Maven Myst

(a.k.a. Mad Mave)

It is unclear what the Lady of Graystone's position was within the hierarchy of House Myst back in Angler's Rest, but she has ruled from her own island seat for centuries. She or her predecessor took the arcane secrets from the Shifting Sands and used them in part to craft their family curse, but that was not enough for Maven. She strives to further her arcane knowledge, and does not shy away from any avenue available to do so. One needs only look upon her face to see the lengths she is willing to go in the name of discovery. Behind the magically induced scars and missing right eye, one can still make out that she was indeed beautiful some indeterminate time ago. Some say the eye patch is a facade, and that she replaced her original eye with a magical one that can not only see through the patch, but see invisible creatures and detect magical objects and any number of other increasingly outlandish claims. Functional or not, she was ready and willing to sacrifice some degree of her looks and vitality in pursuit of power.
Perhaps it is this similarity to Cerelea that causes them to view one another with such ire. Or perhaps it is Maven's well known distaste for Darkborn. She sees them as inferior attempts to recreate her greatness, paltry imitations of her greatest success. Their mere existence offends her. She and her vampiric spawn have clashed with the Blue Dragon's forces from time to time, but Maven lacks to the martial forces to make open war with the Dragon Curse. Conversely although Cerelea's armies are significant, she likely views making an amphibious or arial assault upon an island fortress in the midst of rough and icy seas to be an unnecessary risk. And mounting such an attack would only add credence to the notion that House Myst is a worth rival. So instead the two sides metaphorically stare at one another across the waves, neither willing to make the first act of aggression.
On the rare occasion when Maven turns her attention northward instead of south it is to glare loathingly at the snow elves of the Frostwood. The two groups find themselves in somewhat mirrored situations: abutting more powerful foes who would love little more than to see their annihilation, but unwilling to take the risks to make it happen. They have little reason for trade, both having access to essentially the same resources, and instead find themselves in competition for contracts with Aeria and Silverspire. The tensions in their growing economic rivalry would certainly come to a head if they could only afford to spend resources fighting one another. Instead they are forced to exchange icy glances across even icier waters when their ships happen to pass one another.

Current Location

Graystone

Species

Vampires

Family

House Myst

Sex

Female

Aligned Organization

House Myst