Queen of Air and Darkness
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The wretched Queen of Air and Darkness haunts the Unseelie Court as a hovering, unseen, but very definitely perceived malign magical presence. From her twisted throne she snaps her fingers to her enslaved evil elven and faerie servitors, the mindless undead which perform menial duties (and which the evil faeries she torments can themselves torment in their turn), and to the hell hounds and Yeth hounds who slaver at her feet. The Queen is truly only a husk of a being, utterly corrupted by the ten-faceted Black Diamond, an artifact of vast magical strength and ineffable evil. The Queen deals with no other evil deities and simply ignores them. Wretched beyond any hope of her own physical death, the soul-dead Queen is driven to destroy what she herself once was, to drive the Seelie Court and the deep sylvan races down into darkness and destruction, leaving only the shells of their bodies remaining. The Queen's avatar roams the Prime Material, in darkened and despoiled woodlands, seeking to expand her influence among evil faeries and elves, turning other faerie folk to evil, and making fast despoiling forays into the edges of sylvan lands, testing their defenses. She is patient, cold, and calculating, and will not risk a Black Diamond facet coming to harm. The Queen's avatar is a cold, utterly evil, emotionless thing, its hatred delighting in the triumph of turning good to evil, of draining beings of their self-will and autonomy just as the Queen has lost hers. Each avatar will carry a facet with it to enhance its powers, but will very carefully conceal this in a secret place away from its own "body." The avatar has no true physical form within a mile of the facet, and can only be perceived as an image in the mind's eye, magically perceived or else dimly intuitively sensed (e.g., by detect evil). Additional NotesOn BGTSCC, the Queen of Air and Darkness only divinely supports evil clerics of elven ancestry. |
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