Twilight Priestess Neferet

Lore

Neferet was groomed from birth as another pawn in the kingdom's intrigues thanks to her divine heritage manifesting early. Yet she found more joy in the solitude of nature and the quiet night, refusing every offer made for marriage. One such evening, she found a dying falcon, its body broken beyond aid. Weeping, she held it close to her breast as it expired in peace. The bird's corpse suddenly burst into smokeless fire, the flames touching her eyes before granting her a vision of the gods. As she came home, she told her family that she was entering the God-King's priesthood. It shocked many, for only a privileged few were permitted to marry such exalted ones. Yet she succeeded despite their fears, and she was soon known as a fair judge of character and a trustworthy soul, although her nighttime excursions--mostly spent defending the outcasts and the poor--caused many to question her true motives. The outcry against her led the God-King to assign a sharp-eyed bodyguard to her - to keep her safe within the palace walls, he claimed. Angered, she slipped out one night, but was surprised to discover that her bodyguard had followed her with ease and seemed to share her sentiments about the situation. Matters came to a head when the God-King's own son tried to cut down an innocent man, framed for a crime she instinctively knew he didn't commit. Her shout of anger shook the walls of the palace that day, and for a moment it seemed that every light had dimmed momentarily. The mad God-King swung his blade at her, but her bodyguard shielded her from the blow. Without a second thought, she wove her divine heritage and struck the God-King with all her might, ripping his divinity into shreds as she made part of it her own. As the ecstasy of power filled her body, a sound ripped the air with triumph--the falcon's cry as it devoured its prey.