and stunning Alicorn goddess of resplendent beauty, with her Beauty domain allowing her to change her appearance whenever she wishes. Notably, her pelt/hair colors, makeup, and divine regalia are always food-themed. Her mane and tail superficially resembles dessert pastries like cannoli, donuts, creams/custards, and biscuit swirls, and befitting her domains of Gluttony and Feasts, she constantly has a predatory, hungry look in her eyes and a maw that can stretch unnaturally wide to let in sapient creatures.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Eclaira would be a likely contender for this, having absorbed the beauty and vitality of untold millions of beings she devoured. Just dropping her glamour a little bit is enough to enchant whole venues of people into adoration and worship of her accumulated beauty.
• Worthy Opponent: She considers Princess Praline this from practically day one, having idolized her in her youth and still does despite of their adversarial relationship. The feelings eventually become mutual on both ends.
• You Are Too Late: By the time Praline and the other Virtusidae and heroes found out and dethroned Eclaira for the first time, she had ruled for generations in her lands, and had all but devoured her entire kingdom. While some - but not all - of those she swallowed would be freed, the land was still stripped barren of food and life and would take many years to recover even with the help of benevolent gods and Third Age magic.

Cramoisie Amour, the Shadow Queen of Blood

Classification: Ascendant/Ethereal/Undying

Portfolio: Love, Uncommitted Love, Blood, Vampirism

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"Ah, the blood is really pumping now!"

Queen Cramoisie Amour (her entry here) is the Alicorn goddess of Love, Uncommitted Love, Blood, and Vampires, and is the twin sister of Blanche Amour and the co-ruler of Royaumort.

