Names: Beau Geste Bellatroix, Black Bella, Sanguine Witch/Mother, Great Mother's Shadow

Age: Unknown, likely ancient, well over 1000

Gender: Female

Species: Primordial force given flesh

Appearance:

Being a creature who readily shifts between forms, their true face is one wrapped in uncertainty. In most, however, she has long black hair, one eye violet and the other burning green with two rings around a contracted pupil, black lips, a pale face, black sclera, and a black nose giving some visage of a skull, and a wide grin. Sometimes assuming human form, it lacks much of her more monstrous traits, appearing as a rather tall woman at around 6'3", with the exception of her face has a darker skin tone. Sometimes seen as a slouching witch-like humanoid creature with a long neck with the stringy black hair running down her back like a horse's mane, her mouth widened, ears pointed and three sets of fangs as an overbite, a very tall body at 8'5" with hair covering her arm like a sleeve and bony hairless clawed hands protruding from the "sleeves", and sports a long hairless tail striped in white-and-black with sharp barbed fins. Often however, a monster of the likeness of a possum and an alligator, with a massive maw full of jagged teeth, and long bony and sharp claws.

Powers:

Manifesting and twisting flesh and bone by commanding the core elements of creation which serves as the basis of her erratic ability to assume nearly any fleshly form with alarming accuracy. She can produce a painful flesh eating toxin, it is assumed that her true form is made of this miasma.

Skills/Strength:

With age comes wisdom, and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, these make up the power of Bellatroix. While physical strength and raw primordial power exists within her, her long life has granted her cunning and insight beyond that of any one man further her unique and strange nature. She shows advanced healing to the point of regeneration, immunity to toxins and caustic and acidic fluids. Her ability to produce claws, barbs, and fangs are nothing to scoff a.

Weaknesses:

Despite all her strength, she displays a strong affinity to children that could only be described as maternal. Abused and orphaned children seem to attract her attention the most. She also shows a strong aversion to fire, something that counteracts her regenerative qualities.

Background:

Earliest records tell of a creature who emerged from the old swamps, stealing away children in the night and killing those that retaliated, appearing as either a monster, a beautiful woman, or a twisted hag. They would refer to her in these text as the savage god, Black Bella, who had descended from the beyond to test the faith of man, or as the Bog Witch who's tales of judgement end always morbidly violent. Unlike the usual tales of warning that are often aimed at misbehaving children, hers are aimed more towards the parents, warning that abuse and murder can attract the Black Bella, to "spirit away the unloved seed and consume the sinner." A contrasting and confusing image of tenderness and bloody retribution create something of a duality to her image.

Images diminished in time since then, as the lords purge away the old practices in magic, and yet tales of her have continued, manifesting in stories as a kind of boogieman. Thought now by many to either be dead, or a myth, but blood tends to reawaken old magic, and too much now spilled for it to sleep.