Biography of Abeni Okonkwo

“There’s no such thing as a perfect crime. Only imperfect eyes.”

In a family built on gods, secrets, and power, Abeni Okonkwo is a quiet legacy—a mortal thread woven into the shroud of eternity. Orphaned during the malaria sweeps of 1715, Abeni’s fate might have ended in anonymity. But death itself had other plans. She was found by Erica Graves (Ereshkigal), the Veiled One of the Ensharra dynasty, and taken not just as a ward, but as a daughter—adopted into the house of death by the woman who ruled it.

Under Erica’s watchful eye, Abeni was raised in the hallowed halls of The House of Returning, not as an heir, but as a vessel of sacred trust. She became a master embalmer, trained in the rites and rituals of preservation both spiritual and anatomical. Her hands learned to soothe the restless, her eyes to witness the final truth, and her silence to honor what the world tries to forget.

Unlike the divine children of the Ensharra bloodline, Abeni does not move through the world with cosmic force—but with precise reverence, tending to the boundary between memory and disappearance. She is loyal, composed, and almost ghostlike in her presence, yet those who encounter her in the moments before burial say they feel something shift: as though they are being seen not for who they were, but for what remains eternal in them.

She is beloved by Erica, respected by Nicholas Graves, and considered a sacred figure by many within the House. Though not of divine origin, Abeni Okonkwo holds the pulse of the family’s most human legacy—the reverence for the dead, and the duty to guide them home.

Abeni is not a goddess. She is something older: a keeper of peace, a steward of the final breath, a daughter born from death and made holy through devotion.

Positions held

Embalmer

Aliases of Abeni Okonkwo

Titles of Abeni Okonkwo