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• Abstract Apotheosis: Like her twin sister, Blanche, she Ascended to godhood sometime after becoming a member of the Shadowpact Empire/Pantheon, though in her case, she became a Vampire goddess.
• Affectionate Nickname: Lord Tothar would call her and Cramoisie his "little birds" as he lay dying on his deathbed.
• Always Identical Twins: Averted; both she and Blanche are fraternal twins with different appearances and interests. While she is a Vampiric Alicorn goddess who embodies Uncommitted Love, Blood, and Vampirism, Blanche is a doll-like Alicorn goddess who embodies Obsessive Love, Necromancy, and Undeath.
• Amazonian Beauty: Is described as a large, beautiful Alicorn-Vampire goddess with a 'Corrupted Alicorn' appearance who is also physically strong and imposing.
• Ambition Is Evil: Both Cramoisie and her sister were power-hungry and ambitious from their earliest days, thanks to being raised by an Ibexian Necromancer who adopted them.
• Batman Gambit:
  • During the 'Terra Equus Continental War', a god from an upstart evil/fallen/villainous pantheon who are backing the Autorists devised a plan to take out one of the gods of the Shadowpact Pantheon (namely, Cramoisie) and decimate a portion of the Shadowpact Empire's forces by ambushing her and her armies en-route under the cover of night to another front, planning to fight and pin her down long enough for the sun to rise and weaken her sufficiently (along with the night-long battle) to defeat her, then help the Autorist forces and his followers do the same with the army that's with her. Thing is, having received word of the the preparations from a mysterious intelligence source and deducing what the Autorists intended, Cramoisie decided to counter it with a multi-step plan: 1) Bring a living legion/army/horde instead of her usual ones from Royaumort (which are full of Undead) and pretend to fall into the ambush; 2) while they battle it out, have her co-ruling Lich goddess sister Blanche and her liches prepare rituals nearby; 3) when armies on both sides took enough casualties and dawn is imminent, raise the fallen on both sides as Undead, and 4) while the enemy deity and the Autorist forces are distracted fighting the resurrected bodies of their foes and former comrades, use her Blood Magic to drink the entire battlefield's worth of recently-spilled blood to recharge and boost herself. Meanwhile, her sister joins the fray. Because of this, rather than herself being weakened and defeated and her forces destroyed, it is the enemy god who is left exhausted, his followers and Autorists soldiers finding themselves outnumbered 3 to 1, the Shadow Queen of Blood becoming reinvigorated/empowered, with her co-ruling sister backing her up. In the end, the Autorist force was annihilated and reanimated as Undead, bolstering Shadowpact forces when they finally arrived at the front they are needed, while the enemy god is taken out of the fight by Cramoisie defeating him and drinking his blood, boosting her power even further and leaving the upstart Autorist-aligned pantheon weakened in the process.
• Blood Knight: Given her Hot-Blooded personality, Cramoisie loves to fight and being in the thick of battle and is more physical/combat-oriented than her Lich goddess sister. She always lead the charge at the front of her kingdom's and Shadowpact's forces with her halberd and crimson armour.
  Cramoisie: "Sweet blood... how it sings to me! And where blood flows, I shall go! ONWARD, TO THE BATTLEFIELD!"
• Blood Magic: Is extremely talented with Sanguinmancy — Blood Magic — on account of being a goddess with domains over Vampires and Blood. She can create devastating spells with but a few drops of blood, manipulate her own blood and that of others, such as hardening them to steel-like levels of strength to create tools, weapons and armour, and in emergencies can even transmute her body entirely into blood.
• Challenge Seeker: Open seeks to be challenged in just about everything and often beds those who can give her a challenge.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: In Amareros' case, it wasn't even his fault: both Cramoisie's parents were too busy at the time helping the world recover from the ravages of the Void Aeon, and thus were away when the place and people they entrusted Cramoisie and her sister to were wiped out by a disaster. They did not reappear until the stasis capsule which protected them but suspended them out of time reemerged in a swamp hundreds of years after the event. By then, they were discovered and adopted by a loving adoptive father, so even if Amareros did sensed their existence through Lord Tothar's presence, he would not had interrupted until Lord Tothar's time had come because it's fundamentally against his nature to interfere with loving relationships in any way.
• Deity of Human Origin: She was originally a mortal Pegasus who first became a Vampire, then Ascended to godhood as an Alicorn "Vampire goddess" sometime after she and her sister, Blanche, allied themselves with Overlord Vondur as members of the Shadowpact Empire/Pantheon.
• Divine Parentage: She and Blanche are twin daughters of Amareros, the Love Primeval, through a mortal superheroine from Prance. Their half-Grand Primeval heritage would aid them in their eventual Ascensions to godhood.
• God of Evil: While not exactly embodying Evil specifically as one of her domains, Cramoisie was still an ambitious and power-hungry Vampire goddess who is part of a villainous pantheon which rules/watches over a powerful empire made up of overlords, villains and other ne'er-do-wells in the Third and now the Fourth Age.
• Good Parents: Cramoisie Amour and her sister had one in their birth father Amareros, who accepted them for who and what they are in spite of their darker natures and even help them ease into their larger family and their eventual roles by introducing them to their darker relatives after they returned with him. Lord Thothar, the Ibexian Necromancer ex-overlord who adopted them sister were also a good father to them by most considerations, teaching them Necromancy and other dark power as well as raising them to be strong enough to make it on their own in the world, and even when his time finally came encouraged them to go with Amareros when he came to take them home knowing that they will fulfill their full potential under him and the Amaredae. Cramoisie too, despite being an embodiment of Uncommitted Love, is one as well, loving and treasuring all her fully Vampire and half-Vampiric Dhampyr children from her many flings.
• Happily Adopted: By an Ibexian Necromancer named Lord Tothar, who was a good parent to them by all considerations, even if he did taught them Necromancy and Dark Magic and other teachings which send them down the path of becoming an Evil Overlord and Dark Goddesses in their own right.
• Holy Burns Evil: Much like Blanche, as a form of Undead, she is vulnerable to light and holy magics, though only divine versions of said magics can affect her due to being a goddess.
• Hot-Blooded: Being the emotional, passionate, thrill-seeking and fierce 'Red Oni' to her sister's 'Blue Oni', Cramoisie loves being challenged and challenging others in turn on a physical, intellectual and magical level, and is attracted to strength with many of her lovers being ones who could give her a good fight. As sovereign, she always prefer a direct leadership role and often leads the charge at the front, whether in battle or in other things.

