Editing The Raven Queen (section)

==Rise to Power==
A powerful [[sorcerer]]-queen in life, the woman who would one day become the Raven Queen was taken as the queen of the then-god of death, [[Nerull]] (not to be confused with the Nerull of [[Greyhawk]]; they're different gods with the same name). The arch-[[necromancer]], Nerull was an evil and bitter god who was trying to use the power he could obtain from the souls of the dead to rise to the position of the king of gods. He trained his queen, who he named Nera, in the use of the power gained from the souls of the dead. [[Abaddon|This of course proved to be a tactical mistake]], and in an uprising Nera destroyed Nerull. Though her body died as well, due to her power over souls she managed to hold onto existence, and claim the mantle of the slain god of the dead.

The other gods saw this as an opportunity, and presented the new goddess with a choice: either become the goddess of death instead of the dead (ie: be only the wayfarer for the deceased, instead of their ruler) and be accepted as a fully-fledged deity, or be destroyed. She begrudgingly accepted, and took the mantle of the Raven Queen. Abandoning her predecessor's realm of Pluton, she went to the Shadowfell to work on the unlocking of the powers of the soul, undisturbed by the meddling gods.

A variant story claims that some of the other gods, namely Nerull's enemies [[Corellon]], [[Sehanine]], [[Pelor]], and [[Moradin]], actually subtly aided Nera from afar, mostly by adding a divine glamour to her to help Nerull fall in love with her, as part of a gambit to take down Nerull.