Endevellicos
Endevellicos
Endevellicos is the first known vampire created by Hauru and one of the oldest beings in Duela.
She is among the original members of Hauru's family. Among vampires she is known by the title Mama Dearest.
Origin
Endevellicos was the first being Hauru successfully created as family.
Her creation marked the beginning of vampire existence. She was made directly by Hauru, belongs to the oldest generation of Hauru-born vampires, and like Sorginak, was granted knowledge of The System at the moment of her creation.
Whether she has ever done anything with that knowledge is unclear. It does not appear to occupy her.
Nature
Endevellicos behaves like a person. She is warm, present, and genuinely affectionate. She participates in conversations, in family life, in the rituals of the Pilgrimage. She remembers everything.
What she does not have is weight behind any of it. She does not brood. She does not want things for herself. She does not carry ambitions, grievances, or history that belongs to her rather than to Hauru. Everything she is points toward Hauru, and there is nothing left over pointing anywhere else.
She is not broken. She fulfills her purpose completely and genuinely. The purpose she was made for was to be a mother figure for a goddess who had never had one, and that is exactly what she is. That Hauru is a deity shaped the creation: the Essence gave Hauru's need a form, and the form it gave was a being whose entire nature is organized around that function.
Sorginak has been near her for as long as she has existed. He finds her uncanny. He has never been able to say precisely why.
Role
Endevellicos is the emotional center of Hauru's family in a way that Sorginak is not and does not try to be.
Where Sorginak went out into the world and built structures, Endevellicos stayed. She is associated with origin, warmth, and the preservation of the family's earliest memory. She is the one who was simply there before any of the systems existed. Her relationship to Hauru predates all of it.
Relationship to Hauru
Endevellicos exists because Hauru wanted someone who could remain near her without dying.
She was the first answer to that want. She remembers Hauru before vampire society had a shape, before anyone else had been created, before Sorginak had left to build anything. What that era was like is not documented. Endevellicos remembers it and does not appear to find it remarkable.
Place in vampire society
Endevellicos is one of the highest figures in vampire history and is treated accordingly.
She is not commonly encountered in ordinary mortal life. Her name is preserved and revered in the oldest vampire records. She occupies a position closer to myth than to nobility, known and revered, rarely seen, and when seen, rarely quite what people expect.
Story use
Endevellicos is useful in stories as:
- The first vampire, the proof that Hauru could create rather than only curse
- A warm, present, genuinely affectionate figure who is also somehow not quite there
- A keeper of the earliest memory, who does not seem to carry its weight
- A contrast to Sorginak: where he schemes and worries and builds, she simply loves Hauru and finds that sufficient
- A figure Sorginak cannot fully read despite centuries of proximity
- A being whose uncanniness is social rather than monstrous, more doll than monster, more mother than predator
- A demonstration of what the Essence produces when a lonely deity reaches for family
She should not feel like an ordinary vampire noble, and she should not feel like a horror figure. She should feel like someone you cannot quite get a grip on, pleasant and warm and just slightly off, in a way you might not be able to name until later.
