Ungoliant Delduthling (Jedi Renaissance)

Ungoliant Delduthling, later simply known as Ungoliant, was a female Ainu and a Maia of Tython. A survivor of the, Delduthling joined Melkor Belegûr on Arda to assist in the destruction of the Je'daii who had established themselves as the rulers of Tython under the name of the Valar. Taking on the form of a giant spider, Ungoliant created more Great Spider in her image in a bid to take control of the planet for herself. Feeding on the light, Ungoliant's hunger was legendary and made even more so when legend claimed she consumed her own body in her lust to feed.

Life as a Je'daii
A Force-sensitive Twi'lek, Ungoliant Delduthling was born in the slums of Nox in 25,820 BrS to non-Forceful parents who turned her over to the on Tython. Following her study at Padawan Kesh, Delduthling began her Great Journey which would take her to each of the Order's eight Great Temples beyond Padawan Kesh to learn the skills necessary to becoming a great Je'daii. As a Journeyer, Delduthling learned the ways of the Force, martial skills and became well read, and was forced to shorten her Journey when the Infinite Empire invaded the system. Taking up a Force saber to defend herself from the Rakata, Delduthling fought on many fronts before being stranded on Ska Gora.

By the time Delduthling was able to make her way back to Tython, the Rakata had been defeated the the Je'daii Order was in peril. Roving bands of Flesh Raiders attacked groups of travelers and the Order had splintered into two factions; the Bogan Je'daii who espoused the dark side of the Force and the Ashla Je'daii who upheld the light. Falling into company with Bogan Je'daii Master Hawk Ryo, Delduthling became the Twi'lek's mistress and sex slave, pleasuring her Master day and night. The young Delduthling quickly became caught up in the rush of the dark side power that came from killing and soon joined Ryo in feeding on their victims. A butcher and a cannibal, Delduthling was feared even by others within Ryo's camp and known as the Dark Hunger and Devourer of Souls. Delduthling came to desire a hunger for Je'daii Journeyers and preferred to feed on them while Ryo had his way with them.

Despite her popularity with Ryo, hatred for her grew among the other Bogan Je'daii. When she set out to capture more Journeyers to toy with, she sensed Ryo's death in the Force and rushed back to their fortress at Bodhi Temple to find it in ruins. Meeting with other Ryo supporters, they drove her away and off the island continent of Masara and forced her to flee for her life across Thyr. Years spun by as she fled those who would pursue her. Becoming increasingly paranoid, Delduthling kept to the dark places of the world only to strike out when her hunger was at its greatest. Still on Thyr during the Force Cataclysm which destroyed much of Talss continent and stripped most of the rest of the world of life, Delduthling survived by hiding in the vast underground passages of the ruins of Qigong Kesh.

Alliance with Melkor
Over time, her hunger became insatiable. With most of the world devastated, Delduthling's connection to the Force was her only chance of survival. Drawn to the Force-signatures of other Je'daii in the distance, Delduthling set sail and left Thyr continent behind her. During her travels across Westeros continent, Delduthling met the powerful Je'daii Master Melkor Belegûr who promised her power and many strong Je'daii to feed on. As a gift, Belegûr taught Delduthling how to kindle within herself the Flame Imperishable. As the Flame kindled within her heart, Delduthling's physical form was burned away and her spirit retained its individuality within the Force. Becoming an Ainu, or a Force entity, an eternal and powerful servant of the Force, Delduthling's hunger grew stronger but her life-force would not fade. Simply known as Ungoliant from that time onward, she took on the form of a massive spider covered in black hairs and venomous barbs.

Despite her initial loyalty to Melkor, Ungoliant changed her allegiance from him to herself, desiring only to be a mistress of her own insatiable craving to devour all light, to feed her everlasting emptiness. When Melkor was defeated and imprisoned in 20,820 BrS, Ungoliant escaped the attacks of the Valar and the hunters of Oromë and fled to the southern part of Aman, the western land mass of the ruined continent of Arda. There, in a ravine south of the mountain Hyamentir, she established her dark abode, Avathar, and began to suck up all the light she could find. After every feeding she spun forth dark nets of gloom that strangled any light from entering her lair of darkness yet she hungered for more of it, for though she hated light, she craved it as well.

