"Soon the orishas will speak to you. You will be at the edges of worlds, like the time between day and night. Remember that you are the beacon of hope, the sturdy and bright something between the intangible. Your name, then, will be that beacon of light: The Moon at Dusk."
Retired
Personality
Dusk was once the calm in the eye of the storm, a believer in true love. She was brave, and that's why she is how she is today. She pushed too far into the spirit world, and now she's a shell, just a body with no soul. She's not even really a lioness, not by the definition of life. She has nothing in her mind, nothing in her heart. She just exists.
Background
Dusk was born to a wild lioness who starved to death shortly after Dusk was born. She was left with her mother's corpse until the gentle lioness Shamash took her in and gave her food. She saw the Preservers, who would come to Shamash to share their good deeds. She was raised and trained by Shamash and the Preservers for a little while, though she had no true parents. She would often see the young heir Abiodun, who was a rich and important heir to a wealthy tribe. He was a kind and good lion, and he quickly befriended young Dusk. She liked him very much, and she started to like him as more than a friend. Soon the two became known as something of an item. Adiodun's father was fine with this, and wanted Abiodun to invite her to join the pride. But one day Abiodun went missing. His father thought Dusk had something to do with it, and he was furious. He was prepared to send a pride lioness to bring Dusk in. Terrified, Dusk went looking for Abiodun herself. She went to the place they liked to meet and managed to trace him to the Destroyers. She asked him to return, but he had turned to their side and refused to have anything to do with her. She went to his father to tell him what has happened. The king was furious at her for implicating his son as part of the Destroyers. He had her brought to his pride, where she was made to hunt for them in exchange for her "crime." She did her work without complaint, until the day she saw a lioness in the distance she believed to be the ghost of her mother. On the spur of the moment, she went after the apparition. She found herself near the springs, and happened upon Velvet Moon, who took her in after finding out what she was running from. She told Dusk that her coming had been foretold by the orishas, and the spirit of her mother had led her there. She was trained, and took over when Velvet died. She guided the pride, and when things turned dark, she kept the pride in the light by maintaining contact with the Orishas and receiving guidance. But as time went on, only angry and violent spirits would contact her. When Black Adder came to her asking her to contact Windward's soul, Dusk knew it would be dangerous. She would have to break through the violent spirits. But she was willing to try. She broke through and tried in vain to contact Windward's soul, but couldn't find it. She stayed just a moment too long, and her spirit was dragged away by evil spirits.
  
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