Lady Death

Lady Death Real Name: Hope Age: looks to be 24, but over 1000 years old. Date of Birth: 1400's Gender: Female Height: 5 feet 8 inches Weight 130 lbs. Powers and Abilities: Flight, Longevity, Magic, Neromancy Magic, Swordsmanship Family: Marion (mother), Matthias (father), Vandala and Vulnavia (half-sisters)

Lady Death is the Queen of Hell. Originally called Hope, she was accused of witchcraft and condemned to burn at the stake. Having no other choice, Hope renounces her faith and humanity in exchange for life. Being reborn as Lady Death.

Appearance: Lady Death is an otherworldly femme fatale with a strikingly pale, muscular physique, flowing white hair, and white eyes. Her scant but recognizable outfits usually feature black leather, gold skull emblems, and thigh-high boots with combat stilettos. Her complexion is a solid, deathly white. Her hair is long, flowing, and pure white. Her eyes are solid white, with no discernible pupils. Lady Death is depicted as extremely voluptuous, with a muscular build. The character's figure is often emphasized by her revealing outfits.

The Reckoning Lady Death was born in medieval Europe, the daughter of nobleman Matthias and his wife Marion, a woman of viking heritage. Ten years after her mother's death Hope lives with her father and on a night witnesses him feeding subjects souls to demons. Months later Matthias is recruiting men for his many seemingly arbitrary campaigns and against her wishes, Hope's friend Niccolo is conscripted.

In spring Matthias returns from battle and as always all the new recruits are dead, Niccolo among them. Rats follow the retruning army home and bring plague to their town. On hearing that Agnes, the castle maid, is infected Hope goes to her. Remembering Niccolo's words, she lances the swellings and saves Agnes' life.

This is against the Christian teachings of the time and the already dissatisfied villagers start whispering of witchcraft. This is the last straw, along with the plague, their lord's battles and their dead sons. A mob is whipped up by the local priest, they find Matthias consorting with demons and he is killed. He thanks them for this and goes to hell to be lord to the army of souls from his village, that he led to slaughter on Earth. Hope is found guilty of witchcraft and sentenced to burning at the stake. In desperation she recalls the incantation her father used to summon the demons and chants it on the pyre as the flame rose. The demons answer the call and offer her passage to hell for a renouncement of her humanity. With no choice she accepts and falls to Hell.

In Hell her father casts her into the pit as a soul to add to his army but she mysteriously doesn't perish. Lucifer saves her and offers Hope some of his power to oppose Matthias. In her rage she accepts but feels little different. She is attacked by two large wolves, her new power helps her defeat them. They accept her as an Alpha and become her first followers. She dubs them the Nameless Wolves. Walking through Hell she is attacked by Cremator, the blacksmith to the arch-dukes of hell, who also becomes impressed by her power and joins her cause. His first act for her is to forge her a sword and train her, so she can kill her father. He presents her with her new sword Darkness and the garb Lucifer had made for a creature named Purgatori. In her time in hell she has been slowly growing taller, stronger and her hair, skin and eyes becoming white. With the new outfit and sword in hand her change is complete, and she renames herself, Lady Death.

Following Matthias' defeat of Lucifer in battle, Lady Death learns that her father did not truly defeat Lucifer but is possessed by him. She confronts Lucifer and defeats him in single combat. The battle is fierce but Lady Death wins and absorbs his soul. In one last act Lucifer curses her to never return to Earth while the living walk the surface. She uses her new found power to dismantle Lucifer's hell and reform it into the Endless Graveyard, one grave for every soul on earth that has to die so she might return.

Knowing her mother's spirit is in Hell, Lady Death sets out to find her. During the quest, she and Cremator are possessed by a demon and, driven to madness, they decide to split up and purify themselves separately. Lady Death completes her journey, but Cremator is lost and Lady Death is no nearer to her goal of finding her mother's spirit. Eventually Lady Death finds a cathedral in her graveyard that she did not create and finds Niccolo inside. Twisted by hell, he has Marion's spirit trapped within the Nexus to give it balance. Lady Death destroys her former friend and releases her mother's spirit to Heaven's gates.

