Nayavi
From Eran
The Blue Queen, Witch of the Amrê
In the Great Forest of Amrê, rumours have it that the forest is presided over by a powerful witch who holds the entire forest as her domain. The notorious but rarely seen Blue Queen of the Amrê remains an enigma to both the elves and phaerie that live in the forest. Though all phaerie revere her and acknowledge her rule thanks to her Sylvan Crown and the work she has done to protect them, few know her true origin.
Nayavi is probably the singlemost powerful being active on Éran and arguably the greatest seer ever to walk on Theras. Born almost 10.000 years ago, the princess daughter to a grey elven king and the matriarch of the mysterious Idyuni lineage, a special phaerie bloodline among the elves, to whom were granted extraordinary powers if divination, seeing and memory, Nayavi was prophesised as a guardian of the world from her very birth. That she would continue to do so today, no one anticipated. There is very little she does not know of, both presently as well as the past on Éran. She has inherited the memories of her Idyuni ancestors and remembers back even to the first Gathering. Even the future she can see into with strong accuracy. In 7380 BC, she broke both the purity of the royal bloodline as well as that of the Idyuni by marrying the human emperial heir of Isandor, Mendor, and thereby became queen of the great human empire, soon giving birth to her only son Kanto, the first wizard-king of Isandor.
Her marriage changed the fate of Isandor forever as she worked tireslessly to strengthen the relations between the elves and Isandor, resulting in the elves sharing their millenia of magical knowledge with their human counterparts, enabling them to reach heights they could only have dreamed of before. For nearly 2000 years, the Queen Mother was revered as the Great Ambassador of Isandor, never forgetting that when she married the emperor, she married into his empire as well. By 5500 BC, having already watched her last blood descendant die childless centuries before, she withdrew from human affairs and disppeared from the Isan records, disenchanted with the mortality of human life. Though still a venerated figure among the elves, she was still not 'one of them' having married a human. At 2500 years, extremely old even for an elf, she disappeared from the elven kingdoms to rest in Arvandor.
What happened there is known only Nayavi, but she appeared shortly after on the astral plane, eternal rest denied her, and set out to travel the extra-planar dimensions. She returned to Éran about 500 years after her disappearance, preferring to live in obscurity. Shortly after her return, she somehow got her hands on the ancient artifact the Sylvan Crown and three of the legendary Elementary Rings. With the Crown in her possesion, she adopted the mantle of Queen of the Phaeries (herself having phaerie blood), thus becoming the first phaerie queen not of pure phaerie decent. Some 40 years later, she donned her most powerful item, The Seer's Necklace, but whether she crafted itself, was granted it by some diety, or found it somewhere on the planes is unknown, but she is the only one known to ever have worn it. After the end of the First Era she settled in the Amrê Forest and claimed the entire western parts as the domain of the phaeries, thus giving rise to the myth of the mysterious Blue Queen, the Witch of the Amrê.
The phaeries' loyalty to their queen is unswerving. To most of them, she is timeless deity and protector of the phaerie, a manifestation of nature itself. Having worn the crown for over 7000 years and guarded them unfailingly throughout this time, it is understandable they might think so. Only the rarest and elder few are even aware that others have worn the crown before her and the even rarer few who can actually remember these times happily concede that they have never had a stronger and wiser Queen.
Though Nayavi's primary objective is her obligations to the phaerie, she is also one of the greatest guardians of the balance in Éran. Thanks to her powers of divination, she is always aware of major events unfolding on Éran and probably only the gods themselves have a greater awareness of the cosmic perspective these unfold in. Though she prefers to work behind the scenes, Nayavi's hand has prevented many disasters from taking places in Éran, without anyone ever knowing it. She was one of the major factors behind the fall of Aztlor in the First Era, and through her cunning plans, she managed to save the phaeries from the extinction Aztlor's schemes intended. And when Zoryl attempted to duplicate Aztlor's ritual for omnipotence, she ensured the mage guilds obtained the knowledge neccessary to stop him. She likewise had a strong (though quite invisible) presence in the formation of the Great Towers of the western mage guilds and continues to walk the halls of the towers freely and unseen today. All the while, she takes great care to ensure that as few as possible ever know of her doings. Nayavi found out long ago that anonymity usually gives the most freedom to act.
The Seer's Necklace - A delicate little object, the necklace is a skyblue diamond, with delicate ribbonds of silver wrapped to form a sphere around it, resting in a small silver chain. It grants the wearer extraordinary powers of seeing and divination.
