Editing Darklord (section)

===5e===
A century ago, Richemulot was a prosperous nation with a growing middle class. As the commoners began to gain more wealth and power, it caused the influence of the nobility to wane, a fact that Jacqueline Renier did not like. As her family seemed oblivious to the threat this posed, she began to look allies and heard of the Trueblood Council, a secret society of Richemulot’s eldest and most esteemed families. She spent a fortune finding a way to attain membership to the council, but discovered they were not actually nobles, but wererats. That same night, she was inducted into their ranks.

Renier swiftly accepted her new life as a wererat, her scorn for commoners expanding to include all non-wererats. Her first major act consisted of conferring the gift of lycanthropy upon her family. Only her twin, Louise, resisted, for which Jacqueline disfigured her and cast her out. Within the sewers of Pont-a-Museau, the wererats concocted a roiling pestilence known as the Gnawing Plague, which swept through the population. The disease wiped out the nation's rulers and all other nobles save for the Reniers, and eventually Jacqueline stood as the highest-born noble in the land, and the nation’s de facto leader.

Though the people begged her to help them, she let them all die, deeming them unworthy due to their poverty and low birth. As the last human soul expired in Pont-a-Museau, the Mists rose, drawing Richemulot into the Domains of Dread.

Her curse is that despite all of the atrocities she committed to cling to power and influence, she is never able to really enjoy the benefits of her status. She has pretty much no free time since she needs to constantly keep working to manage her country and concoct new plagues to keep the people from getting uppity, and even if she had the time to enjoy any luxuries, most of the people who would be able to provide her with them have all died from the plague.

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