Editing Morathi (section)

==== Era of the Beast ====
Morathi has kept her place in the grand alliance though she realizes she will have to be wary of future retribution from both Sigmar and Lumineth. Though she is confident that they are both too distracted with other threats to worry about her and her machinations (for now anyway). As part of her agreement with the Celestant Prime all the Stormcast prisoners are released unharmed, though they have sworn to retake the city at a later date. Morathi still took the time to study their stormforged construction for potential weaknesses within them. In addition Morathi has allowed any citizens in the city freedom to leave to nearby Sigmarite settlements as per her agreement, though given how dangerous travel over the realms can be many are forced to take their chances in Har Kuron. However, Morathi is not without some level of accommodation. Putting on grand arena fights to entertain her new subjects while also trying to win over new converts from the people.

However this hasn't gone over smoothly. Insurgencies within the city and the surrounding lands has caused her no small amount of trouble (with the Blackscale coil ironically working against her now having aided her previously taking the city). To top this all off her now openly declaring godhood has caused a furvour from her rivals and enemies from within the Daughters of Khaine itself. With many finally wising up to the fact that she has no real interest in spreading the power of Khaine but simply trying to claim the mantle of Khaine herself. Open challenges to her rule were attempted but were put down swiftly. Though this shortsighted tactic only led to her enemies going underground and actively forming resistance movements against her; The Crone-Heralds, a sect of Khainite extremists are actively building forces to take on Morathi head on down the line. Though Morathi has been unable to uncover them, much to her annoyance.

In addition, all this pales in comparison to her own personal problems. Since her sundering within Slaaneshs stomach her Morathi-Khaine aspect has since displayed many odd behaviors. Her body guards have noticed her seemingly muttering to herself or seemingly arguing with apparently nobody while alone in her quarters. In addition her mood has become erratic and unpredictable, seemingly becoming enraged or tranquil at random moments. What Morathi wants no one to know is since her splitting she has been warring for dominance of her shared soul with her Shadow-Queen aspect as while Morathi-Khaine contains all her guile and charisma, her Shadow Queen aspect represents all her rage and bitterness of all the wrongs that have befell her and looks to become the dominant force. While she has in the past been able to keep her other aspect in line eventually her Shadow Queen aspect went berserk and destroyed her temple home before disappearing into the wilds of Ghur. Her Shadow Queen form no longer able to tolerate the shame of being bested so easily in combat by Kragnos at the Siege of Excelcis wishes to find the Destruction god for a rematch. Morathi-Khaine after hearing of this immediately makes haste with an army to chase down her other half and bring her back into line. Though she lets not even her closets attendants know how unnerved she is of this development as it appears her Shadow Queen aspect is developing a distinct will of its own (plus more than likely fears death herself if Kragnos kills her other half since they share a soul).

As if all that wasn’t bad enough though while Morathi was out dealing with that mess Nagash found out about all the souls she stole from him to ascend as well as all the ones she gave to the Idoneth to make peace with them. Enraged at the theft of what he saw as his property but too weakened still to deal with the matter himself Nagash decides to summon Kurdoss Valentian, the Craven King, since while he’s competent he’s not one of his more powerful generals which is good since he won’t try to usurp him upon learning of Nagash’s weakened state. He then tasks Kudross to reclaim some souls specifically from Morathi since Nagash still doesn’t know where most of the Idoneth are located. Kudross thus summons his crossbow-wielding Craventhrone Guard and sets out to attack Har Kuron to reclaim some souls alongside Vayon of the Withered Quill, one of the dreaded Scriptors Mortis, and a merciless Nighthaunt army. They wait until the Daughters of Khaine are distracted with some of their big arena fights and attack the city from below killing a whole bunch of civilians. Unfortunately for the Nighthaunt the reaping of souls is cut short when the Daughters realize what’s going on and retaliate faster than anticipated with High Gladiatrix Yelena and company chasing the Nighthaunt back into the underground catacombs and eventually pushing them out of the city. Still the Nighthaunt did manage to claim a bunch of civilian souls so the whole effort wasn’t a total loss, especially since the attack definitely would piss off Morathi once she learned of it.