Editing Leikotha Arenir (section)

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* [[Empyrean]] ([[Haebrean]])
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* [[Dericoi Eipoth]]
* [[Rhethis Eipoth]]
* [[Portal Year Era]]
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* RE 895 - [[Battle of Ayn Tayan]]
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* [[Nerash]]
* [[Jailne]]
* [[Wari al Sha'im]]
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<font color=darkgoldenrod>''"There among the snow and battle stood a woman clad in white, with long golden hair spilling over her shoulders. With the tip of a flaming silver sword she drew a circle around herself, and coolly smote any Firstborn who dared cross it."''</font><ref name=MumiyahNote>2000/08 [[Taste of Twilight]] - [[Mu-Miyah Note Translation]]</ref>

* Leikotha Arenir<ref>2000/10 [[Hollow Victory]] - [[Ashbane]]'s Description</ref> was an [[Haebrous|Haebraen]] chevaird. Her sword, [[Ashbane]] was forged for her by the smith Dhere.<ref name="LayLeikotha">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha]]</ref>
* She fought in the final battle of the [[Millennium War]] against the [[Dericost]] forces, led by, amongst others, the Sand King [[Nerash]].<ref name=MumiyahNote>2000/08 [[Taste of Twilight]] - [[Mu-Miyah Note Translation]]</ref>
* Before she went to battle, she gave her daughter Alysse as a ward to Lady Orsinu <ref name="LayLeikotha">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha]]</ref>
* During the final battle Leikotha caught [[Nerash]]' eye and heart. In the aftermath, he abducted her and turned her, unwillingly, into an undead. <ref name="Bestiary">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Undead]]</ref><ref>[[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha]]</ref><ref name=MumiyahNote>2000/08 [[Taste of Twilight]] - [[Mu-Miyah Note Translation]]</ref> For a full report of what happened during and just after the battle, see [[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha|The Lay of Leikotha]]<ref name="LayLeikotha">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha]]</ref>
* It is said that after she was made undead, she wept for thirty days and thirty nights<ref>2005/07 - [[Throne of Destiny]] - [[Pauldrons of Leikotha's Tears]]</ref>
* She later escaped and tried to return to her homeland and her daughter, but was surprised by the guards, who took her for one of the Dericost, and fled. <ref name="LayLeikotha">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha]]</ref>
* She had her vengeance at the conclusion of the Empyrean Shadow War.<ref name="Bestiary">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Undead]]</ref> [[Nerash]] was slain by Leikotha at the [[Battlefield of Ayn Tayan]], a titanic three-day battle between undead and Shadow. Leikotha fought at the side of the Shadows, "under the sway of [[Ferah]]'s poison". The four Cairns and the green mist on the Battlefield mark where Nerash was slain.<ref name="Aerfalle's Letter"> 2000/07 - [[To Raise a Banner of Flame]] - [[Aerfalle's Letter]]</ref>
* Thought [[Nerash]] perished, the companies of [[Kelannik]], [[Anadil]], and [[Nerash]] crushed the survivors. Only Leikotha escaped.<ref name="Aerfalle's Letter"> 2000/07 - [[To Raise a Banner of Flame]] - [[Aerfalle's Letter]]</ref> She however, lost her sword, [[Ashbane]], on the battlefield.<ref>2000/04 - [[Thorns of the Hopeslayer]] - [[Leikotha#Lore & Dialog]]</ref>
* She can now be found in [[Leikotha's Crypt]], still looking for a way to get rid of the curse. The human [[Wari al Sha'im]] tried to help her, but was turned into an undead himself.<ref>2000/04 - [[Thorns of the Hopeslayer]] - [[Silifi of Crimson Stars Quest#Lore & Dialog]]</ref> Her sword can be found in the [[Lady of Aerlinthe's Chest]], which indicates that [[Aerfalle]] took it with her from the battlefield.