Lady Shai
Mistress of Ravens, Lady of Delembios, Shadow Queen, The Veiled Monarch.
Lady Shai is the cruel, masochistic ruler of Delembios. She is a being of immense power, nearly godlike, who delights in torment and manipulation while projecting a calm, collected demeanor. Despite her sadistic nature, she plays out delusional fantasies of being a princess married to a loving prince, though her madness and cruelty ensure such dreams remain unfulfilled. Bound to her realm, she often communes with the material plane through her crows and ravens, spreading whispers of dread.
Physical Description
Identifying Characteristics
A female humanoid with pale, almost corpse like skin, a slim figure, long, straight black hair draping over her head like a veil, and large, dark raven wings. Her blood red eyes glow faintly in darkness.
Special abilities
- Master of Shadows: Can merge with, manipulate, and weaponize shadows.
- Raven Host: Uses flocks of crows and ravens as spies, messengers, and weapons.
- Soul Tethering: Can bind the souls of mortals who die in Delembios to her eternal service.
- Illusory Delusion: Can craft false realities to torment or manipulate her victims.
Specialized Equipment
The Veil of Murmurs, a cursed hair veil that carries the whispers of her dead followers, and the Crown of Hollow Feathers, which amplifies her dominion over shadows and ravens.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Born of Khabris god of Darkness and Death but denied divine power by her father, Lady Shai rose as the ruler of Delembios through sheer strength and fear, subjugating its horrors to her will. Over eons, she cultivated a cult of mortals and immortals who revere her as a goddess in all but name. Her obsession with fairy tale love stories is a stark contrast to the terror she spreads, revealing her fractured psyche.
Education
Self taught in shadow manipulation and dark enchantments, learning from the planar forces of Delembios itself. She was the creator of forbidden shadow magics passed down by ancient cultists.
Accomplishments & Achievements
- Secured her rule over Delembios for millennia without opposition.
- Cultivated a network of mortal and immortal servants who spread her worship.
- Commands near-divine mastery over shadows, fear, and soul manipulation.
Intellectual Characteristics
Calculating, patient, and manipulative, Lady Shai crafts long games of psychological warfare. Her fractured mind leads to erratic moments of childish fantasy, contrasting her cunning nature.
Morality & Philosophy
Lady Shai embraces chaos and cruelty as the natural state of existence. She believes love is a lie but still obsesses over her own delusions of romance, feeding her cruelty when reality denies her.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
To expand her worship beyond Delembios, feed her delusional fantasies, and remind mortals and immortals alike of the inevitability of shadow and death.
Likes & Dislikes
Likes: Ravens, whispered prayers of cultists, tragic love stories.
Dislikes: Sunlight, false gods, mortals who defy her will.
Virtues & Personality perks
Endlessly patient, master manipulator, and capable of bestowing immense shadow power to followers. Her calmness in nearly any situation gives her the edge against panic and chaos.
Vices & Personality flaws
Sadistic, emotionally fractured, and dangerously obsessive when denied affection.
Social
Reign
Contacts & Relations
Offspring of Khabris god of Darkness and Death. Patron to dozens of shadow cults in Baltharos. Loosely aligned with other planar rulers, but despises most gods.
Religious Views
Views Khabris as a distant, cold creator and holds no love for divine hierarchies. She is worshipped as a goddess herself but does not reciprocate devotion, instead feeding off it as power.
Wealth & Financial state
Controls Delembios and the countless treasures of its forsaken castles and ruins. Material wealth is meaningless to her, her riches are in souls and shadows.
Children
Quotes & Catchphrases
“All light falters, but I am eternal.”
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