Drumrolls dramatically
and now the act youve all been waiting for...!!
this is Equinox's Narinder (she doesnt have her own name yet), The One Who Mourns. She is a brown hyena!
idk what exactly she did to her siblings yet, but of course it led to their injuries, and her in the afterlife. She didnt fight them on it, going willingly at first.
But surely she doesnt deserve to be there for the rest of eternity, right?
...Right?
When she and equinox meet, shes been mourning on her own for a while, growing both lonely and bitter
she saved him but she hadn't fully meant to... or even really knew shed done it at first, but decided to ask him for a favor, since he was already dead and here; She wants out of this eternal prison.
he agrees to help her, but on one condition: He wants revenge. lots of it. And while she doesnt want her siblings dead, they did destroy his entire village, and on top of that, they trapped her there...
so she agrees.
General cotl stuff ensues, building up of the cult in her name, killing bishops for his own benefit and to break the chains that bind her, etc etc. Its when we get to the actual freeing of the hyena god that things go bad...
While she never kept what he'd have to do from him... she didn't like,, think to tell him either. she genuinely just assumed that he knew, and that killing the bishops was a last wish of sorts... Equinox takes this as a full betrayal though, and ends up fighting her for his life.
A life that she was willing to figure out how to spare.
After he wins the fight, she continues to try and convince him that she wasnt trying to hide anything, that she didnt want him to die at all. But Equinox refused to listen to her.
Perhaps the death was fitting for the god.
