Segra

Segra Mortis Est.png Lehkelogah-Djehkeleho-dehbe-effehezepeh (Wrathic: Palum'eshk't), better known as Segra, is an unpredictable higher being who influenced events throughout both Eldham and Rathnir. She has conflicting origin stories and understandings of her character, as the Segrist worshippers believe her to be a creator goddess, but the Abyss Mystics have revealed through Obsidian Scrying that she attained godhood as a mortal in Paxia. Her cult is known for its justification of war and violence throughout Rathnir and Eldham, which has pitted her as a goddess of war and destruction. Segra is known to have been trapped in the Weregate Facility as "Prisoner Zero" before her jailbreak by Mugen and Arugo Modirov. Currently, it is believed that she resides in a pocket realm of the End, influencing events on Rathnir and Eldham.

Segra is believed to want to turn Rathnir and Eldham into "the Heroic Arena", in order to return the worlds to what they are supposedly meant to be. This is supposedly a world of no towns or nations, but competing factions which seek to destroy each other at every turn. The nature of this claim has been traced to her being as a war goddess trying to create a violent world of warring clans, her love of destruction and torment, or the conspiracy that Rathnir and Eldham are the dream of the Scumoctacon Godhead.

Segrist Creation Story
The cult of Segra believes that Segra is a creator Goddess of the universe, as is detailed in the ancient Mugen Segrist text of the Egonomica Segrora. The summary of this creation myth, all the way to Segra's entrapment plays out like this:

''In the beginning there was nothing, except for a dark and endless sea of full waters and the air above it, which was scattered by winds. Above the waters descended a ball of spirits, which was made of two opposing forces that swirled around each other- those of Lehkelogah-Djehkeleho-dehbe-effehezepeh and those of Nyar-Lothhodideios-Bardathaldaboath. The forces separated, and out of Lehkelogah-Djehkeleho-dehbe-effehezepeh was created Segra, and out of Nyar-Lothhodideios-Bardathaldaboath was created Deiodio. In their duality, Segra knew what the world was, and strove to keep order in the way that it naturally existed, but Deiodio was ignorant, and he did not like the way that the world was. So Deiodio said, "I will turn the swirling winds into things anew, and from the soft air shall come a great a placid creation", and so it was. Deiodio turned the wind into the sun and the moon to illuminate the space, and hardened the wind into cobbled rocks, which he piled in the ocean, and planted thick grass on top of. Segra was annoyed at the reordering of things, for this was unnatural.''

''Deiodio saw the land he created, and believed it was good, but he grew restless as the wind blew over the grass, and longed for people to inhabit the land and praise him. So he swirled the air into a tornado, and from it he created 3 people of pure white skin, one man, one woman, and one neither. Here, he gave the people a garden, creating the trees and crops and animals to serve the humans. And so the humans were happy, they populated the island with dirt huts, and they wrote songs and built altars to praise Deiodio. But soon, the winds which Deiodio swirled to create this land collected in the sky, and they generated a great thunderstorm of red lightning to engulf the entire world. The people of the land, having been made out of these same winds, suffered by being swept away, torn apart, and flayed by the winds of the thunderstorm. For 13 weeks, the people endured the flaying storm, and they suffered greatly as they were slowly worn down and decayed by the world. Deiodio refused to let them die, for he believed that his creation was perfect in the way it was, even though he could not control the flaying thunderstorm that he had generated.''

''Segra saw these people's torment and took pity. So, she went far from the land, and rocked the waters of the abyss so violently that their waves reached up to sky, and they punctured a hole through the clouds and let the sun shine once again. In the tumultuous waters, Segra hardened them into one new person of pitch black skin, who was sturdier, stronger, and more intelligent than the white people of Deiodio. Segra looked at Deiodio in the sky and shouted, "You, Deiodio, who have made the wind-white person, you have made weakness! You are no loving god or creator, you are a torturer. No justice or mercy comes from you, you give flesh and bone minds to wither and suffer! Begone, weakling! For your presence is unworthy!". Segra then ordered her black person of water to march on the land of Deiodio, and so they did. The person endured the flaying storm with ease, and built a castle of stone in the center of the island. Over the next few years, they fathered and gave birth to 12 sons and daughters with the people of Deiodio, who had ash-grey skin and glowing purple eyes. These were who would become the Brothers and Sisters of Segra, and the progenitors of the race known as the Strong. Segra then saw that the white people of Deiodio continued to suffer the wrath of the flaying storm, so she created death and the dark abyss, and ordered the person of water to quickly terminate the weak people of air, and start anew with their studier children of water and air. The pitch black person did so, and they ended every person of Deiodio on the land, except for one man who they had spared, for he had put up a fight in order to preserve his family. Because of this, this first person of Segra was known as the Judge.''

