Ever After High First Chapter Raven Queen Doll (Multi-Colour)

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Mid-ritual, at the very gates of Arvandor itself, the elven queen realized what was going on and – as all new gods should get used to doing – smote the everliving crap out of the wizards. The Raven Queen first appeared in D&D in 4th edition as a minor goddess of death, winter, and fate. All knowledge of her and whom she used to be was wiped from the memories of mortals by Correllon and Lolth – who collectively agreed that the one thing they hated more than each other was some uppity mortal making a play for the throne. As a goddess of death, the Raven Queen can impart a fraction of her power upon clerics who worship in her name. Not evil, but a manifestation of entropy, sorrow, decay, and the long, cold sleep when the lights go out. The History of the Raven Queen

While she was having a good old sulk, the residual magic from the corrupted ritual stripped away the last vestiges of her physical form, transforming her into a being composed entirely of “symbols, images, and perceptions.” In those days, she was rumored to be a powerful human sorceress and necromancer who swore revenge against the god of death, eventually usurping him and – after a tangled web of alliances, betrayals, and power grabs went wrong – ending up exiled in the Shadowfell, reinvented as the Raven Queen.Now, she rules the Shadowfell as a minor goddess of death and something of a mix between a patron deity and eternal tormentor for the Shadar-Kai – whose souls she still owns, reincarnating them whenever they die as either a dark gift or eternal torment and servitude, depending on how you look at it. Meeting the Raven Queen Because the elf queen was in a state of quasi-godhood, her anger at the evil (well, selfish and incurably stupid, at least) wizards twisted the ritual, catapulting the queen, her physical kingdom, the Shadar-Kai, and the wizards into the Shadowfell instead. As she felt herself slipping away into nothingness, the queen drew together all the dead memories and discarded souls from the Shadowfell, weaving them into a cloak around her. Some adventurers (returned to life a few days later once their companions scraped together the necessary cash for a resurrection spell) claim that the Raven Queen imparted unto them a quest, whether to learn some hidden secret or retrieve an item of great power in the mortal world.

However you decide to work the Raven Queen into your campaign, just remember to play up how enigmatic and bleak she should feel. In 5e, her story and identity are a little different. The Raven Queen is thought to have once been a powerful elven queen. The Unnamed Queen As a dungeon master, the Raven Queen is exactly the sort of entity that always finds a home in my games – enigmatic, steeped in gothic horror aesthetic, and pee-your-pants-scary-powerful. Her “body” is made up of a twisting jumble of stolen memories and darkness, and the elven deities Correllon and Lolth both wiped all memories of her from existence as punishment for getting in the way of their own little war for the souls of elvenkind.Gods aren’t very fun to fight in D&D 5e since, well, they’re gods. It won’t end well for your party. Cryptic, indefinable, and unquestionably a being of great power, the Raven Queen has in recent years become one of the most iconic deities in all of D&D 5e.