eQ

eQ dgUl (e-qua di-ga-ha-li): This being received its first name by mortal man after interactions with the Cherokee. A minor mentioning in folklore of a reptilian beast that stood higher than a man with terrible powers. Of warriors fending it off coming back mad, screaming that there is no afterlife with one's ancestors, no journey among the stars, or returning to the earth. That all there was after life was an endless hunger that uses mortals to sate it. Never appearing in writing of any sort, only old stories told from an elder to a child, changing with every generation until it all is presumed myth. All stories of this being ended up either lost in time or just mythology of an ancient time to modern man's interpretation.

eQ took the descriptor as a name with much interest to her. Prior meetings were the poor, unfortunate soul screaming to their divines or referring to her as a god in flesh. An unintentional insult to her being, she was no petty god, she would know as she ate the numerous pantheons and other spiritual beings man revered. Such weakness would be a stain on her certainly, especially as they groveled or broke out into sobbing despair before her. The Cherokee though, when she first encountered them, didn't scream to the heavens or cower. They charged her with a war cry and command to kill the big lizard. Such sport and such fun, able to savor the moment in its fullest. In fact, finding her physical body at the time not as capable of handing a small war party. Coming from the times of giant reptiles on the world, it was time for a new one. Penetrating the minds of the survivors and running fearful images through them before they broke into a drooling, rambling mess. Changing from her raptor like visage to something more monstrous and capable.

As she is now, eQ would be seen as a Deathclaw, standing twelve foot tall at the shoulder. Horns curling from her skull and spines down along her back, coloured in glossy crimson like freshly spilt blood. The same appearance on her teeth and claws. Her eyes a brilliant violet colour as well as any exposed flesh as well as the inevitable blood that would come from her. The finer scales along her body are a mottled olive and dusty brown with the larger, protective scales being a dark forest green. Curved claws on her hands easily a foot long with those on her feet a couple inches shorter.

So what is eQ? What does she want? Is she dangerous? Well, she's an avatar, a small, physical manifestation sent to Earth to sample the local life. To see it grow, flourish, and devour it at her leisure. She's the extended consciousness of something that she refers to as The Devourer. It can be simple to understand then what she wants. Though this doesn't mean she exclusively seeks to eat man, she has a great taste for other animals, and has a sweet tooth for titanium. She'll eat anything, literally, though seems to delight in the tortured screams of her prey deep inside her body. As for danger, depending on how you see her she is either an agent for an Elder God or is an extension of one. Being near her could have long term consequences to one's sanity if they survive the encounter. As liable to trick and prank a person as she is to mentally destroy them until they are begging to die inside her. Her personality can shift suddenly and those that might consider her a "friend" know to make themselves scarce when such occurs.




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