Nylocas Queen

Nylocas Queen
Released								28 July 2021 (Update)
Members								Yes
Race								Nylocas/araxyte/vampyre tribrid
Quest								A Night at the Theatre The Blood Moon Rises
Location								Ver Sinhaza
Gender								Female
Options								None
Examine								A nylocas of extraordinary power.
Advanced data
NPC ID								11181,15967,15968,15969,16190
Link								MOID

The Nylocas Queen is a massive nylocas created by Verzik Vitur through her extensive breeding program in order to create "the nylocas to end all nylocas". The Nylocas Queen had been growing inside Verzik Vitur after she was bitten by a young prototype nylocas, with the Nylocas Queen ending up killing Verzik, but assuming both her form and her nature.

The Nylocas Queen came into existence through Verzik's attempt to breed forth new and more powerful variants of nylocas. By cross-breeding a nylocas from her homeworld Vampyrium with a Gielinorian araxyte, Verzik created this new variant. The young prototype spider bit Verzik and perished instantly after; Verzik thought her experiment was a failure, not knowing of the consequences of the bite. The nylocas made Verzik Vitur change, as she began to put on excessive amounts of weight and began to become ill. She sent for the vampyre doctor and surgeon Vulcan Orvoros, who tried to find the source of her illness.

At first, Orvoros noted Verzik's weight gain as well as her losing her invulnerability to non-silver weapons. He started to do some tests, eventually discovering some eggs within Verzik's abdomen, which he removed, only for them to reappear shortly after. Orvoros noted that more than just the strange eggs were found inside Verzik's body, but before he could leave, the Nylocas Queen burst forth from Verzik's body, presumably killing her in the process. The Nylocas Queen declared that the Nylocas would overthrow the vampyres and rule in their place, before abruptly killing Orvoros.

The Nylocas Queen has remained in Ver Sinhaza since, having adopted Verzik's behaviour and appearing in her form. Only when a group of brave adventurers went up against her – after completing all the challenges of the Theatre of Blood – did the Nylocas Queen reveal her true form as a vampyre/nylocas/araxyte tribrid. However, the queen made her escape by transforming into a bat and flying away. Nonetheless, she returned to face more challengers, even if they were the same ones that had bested her.

During Ranis' hunt for the Myreque, the Nylocas Queen, as Verzik, gifted him an Abomination, claiming that once it had acquired the smell of a desired target, it would relentlessly pursue them until they died.^[1]

During The Blood Moon Rises, Sugadinti Vitur forces an audience with the queen. After some "minor" disagreements and an adventurer preventing her swarm from assisting her, the Queen ultimately agrees to Sugadinti's terms; the Theatre of Blood would now allow everyone to challenge it, and she and her swarm would feast on any that died during the challenges, something which she is keen on enjoying as many of the challengers were too weak. She later assists them in fighting Lowerniel with her swarm. While the Queen was upset that she could not rule and Sugadinti had many ways to hurt her, she is ultimately content with their agreement. She asks the adventurer to return to the Theatre for the possibility of potentially consuming them before she makes her leave.

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  Concept art for araxytes (left) and the Nylocas Queen (right) by Mod Jerv.