Fall of the Black Queen

[Havard]

That's a pretty good story Havard.

Thanks Dan!

I guess I ought to have explained some of the background for this story. As I have mentioned on the Piazza, what I did was collect various bits and pieces of information from the Blackmoor D20 line and piece them together like a big puzzle. I then mixed in some elements from the DA series.

The following things are my inventions:

1) I created the characters Uhlmar (simply mentioned as the Black Queen's father) and Noris Ithamis as well as naming Uhlmar's daughter Ceridrone, rather than just 'the Black Queen'. The names were taken from various places in the D20 book. Noris is named after the Noris Wood, or rather I imagine that the wood is named after him.
2) I linked the Origin of the Elves from the Hollow World boxed set to the D20 DAB Fey Lord Prestige Class.
3) I connected the Elf Human alliance to the destruction of the Temple of Id, and many of the details on the Cult of Id are my ideas or based on ideas from discussions in this forum.


Some canonical tidbits:
a) The True Crown of the Elves was mentioned in the BM Player's Guide
b) Tel'Aquassiri is described in the 4E Sourcebook.
c) Other information is found at various points in the d20 DAB Campaign Book.

I'm a little luke warm on the idea of a dying father cursing his daughter though - makes him look like the bad guy.

I see what you mean. I need to have the father curse his daughter since that is in the books, but perhaps there is some way I can change the text to provide more sympathy for the king? I see him as a tragic figure though.

Why is she called the Black Queen?

Most likely she dabbled in Necromancy, although perhaps she simply dressed in Black? I was thinking about a separate story, detailing how the Queen's Husband was killed in the battle against the Temple of Id, due to the Human betrayal. Perhaps she wore black as a symbol of grief?

Maybe the reason for the split is theat she led a faction of elves who were devoted to the cult of the Id and made an alliance with the humans who were also in supposrt of the cult? The split could then be when the aging king declared the cult a menace that must be destroyed.

The black queens side is defeated and the survivors move west.

Canon says that the split ocurred because the humans betrayed the elves and broke the alliance. In your version there would have been a split before all of this since the Cult of Id are clearly evil. Also, I don't see the Westryn as evil. They are misguided and lost perhaps, but not truly an evil race.

The Queen is a different matter. She may also have started out as misguided, but she seems to definately have moved to the 'dark side'. This all happened more than 500 years ago, but being an elf, she is most likely still around, either living or undead.

Kinda like Gygax's origen story for the drow.

I will have to read up on that one

Havard