Grandmother

Grandmother is the name of...something. Some believe her to be God’s evil twin, others think she is the remnant of a dead universe, and still others point to her as Oblivion itself. What she is exactly is never known, but what is known is that she is ancient and wants to consume every living soul on earth. Grandmother is the major driving force behind many of the events of Orpheus, particularly the last two books in the series, The Orphan-Grinders and End Game.

She is also known as the Infinite Maw and the All-Devourer, and is the "mother" of the Malfeans. Like her offspring, she slept beneath the underworld until awakened by the Sixth Great Maelstrom. She revived with a great hunger, and her children now seek to stop her from consuming the world lest she consume them as well. She constantly chews through the ever-shrinking Labyrinth, seeking to consume the Tempest, the Shadowlands, and, eventually, the world of the living. She controls armies upon armies of Spectres, which she uses to fight the Malfeans. As she is also tied into the hive-mind, she keeps many of her darkest, most important secrets in Memory Towers.