After the fall of the Mikage Autocracy, a new era began for the Shadowkin. Forever tainted by their subjugation by Demonspawn, many of the denizens of Yakai sought to resurrect their lost culture, and begin the process of restoring peace, harmony, and justice to their wayward society. In the establishment of the War Divinity, a new religious order born from the Church of Lumaya and dedicated to the violent resistance of Siroth, there existed a vehicle for the Shadowkin to publicly demonstrate their contrition and penance. After the dismantling of the pirate fleets that the Mikage had unleashed upon Teleria’s seas for years, concerted efforts were made to restore trade with neighbors beyond the Skyiron Dominion. Though it was painful, many of the most violent and unpredictable leaders who had led the rebellion against the Mikage, and helped bring down the terrible regime, were killed or exiled to make it clear that a new era of stability was being ushered in. The cumulative effect of this regeneration is that the Shadowkin began to restore themselves in the eyes of the wider world, and were on the path to redemption. That was not something that all Shadowkin were seeking, however.

From the beginning of her life, Riho Bonespear was taught how to destroy. Sired by a Mikage Demonspawn general, and thereafter raised in its inner circle, she was one of their most potent tools in the violent oppression of the Yakai people. Bent, beaten, and broken into a creature of pure contempt and malice, her early life was spent being honed into an agent of chaos. Her ferocity and skill with a spear, coupled with her deft powers of manipulation and persuasion, made her an unforgiving adversary. Forever kept in the darkness and shadows, and specializing in destroying communities from within, Riho was tasked with infiltrating the nascent rebellion and ensuring its collapse no matter the cost. She knew the rebels would suspect her, given her Demonic visage, and so when she found a resistance cell to infiltrate, she lied to them, spinning a tale of hate and anguish to convince them she wished the Mikage to fall. This was enough to persuade them not to execute her, and she proved herself to them in numerous raids against the Mikage. Soon, she was accepted into the rebellion’s leadership and there set about undermining and eroding the core pillars of their movement. Though she did much to scupper and delay the rebels’ plans, in the end she could not prevent the Mikage’s eventual demise. Knowing that her true identity could be at risk, and knowing what fate awaited her if it was discovered, Riho fled the rebellion, taking only her spear with her, hellbent on forging a path of devastation through Yakai.

Left without a purpose, and utterly alone in the world, Riho continues to do what she has always done: destroy. Out in the wilds, she roams from coast to coast, killing as many rebels and Yakai civilians as she can in a bid to punish those who ended the order she had invested her life into. Though that rage is primarily directed toward the rebellion, she shows no mercy to any Demonspawn or Mikage, as in her view it was their weakness that led to their defeat. But as she wanders and continues to kill with abandon, questions about her place in the world have fermented in her imposingly horned head. Why had she supported the Mikage? If their rule was necessary, why had they fallen? Where will she go now, if she has no purpose left in Yakai? As she wrestles with these difficult questions, she cannot shake the feeling that somehow spending all that time within the rebellion has somehow poisoned her mind, that she has let their ideals of
‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ corrupt what she once knew. Riho hasn’t failed to notice that the more she kills, the more she delivers vengeance to those who wronged her, the louder these questions seem to grow.

Though she does not know it yet, Riho Bonespear will soon reach a crossroads. The path she is on, one of death and destruction onto which she was placed as a child, is not granting her the satisfaction she seeks. The questions that plague her conscience will not quiet, and the rage that drives her will is starting to wane. Should she have the strength to push beyond what she was told about the order of the world, to see past the ideology of hate, power, and subjugation in which she was raised, she may yet find a purpose far greater than the one she had in the Mikage Autocracy. For the first time in her life, Riho’s future is in her own hands.

This Riho Bonespear lore is originally posted by Plarium in-game.