Loretta_Rel

Once a slave, the black furred Loretta was separated from her brother on the slave auction shortly after they were born. Unlike her brother, however, she never made it to the freak show that she was destined for.


Loretta's magical potential had been great enough that once of her ancestors, a great, ancient black wyrm, actually made it a point to track her down, laying claim to the infant the moment he found her. Her current owner, being intelligent, knew better than to dispute a dragon's claims. However, being an idiot as well, he still asked for Asher to pay for the child. The dragon was not amused. Combine that with a strong sense of poetic irony, and a bit of hunger, and a bit of sadism, you get this; The wolf did get his payment of dragon gold... after his bones had been thrown up upon the treasure pile. Oddly enough, he didn't seem to want a reward after that.


And so Loretta became the apprentice of a vile beast of arcane and demonic magics, and when her natural psionic tendencies came out, the dragon encouraged her to embrace her secondary talents, pushing her advance in both the natural and studied magical fields. He worked her tirelessly, hoping to help her unlock every single secret and combination he could think of to make her the best, to forge her into the greatest mind the world had ever known... and to make her into the daughter that had been killed by a group of adventurers centuries ago. She was to be his heir, the queen of his hoard and vast kingdom of bone. And when her power transcended her mortal coil and Loretta embraced lichdom, it was the happiest moment of Asher's life.


When he discovered that she had not used necrotic energies to achieve it, however, Asher wondered what in the nine hells was going on. And he confronted her about it.


This was Loretta's crowning achievement, the discovery of reanimation and transcendent being through the use of raw willpower, not the energies of undeath or even the world-shaping power of her psionics. Nothing which would damn her soul or drive her insane with bloodlust and greed. With her soul attached to the gem through sheer will power, it would be trivially easy for Loretta to transfer it, or even to take a new gem when an adventurer of some kind inevitably destroyed the container. She held this up to her father, glowing with pride and looking for his approval.


And she saw it in his eyes moments before she saw Asher's jaws ripping into her body. To him, the girl had finally become an abomination, and even his love and pride was not enough to stay his wrath.


Of course, if Loretta had died in the dragon's jaws, then this would be a different character's profile, wouldn't it?


The dragon did kill her. In fact, he killed her many, many times... but the will-lich refused to stay dead, demanding a reason, trying to understand why her father would do something like this to her after so long. Slowly, this sorrow turned into rage. And then that rage blotted out the love she had in her heart. Her father had created the ultimate magical champion, he had forged her into a weapon and a tyrant, and he had quelled all but the tiniest spark of love in her heart. But this... this was too much. This was the breaking point, and he had just removed the last limit she had. And so Loretta the weapon ripped the out Asher's still beating heart with the magic that he spent so long forcing her to master. She never used her will-based magic again. Though it still makes her immortal, she cannot stand remembering what it took from her.


Months later, Loretta finally took her first steps into the world outside of her father's cave, and she met the first living people other than an ancient, power hungry dragon of her life. Well, she met them, while invisible. And flying. And undetactable by any magical or supernatural means. After all, what would these people do to her if they found out what she was if her own father tried to destroy her? No, it was better to be unknown...


And then she discovered her brother. Another being like her, who hadn't studied, who hadn't sacrificed and toiled and slaved away for hundreds of years, who only used his natural talent and who so many people knew and loved... He was a hero. And he sickened her. What had he done to deserve such treatment? Stopped a few undead? Child's play! Founded a company of heroes? Insignificant, he drew on their strength instead of using his own! Discovered immortality? Well, what the hells had she done? And yet he was the hero, he was the accepted one, and he still had... everything. Why couldn't it have been her instead? Why wasn't she the hero? ... Didn't she deserve it more? Just because her father had kept her from going out to do these things, that didn't mean that she did not deserve to be loved...


So then the Void came, Loretta was one of those powerful individuals that answered Woril's call, coming to prove herself the better of the siblings. She became known as the Dark Messiah upon the battleground, leading the legions of undead that her father had left behind to destroy the eldritch creations of Oblivion, saving thousands of innocents and soldiers, and using the corpses of those that did fall to protect those who still lived. Men and women feared her and loved her for what she did, but when all was said and done, Woril was still her commander, and he was the one that directed her... and he was the one that was given credit for her actions. Enraged, she left Woril's banner and went off on her own, continuing to wage the war on her own flank, and actually breaking through the lines of the Void's armies first... but upon stepping within her enemy's home plane, everything changed.


