Evanora Serger
A shadow sorcerer born to a family and in fact a village of non-magic users, Evanora was ostracized from a young age. She began to show tremendous power at the age of 2. Six years later, in self defense against a bully, she killed a 9-year-old boy. From then on she shut herself in her home, only going out into the forest under the cover of night, spending years trying to practice her powers. Around the age of 15 she began to show her face again, cautiously. Lightbrook took poorly to this and three years later, not long after wolf and bear attacks began to plague the village, an unstable shopkeeper named Termaine took her from her home and dragged her into the forest to kill her. She was saved just in time but allowed Lightbrook to believe she had died, and spent a year plotting against the town that had so wronged her.
Though it was unknown to anyone at the time, Evanora had been tutored and manipulated in secret by a coven of hags since early childhood. She slowly came to believe that no one would ever really be able to accept or protect her but them, and that Lightbrook must pay for the way she had been treated. When Termaine took her away and the village thought her dead, she saw an opportunity to finally act on this without scrutiny. She worked in the ruins of an old fort not far from town, developing an elixir that brought on bouts of violent madness, which she fed to the animals in the forest. However, when she realized that more often than not, this led to them killing each other, she knew that they would not last long enough, and began working to create creatures made of the plants in the forest, which she infused with the elixir.
All in all, her efforts led to 24 casualties over the course of little over one year. She planned a final attack on Lightbrook which killed most of the town's force of guards, which at the time was large for a town of its size, due to the animal attacks. However, the day was won by a trio of adventurers who had been investigating the attacks for a few days and managed to defeat the town's assailants and save Lord Merek Attwell's life as Evanora herself was about to kill him. Evanora was imprisoned, and died of unknown causes in her jail cell six days later.
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