Lyllya
the Mistress of Murder
Lyllya is a Succubus known to stalk the Heartlands of the major continent of Ethae. Though the cause is far more nuanced, some scholars site her as the predominate reason the Novyum Civil War has continued unceasing. They claim she moves from nation to nation seducing and controlling nobles throughout the region. She builds the lust of the powerful and moves on, leaving an empty desire and jealousy rage as she appears in another region with a new powerful lover. She particularly seems to enjoy turning a nations government on itself as squabbles over her influence turn into bloody fighting. When she grows to large in a political circle she will vanish for a few years, those that know her are dead, often in bazaar ascendants or mysterious murders.
A creature that feeds on the lifeforce of a lover, Lyllya is one of the few succubi that never drains a partner completely. She seems to delight in letting her lovers live, knowing what she is and what she is doing to them, and still beg her for more. When her purpose is done, she moves on, leaving them begging for more, delighting when the chase her for one last moment of lust, even should it cost them their life. Any given land she dwells she will have several of these poor souls in her hook. Pawns to play against each other should the need arise.
Lyllya has a deep hatred for women in general, but wives of her lovers in particular. When taking a lover that has a wife, she will become obsessive in her push to get him to murder his wife. There is a lustful delight in her if she can watch the murder, taunting the woman as she dies. After the death, she will endlessly mock the lover for his weak and evil soul all while he still craves her love. Her goal seems to drive the man to take his own life in shame. She claims it is her sacred duty is to show the world the evil of man, while privately laughing at such an absurd notion. She simply does it because it is fun and is the only thing that gives her pleasure in an empty eternal existence.
When Lyllya became the Avatar of Nyx and transformed into a succubus is unknown. Several paintings of her hang in great halls throughout Novyum, some more than two centuries old.

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