The undead that served her, empowered through thousands of rituals lost to time though they were, were no match for the endless tide of eldrich horrors that assaulted them upon the Void. That being said, they lasted for a long, long time. Long enough that they actually drew the forces of the Void from the other portals, giving Woril's company of heroes the opening they needed to break through and attack the gods of the Void themselves. Seeing that her glory was going to be stolen once more by her brother, Loretta abandoned the rags of her armies and joined in the final push against the elder god, augmenting their skill and power with the remainder of her arcane might, giving the company the openings they needed to take the monster down... but leaving her stranded when the dust settled in that empty, broken plane, with no way to return home.


It was luck that she felt her brother's presence, and luck again that she found the escape that he used to enter the Nexus. Now that she is here, Loretta has a new start, one where she isn't a freak, and where she can make a name for herself without having to follow in her brother's shadow. And she intends to tower over him in both fame and achievements, as she feels she should.

Arrogant, tactless, haughty, somewhat sadistic and an even-headed academic are all qualities that Loretta possesses, though most of that comes from how she was raised in isolation by a dragon. Constantly being told that she was destined for greatness and being praised for every accomplishment got to her head, and she believes that she deserves the adoration of others just because of her raw talent. When she is not given that, then the dragon mutt becomes confused, and she has been known to go to downright silly methods to try and gain the approval of a person she deems important. If she does get it, then she will treat the person as if they are just a tool, or otherwise something to get what she wants.


Obviously, proper social relationships and norms were not part of her schooling, and in any kind of intimate situation she will be awkward, and try to disguise with with a dominatrix attitude. If that fails, then she will try to pretend to be apathetic. And if that fails... well, then she asks questions, but otherwise acts like the scared little girl she is in such situations. This is something she will never admit to, and it is something that she will try to forget. She will also never admit that, deep down, she actually does want to have deeper, meaningful connections with others. This has developed to the point where she has actually killed someone and raised them from the dead just so they would not be able to leave her like her father and so many others have before...


Yes. She is just a little bit crazy. Your point?


She enjoys sexual encounters, and is somewhat vain about her appearance. Give her enough complements, and she might just be willing to try... anything.

Loretta's magics range from bodily manipulation, such as necromancy, transformation and even cloning, to mind control and spirit manipulation, to conjuring matter and creatures from nothing. Or, basically, most typical all-purpose wizards. That being said, she has almost no ability to manipulate energy itself, and her magic beyond transformation spells and necromancy is... limited. Being able to draw from two different wells of magic has its advantages, however, and she has a distinct advantage in that she has a solid enough base of her normal lower-level protective magics and typically enough of an undead army that she doesn't need to focus on much of the higher level non-necromancy or enchantment effects.


Loretta is a lich, though there are a few major differences between her and the typical lich. For one, though her soul is separated from her body and it resides in a soul gem, it is not held there by necromantic magics and the souls of hundreds of others, but rather it remains in the gem, or really any gem, by the magic of her fully-realized will power. Now, this source of energy is something that anyone can access, but very, very few people can master it to the degree that Loretta so casually flaunts. This allows her soul to enter and leave her body as she wishes, and any phylactery that harbors her spirit seems to be more resilient than it normally would be.


Secondly, because she is not powered by negative energy, her flesh does not decay and she is not necessarily evil, despite technically being "undead." Mostly because she wants to keep her flesh more than not, Loretta still walks around with her skin and muscle covering her bone. While this still allows her to feel physical pain and forces her to eat, she also retains the uses of all of her senses, and the ability to feel physical pleasure... and boy, does she ever abuse that.


If given the right incentive, Loretta would be able to reform anyone she eats. That being said, she doesn't see the point to it normally, and unless they can convince her otherwise before going into her body, a character will be on their own when it comes down to coming back.


Oh, and just to make sure this is certain, yes, the lich can reform herself. In fact, she doesn't even need her soul gem to reform herself! It is just incredibly helpful, a focus that allows her to make a new body without months of effort.