#i need to work on maahes' previously arisen sooo badly.... i will soon.... i bet she was able to find bitterblack bc she shared a strong

[beastren]

Tenanye is finally getting her time to shine in dd2! If you're curious about her, her insanely long-winded backstory is in my oc x canon carrd.... TLDR; She's in a relationship with Daimon and lives on Bitterblack Isle!

She's traveled to the dd2 parallel world after finding out it exists, thanks to a pawn names Maahes, who was left on Bitterblack when his previous arisen fled the world, and unfortunately lost her life... So of course Tenanye gets curious about this new world and travels there together with Maahes, to do some exploring and have some fun, although her and Maahes do butt heads often... She's very loyal to Daimon and will absolutely be returning to the isle, but for now she's gonna collect a bunch of cranberries for him to try.

More fun facts and some doodles under the cut...

Since these weapons also existed in the first game and were found exclusively through purifying cursed items on Bitterblack, and ofc now they mention previously housing a demon.... I decided to go balls to the wall self indulgent and headcanon that Daimon and Tenanye can communicate through them while she's exploring the dd2 world.... Like a rift-powered video call....

And then there's Maahes.... Please forgive that he's shirtless right now.... I am working on it....

Maahes was the pawn of an arisen who was Rothias' beloved ages and ages ago. Sometime after he became seneschal and came back down to earth and started his ruthless, paranoid search for the Pathfinder, killing anyone he may have suspected, his old beloved was made arisen. Maahes was conjured in the image of Rothias, influenced both by his best and worst traits.

His arisen was too afraid to challenge Rothias, seeing as he had already started slaughtering arisen who attempted to challenge him. She somehow found a link to a pocket dimension across the rift, which was Bitterblack Isle. She managed to survive there for a while, but ultimately met her end. Maahes underwent a degree of the bestowal of spirit there, and of course that's also where he met Tenanye. Maahes can be sadistic, sarcastic and cruel, but he's also calculated, and has a love for luxury and power. He's quite hedonistic.

Tenanye surprisingly is quite a few of those things too, although both of their strong wills do clash and lead to contention.... Not to mention, Maahes reminds Tenanye a bit of her ex-husband, although he wasn't nearly as extreme as Maahes...