The Green Lady, also known as Karinna, is a celestian who has merged with the wicked and shining sides of Liliana and was the only Celestian to not split in half when the Fenulian Mirror was shattered.
About
A Celestian of ages past, given form as a being of the deep woods, the Green Lady is worshipped as a goddess by the Druid Order, who lend their great power to her armies. Manifesting as a ghostly maid, tall as an oak and swift as a falcon, the Lady oft uses her powers to heal her loyal subjects. Yet her beautiful form belies the terrible ferocity that lies barely skin deep, waiting to be unleashed. Those who would defile the ancient realms of the Sylvan Kin must brave the wrath of the Green Lady. She is at once the warm summer sun and the howling winter gale; the giver of life and the reaper of souls.
Biography
-995
Karinna was a Celestian who arrived in -995 with the second wave of Celestians which included Kyron. Karinna was disappointed that [[[Mescator]] was not present when they arrived through the portals at the Tower of Heaven however was reassured about his absence by Valandor. Valandor mentioned Primovantor begin beseiged by war however War was a foreign concept to Karinna who was confused by the word. After some further explaining, she revealed to Valandor that she had brought a seed from the Sahlirian Tree, which fruit is what granted the Celestians their long life.
Karinna insisted they speak somewhere more private and Reiliur Ythril led her, Valandor, Calisor Fenulian and Kyron to the Scartlet Sanctum with Calisor staying outside the to ensure the Sanctum didnt accidently lock them inside. Once inside, the group discussed the intention to grow a grove of Sahlirian Tree and offer the mortal races the gift of immortality which would mean they would become similar to Celestians in both power and magic. They planned to keep the grove hidden both due it taking generations for the fruit to be ready to harvest and the risk of driving the shorter lived races to conflict to obtain the fruit sooner than they should.
Kyron was assigned to look for the location for this grove as he was regarded as one of the Celestians greatest explorers with Karinna expressing that the sooner they plant the seed, sooner that death can be lifted from Pannithor.
-990
5 years later, after giving Kyron the last fruit from the Sahlirian Tree that Katrinna brought through, Kyron continued to travel Pannithor for a good location for the grove location. Kyron would then come across a dragon graveyard and save Draumdraak life by giving him the last fruit.
Even though this would save Draumdraak's life and grant him an abnormally long lifespan, it also meant that the grove would have wait until the next group of Celestians brought through more fruit of the Sahlirian Tree in 95 years time.
This vexed Karinna however Draumdraak's assistance in the coming battles would prove invaluable.
-948
42 years later, Karinna observed afar a battle between Ophidia and Primovator, she would recall the moment where Oskan sided with Ophidia and defied Mescator. With Oskan on their side, the Ophidians grew in power and confidence, which eventually exploded into open war against Primovator. As senseless as she found war, she couldn't praise Mescator in his striving for peace at any cost, as this was due to Mescator being wounded by Oskan's defection rather than a planned out strategy.
New to the concept of war, Karinna decided to see the devastation herself. She observed thousands of dead at a place known as the Five Hills and watched a beaten Primovator army limping away from a victorious Ophidia army. As she continued to watch, she saw Ophidian Necromancers picking out corpses that they desired, then sacrificing imprisoned Elves to bring the end back to life. The Ophidian officers began to arm the newly resurrected bodies.
Suddenly, Oskan's voice entered Karinna's mind. Karinna looked towards the tents of Ophidia, one had the symbol of Oskan (Dragon and Stallion on a purple field) and replied back to him telepathically. Oskan attempted to defend Tothmenes however Karinna pointed out Ophidia's desire for greed rather than it being in defence of their people. Karinna reached into her bag and removed a fistful of acorns from it, throwing them down the hill. She sped them up using her magic and the seeds planted themselves while she poured magic into them. Suddently mighty oaks rapidly grew around the Ophidian Necromancers with the newly risen undead being torn apart by the rising oaks, resulting in a newly born forest.
Karinna rested against the earth, tired by the power she had used but happy over the forest blocking the path of the Ophidia army from the retreating Primovator army. She saw Oskan leave his tent and signal to his troops. A Salamander began waving his arms around and suddenly lava bubbled from beneath the land which started to destory the forest. As the Ophidian's cheered the burning forest and began to move towards the Primovator retreating forces after the ground cooled. Karinna gave one last message to Oskan, to judge them by their deeds.
-902
46 years later, after the Ophidia-Primovator war ended and Oskan made peace with Mescator, Karinna was summoned to the Shining Sanctum by Mescator after Reiliur was inflicted with an unknown condition which happened after the 3rd group of Celestians arrived through the portals at the Tower of Heaven. Included in the group was Eoswain, Valandor, Oskan, Liliana and Mescator and they discussed any potential risks of the ritual continuing.
