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The Crone

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Biography

In order to win the heart of Zillah, Caine sought out the Crone, who taught him how to blood bond Zillah to himself. In exchange, the Crone enslaved Caine through her own blood bond. She also took a number of Caine's descendants to herself; these Cainites were never seen again. Presumably, she devoured them. A year and a day after the Crone first enslaved Caine, the blood bond faded, and Caine staked her and left her to burn in the sun. The Crone is prophesied to rise again at Gehenna to seek revenge against Caine, whose track record with women isn't particularly encouraging.

In "Fair is Foul", one of the scenarios detailed in the Gehenna sourcebook, the Crone takes the alias "Eickos" and allies herself with Lilith and her Apostates against Caine. "Fair is Foul" suggests that the Crone may have been the Second Woman, created after Lilith to serve as Adam's second wife, as described in Revelations of the Dark Mother. In this myth, Adam watched as God formed this would-be wife from the inside out. Overcome with revulsion, Adam rejected the newly-made woman outright, which prompted God to put Adam to sleep before creating Eve. The woman's actions following this rejection and apparent exile are unknown, as is the amount of time that passed between her creation and her first encounter with Caine as the Crone.

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