Erin
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Punishers of wrong-doing in general, the Furies were considered protectors of the rights of senior family members, especially mothers, fathers, and elder siblings. A famous example is their pursuit of Orestes after he killed his mother Clytemnestra. The Furies would carry out punishments according to curses given by such members. Outside the family, the Furies protected such social outcasts as beggars. They acted, too, as the guarantors of oaths and the punishers of those who swore false oaths. The dark nature of their task led them to being closely associated with Hades, the Greek Underworld, where they escorted the wicked to their torments. The writer of Greek tragedy Aeschylus, for example, refers to the Furies as the daughters of Night."
The Three sisters - Alecto, Magaera, and Tisiphone - have long-since retired, along with the decline of their Greek god counterparts. But they had once raised a child in secret - a human baby, long-abandoned by its mother, granted gifts of immortality and magic. And Erin now lives on in the modern-day, carrying on the work of the Furies by enacting judgments for humankinds' complaints and grievances.
Well, in between having a good time of course. Life is meant to be savoured, is it not?