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[EricHVela]

Sure. It sounds like the little rhyme is referring to the brood mother. It sounds like they beat, killed and ate the dwarves at first. Then, they took the women and fed them their own blood, bile and vomit. When one finally survived and began to change, they "violated her" and fed her dwarves, and she became the beast. Straight foward. Yes?

But what about Branka?

Her dwarves were beaten, killed and chewed up by the traps. She let them take the women to abuse and corrupt them, just so she could use the darkspawn... uh... spawn from the broodmother to throw at the traps once she used up all her men. She just kept grinding away the house minions, stood by while the darkspawn brutalized the women, and simply continued grinding away once the new batch became available, without wincing.

Now, I might night have the most accurate moral compass, but even to a guy like me, that's cold. I would say that she became the beast.

[Herr Uhl]

She says something along the lines of "I will not become like (name of the broodmother) or Branka" that Hespith utters before hobbling away.



She has clearly gone bonkers.

[ComTrav]

Laren? I'm pretty sure Laren was the name of the Broodmother.



I think "the beast" from Hespith's poem can be taken either way. As Laren is devouring her kin literally, Branka is certainly doing so metaphorically.