Sharilar Starmyst was kidnapped, and through a ritual, unintentionally bonded to the Great Dark Beyond. Keeping her sanity through sheer force of will, she grew in power, slowly transforming and becoming more powerful with each additional tail, before ascending into an Elder God herself, bearing dominion over hope and forbidden knowledge. This is her journey.

Sharilar did not give much thought to her parents in her travels, until she received a missive that she was going to be a sister! Excited by the prospect, she bid the caravan she had traveled with farewell, at least for now, and made her way back towards the area their travels usually frequented this time of year.

Unfortunately, she arrived in town to find she had just missed them. Not wanting to press her luck, she decided to spend the night and catch up the next day. To bide time, she did a few readings, but strangely ever one came back negative, as if there was a cloud of ill luck hanging over the area.

The sense of dread grew the next morning as she left. By midday she finally found the cause - her parents' wagon, destroyed and burning, surrounded by cultists, who she quickly determined had been looking for her!

This sent her into a momentary rage, and she fully opened herself to the vast energies of space, shattering and erasing minds with no remorse or thought, a black and purple avatar of wrath. When the last one fell, she came back to her senses, sobbing, as she let the magic flowing through her drain away. The mindglow of her parents was absent - they were truly gone.

Her reckless use of her power had left other effects as well, she found once she had regained some measure of composure - not only did she sense that the magical channels within her had expanded, growing stronger and deeper, but she also now sported 3 tails where two had been. Meanwhile, the distant, ever-present whispers in the back of her mind had grown louder...

This card represents great loss, the grief it brings, and strength born from tragedy.

Art is by  madnessdemon!