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Who is Sheshkuna?
Sheshkuna is an immortal being that lives in her own pocket realm. For millennia she has stored her private realities inside lamps, always with an ornamentation that matches her purple eyes. Her flawless pale skin and long black hair would allow her to pass as a beautiful woman if it weren't for her irises being surrounded by black sclera and lips as dark as midnight; instead, most people that are unfortunate enough to meet her believe she is a demon.

What does Sheshkuna do?
While her kind normally bask in the carnage that comes from death and destruction, she does not. Nor does she derive her power from the sexual deviancy that some do. Instead, she enjoys granting the mortals a single wish, but never as they intend it. The distress they experience as they try to deal with their new reality is far better than wanton violence or lewd behavior in her opinion.

What can she do?
Sheshkuna's powers are nearly infinite, only surpassed by deities. She can temporarily freeze time, create pocket dimensions, alter historical records, alter people's physical and mental properties, communicate those she's marked telepathically in addition to reading their thoughts and observing them with all their senses. The only thing she's ever confessed to being unable to do is create life. However, she could take it, that brings her no pleasure so she has not taken a life directly since she began her game of granting wishes.

How does one make a wish?
People can make a wish by touching the gate to her realm (her lamp) and speaking their wish aloud. As she has no desire to grant wishes to people by accident, she requires them to make the same wish verbatim ten days in a row. If the wording changes at all or they miss a day, then the clock restarts so to speak. Sheshkuna has no restrictions on what can be wished for as long as it is not the creation and resurrection of life, nor the direct death of another. Nor does she care how long the wish is; the record was a 2,800 word wish, but even then, she found a way to give that person something they didn't intend on receiving.

What's that about her seal?
Her seal is a pattern made of black and purple irregular lines running in parallel that form a circle. Once someone has made a wish she will brand them with her mark, which typically looks like a tattoo or a birthmark. The mark is magic in nature and cannot be covered up with additional tattoos nor can it be destroyed even with trauma, it will simply return in an unblemished state. This mark serves two purposes for her. First, it allows her to see through her victims senses, read their thoughts, and speak to them telepathically at any distance; normally she can only do this when they are touching her lamp or if she manifests in a physical form. Second, it allows her to collect their soul once they pass away, which allows her to recharge her power so her game can continue. Her seal demonstrates several things... She is not omnipotent, and as she implies herself, she cannot focus on all of her marks at once, but her victims have no way of knowing when she's watching; nor is her power infinite, although it is inconceivably large.

Her seal looks similar to this...

 
If you want...
I consider the story concept open to anybody that cares to use it. If you choose to write in this sandbox, please read my story "The Unintended Wish" or other works I might add later to get an idea of how she operates. Effectively, she behaves like a sadistic genie that is not bound to her lamp, and aside from her limitation listed above, anything she can't do is simply because she doesn't want to. Therefore, consider her to be a nearly all-powerful entity with a twisted personality. Oftentimes, (as shown in "The Unintended Wish") she will offer to reverse the wish if they simply ask, but she will make it impossible for her victim to ask. This shows her power to influence the mind, as well as her warped mentality - giving her victim hope only to crush it.