Lawspeaker Kirsi

Description

After living for ages, Kirsi has seen and done much. While she often prefers to spend her time alone, she always has time to help when her subjects need her unique abilities.

History

Kirsi was born thousands of years ago, when Alvandis was still young and all of Varzzen was just untamed wilderness. She had to fend for herself in the untouched nature, until she met a young chilopodian named Emkrik Maldroor.

Together, Kirsi and Emkrik were quite a pair. They could travel all over the continent and be the first ones to discover its wonders. Emkrik's fire of life was the perfect supplement to Kirsi's necromantic powers, and perhaps due to his presence, Kirsi's own magic leaned more and more to the coldness of undeath, rather than its withering effect on the living.

They did not need to travel alone for long; many people were drawn to them, as the two could protect others from any danger. In particular, they gained so many bull ant followers that their group was mostly a travelling swarm of formicoids. Just as Emkrik learned to channel his fire to purify the bull ants into fire ants, Kirsi learned how to frost insectoids, creating the first frost ants.

But at the dawn of the Age of Chaos, their peaceful life shattered. Emkrik had taken over a settlement, and revealed his plan of taking over all of Varzzen to Kirsi. He promised peace and prosperity, but all Kirsi saw was unending war and death. Their clan broke apart: many ants sided with Emkrik, many left both of them, and some sided with Kirsi.

Kirsi led her followers as far away as possible from Emkrik's realm. They reached the northern reaches of Varzzen, where Kirsi froze the icy bay to the bottom to make a new home for all of them.

Present

Kirsi has been helping Isenheim as long as the nation has existed. This includes working as the Lawspeaker, reciting current laws and old decisions, as well as frosting new people and animating the recently deceased. She also fends off powerful beasts that occasionally threaten the Crystal Colony.

Although Kirsi is present at all important gatherings, she often retreats to solitude once her abilities are no longer needed. She patrols the land to keep her people safe, and also allows them to live their own lives, free of her meddling. She is fully aware that one as powerful as she is can easily become tyrannical, even if they have the best interest of others at heart.

And her followers help her: they have taken to calling her the "Queen of Cold" when speaking with outsiders. They let the outsiders believe that the Queen is just a personification of winter, night, ice, or cold in a general sense, rather than a real person. The foreigners can never guess just how present the Queen of Cold actually is in the affairs of the far north.

Names and Titles
Kirsi, Lawspeaker, Queen of Cold
Age
Ancient
Gender
Female
Species
Nymphian of Necromancy
Appearance
Bright, blue eyes and bright, green wing patterns, but otherwise black.
Nationality
Isenheimian
Class
N/A
Occupations
Lawspeaker, healer, necromancer, hunter-gatherer
Religion
Hearthkeeping
General Disposition
Pragmatic, reclusive, silent, stoic.
Motivation(s)
Wants to keep her ice ant followers and Isenheim safe, no matter the cost.