Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."~Excepert from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
See Hieyiakana! This is what she looks like when she has her own body. Picture is (c) to me! MINE! Don't steal! Hieyiakana is one of four special beings...incarnates of Birth, Life, Death, and Rebirth.... Akana is Death, and the bird that symbolizes this state is The Raven such as the emblem on her shoulder shows. She is a monster...a soul-thief, feeding off of the souls and life energies of others. This is what got the Katris kicked off of their old homeworld..
Akana absorbed Tselene's guardian, Destiny...the matron spirit of the angelic Katris. Needless to say, other creatures there didn't like this and ran off all Katris: Angelic and Demonic alike.
For millenia Akana kept low, pretending to be Emperor Dalvarmaja's concubine...until she saw her opportunity to slay him and seize the throne. Following came her reign of terror...which was ended when her young anti-type, Kiyana, defeated her in battle and sealed her soul and body separately.
Fortunately for Akana she had loyal minions, who managed to unseal her soul...but her body still remains missing so she has taken several hosts, her latest being the one that defeated her... And the reign of terror continues...