Modanthe
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Modanthe was a giant dridder with an athletic build, short brown hair and sharp green eyes. she is usually represented in combat outfit, wielding her legendary war spear. A Competitive and aggressive individual, she was famous for being ill-tempered, hotheaded and foul-mouthed but also fiercely loyal to her friends. She became the personal bodyguard of Empress Eteni and one of her most trusted confident.
Background
The first mentions of Modanthe in history records are found when she was part of a small band of wandering dridders, used in violence, raids and pillage. One day they decided to attack the Elven city of Restalen in order to feast on its inhabitants, a brash and very foolish idea. However it's unclear why the security was so lax this day, but using the treetop, the dridders managed to reach the lush gardens of the city and to drop among the elven nobility gathered there. They started to gorge themselves on the terrified elves, with little opposition. Modanthe caught and swallowed Empress Eteni, before the guards finally came in, killing several of the attackers, repelling the others, and capturing Modanthe after forcing her to cough out the Empress. The dridder was locked down, likely to be soon executed. To her surprise however, she was given a short visit by Eteni herself, coming to talk At first, Modanthe took it for some sort of teasing before death and locked herself in a defiant silence. This didn't discouraged Eteni who came back a few days later and eventually the dridder decided to respond. They confronted their visions Modanthe's view of the world was bleak and somewhat nihilistic while Eteni's outlook on was bright and full of hope.
Modanthe discovered she rather apprecied the dialog with that sharp elf
Above all, Modanthe was impressed by that small elf's courage and steely determination. A solid respect slowly developped between the two eventually turning into friendship , one day, Eteni proclaimed Modanthe to be free.
However Modanthe decided to stay and took an oath to swear loyalty to the Empress and to defend her. She became her personnal bodyguard and her closest friend.
carrying her across the Empire and protecting her. Over the years, the bond between the two strengthened and became very solid and their confidence absolute
Modanthe is mentionneed as a fierce and merciless warrior to her ennemies, but loyal to the death
After making her allegiance, she tried to changed her
Her way of speaking remained crude and brutally honest however and her attitude somewhat volatile
Modanhe became more and more interested in her native place, distressed by how hard life had become here under the cruel rule of
Eteni's reign was marked with a war with the Dridders Kingdom, ruling over a region of what is now known as the Dridder forest. It was Modanthe's birth place and she became distressed at what it had become under the cruel rule of the Dridder Queen Taxshillia. Eteni offered help from her army to overthrow the Queen and Modanthe worked to have dridders secede from the Kingdom and join the Empire. A Civil war broke out among dridders, finally ending in the Queen's defeat, slain in duel by Modanthe. The royal family hastily fled into exile, and all resistance crumbled. Modanthe refused to become the new Queen though, in order to remain at the service of her friend. She merely settled as an ambassador. Troubles were brewing though, and a few years later the resistance organized itself, leading to a long, exhausting and hard-fought guerrilla war, with quick but deadly skirmishes. One day, a messenger came to Eteni bearing grim news : Modanthe had been slain in combat. This caused immense sadness to Eteni who mourned for months the loss of her friend. She took revenge and saw personally that the Dridder royalists were completely crushed and their forces annihilated. She took no pleasure in the deed though, and the victory tasted very bitter indeed. Eteni became distant and prone to bouts of melancholy and depression.
controversy among elves
is one of the deadliest fighters in
Fierce warrior
