Helian Murong

The god Salk (Saliel) is sealed within the realm of Redalia, or the Void/Fray. As such, he had no way of selecting a candidate for immortality, and so he created a simulacrum of Seuthion using a multitude of souls. The result was Helian Murong, who appears as human albeit with pure black eyes with glowing red irises. She can break this form, however, to become an amorphous construct, able to alter her body in numerous ways, ranging from near liquid to metallic hardness. While trained to use a variety of melee weapons during her youth in the Void, her primary combat capability lies in her shapeshifting body.

Her body, while able to be sustained indefinitely within the Void, has trouble regenerating damage within Aurine, requiring large amounts of energy. Although she seems able to take enormous amounts of damage, the wear accumulates over time. This results in her having to travel back to the Void for a few years at regular intervals, every 40 years or so depending on the amount of damage her body has taken over time.

While Helian most often is seen as an adult female, this is not the only human form she can appear as. She can give the appearance of a man, or of a child, or even split apart to become multiple people. To maintain full size adult copies of herself, she must hollow the copies to reduce the material usage, but this in turn reduces their strength. Thanks to the mixture of souls within her, she can also have an entirely different attitude and personality, although Helian’s is the most common and dominant, and the one at the forefront of the others. Many of the other souls have individual names, possibly reminiscent of their past lives. Indeed, Helian herself says she has memories of being a peasant in Kyho, although she’d never been there before she left the Void. As such, it would appear Salk implanted memories within her to at least give her some sort of experience of life on Aura before entering it, or did not fully cleanse the souls used to construct her.

When she splits into multiple beings, they can mantain a telepathic link within a kilometer and a half or so.

When she was ready to leave the Void, Salk requested Mekijjel to accompany her while she became aquainted to the world. He agreed, and while he was only to accompany her for a little while, they’ve more or less stayed together since then.

In Helian’s human form, she is usually around 5’6”, and has long black hair. This of course can change if another soul is in control. Regardless of what soul is in control or what form she is in, her eyes are entirely pure black with just a single small red dot in the centers, which makes it harder for her to hide that she is a spirit.

A male soul inside her bears the name Dzinian, and another male soul is named Seros. There is also a ‘cat’ demon soul in her called Avarice.