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{{Infobox NPC
| title = Lougrim
| release = 15 April 2025
| update = RuneScape: Dragonwilds is out!
| race = Unknown
| gender = Female
|aka=Hight Queen}}
'''Lougrim''' was the [[Dragonwilds:Gods|goddess]] of the moon and primordial hunt to the [[Dragonwilds:Garou (race)|garou]]. According to the garou legend, she is from another world that is described to be cold and silent, having arrived left her world through a portal opened by a grieving god.{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=Lougrim was a moon deity, born to a cold world of soft silvers and silence. Her people lived lives of quiet contemplation, each moment spent wondering about the next. They were passive, soft spoken and sedentary, which drove Lougrim wild. When a doorway to another world appeared and a grieving god wandered through it, Lougrim took the opportunity to run. To flee to another place, and live a life that she could endure.}} Her transformation into the goddess of the hunt completely altered her original form. {{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=History skips the next bit. Her closest allies have never learned what elevated her from her previous form to that of the goddess of the hunt, but whatever it is was profound enough to change her completely. She no longer resembled her silent kindred. She was quiet, yes, but in the way a tiger is moments before the kill. She is contemplative, true, but it was the stillness of a spider waiting for its prey.}}

==Deity Info==
{{Infobox Deity
|name = Lougrim
|alignment = Moon and Primordial Hunt
|symbol = N/A
|ascension = Unknown
|godhood = Goddess
|avatars = 
|animal = 
|colours = Silver 
|adjective = 
}}

==History==
===Rise to power===
When she discovered the garou on their homeworld of [[Dragonwilds:Antumnos]], she was initially treated as prey. However, she demonstrated her divine nature by defeating her hunters. Following this, she challenged all the reigning kings of the garou clans in the capital city of [[Dragonwilds:Magrawn]] and defeated them in a single battle, ultimately claiming the title of High Queen. {{CiteJournal|journal=Garou King|quote=When Lougrim first visited the world of the garou, a place known as Antumnos, she was treated as prey. Her hunters were no match for a goddess, of course, and she assumed the forms of powerful predators, forcing them into submission.}}{{CiteJournal|journal=Garou King|quote=She fell upon the capital of the garou nation, the city of Magrawn, where she called out a challenge to all the reigning kings of the garou clans. They answered the summons, and she defeated each of them together in a single, decisive battle. From then on, she held the mantle of High Queen of the garou.}}{{CiteJournal|journal=Leathery Parchment|quote=The High Queen, lady Lougrim, earned her place by challenging the kings of old. Taking on all of them in one mythical battle and emerging the victor. In the centuries that have followed, she has held her position and bested all challengers that think themselves her rival.}} Sometime soon, she arrived on [[Dragonwilds:Gielinor]], settling in [[Dragonwilds:Ashenfall]].

===Reign and the God Wars===
Under Lougrim's leadership, the garou were focused and refined into exceptional hunters.{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=When she found the garou, she knew she had found her real kindred. They were violent and deadly, and they yearned for the hunt. When she took her place as their goddess, she focused and refined them, creating hunters that were capable of felling almost any prey.}} She retained the moon as her symbol, a reminder of her origins,{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=Yet still she kept the moon as her symbol, a reminder of her home and how far she has come since leaving it.}} and her priests crafted sacred tokens centuries ago.{{CiteJournal|journal=Purified King's Token|quote=These tokens are a unique creation, crafted hundreds of years ago by high priests of Lougrim.}} She was known to grant special weapons to worthy champions {{CiteJournal|journal=Skullsplitter|quote=As the legends go, King Raluh had been granted a weapon by the moon goddess, Lougrim.}} and was called "the Huntress in moonlight" among her followers.{{CiteText|text=Dog Days|quote=Offer a prayer in memory of her. Lougrim, the Huntress in moonlight, is gone but not forgotten.}}

During the {{RSL|God Wars}}, she and the garou conflicted with the humans, and eventually the [[Dragonwilds:Goblin (race)|goblins]], the latter arriving with their '''God of War''' [[Dragonwilds:Bandos]]. As her followers were being pushed back and cornered, particularly after humans began using iron weapons against them, she mourned for her lost children.{{CiteJournal|journal=Iron Sword|quote=Lougrim wept for the loss of her children, and her cries changed the course of the war.}} She found the [[Dragonwilds:Dragonkin (race)|Dragonkin]] and allied with them, binding herself to the service of the Cabal.{{CiteJournal|journal=Iron Sword|quote=As Lougrim bound herself to the service of the Cabal, all that would be left of the villagers would be puddles of molten metal.}} This alliance allowed them to release dragons onto the army, turning the tide of battle. This reinforcement led to their victory when Bandos fought [[Dragonwilds:Velgar]] and was defeated due to his arrogance. After the war god's retreat, Lougrim would cease the attack on the humans, finding a sort of peace between them and the garou. She also assisted with the Dragonkin experimentation, which resulted in the creation of [[Dragonwilds:Kuldra]].

===Defeat and legacy===
Sometime after the war against the humans and goblins, Lougrim was challenged by Kuldra, who started a rebellion against the Dragonkin, freeing the dragons from their chains. According to the garou legend, Kuldra had defeated and devoured Lougrim in a cataclysmic battle.{{CiteJournal|journal=Leathery Parchment|quote=The battle was swift and bloody; their clashing energies created cracks in the very earth. The entire continent buckled beneath their fury, but only one of them could prevail. Her many heads tore the goddess limb from limb, swallowing down the pieces of her divine flesh until nothing of the old queen remained.}}{{CiteJournal|journal=Garou King|quote=A title she held until Kuldra devoured her, earning the dragon queen her moniker - God Eater.}}

Despite her death, Lougrim's influence persists. Her priests continue to bear her moon symbol on their staves and altars, even while accepting Kuldra as their High Queen.{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=Now her priests bear the symbol, atop their staves and as the focus on their altars. They accept and revere Kuldra as their High Queen, yet they grieve the moon goddess that made them who they are today.}} Shrines dedicated to her remain in Ashenfall, where rituals of purification are still performed in her memory.{{CiteText|text=Dog Days|quote=This shrine is dedicated to Lougrim, and looks like the place referred to in the Ritual of Purification.}} There are also legends of a Silver Dire Wolf among some of the garou, believing it to be the reincarnated goddess, slowly rebuilding her power before rechallenging Kuldra.{{CiteJournal|journal=Dire wolf|quote=There are legends of a silver wolf among the garou. Some of them whisper that it is a goddess reincarnated. That she is rebuilding her power, to challenge their new High Queen again.}}

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