Stagnate

Stagnate (スタグネイト) is a malice goddess associated with undeath. She is the adversary of William and becomes particularly interested in his development. She obverses his journey and aids him despite his declaration of hostility.

On many occasions she has actively tried to persuade William to become apart of her army and later confesses she has romantic feelings towards him and offers to bear his child if he wishes.

Deity
Her true appearance is a anthropoid goddess with long black hair and red eyes. She wears a one-piece fabric dress and is shrouded with red aura.

Echo
Her previous echo manifested as a humanoid creature, their body slender, pale as if no blood ran through and their eyes dark and lifeless. However after half his strength was split and destroyed, echo underwent a weaker form of a young man with similar features.

Herald
She can manifest an herald that takes the form of a black raven with crimson eyes.

Personality
She is mischievous, cunning and intelligent. She is very meticulous and has a psychological way of thinking to achieve her goals. She adores people especially heroes and wants to eternalise them. She feels deep remorse and shame for how her echo acted in their final moments.

Background she is the Goddess of Undeath and the first child of Volt and Mater. She was previously a virtuous goddess that helped guide the souls of the dead alongside her younger sister, however, she strayed from her path as she grew tired of the rise and fall of heroes and decided to follow her own ideals and use her power of undeath to eternalise her image of heroes. As time passed her image as one of the virtuous gods shifted over as one of the malice gods and in the process she became the sworn enemy of the Earth-Mother.

Her Echo appeared before Augustus, Blood and Mary after the events of the High King's sealing. The Ehco offered them a contract to become undead and in exchange he would wipe out the horde of demons overrunning the city in which the High King was sealed away. They would become the protectors of the High King's Seal until they lost their attachment and Stagnate would claim their souls.

The Boy in the City of the Dead
Her echo came to collect Blood and Mary after their attachment to the High King's seal had been severed. Her echo was intervened by Augustus, which also led him to lose his attachment and split the echo's power in half. Her echo also took an interest in William, offered him a contract, and gave him time to think it over.

Her offer was rejected with declared hostility but she continued to try to persuade William and even tried to force a contract upon him. After her echo realised William gained her sister's protection, her echo gave up on William and focused on Blood and Mary but her echo was stopped by Mater which gave William to opportunity to destroy her echo via Overeater. Her echo's dying moment displayed extreme hatred towards William.

The Lord of the Rust Mountains
To be added later.

Abilities
Manifestation
 * Herald - The ability to manifest a raven with the capabilities to fly, grant blessings and communicate with others.
 * Echo - The ability to manifest a humanoid form, the capabilities of her powers in this form is unknown, however, it is much greater than the Echo that had its power split in half could achieve.
 * Echo (half) - A weaker version of her Echo which had half of its power destroyed. The Echo takes the form of a young humanoid with the capabilities to speak words of creation, create contracts, spawn snakes, grants blessings and communicate with others.

Words of Creation
 * Vastare - creates a vortex of destruction