• Identical Twin ID Tag: Averted; she and her sister, Blanche, are fraternal twins and thus look nothing alike. The differences increased when they Ascended to godhood, with her becoming a Vampire goddess whereas Blanche became a Lich goddess, with domains each pertaining to their individual abilities and personalities.
• Love Goddess: Is an embodiment of both normal Love and Uncommitted (Ludus) Love as a goddess.
• Noble Demon: Being raised by the Retired Monster Ibexian Necromancer Lord Tothar led to both Cramoisie and her sister developing dark and villainous personalities, both becoming ambitious and power-hungry and wanting to emulate their adoptive father by raising Undead armies and going out to conquer lands to rule for themselves. Fortunately, their adoptive father's good upbringing as well as their real father and his family's positive influence also causes them to develop a sense of nobility and compassion in spite of still being Evil. It helps that their Grand Primeval relatives include Lhaine the Hatred Primeval, Adversus the Adversity Primeval and Nekelmu the Evil Primeval, all of whom are each a Noble Demon themselves with their domains.
• Parental Abandonment: Her birth parents, Amareros and a Prench Second-Age superheroine, were forced to leave her and her twin sister, Blanche, in the care of others due to them being busy helping rebuild Tellus/Equus following the "Void Aeon". Then she and Blanche are put in a stasis-capsule after one of their caretakers sacrificed themselves to save the twins from a natural disaster, though they end up buried for thousands of years until their capsule turned up in a swamp in the Third Age. Fortunately, she and Blanche are found and adopted by Lord Tothar, who raised them like his own daughters until he chose to end his necromatically-prolonged life, after which Amareros would locate her and Blanche and take them in.
• Physical God: A Vampire divine like Dracolta, Lord of Castellmania.
• Polyamory: Despite not being the type to settle down, she's amassed quite a few lovers over the years, since her ascension, and usually turns them into Vampires if they catch her fancy.
• Really Gets Around: Being the embodiment of Uncommitted Love, she have had many flings with many beings over her unlife and divine existence, having many children in spite of never committing to any of her relationships whom she nevertheless doted on dearly.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Cultura describes her as the Red Oni to her twin Blanche's Blue Oni.
• Vampire Monarch: Is the sovereign of Royaumort, a highly successful Necrocracy ruled over by her Court of Blood and other high-ranking Undead, and with her membership in Overlord Vondur's Shadowpact is the de-facto leader/sovereign of all Vampirekind in the Shadowpact Empire.
• Winged Unicorn: Like Blanche, she would become an Alicorn, except unlike her twin, she became an Alicorn Vampire goddess with massive bat wings, sharp fangs (which become pronounced when agitated or preparing to feed), and a maroon mane and tail being made of flowing blood.

Blanche Amour, the Shadow Queen of Bones

Classification: Ascendant/Ethereal/Undead

Portfolio: Love, Obsessive Love, Necromancy, Undeath

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"Can you feel the chill of death in your bones?"

