Alera, the Blood Siren

The Charmed Life of Alera Molndal

Mother of Tieflings

As Alera's fame and wealth grew, she lived her life only for herself. She dropped the title "Queen of Corgi" and toured as "Alera the Golden." She easily forgot the bloated cuckold rotting away in exile. As her arcane power grew, she pushed the limits by mixing simple charms into her performances or altering her appearance with illusions. She hired unscrupulous tutors who taught her how to harness her abilities. Her search for increasing power led to her consorting with diabolical powers.

In the bloody aftermath of a charm gone wrong, Alera fell into real despair for the first time. To reverse a tragedy that she was completely responsible for, Alera descended into Hell and made an infernal deal. When she returned, the Abad family was restored and Alera was pregnant and accursed.

She returned to a husband she couldn't care less about. She easily convinced the gullible King Alain that he had sired her child. She remained just long enough to give birth to a healthy, apparently human, boy. She promptly returned to her tour and a parade of lovers who would be subjected to her curse.

Back on tour, Alera assumed her new role as an agent of the lower planes with complete gusto. She left goodness behind her along with the love she had felt for Elvio. She arranged for her child to be raised in her father's household in the City of Molndal. She spent the next decade on the road avoiding her dreadful husband, controlling father, and hell-spawned child.

Eventually, Alera's plans were discovered when the Lords of Greystone investigated the suspicions of King Alain. They revealed that Alera's child was a half-devil cambion, not the true heir to the throne of Corgi. When the news reached her, Alera felt only relief. She vanished into exile along with all the money she had accumulated.

The Cambion by grandfailure

Scandal and War

The novelty of Alera's scandal was quickly drowned out by the Night of the Shattered Moon and the onset of the Far War. Even her patron devils were preoccupied with the invasion. With a little money and a few strategic assassinations, Alera's transgressions became a mere footnote in history.

Alera lived in exile alone, unknown, and far from the levers of power. She thought long and hard about her life. Her raw ambition had brought her nothing but loneliness and exile. She...

With reality under invasion and herself exiled in a minor estate, Alera really thought about her life and place in the world. Her connections had been stripped away from her. King Alain had somehow died a hero in the first years of the Far War. Her cambion child had disappeared with his infernal retinue shortly after his true nature was revealed. House Molndal tried to ignore her, except they needed access to her wealth to shore up the House's position in the new Concordance for Survival and to help build the Bulwark of Light.

Curses of the Blood Siren

As she approached her fourth decade, Alera was determined to hold onto her youth and beauty. In a world of magic, her unlimited resources had kept her youthful, but it wouldn't work forever. Alera began to research dangerous and forbidden methods: lichdom, extraplanar bargains, cloning, and soulforged transference.

She settled on a hybrid method that involved mixing Vampirism while ingesting a black balut to turn herself into something between undeath and an aswang. Her research said that those with strong wills could survive such an ordeal and maintain their core identity by balancing the two curses against each other.

Drawing on her previous experience in Hell, Alera brazenly sought out the dark beings who could help make her scheme a reality. She made individual bargains with Valentine, King of Vampires, and Yugangi, Rani of the Aswang. On the day she selected for her death, she gathered the last of her friends and allies together for a magnificent feast and concert. As the last of them departed in the wee hours of the morning, she went upstairs to the arms of the Vampire King.

Alera's mortal body died in the process of her transformation. Her death caused a minor ripple amongst her ardent fans, but was quickly forgotten amidst the chaos of the Far War.

The day after her burial, she clawed her way out of the grave and ate the black balut that Yugangi had left for her. It took her several decades to balance the dark urges she had willingly embraced. Alera found her way back to herself through music. Singing a song or playing her instruments allowed her to focus purely on her own mind and emotions.

She discovered that she can survive on the adoration of her audience by draining small amounts of their psychic energy. When on tour, she can go for months, even a year, without consuming mortal flesh and blood.

Alera Becomes the Blood Siren by Warm Tail

Many Faces of Alera

Alera Molndal

The disgraced former Queen of Corgi and daughter of Duke Valerys Molndal.

Liv Ström

A famous bard from the last century.

Queen of the Aswang

Alera is a gabunan aswang, able to survive in daylight and not subject to the typical horrific transformations.

Songstress, Lady Aleonera Molndal

The most famous and popular singer in the world.

The Blood Siren

The mysterious Queen of Vampires and Aswang.

After two decades, the Blood Siren emerged from her dark cocoon. She took the life and identity of a traveling songstress, Liv Ström, who specialized in singing the old songs of Alera the Golden.

As in her first life, fame, riches, and allies were drawn to the magnetic power of her charisma and talent. This time though, she moved through the new world of Concordance and Sovranty with purpose. The Blood Siren sought out what was denied to Lady Alera: the rulership of House Molndal.

Rielin was the Duke and an old man by this point, heavy and complacent after a lifetime of gluttony and easy power. He had seven sons, each more horrible and full of pride than their father and grandfather. Her seventh nephew, the child of her brother's final wife, was different. He sang and danced and lived the carefree life of a genteel noble who would inherit wealth, but no responsibility. His name was Elvino Molndal.

The last decade of Duke Rielin Molndal's life was filled with sorrow. One by one his sons fell to scandal and tragedy, proving themselves unfit to be Head of House Molndal or dying in mysterious accidents.

On his death bed, his sixth son was exposed as a traitorous warlock, loyal to the Far Realm. Rielin's final act was to elevate his insignificant seventh son as his heir.

Running the Show

The Blood Siren has been the secret head of House Molndal for three human generations. She grooms the heirs and has a genuine interest in the well-being of both her nephew Elvino's descendants and of House Molndal. As the House's power and influence grow, so does hers. The Duke of every generation and a few other members of the House know that the Blood Siren is their true mistress.

Over the decades of her undeath, she has lived in the guise of a succession of mortal women. She had to abandon her life as Liv after a tax investigator almost uncovered who she really was. Since then, she has masqueraded as actual daughters of House Molndal.

When a suitable daughter of the House reaches their late teens, they are given to Alera on the night of their Debutante Ball. She puts them through the same vampiric/aswang ritual that she went through and then takes their place. The young vampire spawn is trained in secret for the next two decades and eventually inducted into Alera's Sisterhood of Sirens.

Currently, Alera lives as Lady Aleonera Molndal, the youngest daughter of Duke Verneri Molndal. She is a world-famous singer and entertainer with concerts worldwide, including the recent Lunapalooza.