#tenanye

Since these weapons also existed in the first game and were found exclusively through purifying cursed items on Bitterblack, and ofc now they mention previously housing a demon.... I decided to go balls to the wall self indulgent and headcanon that Daimon and Tenanye can communicate through them while she's exploring the dd2 world.... Like a rift-powered video call....

And then there's Maahes.... Please forgive that he's shirtless right now.... I am working on it....

Maahes was the pawn of an arisen who was Rothias' beloved ages and ages ago. Sometime after he became seneschal and came back down to earth and started his ruthless, paranoid search for the Pathfinder, killing anyone he may have suspected, his old beloved was made arisen. Maahes was conjured in the image of Rothias, influenced both by his best and worst traits.

His arisen was too afraid to challenge Rothias, seeing as he had already started slaughtering arisen who attempted to challenge him. She somehow found a link to a pocket dimension across the rift, which was Bitterblack Isle. She managed to survive there for a while, but ultimately met her end. Maahes underwent a degree of the bestowal of spirit there, and of course that's also where he met Tenanye. Maahes can be sadistic, sarcastic and cruel, but he's also calculated, and has a love for luxury and power. He's quite hedonistic.