Blanche Amour (her entry here) is the Alicorn 'Lich Goddess' of Love, Obsessive Love, Necromancy, and Undeath, and is the twin sister of Cramoisie Amour and the co-ruler of Royaumort.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Lord Tothar would call her and Cramoisie his "little birds" as he lay dying on his deathbed.
• Always Identical Twins: Averted; both she and Cramoisie are fraternal twins with different appearances and interests. While she is a doll-like Alicorn goddess who embodies Obsessive Love, Necromancy, and Undeath, Cramoisie is a Vampiric Alicorn goddess who embodies Uncommitted Love, Blood, and Vampirism.
• Ambition Is Evil: Both Blanche and her sister were power-hungry and ambitious from their earliest days, thanks to being raised by an Ibexian Necromancer who adopted them.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: She's an Alicorn Lich goddess who embodies Love, Obsessive Love, Necromancy, and Undeath.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance:
  • Her Cutie mark depicts a black book with a bright green skull atop it, surrounded in a ring of dark green fire. This not only refers to her nature as a "Lich Goddess", but also her domains of Necromancy and Undeath.
  • Her overall appearance post-Ascension is corpse-like, her entry comparing her to a realistic and beautiful yet lifeless doll with completely skeletal wings shrouded in miasma and a mane and tail composed of shadowy green miasma. It's fitting considering her nature as a goddess of Necromancy and Undeath.
• Birds of a Feather: Many of her lovers are those who she found to be similarly intelligent and passionate about learning and experimenting as she is.
• Cold Iron: As a "Lich goddess", she can be harmed by anything made of cold iron, as it damages the magic animating her body and can prevent her from reforming via her phylacteries. Due to her divine 'age', however, she needs lots of cold iron in order to be affected.
• Creepy Doll: While not a doll, her appearance after becoming a Lich (and later, a Lich goddess) is described as having beautiful yet lifeless features that a doll would have, such as glassy eyes and skeletal wings, and wears gothic-style religious robes with various enchanted jewelry. Fittingly, she is a rather stoic goddess of Obsessive Love, Necromancy, and Undeath, and she is one of two co-rulers of Royaumort (the other being her Vampiric twin sister, Cramoisie).
• Deity of Human Origin: She was originally a mortal Pegasus who first became a Lich, then Ascended to godhood as an Alicorn "Lich goddess" sometime after she and her sister, Blanche, allied themselves with Overlord Vondur as members of the Shadowpact Empire/Pantheon.
• Dem Bones: As a Pegasus Lich and later an Alicorn Lich goddess, her wings are completely skeletal, always shrouded in green miasma.
• Divine Parentage: She and Cramoisie are twin daughters of Amareros, the Love Primeval, through a mortal superheroine from Prance. Their half-Grand Primeval heritage would aid them in their eventual Ascensions to godhood.
• Emerald Power: She's heavily associated with green, especially green necrotic miasma, whether in her appearance or her magic. She's one of two co-rulers of Royaumort, and an Alicorn goddess of Necromancy and Undeath who also happens to be a skilled Necromancer.
• The Empath: As a goddess of Love (specifically Obsessive Love), she has several empathic abilities, including the ability to produce a calming aura that counteracts the natural dread more powerful Undead feel. She can also form empathic bonds with her romantic partners, empowering both them and herself based on how strong their love is for each other.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's one of the "darker" members of the Amaredae — not only does she embody Obsessive Love, Necromancy, and Undeath, but she's also part of the Shadowpact Pantheon and a follower of "Constructive Evil". She has multiple people in her life that she genuinely loves, such as her twin sister Cramoisie, her deceased adoptive father Lord Tothar, and her many lovers and children. This could also apply to her "darker" uncles and aunts among the Grand Primevals, such as Lhaine, Adversus, and Nekelmu.
• God of Evil: She's an Alicorn goddess who not only embodies Obsessive Love, but also Necromancy and Undeath. It's subverted as while her domains are indeed 'evil', she follows "Constructive Evil" and devotes her powers to constructive ends, like granting Undeath to those who suffered from life's hardships, governing Royaumort, and promoting magical and necromantic studies within the sub-kingdom.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: A "Bone wings" example. Unlike her vampiric twin sister, Cramoisie, who has massive bat wings, she has completely skeletal wings that are shrouded in green miasma. It denotes her nature as a "Lich goddess" of Necromancy and Undeath, as miasma is strongly associated with undead, as well as her (constructively) evil morality.
• Happily Adopted: She would be adopted alongside Cramoisie by Lord Tothar after he found their time-stasis capsule in a swamp and decided to raise them like his own daughters. While she did develop skills in Necromancy and dark magic, as well as a highly ambitious character, Tothar was still a loving father and she loved him back. When he started dying after prolonging his life for centuries, she tried to help prolong his life, only stopping because he wished to die of old age. Even after she and Cramoisie were found by Amareros and made members of the Amaredae, she never forgot Tothar's love and her memory of him continues to influence her in the present day.
• Holy Burns Evil: Much like Cramoisie, as a form of Undead, she is vulnerable to light and holy magics, though only divine versions of said magics can affect her due to being a goddess.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Averted; she and her sister, Cramoisie, are fraternal twins and thus look nothing alike. The differences increased when they Ascended to godhood, with her becoming a Lich goddess whereas Cramoisie became a Vampire goddess, with domains each pertaining to their individual abilities and personalities.
• Large and in Charge: Much like her twin sister, Cramoisie, she is very tall and slender. She's also one of two divine sovereigns of the Shadowpact sub-kingdom of Royaumort, handling logistics and governance within its borders due to the nature of her powers.
• Love Goddess: Like her sister, she is a love goddess. Specifically a goddess of Obsessive Love.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Invoked and weaponized. As a goddess of Love, she can inflame the bonds of love between her enemies, making them act irrationally to protect those they love.
• Magic Hair: Her mane and tail are composed of flowing shadows and green miasma.
• Magic Staff: In contrast to Cramoisie's halberd, Amoureux du Sang, her main weapon is a staff named Conseils du Père, which she made in honor of her late adoptive father and frequently carries around.
• The Magnificent: Known as "the Shadow Queen of Bones", due to being a member of the Shadowpact Pantheon who specializes in necromancy and undeath.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Her name translates to "white love" in French, which is fitting considering she is a goddess of Obsessive Love, Necromancy, and Undeath, with emphasis on devotion and loyalty when it comes to her and her lovers compared to Cramoisie.
