Queen Selephra, Archfey of the Widowthorn Court

Fey Compendium by Ned Turner

Queen Selephra

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Queen of Fury. Though Selephra is still beautiful, it is a sickly and terrible beauty. The curse that she called down upon herself transformed her flesh, piercing it with thorny vines that trail sensuously from her arms. Her arms are pallid and frail looking, though they are as strong as tree limbs. She watches her guests with dark, cruel eyes, disguising her mutilated appearance with shrouds of illusion to lure her victims into a false sense of security.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Once Selephra was beautiful and kind, the princess of a powerful eladrin nation who would dance among the fields of flowers that she so loved. Joyous and merry, she was beloved by her people and her fiancé, a handsome and vigorous elven prince of unsurpassed skill as a warrior. However, her happiness was marred when he was called off to war with a neighboring kingdom.
He never returned.
In her sorrow, she had a cottage built on the border of her kingdom and the kingdom that had claimed her love, so that she could watch the road for her love. She waited there for years, her joy and flesh withering, her dreams tangling amid the briars of her grief, until she could not bear it any longer. She walked down the road, and none dared stop her as she stormed the castle at the end of the path, so great was her fury and desire to rescue her love. However, when she reached his chamber, she discovered him in the bed of another.
In her rage, she called down a terrible curse upon herself and both kingdoms. The castle was strangled by thorny vines, and all within were torn apart slowly, though none suffered more than the man who broke her heart. Some even say that he and his lover are still alive today, trapped within the depths of their castle as their flesh is slowly pulled from their bones, and that Selephra visits them from time to time to exact new tortures on them.

Divine Classification

Archfey

Species

Fey

Ethnicity

Unseelie Fey

Honorary & Occupational Titles

The Bramble Queen

Ruled Locations

• Domain of Briarbur