QUOTE: "Young one, I am accustomed to doing whatever I please, and getting whatever I want."

FAMILY: Ellowyndriel is married to Count Loviander Moonglow ap Dougal. They have two children; older daughter Gwendolyn and younger son Corrander. The Moonglow marriage is a cold and seemingly loveless one, and was the product of a betrothal at birth. Husband and wife have respect for one another, but both are so often away on lengthy business that they don't see much of one another these days.

APPEARANCE: Ellowyndriel is tall with a muscular, yet feminine and curvaceous figure, and she is unearthly breathtakingly beautiful! She seems to glow white because her hair and skin are white as pure snow, and she favors wearing white gowns and robes. Her eyes change color based on her mood, but she's most often peaceful and calm, so her eyes stay a violet cornflower blue most of the time. She always wears the suit of Faerie armor that she crafted herself, and keeps her sword Petrus' Fist sheathed at her side. She has a variety of magickal robes that, when worn, will make it appear that she's not wearing armor underneath when she really is.

Ellowyndriel's mortal seeming	Ellowyndriel's Fae seeming

STORY: We start in the Sinai desert at somewhere around 1000 B.C. Coming from three different directions are Amon (a relatively young Mummy), Countess Ellowyndriel Moonglow ap Dougal (an 850-year old Sidhe Faerie paladin), and Bastenofret (a Bastet were-cat priestess). They have all been tracking the same scent, and it has lead them all to a pack of Bali vampires who are in the desert trying to summon demons. This pack visited Ellowyndriel's freehold while she was visiting the king and slaughtered every last fae, and she has been commanded by the chieftain to find the murderers and avenge the deaths...and she would have done it, anyway, being a paladin! They went to the were-cat's temple and desecrated it, and they went to the town Amon had been living in for the past few years and slaughtered everyone there, as well, while Amon was away on his personal business.

As they approach, they see a solitary Bali vampire surrounded by a circle and chanting. Suddenly a larger circle appears around the first one right in front of our characters' feet, and another even larger circle appears behind our characters, encompassing them. They find that they can't move or use magic. Then three additional Bali become visible and start advancing towards us. From out of nowhere a very tall Egypian-looking man-- bald with only a top-knot of hair-- appears behind the chanting Bali, distends his jaw so that it's huge, and bites the Bali's head off! As the group watched, they saw the soul of the Bali flow from its body into the top-knot man's mouth and the Bali slumped to the floor. The top-knot man then turned to each of the three other Bali who were approaching the group, drew a long sword, and proceeded to slice the Bali into ribbons and then swallow their souls. (I'll swallow yer souls!!)

At this point the group could all move again, and asked top-knot man who he was. He said he was Menthu Lilitusa, the Swallower of Souls, and son of Lilith. *gulp* This was the creature that Kara--a young mage who wouldn't be born for thousands of years-- was born to fight. Anyhow, he told the group that his mother had given him the charge to destroy all the Followers of Set, and any such vampire who would summon demons and the denizens of Hell, etc., etc., so because of the group's common goal, he would work with them and not swallow their souls...for now! *grin* He said that he had only killed the followers of the main leader-Bali who the group was seeking, so the group needed to hurry and find the leader-Bali and destroy him before he could open a porthole to Hell and allow mega-giant demons larger than Earth to come through and poop on Earth. He summoned a flying disk, the group all got on, and flew after the trail of the Bali leader.

Soon Menthu realized that the Bali was in Thebes, Egypt, so he opened a porthole and the group stepped through into Thebes. They went to a small house where lived a 7-year old girl and an old man. The 7-year old told them that the man they sought had already been to visit her, and had asked her where the Temple of Set was located. The girl, it turns out, was a clairvoyant, and told the Bali everything he wanted to know. The Bali then left for the temple. Ellowyndriel asked her why she would help a creature like the Bali, and she said because he asked. The girl then turned to Menthu and said, "she doesn't love you anymore, you know," in a matter-of-fact way, so Menthu turned to her and chomped off her head and swallowed her soul, and then turned to the old man and did the same thing! Ellowyndriel congratulated Menthu on ridding the world of such a human-creature who would aid the Bali, but then kept to herself her opinion that killing the old man was wrong. Amon had to make a willpower-roll to stop from attacking Menthu, and luckily passed, hehe!