  • Her Magic Staff is named Conseils du Père, which translates to "advice from the father" in French. This refers to how, between her and her sister, she's the one who took after Lord Tothar the most in how she pursued the scholarly and mystical aspects of necromancy.
• Mercy Kill: She discovers that a Pony mare who approached her for help was deeply infected by Cutie Pox to the point where it severely ravaged her body, and kills the Pony mare by slashing her throat with a necromantic dagger. This raises the Pony mare as a Wraith, to which she responds with a joyous howl upon realizing she is freed from her Cutie Pox-induced suffering.
• Mindlink Mates: As a goddess of Obsessive Love, she is capable of creating empathic and telepathic bonds between herself and her lovers. This, combined with her domain, allows her to empower both herself and her lovers based on how strong their love and devotion to each other are.
• Mundane Utility: One of her more mundane uses of her Domain of Love is using the magic of love to give birth, which is ordinarily impossible for an undead Litch like her to do. She also uses her powers to allow her Litch subjects give birth as well if they want to.
• Our Liches Are Different: Unlike her adoptive father (who felt he lived long enough and refused undeath) and twin sister (who chose to become a Vampire), she chose to become a Lich by removing and dividing her soul into several phylacteries in order to focus on the scholarly aspects of necromancy. Sometime after joining the Shadowpact Pantheon/Empire, she Ascended as an Alicorn Lich goddess of Necromancy and Undeath, giving her extraordinary power and skill in both fields. However, she possesses divine versions of a Lich's weaknesses such as vulnerability to Light and Holy magics, and when killed, it takes time for her essence to travel to the nearest phylactery and resurrect herself. It's noted the last weakness is mainly why she's the reclusive twin of her and Cramoisie.
• Parental Abandonment: Her birth parents, Amareros and a Prench Second-Age superheroine, were forced to leave her and her twin sister, Cramoisie, in the care of others due to them being busy helping rebuild Tellus/Equus following the "Void Aeon". Then she and Cramoisie are put in a stasis-capsule after one of their caretakers sacrificed themselves to save the twins from a natural disaster, though they end up buried for thousands of years until their capsule turned up in a swamp in the Third Age. Fortunately, she and Cramoisie are found and adopted by Lord Tothar, who raised them like his own daughters until he chose to end his necromatically-prolonged life, after which Amareros would locate her and Cramoise and take them in.
• Psychic Link: As a goddess of Obsessive Love, she can forge empathic and telepathic bonds with her romantic partners.
• Really Gets Around: She shares this trait with her twin sister, Cramoisie, having amassed a personal royal harem since becoming Queen of Royaumort. However, unlike Cramoisie, who embodies Uncommitted Love and prefers passionate flings, she embodies Obsessive Love and is much more devoted and loyal to her own lovers, resulting in fewer yet closer relationships.
• Siblings Share the Throne: She and Cramoisie are fraternal twin sisters, founders, and co-rulers of Royaumort. She rules over the Death cults, while Cramoisie rules over the Court of Blood and its Vampiric residents.
• Slashed Throat: She kills a Pony mare by slicing her throat, which is a good thing as said Pony mare was dying in agony from an extremely deadly strain of Cutie Pox and needed a Mercy Kill. Once brought back by Necromancy as a Wraith, the Pony mare responds with a joyous howl at being freed from her diseased body.
• Soul Jar: This is how she achieved immortality as a Lich, though her method is unusual. Using a member of her royal harem, she created many phlacteries that combines both a portion of her own essence and her lover's soul. This not only binds her lovers to her, but also turns them into Liches as well. Her choice of phylacteries are always wedding gifts like a piece of fine jewelry or an expensive goblet, built with divine materials so they could handle being infused with her divine essence. This makes her phylacteries extremely durable in the sense that they can only be destroyed by other deities. However, it comes with drawbacks — one of them being that the further she is away from her phylacteries, the more time it takes for her to go back to them and reform herself every time she dies. This is why she's very reclusive compared to Cramoisie.
• The Stoic: Unlike the emotional and passionate Cramoisie, she's much more internal and rarely showed her emotions openly. Anything she feels, like love and hatred, is always "tranquil", making it difficult for others to tell what she's feeling based on tone or appearance alone.
• Super-Empowering: As a goddess of Obsessive Love, she can empower both herself and her romantic powers based on how much they love her (and vice-versa). And as a goddess of Necromancy, she can empower swarms of undead with her mere presence, infusing them with her divine essence to increase the power and effectiveness of her undead forces' combat abilities.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's described as a tall, slender Alicorn goddess with beautiful yet lifeless features akin to a realistic doll. She was also able to amass a romantic harem of lich-partners, their relationships mostly based on having a shared intellect and passion for learning.
• Sword and Sorcerer: While she and Cramoisie both studied necromancy in their mortal youth, she became the "Sorcerer" to Cramoisie's "Sword", specializing in the scholarly and mystical aspects of necromancy to the point where she Ascended as a goddess of Necromancy and Undeath. Cramoisie, meanwhile, uses necromancy to strengthen her combat prowess, leeching from the grudges and miasma of the dead while cursing her halberd to inflict grievous injuries.
• Telepathy: As a goddess of Obsessive Love, she can form telepathic bonds with her romantic partners, empowering both them and herself based on how strong their love is for each other.
• Tranquil Fury: Due to her being The Stoic, any hatred she feels towards anyone is always "tranquil", making it difficult for others to tell if she's really angry based on tone or appearance alone.
• Weakened by the Light: Like most Undead, she is weak to Light magic, though as a goddess, she can only be affected by divine Light spells.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Her fur is described as a "ghastly white". While she's a Noble Demon due to growing up in the compassionate Third Age, she's still decidedly on the side of evil due to both her allegiances with the Shadowpact Empire and influence from constructively evil family members, such as Lord Tothar, Nekelmu, and Adversus. She's also a God of Evil who embodies "evil" domains like Obsessive Love, Necromancy, and Undeath, and co-rules the necrocratic kingdom of Royaumort.
• Winged Unicorn: Like Cramoisie, she would become an Alicorn, except unlike her twin, she became an Alicorn Lich goddess with completely skeletal wings shrouded in green miasma, a mane and tail made f flowing shadows and green miasma, and beautiful yet lifeless features that make her resemble a realistic Creepy Doll.