All Hallow's Evil One Halloween in the Nexus she finds the demon that brought her to Hell and witnesses how the villagers who condemned her are preparing a ceremony. The demon says that he can only transport her spirit for few moments to earth, but this is all she needs.

She pretends to be a goddess who can help the villagers grow crops, but requires a sacrifice. She names the priest who branded Hope a witch and they sacrifice the priest to her. The villagers plant their seeds and the next morning the villagers are surprised to see full grown crops. However, Lady Death cursed the seeds and pumpkins rise out of the ground and slaughter the villagers.

Dragon Wars Dragon Wars takes place five years after her descent into Hell. Lady Death uses the same demon again to travel through the Nexus and, suspecting he had more power than he showed, she thinks it might lead her back to Earth. She ends up in the Dragon Realm and is attacked by the red dragon clan but, with her powers waning, she was no match for them. The clan's leader recruits her to his campaign to battle the green dragons and their demon leader. She is rewarded with armor made by the dragons she slew. During the battle she realizes that the red leader and the demon have planned to lure her to participate in the war. She helps the green dragons win. Forcing the demon to take her home, she is returned to her Endless Graveyard. Furious, she kills the demon.

During an uprising in Hell Lady Death is again pulled to Nexus, the Black-Rift where the rulers tried to make her a slave. The rulers there promised to send her back to Earth if she will assist them to win a war but she becomes suspicious. Accompanied by a brave warrior, she discovers the overseers recruit random people through Nexus and let them do battle for their amusement. Lady Death sets a trap and confronts them but them being powerful creatures they simply send Lady Death back to Endless Graveyard. However, before she made it through the Nexus she saw her trap sprung and the Black-Rift was destroyed in a massive explosion.

Between Heaven and Hell 400 hundred years after her fall she was no closer to returning to Earth than before. To make her dream real she searched for suitable humans who would be willing to kill and found one who showed potential, Ernest Fairchild. She visited him by use of the dream-probe and, once resurrected, she could travel briefly to earth through the corpses of his victims as they expired. For many years the renamed Evil Ernie killed for her but Lady Death started to lose control of her realm and suffered tormented dreams. The psychic link between Evil Ernie and Lady Death was severed and her memories were twisted by Purgatori, who had returned from Necropolis where Lucifer had banished her.

Purgatori used Lady Death's mother's image in an attempt to drink her blood but went too far. Lady Death saw through her deception and struck her down only for her to escape. Purgatori, now intimate with Lady Death's memories, sought the lost Cremator and dug him out of an obscure region of the Endless Graveyard. Possessing him, she ordered him to forge her a sword too and to attack his former mistress. Lady Death overcame him and restored his memory. He aided her as she faced Purgatori in single combat. Purgatori revealed her plan to release her loved Lucifer's soul and drink his blood. To everyone's surprise Purgatori found not a trace of Lucifer inside Lady Death. In the River Styx Lady Death forced Purgatori to speak the truth: she revealed she captured Marion's soul a fraction before she was able to pass through Heaven's gate. She used it, as Niccolo had, to anchor the Nexus as a bridge between one plane and another. As Lady Death prepared to destroy Purgatori, Lucifer appeared before them and forced Lady Death to submit to him.

A broken Lady Death, having lived a lie for 400 years, is consumed by her inner darkness and emerges as a new being, the Lady Demon. As Lady Demon she fought Purgatori for Lucifer's amusement and give herself to him as his concubine. Purgatori's punishment for defeat was banishment back to earth to feed on disgustingly powerless humans. Following her Nameless Wolves, Lady Death finds her mother's soul again, and Marion swayed what remains of her daughter to turn from Lucifer. Marion infused her soul with Lady Death's. The angelic energy, that is Marion's heritage as a decadent of vikings, battled with her darkness and almost destroyed her, but restored her faith and identity. Lady Death returned to Lucifer in demon form and seduced him before changing back into her classic look and channeled the angelic energy directly into his heart. Lucifer survived but is weakened and she flees on Vassago in panic. But at the last moment, as she considers fleeing through the Nexus, concocted a plan and threw Lucifer though the Nexus to Heaven's gates. As an unworthy being he was instantly destroyed and Lady Death became the new ruler of hell.