Editing Darklord (section)

===5e===
5e genderswaps AND raceswaps tristen, replacing him with '''Myar Hiregaard'''. Mentioned only in passing as the Darklord of the revised Nova Vaasa, she's basically a female Genghis Khan with a dash of Jekyll & Hyde; she was originally a female chieftain who united the nomadic plains-dwelling tribes of Nova Vaasa into a single culture, but she proved to be a terrible peacetime leader because she craved bloodshed and excitement. She tried to stave off her boredom with, quote, "brutal games" for a time, but ultimately she couldn't resist the thrill of war: she began fostering disputes amongst her vassal tribes so she had an excuse to lead her forces to crush both sides. This eventually got her claimed by the mists, and now she switches between two personas and possibly two bodies: as Mya Hiregaard, she rules with "strict fairness", but when she gets too bloodlusty, she transforms into her alter-ego of Malken and "sows discord across the plains".

Whatever else you may think of it, her backstory is arguably better than Tristen's "My dad got cursed and died, so I inherited his curse and became a Darklord without ever having to do anything to actually earn it".