Editing Darklord (section)

===Queen Avarein===
The Darklord of Fairhafen is best described as what you might get if you blend the Evil Queen from Snow White, the Wicked Fairy from Sleeping Beauty, and the Cruel Stepmother from Cinderella.

She first appeared in Fairhafen as a wife brought from far abroad by a nobleman, who mysteriously sickened and died even as she came to term with twin [[Caliban (Race)|caliban]] daughters. Despising her children, she attempted to live the life of luxury, but went bankrupt by living well above her means. Fortune smiled when she encountered the widowed king of Fairhafen, Drosselbart, and seduced him into making her his new queen before he mysteriously died too. But this left her only as regent of Fairhafen, with all her power depending on the survival of King Drosselbart's firstborn, Princess Rosenbriar... the same princess who would dethrone Queen Avarein when she came of age.

So Avarein sealed her away in an enchanted slumber before entrapping her in a crystal coffin, thus keeping her alive but incapable of ruling, and damning herself to the [[Demiplane of Dread]]. Her curse is that she can never wallow in luxury as she yearns to do so; she mus constantly struggle to present the proper facade of a ruling queen, keeping her people happy and her enemies at bay, forcing her to toil and sweat to keep her crown without ever enjoying it. As an aspect of this curse, she is forced to depend on people whom she loathes personally and wants nothing to do with - in particular her daughters Brunhild and Beatrix, whom she spoils rotten as an excuse to not have to actally express true love for them, and whom she needs because her [[Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons)|sorceress]] powers are heightened by their presence, in a manner akin to a [[hag]] covey.

When Avarein wishes to seal off her domain, an impossibly tall and thick hedge of bramble vines with razor-sharp thorns springs from the earth.