Drycha

"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."

– Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis."

– Michael Ignatieff

Drycha, the Briarmaven of Woe, is an ancient and powerful nature and probably the most racist individual in Warhammer fantasy or Age of Sigmar.

Lore

Warhammer Fantasy

Long ago, Drycha held court amongst the roots of Addaivoch, the once-glorious creature known in later times as the Tree of Woe. While some believe that Drycha lost her mind when Morghur’s death tainted the ground of her glade, she was insular, capricious and malevolent for many long years before that.

In the early years of the alliance between the Elves and forest, Drycha was ever in evidence about the glades and groves, watching the Elves and examining their every action for any sign of betrayal. She rarely conversed with others, even the Dryads who served her as handmaidens, but instead chanted a mantra of the names of all those fellow spirits whom she believes have been failed by the Elves. It's unlikely her list would ever end because, despite her age, Drycha's memory was crystal-clear and new names were added with every battle between Athel Loren and the outside world.

As time went on, Drycha’s activities became more violent and worrying to the Wood Elves . On the fringe of the great Drakwald Forest in the Empire, peasants told stories of the trees that come alive, hungry for blood. On the edge of the Forest of Arden in Bretonnia, villagers gather only deadwood for their purposes, citing tales of other settlements found ruined and torn, the inhabitants left as scraps of tattered meat by the vengeance of the trees. To many, these events seem as senseless as they are apparently random, but if they are indeed the work of Drycha and her handmaidens, there must surely be a greater goal behind them than mere slaughter — though what that goal is remained to be seen. One of her last acts before disapprearing prior to the End Times was freeing Coeddil from the prison Ariel had bound him in.

In the End Times, things really went sideways. Drycha went to ground with Coeddil, he head full of schemes of vengeance against the Wood Elves.