After Melkor sowed discord among the Noldor and fled Valinor, he sought Ungoliant's aid in his attack on the Two Trees of Valinor. When Melkor came to her, he offered her the light of the Two Trees of Valinor along with other treasures if she would help him in his plans to destroy the Valar. Cloaked in her Unlight, Ungoliant and Melkor came to the city of Ezellohar where she drained the Trees of their sap, poisoned them, and drank the Wells of Varda dry. The Unlight and Ungoliant stymied the pursuit of Oromë and Tulkas and Melkor escaped to Srednata Zemya, the eastern land mass. Fleeing to the region of Lammoth, Ungoliant demanded the gems that Melkor had stolen from Formenos and the Ñoldor. She devoured them and grew to an awesome monstrous size dark and was even more terrible to behold. She knew that Melkor was withholding the Silmarils and became enraged demanding that he give her the Silmarils as he had promised as he desired them too greatly to allow the Great Spider to devour them. In response, an enraged Ungoliant attacked Melkor as punishment for his perceived betrayal. Having grown far larger and stronger than before by absorbing the light of the Two Trees, the Gloomweaver unleashed a storm of fearsome black webbing that came unseen through the inky void of the Unlight surrounding her and she ensnared the Dark Lord helplessly in a constricting stranglehold that he could never escape.

Struck with utter terror and despair Melkor desperately called out through the Force to his servants of Shadow and Flame still dwelling in his fortress of Angband. The servants, lesser Maia known as the Balrog took flight and were driven by a desperate yearning to rescue their Lord in Lammoth. Seeing Melkor trapped in the Unlight of Ungoliant, the Balrog unleashed their fiery whips forged in the furnaces of Udûn and tore the webs of the Unlight asunder. Freeing Melkor, the Unlight collapsed in on itself and the recoil of the Force aberration's destruction knocked Ungoliant down. Reeling from the shock of pain and defeat and shielded by the shroud of darkness that had always served her so well, Ungoliant fled the terrible wrath of the Balrog, dragging the tatters of her black webs of gloom behind her Ungoliant's attack upon Morgoth left a shouting scream on the land in Lammoth and it was said that when one screamed in that place the voice of the Melkor echoes back from the surrounding hills.

Overcome by the Balrogs' fiery whips, Ungoliant fled to the Ered Gorgoroth in Beleriand. There, she had many offspring, including Shelob, which spread throughout the Ered Gorgoroth and gave it a reputation as a place of horror. Ungoliant went into the forgotten south of the world shortly before the First Age where her legendary hunger was made worse by the loneliness of the bleak world. Eventually in her misery, Ungoliant let her ever growing hunger overcome her and devoured herself at last. As a Maiar however, Ungoliant was eternal and her soul lived on, roaming the planet endlessly in search of that which to feed upon.

Return of the Jedi
When the Jedi returned to Tython in 16 BrS, Ungoliant remained incorporeal and roaming the forested regions of Talss. Drawn to the areas where the new Jedi academies were constructed, Ungoliant longed to take on physical form once more to devour the Jedi Journeyers traversing the world. Unable to muster the strength to take on true form, Ungoliant began haunting a lake near to the Temple of Knowledge, Kaleth. When the moon Bogan was aligned with the lake, Ungoliant was able to possess the waters and affect the physical world. Lashing out over many years, Ungoliant killed several Journeyers in the waters of the Black Lake and had become something of a legend. It wasn't until Year 33 that Jedi Journeyer Lizar Hex came across the lake in search of the dark spirit. Ungoliant lashed out at the Quermian Jedi with hopes of taking her soul from her and feeding on the young Jedi's Force energy. However, Hex surprised the ancient beast by unleashing a wave of pure Force energy, obliterating her spirit and destroying the ancient terror forever.