Character from Worm by Wildbow
The third Endbringer — an angelic psychic who plays the long game, turning victims into time bombs and cities into quarantine zones through plans that unfold over years.
The Simurgh is the Endbringer that cities fear most, not because she is the most destructive in the moment — that distinction belongs to Behemoth and Leviathan — but because her attacks never end. She is a psychic: telepathic, precognitive, and telekinetic. When she attacks a city, she sings, and the song does something to the people who hear it. Not immediately. Not obviously. But over weeks, months, years, the people exposed to the Simurgh begin to act in ways that cause maximum damage — betrayals, sabotage, violence — following subconscious programming they don't know they carry. Cities she attacks are quarantined. Survivors are monitored, isolated, sometimes killed preemptively. She builds Rube Goldberg machines out of human lives, setting up chain reactions of cause and effect that culminate in catastrophe long after she has left. She can see the future and the past, pluck thoughts from minds, and hurl buildings with telekinesis. She is patient in a way that suggests intelligence rather than instinct, and her targets are chosen with a precision that implies she is working toward something. No one knows what. Everyone is afraid to find out.
Fifteen feet tall with an angelic, feminine form and enormous white-feathered wings — dozens of them, layered and asymmetric, constantly shifting. Her face is beautiful and serene, carved from something that looks like marble or ivory. She is the most visually striking of the Endbringers and the most horrifying, because she looks like salvation and acts like a virus. She hovers silently, surrounded by a telekinetic storm of debris that orbits her like a halo of destruction. A high, keening song emanates from her — the sound that gives her her name and marks the beginning of the end for anyone who hears it too long.
Also known as: The Simurgh, Simurgh, Ziz, the Hopekiller, the Third