priscilla (Dark Souls)

Priscilla is a crossbreed of the dragon Seath and a human woman, likely a result of Seath's many experiments.

She was feared by the Gods of Anor Londo and treated as an abomination due to her Lifehunt powers and unnatural origin. Eventually she was drawn away to the cold and lonely Painted World of Ariamis, trapped within a great canvas. The Painted World came to be protected by a specific order of Painting Guardians, such was the perceived threat she posed to the reigning Gods.

The Gods continued to use the Painted World as a prison, a place to seal away dangerous artifacts, abominations, sinners and Hollows. Eventually, Velka spread her influence inside the painted world, as she was the Goddess of Sin. Dozens of her cultist followers found refuge there, and potentially endeavored to protect Priscilla from the other Gods.

When the Chosen Undead encounters Priscilla, she has come to see herself as a guardian of the Painted World, which she characterizes as "peaceful," and its "kind" inhabitants. She pities those trapped within the painting, as the outside world has treated them with hate and locked them away, like herself. She is not hostile to visitors from the outside world, unless provoked, and will only ask them to leave in peace.

At some point Priscilla would become the "mistress" of the Painted World[14] and its inhabitants by extension, continuing to welcome the forlorn souls led into the cold world by the tales of heretical storytellers, her Lifehunt Scythe becoming the symbol of a long-lost home. The humanoid corvians who continued to find refuge in the painting would then form a small village, complete with a library and knights, developing a high understanding of the First Flame and the Dark Soul[18], using the Flame to "restore" the Painted World when it was corrupted from time, to avoid the fate of the stagnating outside world. For this purpose, a "Father" was chosen among the corvians who would have to tend to the Flame present in the Painted World to burn it when the time was right and prepare the next one by restoring the painting.

Priscilla would also have a daughter who would inherit her draconic traits[24], along with her high levels of knowledge about the First Flame and the Dark Soul, becoming a "painter" with the abilities to harness the two forces and paint Painted Worlds.

Priscilla resembles a slight human woman, despite being roughly five meters tall. Her skin is extremely pale. Her hair is stark white, and she has a patch of fur beneath her hairline resembling an exaggerated widow's peak. This fur is framed by a row of small white spikes just above her brows.

She has a fluffy white articulate tail with reptilian proportions. It emerges between two layers of her gown, which is of the same furry texture, and may or may not be part of her. She prominently carries a large scythe. She walks barefoot despite the snowy terrain.

She is capable of turning invisible. She has no wings and does not levitate.

She speaks very softly, and attempts diplomacy with those who invade her world.