''Segra saw that her children were strong, and she was pleased. The flaying storm was still unstoppable, though, and so she devised a solution that would breed them into the strongest beings possible, who would eventually not stop the storm, but live as the storm lives. She took the 12 sons and daughters of the Judge, and adopted them as sons and daughters of the spirit Lehkelogah-Djehkeleho-dehbe-effehezepeh, to become her brothers and sisters in blood and soul. She anointed them by drowning them in a mixture of water, wind, and lightning, and each was reborn into the world through great suffocating and suffering. She gave the 12 brothers and sisters new names- the Loud Speaker, the Cloven Scar Muscle, the Flicked-Out Tongue, the Air Light Foot, the Gory Hand, the Climbing Mark, the Shifting Hand, the Watching Eye, the Hidden Spine, the Hoarder Tactician, the Forgotten Red Glory, and the Tumor. Segra then received each one, so that she was impregnated. In her grew an egg of obsidian glass that she birthed, and after 70 weeks of defending the egg from evil forces that attempted to destroy it, it hatched her 13th brother and son, the Dawn Gnasher, a child of black skin with scarred red marks, who had 14 arms and 6 eyes, with rows of sharp teeth, two tongues, and a pig's snout; with feathers covering all its back, and 12 horns on its head with several being like the handles of a vase. With these 13, she made a pact that they would survive and carry on, to be strength where strength lacked, and to keep the world in its natural state- ever unfolding and changing to avoid the destructive decay of Deiodio. She promised her brothers and sisters that one day, all them and their children would be reunited at the Heroic Arena, where they would unite with the thunderstorm, and return the world to the swirling waters and winds.''

''Segra then divided the world into 6 sections- Paxia, Jagdas, Rathnir, Eldham, Akonanda, and Shpauxok, and she divided the land, water, winds, and thunderstorm among all the realms, and gave each realm 2 of her Sisters and Brothers, those children of grey skin and purple glowing eyes, to watch over and breed the strongest beings possible. The native inhabitants that were born of the 6 lands were terrorized by the brothers and sisters of Segra, for they rampaged into these new lands and devoured their corpses to ingratiate with the land's power. By various persuasions, the brothers and sisters created new and stronger races from the native inhabitants. In all these races, however, the blood and forces of both Segra and Deiodio reside, for many submit to their natural being of dynamism and strength, while others resign to decay, complacency, and gluttony.''

The main problems with this interpretation of Segra's origins is that it leaves her Paxian campaign and entrapment in the Weregate facility unknown, which the Paxian Origin Story theory of hers does not:

Paxian Origin Story
The majority of non-Segrists do not accept the origin story of Segra as a creator god or a primeval entity. In fact, it has been revealed to some prophets of various religions opposed to Segra that she has mortal and ordinary origins in the old land of Paxia. As was recorded from the ice-scrying rituals of Abyss Mysticism:

''Segra lived as a teen with many siblings to wealthy nobles in Paxia, but one day a big war that broke out with demon-spawn. To protect their kids, her parents put Segra and her siblings in a bunker beneath the house, giving them food and everything for a while. Turns out, the war went on for 7 years, and the kids got trapped down there and they ran out of supplies. When the kids were almost starved to death, they dug around and found the bunker was partially connected to a vast, dangerous maze of catacombs. Segra ventured down there and got supplies for the bunker kids, where was forced to learn to defend herself and discovered and an aptitude for combat. Eventually Segra came back up and trained her siblings to be elite fighters just like her. Eventually, they busted out of the bunker, and they were met with the demon hellscape that resulted from the war. They carved their way through many demons and into the city they lived near, called Elashazhkel. Segra and her siblings established themselves as a bastion of humanity in this demon-infested land, and the demon leaders had to allow her to set up in the city just so she wouldn't kill them all. Eventually, Segra got sick of this, and she challenged a duel with the Demons' godking: Nyar-Helothhodida. She won and consumed his godhood (likely referring to his brain, heart, and genitals), and became a goddess herself. She first exterminated the demon horde in her old nation and then set up a new government with herself as god-queen. But she was absorbed with her power, and went mad in the way of violence. She began conquoring the whole continent and wiping out entire groups and peoples, because no one can stop her, she exercised control over a full continent in Paxia. However, she got challenged by a group of heroes gathered from other mortal survivors. They were able to defeat her by having one of them, called the Enforcer, infiltrate Segra's circle over the course of 4 years, where he gained access to her stronghold. One night while she was sleeping, the Enforcer snuck the 10 heroes into her keep, and in her chamber, he cut off her feet with one swing of a giant golden axe. The other 10 heroes of his group joined in the chamber, and they fought. Segra, not being able to walk or fly. She was turned over to the inter-dimensional Weregate Authority, who stripped her of a physical body and jailed her spirit here with the Enforcer having guarded her.''

