Nyrris -Zephyr 2; Electric Boogaloo

Nyrris is a lunar moth with pale, silvery-blue wings that shimmer faintly in moonlight. Their slender body is topped with a square mask, long slender horns, and four pitch-black eye holes, with small perforations letting their twitching antennae emerge. They move like a whisper, shadow-quick and almost silent. Their long katana gleams sharply, built for swift, precise strikes. Subtle chips in their mask and faint tremors in their wings hint at endless sleepless nights and a lifetime of solitude, wandering through the darkness between worlds. They wear nothing on their body other than a katana sheath that is attracted to their waist by a belt.

They value truth above most things, as well as justice. They are kind hearted and compassionate, despite their cold exterior and demeanor. Nyrris has such extreme insomnia they physically cannot sleep, forced to live out every day of their immensely long life without rest. They were hatched with a special mutation that makes them age incredibly slowly, making their lifespan about the same as creatures born from gods and mortals, this mutation also made them genderless, and they feel no romantic or sexual attraction towards anything, and will have no idea what counts as sexual or flirtatious. This means they also have no genitalia at all and do not have any urge to mate. They use they/them pronouns.

They were allies and friends with the Green Princes of Verdania, a kingdom on the borders of Pharloom. Nyrris was trained in combat from the cricket lovers that rolled Verdania, so their attacks have a sort of dancing feel to them. They are incredibly fast, able to move faster than the eye can see and are extremely agile as well.

They have lived through many a bug’s lifetime, and wish only for the sweet rest of death, however, they do not want to rush death, but to let it take it’s time with them.

Verdania was once a lush, green kingdom, rolled by two princes known as the Green Princes, two crickets born at the same time, they looked the same, their hearts beated the same. They became the princes of Verdania by hunting the Pale Stag, a Clover Stag who was touched by being pale, many have tried to hunt her, but none have succeeded before the princes. After a while, the goddess of Pharloom, Grand Mother Silk, made a deal with the princes. One would give up his shell and soul to the Citadel for safety from her wrath. They made the deal, and one of the princes had his soul split into two Silkflys, his shell used as a blueprint for duel constructs known as the Cogwork Dancers, his soul put into both constructs to serve as the last line of defense to the Citadel’s peak before pilgrims would be told to learn the Threefold Melody. The other Prince was left behind to wallow in sadness about the loss of his lover.

Grand Mother Silk didn’t follow through on her end of the deal. She completely destroyed Verdania, leaving no survivors other than the Green Prince and Nyrris. The Green Prince, devastated by the loss of his kingdom, locked himself in a cage in Sinner’s Road to rot. Nyrris on the other hand fled Pharloom, and traveled through the Desolate Wastes to find a kingdom hopefully not destroyed or being destroyed by a higher being like Grand Mother Silk.

GMS (Grand Mother Silk) was the one to “elevate” a small group of arachnids with her silk, which created the Weavers. The Weavers ended up revolting against GMS and sealed her away in a cocoon of silk. After that, the Weavers took control of the Citadel, using GMS’s silk to made the life span of bugs in Pharloom longer. Some Weavers fled Pharloom and ended up in Hallownest, where they founded Deepnest in a secluded corner of the kingdom.

After Nyrris found Hallownest, they met a vessel made out of two Pale beings and the Void. The Void is a sentient, writhing liquid mass that exists underneath the world. It is the exact opposite power to Pale Beings like the Pale King, White Lady, and Grand Mother Silk. They found out a higher being called the Radiance was infecting the dreams of bugs and manifesting herself as sickly sweet orange pustules on bugs and the earth itself. They left after the Radiance’s infection was starting to get increasingly more aggressive.

After getting back to Pharloom, Nyrris found out that Grand Mother Silk escaped her cocoon and is infecting bugs with her silk to become her aggressive servants, destroying her old kingdom in the process... so the same that happened to Hallownest is happening to Pharloom, just instead of dreams, it’s silk. They meet the Gendered Child of the Pale King, Hornet. She is part Weaver. Eventually, Hornet frees the Green Prince from his cage, and destroys the Cogwork Dancers. She defeats Grand Mother Silk by imprisoning her with Void, which causes Void soaked silk to erupt from the ground below Pharloom, destroying many areas.

This is the state Pharloom is in now, the Green Prince having taken the shell of one of the Cogwork Dancers to the entrance of the more long dead Verdania, the rest of the kingdom inaccessible due to rubble. It’s there he decides to grieve his lost love until he dies.