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The Queen of Air and Darkness and feylocks

Post by Roketter » Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:00 pm

First of all, who is the queen of air and darkness ?

Answers can be found here....

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Auril

In Wikipedia....

Queen of Air and Darkness[edit]

The Queen of Air and Darkness


Game background


Home plane
Windswept Depths of Pandemonium

Power level
Intermediate

Alignment
Chaotic Evil

Portfolio
Magic (especially illusions), darkness, murder

Design details


The Queen of Air and Darkness is the fey deity of Magic (especially illusions), Darkness, and Murder. Her long-lost true name is never spoken among the fey. Her unholy symbol is a black diamond. The Queen of Air and Darkness is a bodiless, invisible being, but she can be perceived magically as a faerie with pale, angular features, blood-black eyes, and a mane of black hair. She is beautiful, but hers is a terrible, eldritch beauty that chills the bone. The Queen is cold and utterly emotionless.

The Queen of Air and Darkness is the sister of Titania, once a princess and heir to the Seelie Court in the deep sylvan realm of Ladinion. The evil Queen, her once bright spirit corrupted and dead, now hates and opposes Titania's Seelie Court and everything they stand for. Because she embodies the corruption that can take root in the heart of the elvish race, Corellon Larethian, Erevan Ilesere, Rillifane Rallathil, Sehanine Moonbow, and Solonor Thelandira also consider her an enemy. The Queen's Unseelie Court can be found on the plane of Pandemonium. There, the goddess rules from a throne of shadows. Her court is filled with evil, twisted fey, elves, and undead. Hell hounds and yeth hounds slaver at her insubstantial feet. The Queen of Air and Darkness is served by unseelie sprites, quicklings, evil elves, and bramble faeries, among others. The Queen of Air and Darkness is blamed with the creation of all evil fey races, including quicklings and spriggans.

The Queen of Air and Darkness was first detailed in the book Monster Mythology (1992), including details about her priesthood.[1] Her role in the cosmology of the Planescape campaign setting was described in On Hallowed Ground (1996).[2] The Queen of Air and Darkness was detailed for third edition in the article "Forgotten Faiths" in Dragon #359 (September 2007), by F. Wesley Schneider.[3] The name comes from the title of T. H. White's Arthurian novel The Queen of Air and Darkness, the second volume in his work The Once and Future King. In White's novel, the queen of the title is King Arthur's half-sister Morgause. She is an amateur witch who enchants the young king into sleeping with her, producing the traitorous child Mordred.


More references here

http://www.canonfire.com/wiki/index.php ... d_Darkness

The queen is not above recurring to undead minions or demons, but her magic is not focused so.
Her goal is quite different from most other evil deities, she doesn't care if the mortals live or die or how they spend their time, she simply seeks to exterminate and/or corrupt all fey creatures.

Her incarnation as Auril to humans is an entirely different depiction, simply occurring due to her being assigned the portfolio of winter and cold wich are not entirely related to her fey roots. The waning or empowering of Auril over time does little to affect her as the Fey deity of illusions, magic and murder. However her idea of FREEZING EVERYONE makes it clear what her stance is on nature.

Intriguingly, elves are at some point related to fey, so that warrants them her wrath as well, as if Lolth wasn't enough.
She is not a defender of nature, tough nature is in her blood, as she is a traitor to her own roots. HEr entire unseelie court is corrupted and has necromancers amongst it's numbers.

Now the fey, they are closely tied to nature, so attacking or corrupting them will likely have dire consequences for forests.
Since the feylocks serve the UNseelie, and the Unseelie serve the queen, they are likely to end up at odds with elves, druids and fey alike.

They speak the animal tongue and gain fey like abilities but the origin of their powers is rebellious against nature worshipers in general.


While nature itself is not their enemy (as would be the case for the mythical blighter), are they supposed to become eco-terrorists at some point ?
Discuss.

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Re: The Queen of Air and Darkness and feylocks

Post by yellowcateyes » Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:16 pm

Note that the FR wiki is filled with 4e information. Fourth edition merged a lot of deities, and part of this included combining Auril and the Queen of Air and Darkness. AFAIK, they are still separate entities as of 3.5.

If I have time to dig out my old Monster Mythology pdf, I'll post some information from that.

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Re: The Queen of Air and Darkness and feylocks

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Re: The Queen of Air and Darkness and feylocks

Post by Roketter » Sat Sep 20, 2014 2:44 am

Thanks for the article! :D That really adds some more flavor.

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Re: The Queen of Air and Darkness and feylocks

Post by Jagel » Sat Sep 20, 2014 4:10 pm

The Auril thing is 4th ed so not Arelith canon. That's not to say you can't make guesses etc. but. Yeah.

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Re: The Queen of Air and Darkness and feylocks

Post by Queen Titania » Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:39 pm

Shouldn't this be in the General Reference&Information section? :)

With a small warning of my pending sweet, kind, and merciless wrath to all unseelie warlocks... ;)
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Re: The Queen of Air and Darkness and feylocks

Post by Roketter » Sun Sep 21, 2014 12:13 am

Yep, it should be moved!

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