Triskén

Triskén is a malevolent dark entity attempting to destroy order in Elkloria and aid the darkins in releasing the Demons.

Appearance
Triskén primarily takes one of a few different forms. Sometimes it appears as a smoky mass with a hissing voice that makes tentacles of smoke, other times like multiple snakes made of smoke. Another one is a woman with dark hair, gray skin, and glowing purple eyes and fangs in a ragged dress, "pretty the way an explosion is pretty."

Personality
Triskén seems to consider others its playthings, laughing at what they do and enjoying tormenting them, going so far as to express boredom when Nessa is incapable of fighting despite being cleanly able to kill or kidnap both Khi and Nessa. It is a powerful being that wants Khi's allegiance to it, thinking nothing of putting Nessa in an almost deadly position to get what it wants. Triskén can seem childlike at times, despite its adult-like form.

Biography
Triskén was created in the Technology Kingdom Advanutiva. It was originally going to be called Kogiskén, meaning locator of darkness, but there was a mistake in its creation and it turned into a dark force, which came to be called Triskén, creator of darkness. This happened 40 years before the events of Book 1, in 1973.

Powers
Shapeshifting: Triskén has been known to change into multiple different forms: Dark Magic: Triskén can do many different dark magical curses. It has claimed its magic power rivals that of angels
 * Dark Mass: Triskén is most commonly in this form, a cloud of smoky darkness that can produce shapes of darkness
 * Snakes: Triskén can transform into multiple smoky snakes with glowing purple eyes
 * Woman: Triskén can become a woman with gray skin, glowing purple eyes, black hair and a ragged dress

Magical Pollution: Triskén can pollute and corrupt places such as temples, causing them to have a malevolent air and dark creatures

Multilocation: Triskén seems to be able to be in multiple places at once, able to split its smokey mass into multiple things, like how it can be attacking the kingdoms while attacking Khi and Nessa in the Temple of Azatalan.

Trivia

 * Because triskén means creator of darkness, and kogiskén means locator of darkness, that means that tri means creator, kogi means locator, and skén means darkness (in a genitive form)
 * Ker is Greek for shadow. The Keres, or Tenebrae in Rome, were the Greek mythological feminine embodiments of violent death
 * Trisken is an artificial construct, meaning it is considered genderless and nonsentient; however, it acts as if it were sentient, even expressing pain, and it also presents as feminine