MotherVulture

MotherVulture is a shapeshifting vulture/forest princess. She is the most evil of vultures and the mother of Loki and Uade.

Origin

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MotherVulture's origins are from close to the beginning of Arda. She started life as an eagle maia of Manwe, with a completely different name. It is thought that she was called Morwen and was the Queen of Eagles, but this is just speculation.

Corruption

MotherVulture would become corrupted after being captured by Melkor when she was sent along with other eagles to help destroy the fortress of Utunmo. Melkor had tricked Manwe into sending eagles to do this task, feigning that he had renounced his evil ways. When the eagles arrived at the old fortress, they were captured and taken into the depths of Utunmo, where they endured unspeakable acts of torture until their spirits were at last broken and corrupted. Thus, MotherVulture became one of the first vultures to fly in the skies.

MotherVulture took on the evil name of 'Mahannon' and became the most evil of all the vultures and referred to as the "Mother of the Skies." She ruled a kingdom in Aman for much time until moving to Beleriand, where she ruled out of the fortress of Himring.

For more information see: Vultures.

Family

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MotherVulture is a member of the smallest family of vultures from the land of Aman. She married another vulture by the name of Falgehon II and had 394 children with him, only two of which are known (Loki and Uade).

Theft of her Children

MotherVulture lost her daughter Skyfr (Loki) when she was stolen from the nest by one of the Black Masses. A Black Mass crept into the nest one night while the vultures were asleep and stole the vulture chick and went off over the East Sea with it towards Das. MotherVulture noticed that the chick was missing and took off after the mass with a flock of vultures and slayed it. They thought the chick to be dead though and flew back to Aman to mourn for the loss of the chick for 7.5 days. And thus, MotherVulture would not see Loki again for a great many years.

The full account can be viewed in this scroll: Vulture Scroll.

This was not the first time that one of MotherVulture's children had been stolen from her. Uade had also been kidnapped at some point when she was rather young and taken to the Nursery of Doom. There, Uade would become a teacher helper. Uade would be reunited with her family much sooner than her sister would be.

First Appearance

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MotherVulture first appeared on the jail island of Corvo to MajorHalo during his imprisonment. Despite vultures being a creation of Snowfalls and therefore being evil, MotherVulture was nice and did not harm the Prince with much more than a few gentle pecks as he had been kind to her.

She also answered questions he had by using emotes. At the time it was suspected that she was the mother of Loki and Melian, this was proved to be true when Major asked if she missed each of her children and the vulture responded with the surprised and then the sad emote. Though later it would turn out that Melian is not the daughter of MotherVulture.

Personality

MotherVulture is a kind bird when people treat her nicely. If someone is being rude to her or is a troll, she will not hesitate to attack and eat them, although she does prefer to eat goblin meat. MotherVulture is very loving to her children and will also attack anyone who appears to be a threat to them or who she suspects may have kidnapped them from her when they were young.

Working with the Cobos

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MotherVulture worked with the Cobos for quite some time. All of what she did for them is not quite known.

Conflict with the Shinobi

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The Shinobi ninjas despise MotherVulture and are currently trying to have her killed. All of their attempts on her life have failed. They even attempted to poison her once, which ultimately did not succeed as she was cured.

Reunion with her Children

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MotherVulture would eventually be reunited with her daughter Loki on September 7, 2019, during the South's invasion of Cobia. They were glad to be reunited. At this time MotherVulture also adopted Melian as one of her own since her true mother was long gone.

Penguin3D

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MotherVulture would come over to Penguin3D like the rest of the crimezone characters. She has not been seen as of yet but much has been said about her.

Tol Morwen

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Uade

One day, a small girl named Uade would arrive and take the form of a vulture. Uade revealed that she is another one of MotherVulture's children. Uade spoke to Loki about MotherVulture's whereabouts, she said that MotherVulture was currently residing on the island of Tol Morwen and that she was doing well.

Prophecy

MotherVulture is also in Orome's prophecy as joining in the fight against Ancalagon. It is said that MotherVulture and Loki will call together all the vultures on Tol Morwen and they will all help fight against the Fire Nation by killing the baby dragons and destroying their eggs.

Invasion of Beleriand

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MotherVulture appeared briefly during the first day of the invasion of Beleriand, which was on March 12, 2022.

A Sad Reunion

MotherVulture whispered to her daughter Loki, telling her to come home. It turned out home was Fort Himring. Mahannon apologized for the sorry shape the fort was in, it had been ravaged by Ancalagon and the Fire Nation due to its close proximity to Gorgoroth. Mahannon then spoke to Loki about fighting against Fire Nation during the upcoming war. She knew that she would come to her demise during the war but said it would be worthwhile to free the Vulture Kingdom from their oppression by Fire Nation. She told Loki that she was okay with dying as her kingdom would be in safe hands.

Mahannon parted, assuring Loki that she would be a great ruler of the Vulture Kingdom and that the vultures would love her as queen because if the vultures hated her daughter it would mean they hated her as well. She also apologized for being a bad mother, but Loki said it was alright as it wasn't her fault that she had been kidnapped as a hatchling. It was a sad parting as the next time they meet will likely be during Mahannon's final war.

Quote:

You will look for me, but you will not see me. But you will be the Queen.

Captured

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Mahannon would be captured by Fire Nation on March 31, 2022 while she was trying to rescue her daughter, Loki, from imprisonment in Gorgoroth. Mahannon spoke with her daughter once again, telling Loki that she was the one who would liberate the vultures, telling her not to fail. She informed Loki of a dragon that may help her escape as she had known this dragon since he was an egg.

Once again, Mahannon became remorseful over the past and how she wasn't a great mother. She said "I'm sorry that I couldn't save you from them sooner. That I couldn't get you out of Baraddur when you were an infant... I was... I was not the vulture you have become now and never will be..."

Vanquishment

While Mahannon and Loki were talking, Ancalagon himself entered into the dungeons. He had been waiting to get the mother and daughter together so he could vanquish them both at the same time to start to bring an end to the vulture race. Ancalagon breathed his vanquishing breath on the two of them and thus Mahannon was vanquished, but Loki managed to escape that same fate.