Inwe¶
"It is not often an ascendant of Arya offers herself up as a willing sacrifice in my own domain." — the archdemon of Gor'Turra, to Inwe (S031)
Inwe was an elf, the daughter of the priestess Caolynni, who became High Priestess of the Raven Keepers of Arya and then one of Arya's Ascendants (S056). She fought the red dragons through the Hollowing, arranged the destruction of the primal Vixseranyol, and sat in the Council of the Quad that debated how to drive the archdemon Asmodeus out of Denitrus (S031). She was killed at last by Nicoleta, Avatar of Seth'Arax (S031). Her memories live on in the warlocks of the Raven Concord, each of whom "takes a piece of Inwe's soul as their own. When they dream, they relive her memories" (S078). Everything below comes from those dreams.
Also called: Magister Uita, the name she used in disguise (S031).
Daughter of the shrine¶
Inwe was conceived "as a reward for her faithful service to the goddess Arya-Auilien and the Caerylas Tree", after her mother had guarded the Shrine of Caerylas in Arne'Athosia through the long years it lay hidden after the War of the Moradrim. As a girl of twenty or thirty she learned from Caolynni that guarding the tree was now her duty too, and that within its sanctuary lay one of the three Seeds of Caerylas, "capable of growing a new tree and holding vast energies capable of resurrection, restoration and life" (S056).
High Priestess of the Raven Keepers¶
Grown, she wore "the dark regalia of the High Priestess of the Raven Keepers", and her mother bowed to her, "as she is of higher rank among the clergy of Arya." She returned a lost Seed of Caerylas to the shrine in a time of "The Nexa-Vinian War. The return of the Primal Death Dragon Nexxumar" (S056).
Ascendant of Arya¶
As an Ascendant she carried the Brooch of Azsuri, "a gift from Arya herself. Endowed with the power of life and a strong connection to the Verdant Gardens", by which she travelled to the Gardens (S031). She kept a temple at Mt Talangar and answered "desperate entreaties from hundreds of faithful supplicants" (S031).
She worked in disguise for the wizard Severac, as a young woman in a blue robe whom he called Magister Uita, and fetched him the titan bone his dragon-egg work required (S031). When the Dracius Cradle was finished she judged the risk of its misuse worth taking and promised to found the Knights of the Dragon Lotus to guard it, its eggs and its dragons (S040).
The war with Vixseranyol¶
The red primal Vixseranyol had rebuilt her brood after the Dark Sun and, allied with Pravustiratel, overrun much of central Astia (S031). Inwe fought in the counterattack against her in the Hollantine Hills. It failed: she woke among "the charred and burning corpses of your fallen allies: priests and priestesses, paladins of the Raven, even the wizard, Severac did not survive." Vixseranyol sealed the plane against the Brooch, Pravustiratel came from the west, and Inwe fled south as a giant raven to the Hollow around Gor'Turra, gambling that "even Pravustiratel will think twice about entering the domain of an Archdemon." She crossed the archdemon's halls as a mouse, opened a gate in a hidden workshop of the old Hall of Artificers and fell through to the Gardens (S031).
Knowing the secret of Vixseranyol's lair in Pro'Turra, she called in a favour from Khemeia, Ascendant of Khardas, who destroyed the dragon and her court and sealed the fortress as her tomb (S031). That story is told on Vixseranyol's page.
The Council of the Quad¶
On the Dias of Algahanni Inwe met Khemeia, Aion of Kalar and Monan of Nyx to discuss "the second abscission of the Denitrus plane, which the mortals are referring to as the Hollowing", where Asmodeus had taken partial dominion while Kalar slept. When Khemeia proposed taking Denitrus from Kalar to cast the archdemon out and Aion called it blasphemy, Inwe sided with Khemeia: "The pantheon is not what it was, Aion. We sit on the edge of a precipice here, not just for ourselves, but the entire legacy of the Kalari is at stake" (S031). Monan gave her a key to the Vernal Warrens, where Arya had cast one of the Fallen, and named its gatekeeper, the Sylvilagus Eweleun (S031). The council and its members are described on the Ascendants page.
The Necruspex¶
Later still, Inwe's agents found a Necruspex of Teneb'Vari in a failing prison beneath the ancient elven capital of Alyr-Emuien, "constructed by Kalar himself", fifty miles from the last Caerylas Tree. She pleaded with her mother to move the seed and was refused, and left "promising to appeal directly to Arya to see if a new Caerylas Seed and Tree could be formed or the existing tree moved" (S056).
Death and legacy¶
The dream notes record, as a planned dream never written: "Inwe's Death … at the hands of Nicoleta (Kristen's other character), Avatar of Seth-Arax" (S031). Nicoleta's story is told in the Sancturi Campaign.
The Raven Concord's power comes from "an unusual bargain … each of them takes a piece of Inwe's soul as their own", which "imparts vast knowledge over time, including historical and mystical knowledge"; worshippers of the Kalari count them "blasphemers, heretics and abominations" for it (S078). Their joining is called the Juxtaposition Ritual, and the dreams that follow are hard to bear: "you are tired all the time" (S074). The Concord kept a relic called the Tear of Inwe, and its members bless one another in her name: "may Inwe shield you from harm" (S051).
Gap
The sources give no dates for Inwe's life, her Ascension or her death, and do not say how a piece of her soul came to be shared by the Concord, or whether she is wholly dead. Her other listed concerns, the eldritch beast Ungaaritk "close to discovering the prison of the Elder God Yalluch" and the siege of her temple by "forces allied to Sharuvas" (S031), are mentioned once and never developed. Planned dreams on "Paladins in Proturas" and "The Hunt - stolen dragon-egg formula" were not written.