Raven Queen

The Raven Queen is a lawful neutral demigod that rules over the mysterious Shadowfell.

Description
The Raven Queen's physical appearance remains a secret known by few. Her followers are sometimes granted visions in which she may appear facing away from them and wearing a dark blue and black cloak that hides her appearance.

Personality
The Raven Queen is obsessed with collecting and observing mementos and fragments of memories and essences.

Many sages consider her to be insane, believing her methods and behavior to be little more than aimless curiosity or a desperate attempt to prevent her fragile existence from fading into oblivion. Others maintain that there is a cosmological function that is performed by the Queen's actions, as she purifies souls by forcing mortals to deal with their fears and pains.

It remains to be seen what her true intentions are.

Origin
The Raven Queen appears to have come into existence simulatenously to the creation of the Shadowfell sometime at the end of the Primordial Age. Whilst dates are difficult to pin point by modern scholars, her creation and that of her domain appears to have occured only shortly after the shattering of both Sudara and Arcanosyne. As the shattering of a deity is not understood in the slightest, few actually connect these events and they are generally considered to be coincidental.

It is strange how it is possible that she wields some of the powers of a deity if she is not a creation of the divine, leading some to believe that she may have been created by some powerful deity of the Pantheon.

Divine Realm
The Raven Queen rules the Shadowfell from a castle known as the Fortress of Memories. It is a place of overwhelming sorrow, overflowing with memories taken from mortals and according to rumors even fragments of dead deities, material objects collected by the shadar-kai and brought to her as gifts, and apparitions of creatures and places associated with strongly emotional stories. Swarms of ravens occasionally fly out of the fortress, taking her cryptic messages to the far reaches of the multiverse and acting as the Queen's eyes and ears while away.

The Raven Queen also claims a domain in the Shadowfell known as Letherna, a fortress of black ice within a frozen forest through which the souls of some of the deceased have to pass before reaching the afterlife.