Balthazar, the Shadow of Greed

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Greed, Curses, Evil

Rank: Divine (Tier IV/Greater)

"All that glitters is mine!"

Balthazar (first introduced here) is a Draconic god of Greed, Curses, and Evil, and one of the more infamous 'Shadow Gods' member of the Shadowpact Pantheon.

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• Animal Nemesis: Is stated to have a quote 'long, violent history' with Sekra the Indomitable, High Queen of Crypta's Giant Scorpion pet and companion Merew, and in Crypta-Shadowpact conflicts both during the Third Age and during the 'Shadowpact Restoration' had repeatedly fought each other.
• Composite Character: He's a combination of both Beresad from the Kingdom Rush series and Fafnir from Norse Mythology, being both a once mortal being of relative high status whose greed led to him being unwittingly cursed (or willingly transforming) into a coveting dragon. Balthazar was also a vicious and expensive mercenary like Beresad was.
• Evil Overlord: Was once a 'Shadow Lord' serving under Overlord Vondur prior to ascending to godhood and becoming a member of the Shadowpact Pantheon.
• Hired Guns: He was once a vicious and expensive mercenary working for the Shadowpact Empire before his repute and deeds earned him a permanent place in the Shadowpact as a 'Shadow Lord'.
• Was Once a Man: Once a Diamond Dog Prince named Runtus, before a cursed bag of treasure turned him into a greedy Dragon. And that's before he became a Shadow Lord and eventually ascended to godhood.
• Orcus on His Throne: Although he's one of the more powerful and infamous members of the Shadowpact Pantheon, he rarely leaves his lair of treasures and had to be coaxed out of his mountain before his prodigious might could be best utilized.