Then Menthu summoned a flying disc and whisked everyone off to a place about a day's walk to the Temple of Set. (BAD clan of vampires!!) He told the group that he could not enter this place unless it was a time of war, and when that time came, they should call his name and he would immediately appear. Amon made some healing potions and warding amulets (you see, Ellowyndriel had used magic on the group earlier to make them see her beauty and majesty and completely enthrall them to the point where they would let her do anything to them, so after it wore off, Amon started freaking out and told her to never do that again, and Ellowyndriel basically let him know, "young one, I am accustomed to doing whatever I please, and I WILL do whatever I please," so Amon proceeded to make some amulets of warding so it would be harder to enthrall him next time, thus Ellowyndriel was never able to seduce Amon. :(:(:( *sigh*) Menthu gave Amon a MEGA-powerful sword with the name "Murder" etched into it that completely boosted a bunch of his stats and gave him some incredible Disciplines, and then the group set off.

That night the group was captured by a band of Setites and taken before the leader of the Followers of Set in the temple. Bastenofret could see Obfuscated vampires, and saw many all around watching. The leader told the group that they were all extreme enemies of Set, and as such we wouldn't be allowed to leave alive. However, the Bali had arrived earlier and had actually been commanded to do something for the Setites and had failed, so in a day's time the group would have to duel the Bali, and if they won they could have their freedom. The group noticed a very beautiful dark-haired woman standing next to the Setite leader.

The leader had the group lead away to their "guest" chambers. Soon after that, about 40 slaves were sent in to do whatever the group desired. Amon and Bastenofret ignored them and plotted together what to do, but Ellowyndriel was accustomed to being served, so she commanded them to make a bath for her, do her hair and make-up, dress her, bring her fine food, play pleasing music, and start a big party! They partied all night while Amon and Bastenofret slept-- although Ellowyndriel wasn't sure HOW they slept!-- and as soon as it was morning, the slaves were commanded to leave by the attractive lady the group had seen next to the Setite leader.

The lady gave her name as Nefer-em-Anhekh, but no one could remember-- let alone pronounce-- that name, and so they called her "the lady." She said that she needed to get away from the Setites, she was their prisoner, and she would help the group escape the following night if they took her with them. She asked them why they-- obvious enemies of Set-- would come here, and they said they had a very powerful benefactor named Menthu. The lady's eyes got wide, she turned and sniffed the air, and said that she should have recognized the scent and known he was near. She then told the group that when she was 19-- some 1,000 years ago-- the powerful Egypian conquerer The Scorpion (an actual guy from history, not just from "The Mummy!") passed through her village. He took her with him, made her a "woman" and taught her everything she knows about sex, and re-wired her with his powers so that she was then a newly-awakened Mage who would never age. (hey, that rhymed, hehe) He conquered Upper and Lower Egypt, and she was by his side for hundreds of years. This was the form Menthu had taken at this time. He parted ways with her, and soon after she was captured by the Setites. She was still in love with him and missed him.

Ellowyndriel told her about how the little girl had told Menthu "she doesn't love you, you know," and how Menthu had reacted, and the lady grew very confused and worried and said she needed to return to Menthu. The lady told the group that the Bali had been told that if he completed the mission the leader of Set gave him, he would have been given a scroll that would open a porthole to Hell, but the Bali had failed so he wouldn't be getting it. She lead the group to where the Bali and leader of Set were sleeping, and also showed them where the vault was containing the scroll. She said that all were warded by a powerful magic that only the leader of Set could undo, and lead the group back to their quarters and parted ways with them until night.

That night the group was taken before the Setite leader and told to duel the Bali. Ellowyndriel made herself and Amon turn into fire-people, complete with fire-swords, and they used magic that boosted their stamina and gave them extra health-levels. Bastenofret slipped into the Umbra, ran up to the Bali, and then popped out and started clawing the crap out of the Bali and then popped back into the umbra. The Bali was so mad that he went for Ellowyndriel. Let's just say that this guy was an insanely powerful 4th generation vampire with insane celerity, but Ellowyndriel also had her own kind of celerity and was able to match extra turns with the Bali. The Bali started swinging his klaive at her, and she kept parrying off the attacks, but would get a little hurt each time until finally she was down to zero hit points.

