Pravaena the Lady of Nightmares
The Lady of Nightmares Pravaena (a.k.a. Mistress of Torpor, The Dream Queen, Nightmare Mistress)
Pravaena was a Morifinwë elf in her youth. She was always deep in dusty tomes, researching dark magics with an exceptional interest in dreams and nightmares. Experimenting with bringing those nightmares to life or reaching into peoples heads to draw on the the power they hold.
Over time she found an ancient lich's library and among the dusty, rotting tomes she found a long forgotten spell. She used that spell to teleport to The Plane of Shadows and Nightmares with no real way back home. Spending years trapped on the plane, she found an abandoned tower where she set up camp. Exploring the tower not only did she find the corpse of the former owner, but also his arcane library. As time went on Pravaena learned new unique spells that noone back home had ever heard of. It is here that she learned of a ritual that would let her ascend to Godhood.
As she prepared to perform the ritual, Pravaena also learned to control the nightmarish abominations of The Plane of Shadows and Nightmares. She spent decades preparing the ritual, before finally performing it. During the ritual Pravaena died and spent nearly a fortnight in the inbetween, before finally reawakening as a goddess as the final sand of the hourglass used in the ritual ran out.
"Sometimes, the most terrifying nightmares aren't the ones that scare you awake, but the ones that linger in the back of your mind even when you're wide awake."
Divine Domains
Dreams, nightmares, fear, and the moons.
Artifacts
The Hourglass of Torpor, The Moonmask of Nightmares
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Pravaena has always been a occult, academic scholar. Her focus was always with dark magics with an emphasis in dreams and nightmares. Spending long night deep in the bowls of arcane libraries, Pravaena searched for long forgotten and forbidden tomes and spells.
Going to ancient tombs and dungeons became second nature to her. Delving their depths in search of secrets and powerful relics. It is on one of these plundering adventures that she encountered an ancient lich's personal library that was filled with tomes and scrolls containing powerful spells from the early days of the Age of Arcaneum. Making note of its location, she secretly killed off the rest of her party to prevent anyone else from learning its wereabouts. Using the Ancient lich as a cover for her actions, claiming that they fell to his clever traps and powerful magic before she ultimately destroyed his phylactery. Claiming that her last surviving companion and the lich inflicted mortal wounds at the same time.
It is after this incident that she began spending less and less time within the confines of her academia. Instead she withdrew and made her way to the former lich's stronghold and made it her own, enhancing the wards to keep others out. This allowed her the time she needed to focus and sort through all the knowledge lost within his library. It is from that library that Pravaena learned the spell to take her to another plane. That plane was one of shadow and darkness, filled with all number of horrors. Her biggest problem was that she did not know a spell to return home. That left her trapped in the shadow plane, to try and survive the monstrosities that called it home.
After a few weeks she managed to find the ruins of what appeared to be a wizard's tower. Once inside she managed to avoid the traps laid within, in addition to the creatures whom had made their way inside. When she reached his arcane workshop she found the wizard, or at least what remained of him. His desicated husk sat at a writing desk with a quill still clutched in his hand. As she examined the corpse she say what looked like something had bore through his skull and something else had brust through his chest. Looking further at the wizard's injuries she wondered what type of creature could inflict such wounds. Determining that the corpse was no threat she continued perusing his workshop.
Deciding that the tower's remains were as good a place as any to setup as her base camp until she could find her way home, Pravaena began fortifying the ruins. After a few perilous days she managed to get the tower ruins secured and warded versus intruders. With the place secured she continued to explore her new domicile. As she explored she found many tomes on spells and about the various monstrosities of the this shadow plane. Looking through the various tomes and scrolls about the many creatures, she worked to study and understand them. She sought to see how she might gain control over them, so that she might be able to use them both here in this realm as well as when she returned home. After serveral years she managed to gain control over several of the horrors and continued working to exude control over them all.
As time went on her control over them grew. She saw herself as the ruler of this new realm, and continued to scour the plane for more powerful spells. As she searched with a roving band of nightmarish creatures she encountered several other magic users. With her hoard of monstrosities she quickly subjugated them and brought them inline under her rule. After taking their libraries as her own, she came across an ancient tome that contained long forgotten spells and rituals. One of those rituals would allow her to break the barier and become a divine being. Taking time to prepare the ritual and ensure that everything was in order, she spent the next two decades preparing to become a god.
Not only would she return to the mortal realm, but she would return as a god. Ruling over dreams and nightmares, she would become the Mistress of Torpor. With the control she already exuded over the creatures of the shadow realm, she could bring those nightmares to reality in the mortal realm. After a total of fifty-three years in this realm she was finally going to go home. With everything prepared for the ritual, she took a nights rest. The next day she would perform the ritual and become a god.
During the ritual Pravaena shed her mortal coil. She resided in the inbetween for nearly a fortnight. As the final grains of the hourglass ran out she reanimated and returned to life, no longer mortal, but a true divine. Deciding that she rather enjoyed the realm she had come to call her own she decided that this is where she would stay. However, she would need to return to the mortal realm to gather followers to grow her power. So she set about honing in her new powers and after some time she opened a rift to return to Nyrellhei where she would grow her following.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Pavaena has accomplished something that only one other known mortal has achieved. She was the first known mortal to achieve Godhood, the only other mortal known to have done so is The Matron. In addition to achieving Godhood, she managed to take over The Plane of Shadows and Nightmares and bend it to her will.
Divine Classification
Deity
Species
Children
Current Residence
Sex
Female
Gender
Woman
Presentation
Feminine
Eyes
Crimson
Hair
Long white
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale blueish gray
Quotes & Catchphrases
"Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you."
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