Kolder, the Frigid Shadow

Classification: Ethereal/Ascendant

Portfolio: Ice, Blizzard, Predation, Instinct

Rank: Demigod

Affilation: Shadowpact Pantheon

"Nothing burns like the cold!"

Kolder (his entry here) is an Ice Dragon demigod of Ice, Blizzard, Predation, and Instinct, and is a member of the Shadowpact Pantheon from Avalar whose rebellious, self-serving personality caused him to turn against his Dragonflight and homeland to join the Shadowpact and never looked back.

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• The Dreaded: Invoked. His Domain exudes an aura of dread and terror that amplifies the natural fears of of those he prey on.
• Large and in Charge: As part of bread and parcel of being a Semi-Divine Ryujin he can be as big as a mountain at his largest, though has the natural ability to size-shift.
• Power Stereotype Flip: Kolder may be a dragon god Ice and Blizzards, but he incredibly hot-blodded and predatory.
• Predators Are Mean: Predatory in both powers and personality, he revels in raiding and terrorizing other race’s settlements in the areas. While he mellows out a bit after he 'matured' as a Shadow Lord and later Shadowpact Pantheon member he is still quite mean.
• Semi-Divine: He is a Ryujin demigod and has all the standard powers that comes with it, plus whatever unique Draconic traits enhanced.

Trogg, the Shadow of War

"Strength and Honour!"

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• Blood Knight: Going by his inspiration, title and likely characteristics, he is probably this trope by default.
• Deity of Human Origin: Troggkind origins, actually. He was a Troggorc - one of the many Troggkinds artificially created from baseline Troggles by their Ibexian necromancers and overlords to be an improvement of what they perceive to be their less-than-adequate/reliable Battle Thralls. After leading much of Troggkind to rebellion and freedom during the Third Age, he would join the Shadowpact Empire and eventually ascended to godhood as the 'Shadow of War', the principal deity of Troggkind in the Shadowpact Empire and a War God.
• Expy: Of Veruk, the Orc hero from Kingdom Rush: Vengeance, who was Made a Slave and forced to fight in gladiatorial pits for years before claiming his freedom and becoming the leader of the Orcs and 'Warmongers' in Vez'nan's forces.
• Gladiator Revolt: Given his inspiration, he was most likely a gladiator or a battle-thrall himself, making the 'Trogg Uprising' he led one of these on top of being a general slave revolt.
• Made a Slave: Trogg was one of many downtrodden Troggkinds - including Troggles, Troggorcs, Troggres and others - utilized by the Ibexian overlords as slaves and Battle Thralls before breaking free from slavery and leading much of Troggkind to freedom early in the Third Age.
• Our Orcs Are Different: Trogg is a member of the Troggorcs, an 'improvement' upon the baseline Troggles made by the Ibexians based on the long-vanished Orcs predating the First Age which serve as their Known History counterparts. They were meant to be stronger and more reliable than the Troggles who had failed the Ibexians - though Trogg would prove as with other 'Trogg Uprisings' that the Ibexians only managed to nail the 'stronger' part.
• Rebel Leader: He was the leader of one of the major 'Trogg Uprisings', rallying much of Troggkind to oppose their Ibexian overlords and leading them to freedom, eventually joining the Shadowpact Empire with him ascending and joining the Shadowpact Pantheon.
• Red Baron: Going with the naming/title theme of the Shadowpact Pantheon and members, Trogg is called the 'Shadow of War'.
• Slave Liberation: Led one of the major 'Trogg Uprisings' at the beginning of the Third Age.
• War God: It's in his title.

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