The Destruction of Paxia
Segra's genocidal conquest was first recorded in a report from the Weregate Facility belonging to the Administrative Authority. The report was written in the classical Paxian language and did not contain much information of Paxia's destruction either than there were "mass casualties". In Stoney's letter to the Administrative Authority, he provides a more in-depth description of the conquest which reads:"'I first saw Paxia, the realm which Segra and I called home. There I saw armies annihilating the landscape, I saw bases flowing with lava and water, and pure destruction everywhere. Segra flew at the helm of a massive army which tore down the trees, mountains, ores, and buildings of this world. All that was beautiful about it was swept away like a sandcastle at high tide.'"The destruction of Paxia from Segra's conquest resulted in many religions and myths passed down by Paxian survivors unaware of Segra's existence. A frequent pattern in many of these stories, however, often involves deranged god(s) and a realm wrapped in flames.

First Mentions
One of the earliest known public references to Segra is a simple question asked by a scribe known as 8_bit_Blocks in the summer of 73 SMP, asking "what does the enchantment blessed by segra do?". This person had likely found an item associated with Segra somewhere, though where and how they did are unknown, as is what that item was. Knowing the violent nature of Segra, the item is likely to have been a weapon of some kind, but this is unconfirmable.

The Attack on Lhûmar
In the year 76 SMP on the Third Month of the Fourteenth Day, an attack was conducted on the Aurlûnoren city of Lhûmar. The invasion force composed of multiple chickens reportedly firing arrows, and hopping around abnormally, and had a distinctive yellow tint to them, akin to a Wraith. The invasion was lead by an Elite-Class Wraith simply known as "The Fireball", which attacked innocents in Dragon Square, and rampaged throughout the city. The Imperial Guard, members of the Imperial Court, the Dragon Army, the City of Lhûmar Constabulary, and multiple volunteers would work together to defeat the forces, and sealed the portal. The general's star would be put into a beacon, which would enforce the divine barrier at the northern gate of the city, which in turn, hoped that the city would be protected from further attacks by this unknown force. The being reportedly stated: "Well done... but your divine barrier cannot prevent me from entering your little city. Pathetic "dragons". You have grown soft since your empire formed. Do not think this is the end...". This would be said by one of the befallen wraith leaders. Later, this would be confirmed to be linked to Segra, as the attacks in Eldham had a similar magnitude.

Connection to Entropy and Disproving by the Luxites
Segra has an unknown connection to Entropy, as initially she claimed to be the reincarnation of Entropy, absorbing her power by eating her heart in the Weregate Facility. Segra would attempt to establish this connection by however this was disproved after the Luxites of Luxios attained the Netherite Dagger used to kill Entropy, and Segra did not recognize it.

Manipulations of Nik Kakoishi
In autumn of 77 SMP, Nik Kakoishi had a vision while sitting at the Holy Oasis, a religious site at the deserts of Sparwood. A woman with white hair, later revealed to be Segra, appeared in his vision, proclaiming herself as a god and declared she would bring "true peace to this world". Two of her fingers touched Nik's forehead and his armor shifted and changed to what the woman called the "Tenken". For several days, whispers beckoned him to hunt an unknown target whose name had been obfuscated from Kakoishi's personal records. Under the woman's influence, Nik was led to what was described as a "fortress city". At this fortress, it was revealed that Segra also appeared in the visions of Admiral Kartoffel, Beefland, and Sxowry. The four attacked the locals in the city, driving out the army of the fortress. After this battle, the voices had apparently ceased. Nik had traveled back to the Oasis and had meditated. During this meditation, he had spoke with tylervr, an Ulfaeng member who would die probably immediately after this exchange. Segra would reappear from the Oasis and interrupt the conversation between Tyler and Nik. Once again, Nik fell in control of Segra's influence and his hazel eyes turned red. During the same time, Admiral Kartoffel seemed to continue on a killing spree, under the influence of Segra, using a weapon called "Segra's Peace".

It is unclear what followed after Segra possessed Nik the second time. The next event that appears in Nik's personal records was him waking up from his bed, realizing he was no longer under her influence. After this realization, he sprinted to the oasis and meditated, learning he could talk to his religion's deities again as well as tylervr. He then gathered the gear he had gained under Segra's influence and threw it into the oasis; the water of the oasis in turn turned to honey and was struck with lightning. In the place of the gear was a trident, bestowed upon Nik, who grabbed the trident and hoisted it high above his head.

It is known that at least three weapons were created early on under the name of Segra: "Segra's Peace", wielded by Admiral Kartoffel, "Segra's Dagger", wielded by Duke Azael, and "Segra's Order", wielded by Nik Kakoishi while under Segra's possession. The "Segra's Order" was used by Nik against Arugo Modirov in the autumn of 83 SMP (likely during the second possession), and the Dagger was used in combat against Robot Girlyman, in the winter of 91 SMP.