Editing Drycha (section)

==Age of Sigmar==
During either the End Times or the Age of Myth Alarielle had somehow recovered Drycha's soul in something called a soulpod, as she had with countless other souls. While Alarielle made the [[Sylvaneth]] she refused to plant Drycha's soulpod. This was because Alarielle feared the damage that Drycha’s firebrand madness could cause and the horrors she might wreak. That said, she was very aware that Drycha’s was a necessary darkness, and that by keeping her imprisoned, the mother had somehow weakened her children.

At her lowest point during the Age of Chaos, Alarielle planted her barbed seed in the hateful chasm known as the Hamadrithil, desperate for someone to take the fight to Chaos. An ancient and malicious sentience dwelled in Hamadrithil that Alarielle hoped would make Drycha strong. The Everqueen got her wish and more. When she burst free from the rift, Drycha was no longer a mere Branchwraith. She was Drycha Hamadreth, a being encased in a body of twisted vines and gnarled thorn-root, the embodiment of the Hamadrithil’s malice given form. Her memory and sanity were fractured and she was torn between rage and depression, but Drycha was otherwise the same as she was before. Drycha’s bitter soul drew deadly spites to infest her form, flitterfuries that came to bask in the heat of Drycha’s rage while the squirmlings suckled at her sorrow.

She drew the Outcasts to her in great number, along with other disaffected clans besides. Drycha’s first host was uncontrollable, a force of nature’s wrath that ripped through the allies of the sylvaneth as readily as their enemies. Unable to fully command her wayward daughter, but unwilling to destroy her, Alarielle was forced to name Drycha an Outcast herself. This seems only to have strengthened Drycha’s resolve, for she rules the other Outcasts as a twisted queen in the place of their estranged mother. Drycha sings her own song, a discordant dirge of hatred for all those not of the sylvaneth. Drycha has no mercy for her foes since, in addition to using fear as a weapon, she's not above toying with her foes before she kills them (read; [[Grimdark|torturing them and drawing out their deaths]]).

Now Drycha seeks only the total dominion of the sylvaneth over the Mortal Realms and the death of everyone else. She will fight however and wherever she feels she must until that end is achieved; with other wargroves, by herself or even at the side of those flesh-and-blood beings she hates, providing that to do so furthers her genocidal aims. That's right, a racist, insane, genocidal terrorist is a "hero" among the forces of Order. Drycha herself remains an agent of anarchy and destruction with a hatred of non-Sylvaneth, though she retains a grudging loyalty to her mother goddess and a love for her people that keeps her on the side of Order.