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Molag Grunda - First Lord of Twisted Twilights and Favoured Demi-Prince of Bal

Grunda, the eldest of Molag Bal’s daughters of Twisted Twilight, stands watch over the her Demi-Realm within Coldharbour - the Chasm of Endless Despair. Grunda embodies the Aspect of Dominion by Tyrannical Willpower - crushing her enemies via the sheer might of her evil sorcery. She was commanded by Bal himself to halt the passage of all wishing to pash the Chasm who wished to enter the Fist of Stone and the Reaver Citadel.

Alas Grunda’s everlasting torment, and disgrace in the eyes of her father, came from a lack of adversaries strong enough to pose any resistance to her own imperious sorcery, casting all weak minded foes again and again without challenge into the Depths of her Chasm of Endless Despair. To provide an adversary worthy enough to test herself against she extract a portion of her own willpower and froze it into an Ice Atronach named Nomeg Gwai. Such was her delight at performing such self harm towards the monster of her own mind that she became obsessed with the creature, forsaking all other duties and interests beside the foul wretched mirror image of her own cold heart.             

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Molag Xorrath - Twisted-Twilight General of Coldharbours Grievous Legions

In an attempt to create his own dark mirror of the Winged Twilight, Molag Bal abducted one of Aura’s prized servants and subjected it to endless torrent as to extract enough of it’s soul binding to bring forth three Twisted-Twilights. To each of these ‘Daughters’ he infused an Aspect of his own Domination to create powerful Daedric Demi-Princes to rule portions of his realm and lead his armies.

Xorrath is the middle sister of Molag Bal’s Trio of Twisted-Twilight Offspring whose Aspect is Domination through Overpowering Brutality. It is from the mind of this Daughter of War that the monstrous Grievous Twilights are born into being, each one a soldier to carry out her brutal thirst for the Domination of the weak. Wielding her enchanted Cold-Ebony Daedric Battleaxe ‘Hope’s Ruin’ she presides over her own Demi-Realm of the Eyrie of Grievously Wounded Heart, within the The Black Garrison of Coldharbour, forever conjuring more soldiers from her disgust of the weak to lead into the Forever-War of Nirn’s Domination.           

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Ha’Ran Dir-Kamal - Ice Maiden of the Kamal

The Kamal are collection of Races which live in the Kamilazian Mountain Range of Akavir. Stretching almost the entire continent this high altitude kingdom, and accessible by treacherous glacial paths which completely freeze during the winter months, and naught but the hardest of Chill-Stems and Ice-Pines escape from an icy death. Within this ‘Snow Hell’, as it is described in Akaviri, live the ‘Snow Devils’ or ‘Kamal-Agma’. Thought to have been once wholly human, these wretched beings sacrificed their hearts long ago to their Dark Lords in exchange for Daedric power, and now dremoric ichor runs through their cold veins. 

Now immune to the dread chill of their mountain kingdom, these Devils manifest the very cold of their wicked minds into living ice to use as weapons of war and mindless ice golems to carry out their darkest designs. Alas such power comes at a high price. No longer can the Kamal sustain themselves on the warmth of the sun or fresh food. Instead they must steal the living warmth and soul from other beings as the only means to find satisfying nourishment. When the Glacial Paths open once more each year they descend upon the other nations of Akavir to take slaves and cattle back to their frozen kingdom. In particular, the fractured free states of the hot blooded ‘Tang Mo’ or ‘Monkey People’ scattered along the coastal plains of the Inner Jade Sea, make for the most prized delicacies - though when possible both snake and tiger can be highly appreciated sport.

The Kamal-Agma share their domain with many other Races whom they have allied with or enslaved. These include the giant bear-like ‘Kamal-Admi’ of the high snow peaks, the ‘Kamal-Mag’wi’ raven women of the deep Ice-Pine forests, and the numerous wicked ‘Kamal-Dokkae’ cave goblins.