Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.
Meaning of (name): In Mesopotamian legend it means "Queen of the Great Earth". Ereshkigal was the goddess of Irkalla, the land of the dead or underworld. Sometimes her name is given as Irkalla, similar to the way the name Hades was used in Greek mythology for both the underworld and its ruler, and sometimes it is given as Ninkigal, lit. "Great Lady of the Earth" or "Lady of the Great Earth".
Aliases: Eresh, Dark Queen, Judge
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Likes: Laws, Justice, Honesty, Purity, Strength, Darkness, and Loyalty
Dislikes: Disloyalty, Crimes Going Unpunished.
Date Found: March 2, 2014
Found: Baskets Dropped!
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Temper: Harbringing (a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.)
Breed: Angeni/Mutant
Breed Appearance: Angeni
Height: 16.1 hands
Personality:
Ereshkigal has always felt the heavy weight of duty as the first born.
Her grandfather taught her that there are laws, and that laws must be obeyed. She understood that. There were some things that must be inflexible. He had taught her the words over and over. Dura lex sed lex "The law is hard, but it is the law."
Laws were not guidelines to follow by, they were absolutes. As she grew, she believed in it more and more clinging to the rigidity of the absolutes when faced with uncertainty. Laws are not meant to be broken.
Her sister Inanna's carefree and light nature troubles her. How could one sibling be so dismissive of laws and absolutes, so unworried while one suffered for it?
The divide grows between them as Ereshkigal fears for her sister and then begins to pity her. Her sister was obviously not cut out for the job, did not take things seriously as she should--and so she did not deserve the honour.
As often happens, envy and pity turned to indifference, and then to a form of disrespect, perhaps even hate.
Ereshkigal is haughty and proud, strong and resolute. Often seen as rigid or cruel, she believes and obeys the laws perfectly. She believes that a soquili's good actions never negate the bad, and vice versa. She would both punish a soquili for their misdeeds and reward them for their good ones, because for her one action does not cancel out the other.
She holds everyone, even her siblings, to this high standard.
Backstory:
Born to Westrion and Lament, she and her siblings came at a troubling time for her parents--which seems to have marked them with discord among themselves.