Amon then distracted the Bali to come after him, and as the Bali was getting ready to attack, Amon gave a smirk and said "Menthu," and Menthu suddenly appeared in his big, black, demon-form! The Bali shrieked and ran off, and all the watching vampires ran to attack Menthu, and Menthu proceeded to eat all vampires! As he was doing this, three vampires came after the group. Amon quickly healed Ellowyndriel with his potions so that she could stand on her own while Bastenofret completely shredded one of the vampires with her claws! Ellowyndriel-- very pissed off-- lifted both of the remaining vampires into the air and made them spontaneously combust into balls of flame. The group noticed that the leader of Set was still sitting on his throne, and that the lady was sneaking off to run after Menthu, but there was no sign of the Bali.

Menthu crashed back into the temple where the group was, saw that the group was OK, and then grabbed the leader of Set and bit his head off and swallowed his soul. He then did some demon-magic where he regurgitated the head and soul and bound the soul in the disembodied head. He asked the head where the Bali was, but the head wouldn't stop screaming, so he kicked it around for a while and finally threw it against the wall in frustration. Ellowyndriel got Menthu's attention and lead him to the vault. The door was open and there was a hole in the opposite wall-- the scroll was missing.

Just then the lady ran into the vault and joyously embraced Menthu's...knee, at this point, hehe! She went on and on about how happy she was to be reunited with him and how much she'd missed him, and he went back into top-knot-man form. He looked at her in great confusion for a while, and then finally said that he recognized her, but that the Scorpion-part of his life had been unimportant-- a blip on the screen of his life-- and that he barely remembered her. The lady went into shock, and Ellowyndriel had to hold her up and console her, and after a while she was recovered enough to be OK. Amon sent meteorites crashing into the Setite temple, destroying it. Menthu summoned his flying disc and everyone hopped on again.

They flew into the desert again and saw in the distance a great storm with lightening and a black hole opening above. By the time they got close, they could see demons and evil things approaching earth through the black hole from a great distance, but getting ever closer. Down below the Bali was holding the scroll and chanting, and there was a dirty, bent old woman with a line of people on one side of her and a huge pile of dead bodies on the other side, and she was ripping their throats out and casting them on the pile as fast as she could. Amon sent meteors hurtling down on them, and Ellowyndriel called a powerful thunderstorm, but the black hole above the Bali deflected them. Ellowyndriel then used one of her Faerie-tricks to noink the scroll out of the Bali's hand ("NOINK!"), but the Bali had already memorized the chant and didn't need it anymore.

Amon ran towards the Bali, ready to silence him with a powerful Discipline, but the old lady saw him and started running towards him. Ellowyndriel grabbed the old lady and threw her as hard as she could, and she went flying off into who-knows-where, hehe! The Bali quickly turned and killed the last prisoner and uttered the last word of the chant, and a huge demon-hand started coming through the black hole. Menthu turned back into his huge demon-form and flew up and started trying to push the hand back, and the lady turned into a raven and flew after him saying, "not again!"

Bastenofret had a special magic that would make a demon-summoner catch on fire for 6 rounds, and she rolled 4 10s! The Bali caught on fire, but he was a tough bastard and went after her. Ellowyndriel readied a spell, and Amon activated his new sword and went after the Bali. With an amazingly lucky roll of the dice from Amon, and an amazingly bad roll of the dice from the Storyteller, Amon swung his incredible sword and cut the Bali's head right off, killing him, and making Amon's ego even worse!! The black hole closed-- trapping the demon-hand in this world-- but Menthu sliced it off and it turned to dust.

Menthu flew back down to eath, limping and exhausted-- too exhausted to protest when the lady lifted his arm and put it around her shoulders to support him. He praised the group's actions and told them they were braver than three Antidiluvians (3rd generation vampires, hehe), and went on about how they'd saved the universe, and then suddenly he and the lady disappeared. Ellowyndriel got on one knee, plunged her sword into the earth, and cried out "vengeance to my slain brothers and sisters!" Bastenofret lept about growling in triumph, and Amon simply stated, "We rock." Ellowyndriel then offered victory-goods to Amon who thanked her but declined her offer, so she tried to enthrall him again. This time Amon's amulets blocked her magic, so they all walked into the sunset with no goods to be gotten!

Ellowyndriel's son Corrander	Ellowyndriel's daughter Gwendolyn

AFTER THE ADVENTURE:

Amon & Ellowyndriel's Travels Part I
Amon & Ellowyndriel's Travels Part II

Return to Castle Moonglow

The Amulet

Aftermath
Aftermath II

IN MODERN DAY:

"Faery Grandmother"
"Corrander & The Clones"
"Corrander & Gwendolyn"
Final Farewell

LINKS:

The NPCs of Herrod the Mad's FUWOS

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