Dark mother?

Lordsaradain · Post by **Lordsaradain** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:03 am

I've recently read the to Malus darkblade novels(The deomns curse and Bloodstorm, which were great btw).

On numerous occasions Malus offers his prayers to 'the dark mother'. Who is she? The only one I could think of is Morathi but why would the druchii pray to her? She is a powerful figure but she is not divine. Who is this dark mother?

Kreoss · Post by **Kreoss** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:19 am

You know, I've always wondered that as well. I've read that in other places besides the Malus Darkblade books, too. Hopefully we'll get an answer.

Khaelakh · Post by **Khaelakh** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:21 am

theres benn several threads on this, infact i started one of them not so long ago and got the awnser

Then link to it.
- A.

Mornedhel · Post by **Mornedhel** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:41 am

Khaelakh, if there is another thread on this and it has the answer, please link to that thread so this one can be closed.

Eldacar · Post by **Eldacar** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:54 am

Off the top of my head, it might be one of Khaine's aspects, but I don't think that Malus is the type of person who would be found praying to Slaanesh. Still, I can't remember for sure, so don't quote me on that.

The liger · Post by **The liger** » Sat May 06, 2006 12:02 pm

The topic is here, but that doesn't totally answer the question, just gives some suggestions. Still, it looks like it's either some form of Slaanesh, but more likely an aspect of Khaine or Morai-Heg, the Elven Godess of death and dark.

To me, I think it's probably an aspect, or some form of Khaine. Could be Morathi as well, considering she's the Witch King's mother, but I would say something Khainate (and at this time Morathi counts as loyal) as opposed to Slaaneshi.

Then again, this is just in my opinion, but to me an aspect of Khaine or Morathi herself seems most likely.

Ramaj · Post by **Ramaj** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:20 pm

A looong time ago I came upon a DE fan website that expanded upon the DE pantheon. The interesting thing about these additional gods were that they were mainly DE aspects of the 4 Chaos Powers. One was a twisted version of Isha named 'Halakna' . Halakna was Slaanesh in the guise of a fertility goddess. She was called both the 'B_tch Queen' and the 'Dark Mother'. Because of the low birthrate of elves, DE would often pay homage to her. The website went into extensive detail about what rituals/beliefs were involved. One central pillar of her faith was a truly disfunctional concept of 'family'. For example bonds between siblings/half-siblings were 'strengthened' through incest :shock:

...sounds awfully familiar

. There's Yasmir and Bruglir for one...

Morvai · Post by **Morvai** » Mon May 08, 2006 10:21 pm

I was always of the believe that the dark mother revered to Morai-Heg. If I’m correct there is even proof of this on criticalhit.
I will search for it and post a link when I find it.