❝ I AM KERES NIGHTSHADE, ❞
― a visual codex for her character
& the inspiration that drives her story.
❝ DEATH FATES. ❞
― 🇰🇪🇷🇪🇸 were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. Present during death and dying state of man, they are unable to kill only able to wait and feast on the dead.
― they are children of both Nyx and Erebus, cthonic gods that represent the Night and Darkness respectively.
❝ A WITCH HUNT ❞
KERES NIGHTSHADE'S fate has been already set in stone long before her birth; for Io, the Sinless Envoy, was the messenger to herald the news of a goddess born with golden hair. Her story, however, grows more in a more malevolent nature as the men who found the news of this goddess would threaten their positions and power.
❝ A TRIAL OF THE GODS ❞
KERES NIGHTSHADE has been born through the blessings of the gods; though there presence is clear as day ― but their influence and history has been erased. As if their existence, influence and power have been snuffed out like a candle. What transpired within the confides of this city remains an enigma.
❝ IRON MAIDEN ❞
KERES NIGHTSHADE, in her dying state, awakened her godhood. In that moment, chaos erupted and blood was shed under the pale moonlight -- a clear indication of the prophecy being told, ultimately becoming the goddess of the moon, revenge and violent deaths.
❝ MALEVOLENT DELIGHTS ❞
KERES NIGHTSHADE is on the run -- her godhood and her powers are yet to be fully controlled -- and so, she has terrorized the nights through her divine interventions. Some speak of such terrors as a golden haired woman presents herself with each and every night, intervening on vile souls and enacting vengeance.
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the iron maiden
Fantasy❝ hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. ❞ BORN FROM THE CHAOS OF EVERYTHING, made incarnate by the very anger and divine perversion; she has become nemesis, the goddess of retribution and revenge. [ SHATTERED MIRRORS, book 1 ]