Infamous, semi-mythological figure from To'ul'h history

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A clay tactile statue of S'ohna. The statue, made around 2550 BT, is now housed in the Ash'nuam Museum of Archeology and Culture

When S'ohna was born, she had many siblings, which often led to her not receiving proper parental attention and being unsupervised. She was also often blamed and punished for the misdeeds of her siblings. According to legend, even from a young age she never once showed any sign of happiness or joy, except when harming other creatures. It is said that even as a young child, she would catch burrowers and H'shass'thee, tormenting them while they were still alive. It is also said that she became obsessed with light, and would apparently radiate a kind of sinister phosphorescence. According to legend, one day, S'ohna's entire family died under suspicious circumstances.

"At the time, no one suspected anything. Hearing back at it, it is obvious what happened to them. I don't know how we didn't hear it," said one To'ul'h in a historical record.

After that day, S'ohna would live a reclusive life, without much interaction with other To'ul'hs. She resided alone in her family's old stone house, which stood ominously tall in the flat field it resided in, almost as if it was reaching up towards hell. According to legend, it would often glow with sunlight. Despite the seemingly frightening nature of her house, the lush field around her house became a common daytime meeting spot for To'ul'hs, due to the fact that no matter how sunny the surrounding areas were, the field would allegedly always remain obscured, providing a false sense of safety and security.

As one historical witness put it, "it was as if the devils in the sky were trying to lure us to that cursed house. In fact, it is my personal belief that she [S'ohna] was personally sent down from hell itself."

To'ul'hs would often relax in the field around her house, unaware of what horrors were hidden not too far away from them behind the house's stone walls. The field's inhabitants thought nothing of S'ohna, as she rarely came out of her house. Some say that there were rare times in which she would come out and just stand still, quietly listening to the field. But overall, she never bothered, harassed, or even interacted with any of the field-goers, many of whom didn't even know or care if anyone lived in that mysterious house. But then, To'ul'hs started disappearing. To'ul'hs would go out alone at noon to the field, and never come back. At first, many chalked it up to delinquents using the field as an excuse to run away. But when a whole family of four To'ul'hs disappeared one day, many decided that it was time to investigate. A whole search party was organized. They started by going to ask the owner of the random stone house located in the field if they knew anything. When there was no response, they got suspicious.

They came back in the dead of noon, and broke into the house. The To'ul'hs searched room by room, until they arrived at the highest room in the building. The room was scorchingly bright, so bright that many To'ul'hs couldn't bear to even set their hands or feet in it. But that was nothing compared to the horrifying scene they heard before them. There were several corpses of mutilated To'ul'hs. S'ohna had slowly tortured them, cutting off little bits and pieces of them while they were still alive. She had carefully picked which parts of the body to cut off to make sure that her victims stayed alive and felt the most pain. And then, she would prepare her meal. While ritual cannibalism was normal in many To'ul'h cultures, To'ul'hs were typically only eaten after they have died. S'ohna ate her victims alive. After S'ohna had taken all the parts she wanted, she typically tormented her victims until they passed away from dehydration or starvation. When To'ul'h die, it is customary in many cultures to consume their dead bodies. If this is not possible, they are at least buried. But S'ohna offered no dignity to her victims, and they were just left to rot away.

The To'ul'hs immediately organized a search for S'ohna, but she had already escaped. According to legend, she would then go on to many other places, hiding among the local inhabitants and picking them off one by one. Due to her being reclusive, not many were able to recognize her sounds. She would finally get caught in the city of Gh'uj after the relevant authorities were prompted to hear into a string of disappearances. While they devised a complex mathematical formula in order to pinpoint her location using the last known locations of her victims, according to legend, she was actually caught from a singular tiny bead she was wearing, which fell off her and was discovered. (This is the origin of several To'ul'ho'lo'ss metaphors, such as "dropping the bead" and "finding your bead") The authorities were able to track her down and raided the building she was staying at. In the ensuing skirmish, she ended up dead. To'ul'hs considered her so dishonorable that nobody wanted to consume her dead body or even bury her. They just sat her body in the center of town for everyone to hear as it slowly decayed. But according to legend, before her body was able to rot away, a particularly strong cyclone came and lifted her body up into the upper atmosphere, never to be heard again.

As one onlooker put it, "it was as if hell was taking her back."

Coincidentally, a plague hit the region right after her death. Many interpreted this as S'ohna getting revenge on the living by cursing them from hell.

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