Lich Queen Thistle

Queen Thistle (a.k.a. Lich Queen Thistle)

"As we walk the streets of Capital you may notice how beautifully efficient the layout is, designed to capture the sun and guide the wind into the city centre while also efficiently dealing with traffic. However, as you can see here, this section of brickwork is just one of many mini memorials to the Capital that was." The walking tour guide stops at the entrance to a side street of small shops and cafe's and gestures to a brick wall, upon many of the bricks is carved either a mixture of names, depictions of shopfronts and street maps. "The residents who survived the redesign created murals like this one to commemorate all that had been before Queen Thistle's great redesign." Moving on the tour approaches the Imperial palace, stopping by the fence and gesturing up at it the tour guide continues: "The last powerful ruler of the Royal House of Capital, Queen Thistle was instrumental in redesigning Capitals layout she worked the redesign around ancient landmarks; flattening large swathes of the city at a time with necrotic magic then using the undead created as labourers to rebuild as per her specifications." Continuing on to a series of statues and fountains in the public plaza in front of the palace and administrative buildings. "As we can see here, the statues depict great victories and the fountains a great defeat, those two fountains were created during the rain of Queen Thistle, and that statue was erected shortly before her death. Her relationship with her generals was fractious at the best of times, and due to their reluctance to follow her orders the Kingdom, as it was a monarchy then, suffered many defeats. Although during these defeats many of the generals were killed, Queen Thistle chose their successors well, hence the statue of victory." The statue is of a gallant war spider with full barding, atop it are depictions of the four generals that took place in the battle, each with a bow or spear, and riding in the drivers position, larger than the rest is Lich Queen Thistle, depicted as a smiling grandmother in courtly robes she holds a sword aloft pointed straight ahead.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Youth

Growing up in the courts of her Grandfather, despite being 6th in line for the throne she was his personal favourite, he liked her no nonsense attitude and that she had a brain in her unlike, as he was frequently heard to say, 'my dim-witted layabout kids'

Circumstances of Death

Poisened during the victory feasts, organised with a sleeper agent in the Royal Mortiary cult who simultaniously destroyed her philactory. (remember she was a Lich)

Eyes

Paintings of the begginning of her reign show them to be brown, while later paintings only show them closed, records at the time propose this is because she had gone blind in undeath and attempted to hide it

Hair

Jet Black, likely dyed for the duration of her unlife.

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Pale grey/ green of a goblin that doesn't get out into the Underdark much

Quotes & Catchphrases

"The day the generals do what I want will be the day I die" - stated to a courtier after a particular difficult war council.