Editing Quest:Lamia Daughter Quest (section)

==={{anchor|Dramatae}} The Dramatae/The Humors ===

The '''Dramatae''' are (were) a group of masked men that were the party's primary antagonists throughout Book One. They wore masks which represented the four temperaments of humanity, or the four aspects of all stories.  They serve the Citadel, and are in turn empowered by Citadel via their masks.  Each was a powerful opponent, and capable of controlling other people through "Passion" masks.  However, once their masks' power was exhausted and the masks removed, they quickly reverted to whatever their natural age would be.

The main plot of the Dramatae was to fabricate Lightbringer stories.  They start by creating a villain, who then kills everyone but a single child in a particular town; that child then is directed to companions, and they all become Lightbringers, fight the villain, and then, somehow, get sacrificed to "feed" Citadel.  The most recent iteration of Lightbringers didn't do so well, which is caused some strife among the Dramatae.

* '''Rage''' was the most rational of the Dramatae, and chief plan architect.  The party stumbled on his workshop in Tragedy's basement and found his notes -- he had an odd way of thinking, but he was very perceptive.  When the Lightbringers failed to save Stone Gate from the Ghouls (losing three of their number in the process), Rage expressed regret for having instigated the Ghoul attack, as he was born there; for this, he was killed.  Jeremy Sandover would have been his replacement, but the Dawnchasers foiled that plan.
* '''Tragedy''' was the "money man" of the Dramatae.  He was Lord Darius Holting, a man who transferred his and his wife's soul into his children to become immortal.  Mari was next-in-line for supplying a body, but the process was interrupted, which is how she got stuck in Peri's body.  Tragedy was not a clever man; he secured his room of powerful artifacts with the password "Tragedy", he kidnapped Robin and Company (''after'' they had been made to work for Citadel) and attempted to hold them hostage in exchange for Rage's notes and his mask (both of which the Dawnchasers had stolen from his mansion), but when he realized that either way, he was going to have to explain his mistakes to Peace, he killed Robin and friends out of pettiness.  The party next encountered him in First Wood, where he summoned a giant ball of corpses to fight them.  Ssen spat acid at the ball of corpses and blew it up (methane is a ''fun'' gas), and then the Dawnchasers fought him personally at the portal out of First Wood.  Ssen poisoned him with her bone-dissolving venom, and after letting him stew in that for a few seconds, she beheaded him.
* '''Comedy''' was the Dramatae's enforcer.  She used to be Princess Thistleblossom of the Elves, daughter of the very first Queen Mab, but between teenage angst and her love for the entity who turned out to be Peace, she ran away from home and joined the Dramatae.  She was a very messed-up person; she organized parties where people were on the menu, and when the Dawnchasers visited First Wood, she reanimated relatives of each of the party members.  She died with Peace, when Ssen removed her mask -- even elves cannot live for seven Ages.
* '''Peace''' was the leader of the Dramatae, and generally a nasty piece of work.  She often masqueraded as a messenger of the Light to "guide" the Lightbringers.  Comedy loved her; Peace "reciprocated" by stimulating her, but otherwise held and showed no affection (though she did offer to help Tricia get through the pain of metamorphosis in exchange for a promise from Ssen that Comedy would not be harmed).  The Dawnchasers confronted her as she was enacting a ritual to plant a Citadel-egg inside Her Illuminated Self, and then Ssen killed her with a lucky shot from an arrow.  Seriously, she was building up for this boss fight where she would feed our souls to Citadel, and then Ssen put an arrow through her heart.  Without her control, Citadel's instincts  -- to care for the people within its borders -- ran wild, transforming the city into a sealed dome.
* '''The Fifth Dramatae''' (or just "Fifth") is otherwise unnamed.  He showed Ssen visions of the meetings of the Dramatae and the progress of the Lightbringers, and seemed to be more on her side than not, but then he turned out to be the original land spirit of the continent, who was deposed by the Dragon Who Was As Shadow (which was later cast out and replaced with Citadel).  He wanted to be restored by having Citadel's power transferred to him, but because he was a tremendous jerk who wanted monsters to stay monsters, Ssen refused him.  Killing Peace and unleashing Citadel threw his plan for a complete loop.