Nymue, commonly known as the Betrayer, is among the first of the demon hunters, daughter of
Corellon. She is the sister of
Nillian, and like her sibling, she was in love with
Eithne. Originally a powerful
Elf sorceress, Nymue officially betrayed her people by defecting to the demonic hordes during the
War of the Ancients, though her reasons for doing so were noble as she secretly aimed to repel the demonic invasion. She eventually returned to the side of her fellow elves, but her betrayal caused her people to name her "Betrayer" and imprison her. There she remained for over 1,000 years.
When Eithne had visions of the demon coming back to Toriel, she freed Nymue from her prison in order to have him battle the demons once more. She subsequently sold her soul to the devil and transformed into a devil herself in order to defeat and seal any attempt of the demon for a return to Toriel, an act for which she was banished of the elven lands. She then worked for the devil and became an
Archdevil.
History
War of the Ancients
Nymue and her brother, Nillian, were born in the
Feywild. Children of Corellon they grew up in one of the city of the feywild.
Nymue practiced her
Magic, in her youth, she attempted to master the druidic forces, as her older brother had, but the sorcery called to her in a way that the magic of the land did not. When her brother found his path, Nymue was still searching for her destiny.
But, when their father came back, announcing his mistake, and the beginning of a war against the demons, Nillian convinced Nymue to leave her queen. Nymue followed her brother and father and fought the horde of demons. But as the dragons entered the battle, Nillian came to understand that their adversaries were too powerful to fall in combat. Nymue found that she increasingly admired the powers of the demons, seeing a magical purity that underlay their chaotic behavior. Where the elves struggled to maintain their ground, the demons' number did not seem to permanently diminish.
Nymue became an important leader of the elven armies. However, Nymue did not use those forces to their fulest potential. Instead of having them cast spells, he ordered them to transfer their power into her. thus empowering her own spells instead, but in doing so, this opened them to attack from the demons with no means to defend themselves. After one particular battle their position, where she drained her own solders to the point that they died, Nymue realized that sacrifice was necessary to defeat the demons, and the others were fools for not seeing it.
Nymue had strong feeling for Eithne, a novice druid. Nymue so desired to impress Eithne that she often acted without thinking, particularly in magic; she never realized that these displays weren't quite what the druid was looking for. But while Nymue struggled to win her heart, none of them realized that the battle was over soon after it had begun; Eithne had chosen Nillian almost from the beginning. Corrupted by the influence of the demon she was fighting, Nymue convinced herself that if Nillian were to die, she would no longer have a rival for Eithne's love. Finally, the sight of Eithne in the arms of her brother shattered her final ties to the elves.
Diving into the heat of battle to forget her torment, Nymue started to seek new powers to destroy the demons. A new plan spurred into her mind, she journeyed to the
Abyss. There she feigned allegiance to the demon lord. Nymue plan was to obtain the Dragon soul, an artifact of great power created by
Neltharion the death warder, which had great power, and was said to had the ability to close the portal which was allowing the demons to enter Toriel. However, to put this plan in action, Nymue had to gain more power. Nymue was eventually brought before
Batara himself, who quickly discovered the elf's plan to obtain the Dragon Soul for the demons. Batara was pleased with this plan and gave Nymue a gift in return for her allegiance. Nymue's eyes were burned out by Batara, and orbs of magical power set their place that allows Nymue to see all forms of magic, and tattoos covered her body. When Nymue's eyes were burned out, she also received a vision of the true strength of the demons. She resolved then to find a way to defeat them for good. Batara was fascinated by the Nymue, but remained cautious, sending his demons to accompany Nymue in her search for the Dragon Soul.
When the Dragon Soul came into the hands of the demons, they went about using it as a focus to strengthen their portal to Toriel. Nymue reunited with the elves, which now greatly mistrusted her after seeming to betray them and hand over the key to victory to the demons. But working alongside the dragons, they worked to retrieve the dragon soul from the demons clutch and to save Alexstrasza.
After the end of the war, and the mourning of her father, who died in battle, Nymue was to be punished for her betrayal. Bearing the mark of the demons on her body, Nillian ordered her imprisoned deep in a jail kept far from sight and mind. Nillian would later not that sometimes he went to visit his sister in her prison.
Release from prison
Nymue languished for 1,000 years in a lightless prison, blessed with demonic power, Nymue was not affected by the passage of time. Generations of elves succeeded to keep constant guard over the Betrayer. Release came at the unexpected hands of Eithne, who slaughtered the elf guards in the hopes of using Nymue against the demons, as she had vision of their return to Toriel, the
Demonlord Ashlesh would soon invade Toriel. With her love for Eithne undampened through the centuries of confinement, Nymue agreed to help. She swore to throw back the demons and to depart from the elves forever.
Successors of Nillian opposed Eithne's decision, has they had been taught of the wrongdoing of Nymue, and thinking the release of Nymue a catastrophic mistake. Frustrated that her brother ideas had were passed down the generations and eager to prove to them that the demons had no hold over her, Nymue left them behind. While in the wood of the vales, she encountered a devil, a champion among his kind, and they engaged in combat. The fighters were equally matched, and the combatants reached an impasse. Nymue stopped the duel and demanded to know why the devil had tracked her. The devil responded openly, telling Nymue that the demonic corruption was spreading among those woods and that the devil aimed to stop them. To ensure that Nymue would take the bait, the devil spared no detail of their power, adding that his master knew of Nymue's thirst for power. Although Nymue did not trust, she nevertheless sought to meet his master.
As a trial for her might, great devil forces defended the path to the devil's master, and Nymue had to fight mightily to gain access to his place. Driven by necessity and influenced by the belief that with the increased power, she could, at last, redeem herself in the eyes of Eithne, she bargained with the archdevil.
Selling her soul to the devil in exchange for greater power. Strength she found, but peril greater than power came to her at once. The fiendish powers, battling against her demonic blessing changed her. Transforming her into a devil. With the new found power, Nymue destroyed any hope for the demon to come back, sealing any breach to the abyss and casting Ashlesh back into the abyss. Nillian's heir sensed the fiendish power lurking within Nymue, convinced that Nymue traded her soul for more power, Nymue was banished from the woods of the vales, or any elven territory.
Feeling her sacrifice and effort were unappreciated, Nymue muttered
"So be it...", and left the elf lands.
Allegiance
Banned from the land of her people, Nymue turned to the archdevil who gave her her power, pleading her allegiance to him, she would work alongside the devil to prevent the demon horde from ever coming back to Toriel. the Archdevil, known as Malacrius was only plotting to use Nymue's immense power against
Asmodeus, he blessed her with this transformation to fight the demons, only for her to owe him. Sent on a quest to find and kill every heir of Asmodeus power, Nymue started to track them down, one by one, she found the child of the Lord of the seven hell. Battling them, she grew stronger with each fight, her unique demonic abilities, mixed with her devil powers were unheard of before in the seven hell. But, as she slew more and more devils, she started to plot against her master.
He who was possessing her soul, who was controlling her, was to be defeated. Death strikes swiftly on Malacrius, as Nymue turned against her former master. With the death of Malacrius, Nymue was to be the new Archdevil, leader of
Gula, a layer of the
Seven Hells.
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