Leikotha Arenir

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Leikotha Arenir

Race:

Empyrean (Haebrean)

Eras Active:

Important Dates:

RE 895 - Battle of Ayn Tayan

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"There among the snow and battle stood a woman clad in white, with long golden hair spilling over her shoulders. With the tip of a flaming silver sword she drew a circle around herself, and coolly smote any Firstborn who dared cross it."<ref name=MumiyahNote>2000/08 Taste of Twilight - Mu-Miyah Note Translation</ref>

Leikotha Arenir<ref>2000/10 Hollow Victory - Ashbane's Description</ref> was an Haebraen chevaird. Her sword, Ashbane was forged for her by the smith Dhere.<ref name="LayLeikotha">AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha</ref>
She fought in the final battle of the Millennium War against the Dericost forces, led by, amongst others, the Sand King Nerash.<ref name=MumiyahNote>2000/08 Taste of Twilight - Mu-Miyah Note Translation</ref>
Before she went to battle, she gave her daughter Alysse as a ward to Lady Orsinu <ref name="LayLeikotha">AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha</ref>
During the final battle Leikotha caught Nerash' eye and heart. In the aftermath, he abducted her and turned her, unwillingly, into an undead. <ref name="Bestiary">AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Undead</ref><ref>AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha</ref><ref name=MumiyahNote>2000/08 Taste of Twilight - Mu-Miyah Note Translation</ref> For a full report of what happened during and just after the battle, see The Lay of Leikotha<ref name="LayLeikotha">AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha</ref>
It is said that after she was made undead, she wept for thirty days and thirty nights<ref>2005/07 - Throne of Destiny - Pauldrons of Leikotha's Tears</ref>
She later escaped and tried to return to her homeland and her daughter, but was surprised by the guards, who took her for one of the Dericost, and fled. <ref name="LayLeikotha">AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha</ref>
She had her vengeance at the conclusion of the Empyrean Shadow War.<ref name="Bestiary">AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Undead</ref> Nerash was slain by Leikotha at the Battlefield of Ayn Tayan, a titanic three-day battle between undead and Shadow. Leikotha fought at the side of the Shadows, "under the sway of Ferah's poison". The four Cairns and the green mist on the Battlefield mark where Nerash was slain.<ref name="Aerfalle's Letter"> 2000/07 - To Raise a Banner of Flame - Aerfalle's Letter</ref>
Thought Nerash perished, the companies of Kelannik, Anadil, and Nerash crushed the survivors. Only Leikotha escaped.<ref name="Aerfalle's Letter"> 2000/07 - To Raise a Banner of Flame - Aerfalle's Letter</ref> She however, lost her sword, Ashbane, on the battlefield.<ref>2000/04 - Thorns of the Hopeslayer - Leikotha#Lore & Dialog</ref>
She can now be found in Leikotha's Crypt, still looking for a way to get rid of the curse. The human Wari al Sha'im tried to help her, but was turned into an undead himself.<ref>2000/04 - Thorns of the Hopeslayer - Silifi of Crimson Stars Quest#Lore & Dialog</ref> Her sword can be found in the Lady of Aerlinthe's Chest, which indicates that Aerfalle took it with her from the battlefield.