Berielle

the Princess of the Damned

A five-hundred-year-old cradle-tale tells the story of a king seduced by a Succubus. As she drained his live the king's seventh daughter, a virgin princess begged to monster to spare her father. She would give her own life to save him. This moved the heartless succubus, and she give the princess her wish. The tale has been told and retold over the centuries. The names of the king and princess change from nation to nation. The succubus's name, however, never changes, Berielle. She is perhaps the most famous of the creatures, even in most that hear the tale think her a myth.

The Tale of Berielle, as it is usually known, is an age-old tale used by the Trijan faith to teach the virtue of purity and value of self-sacrifice. There is truth to the tale, though the story is wrong. Berielle was the princess, the seventh daughter of the king. There was no succubus, it was the Avatar of Nyx. The avatar had been fatally wounded by a hero, whose name is only remembered by Berielle. In her wraith Nyx, in the last moments of her avatar's life, slaughtered everyone in the castle. All but two lives remained, the hero and the princess who loved him, Berielle. She begged Nyx for the hero's life, offering her body as a new avatar. Nyx accepted, claiming it was not for mercy, but for the physical beauty of Berielle. Nyx wanted that beauty for herself. Nyx used Berielle's body as her avatar, then killed the hero with the face of his true love.

As her origin might suggest, Berielle has never been devoted to Nyx as the other succubus are. She resents the Aggoles but is compelled to serve eternally. When she awoke as a succubus, she hated her faith. She would not feed. Her survival instinct overwrote her moral, however. Centuries have now passed, and she has come to accept and even embrace her nature. The Tale of Berielle give one truth about her. She is a merciful creature. Her kills are as gentle as possible, often draining the live from her victim so slowly they simply fall asleep, never to wake.

Berielle has a soft spot for princesses with tragic love lives. Nyx has endlessly mocked her for being the guardian angel of broken girls. Her resentment for Nyx shields her from the torment. Many of these princess Berielle mentors end up on the throne. This often happened when the king and his sons all seem to die in their sleep over time. The princesses thrive as monarchs but find themselves twisted from the guidance's the succubus who last lost her moral compass when she gave herself to Nyx.

Berielle is also infatuated with adventurers, especially strong knightly types. She will take them as lovers, believing this one will be the one for her. It can last a few years, even a decade, but inevitably she realizes that man is not her hero, the one whose name she never speaks. When she wakes from her fantasy, she killed the lover who is not her lost beloved.

Berielle as has a strangely unique feature in her appearance, whatever her form. She is missing her small finger, what some call the pinky finger, from her right hand. Most think it was lost before she was transformed, because any damage done to a succubus will regenerate over time, without blemish, even regrowing limbs. This seems a contradiction to what we know of Nyx, however. The aggoles is vain and does not take avatars with any blemish, especially one so blatantly 'unperfect'. Berielle, for her part, has told dozens of stories of what happened to her small finger. Perhaps one of them is true. Perhaps she doesn't even know herself.