God Queen

The God Queen of Ardheim was a rarity; a mortal-born Archfae, and one who managed to maintain power in both Aiaos and the Wild. She was able to do this thanks to a powerful faewold that manifested on both planes.
The woman who came to be known as the God Queen is the subject of a great many legends and rumours. The best attributed account suggests that she was the third or later child of a noble family whose eldest child was replaced by a changeling. She is given the name Ondra, simply meaning 'woman', with sometimes the rather on-the-nose surname Priori (Ondra Priori meaning either 'woman from before' or 'previously a woman' in low Elvish and early common.)
Ondra Priori lived, loved and lost like any human in the late Regime north. With her changeling sibling, she made and maintained contact with the Fae from a young age. That contact paid dividends when she was able to offer the assistance of a large force of dangerous fae to her allies as the Regime fell into chaos. She is said by some to have trained as a druid with the Hecaton.
At some point after establishing a small domain around the fortress of Rotstadt, Ondra Priori travelled into the Primal Wild and took control of a faewold which had a gate into Aiaos close to her city. She forged a crown of crystal flowers and carved a throne of golden wood, slew a silver serpent and made a rod from its spine.
Which of these and other treasures was her one true token was a secret that she never divulged, nor did any know for sure how she had sacrificed her mortality. On the latter theme, the most common story is that she buried her heart beneath her throne, at the focal point of the fae gate.
She ruled Ardheim as God Queen for some four hundred years, before the rise of the Union and the War of Hubris. The Eightfold Church claim that she was slain in the siege of Rotstadt, but her body was never found. Her city was declared haunted and abandoned for the new capital at Galbriga, and legend states that she still rules in Wold and Wild, only the material part of her domain taken from her.