Karinna sniped that their options wouldn't be limited if Kyron had stuck to her instructions regarding the Sahlirian Fruit and revealed that the newly arrived Eoswain had brought a second Sahlirian Fruit through the portal, giving it to Karinna. Kryon apologized however Mescator reaffirmed the positives that has come from Kyron's decision such as Draumdraak and the Celestians gaining new insights into the dragons of Pannithor.
Karinna advised she is going to travel beyond where Kyron travelled to find a place for the grove, refusing an escort and planned to travel alone. She believed this would help her remain hidden while the grove grew and was given the blessing of this task by Mescator and the rest of the Celestians
-878
Over the next 24 years, Karinna managed to find a suitable location for the grove which was dubbed the
-170
The Fenulian Mirror
When the Fenulian Mirror was shattered, the Karinna actually managed to prevent herself being from splitting in two, protected as she was by her sacred grove.
Between -170 and Year 0
Becoming The Green Lady
Karinna stayed within her Sacred Grove for most of the God War however eventually the Wicked One, Dark Liliana, crashed into the glades and was looking for her. The Forest creatures rallied to protect her and destroy this wicked invader. Karinna saw torment in Dark Liliana eyes, for she too had fled to the Twilight Glades to escape the war outside, the splitting of Liliana's soul was not clean and left her neither part of one side or the other, neither wholly evil or pure. Calling on the elemental powers Fire, Earth, Air and Water, she merged with Dark Liliana, becoming more than she had once been. This fusion soothed the pain with Dark Liliana, while providing the Karinna with the power to venture outside her own realm which she was bound to since the smashing of the Fenulian Mirror.
The world was in chaos with the ongoing God War. Karinna had a single goal, to obtain balance. The first task to achieving the balance, was within her own soul. Karinna needed Light Liliana's aspect. It was a journey which took her through some of the most horrific battles of the war filled with atrocity, taking pity upon a new mortal race which had fallen victim to this conflict, with Dark Liliana's aspect driving her own darker nature to perform terrible acts of vengeance against those that made them suffer.
Swelling her ranks were the Salamanders, the Hydras, the Pegasi and more, groups of each retreating with the Lady to the Forests to make their new home as their own habitats burned in the fires of the Wicked Ones’ spite or the Shining Ones’ vengeance. At the Straits of Madness, Karinna found Light Liliana, in what is known as the Battle of Madness. Ba’el, and his army of demonic creatures set to lay waste to these creatures, and Light Liliana stood before him. Light Liliana was battered but defiant when Karinna arrived, at the head of a vast fleet of her allies, elves and other, feyer creatures all working side by side in the name of herself, The Green Lady.
The Dark Liliana in Karinna, seeing her shining counterpart in such pain dove into a terrible fury, a fury of such power that even Ba’el and his army of darkness could not stand before her. Legions of hellspawn were consumed in the fires of her anger, causing Ba’el to limp off like a wounded dog to lick his wounds. Exhausted after the battle, Light Liliana fell, limp, to be caught by the Karinna, as soon as they touched, Light Liliana corporeal form dissipated into motes of light and were absorbed into the Karinna. The twin aspects of Liliana were whole again, extinguishing the pain both sides felt, and Karinna was reborn into what is known as The Green Lady which would rule over the Forces of Nature. The Green Lady is the Nature goddess worshiped by the Sylvan Kin, The Herd and other minor races.
The Green Lady's main concern was Balance, and therefore was toe aid the forces of Good and Evil alike, depending on the situation.
3850
Edge of the Abyss
In the year 3850 while The Green Lady rested within the Forest of Galahir, jumping from form-to-form, she began to feel a force stirring. The Green Lady attempted to push it to the back of her mind. She could feel rock and earth being ripped apart from the expanding of the Abyss and it swallowing the land above. Her mind snapped back to her mortal form as a great fire from the abyss swamped her mind and she fell to the floor.
Concerned, one of her Naiad followers ran over to her to aid her and asked her what was wrong. The Green Lady told her that the Abyss was growing.
Later, she came upon a gathering of Centaurs, two of them Chiefian Flaxhoof and his brother Greyfur were arguing over if they should care for the lands of men due to the invasion of the Forces of the Abyss. Surprising the group, all the Centaurs bent a knew to the lady. The Green lady thanked Flaxhoof for his service to her over the years and requested that he stand beside her during the coming conflict.
She told the group that there was a more pressing matter than the Forces of the Abyss, Goblins (unknowningly to them, led by Grogger Split-tooth) were coming down from the Mammoth Steppes, stopping in front of Greyfur she reminded him that it is not only the lands of men that are under threat.
The Green lady would later appear before Artakl's clan and showed them a terrible vision of the invading forces of evil that is currently threatening pannithor including turning The Three Kings to dust. The Green Lady asked her subjects to find an artefact before the Forces of the Abyss to prevent the expansion of The Abyss from increasing. Artakl was assigned this task and left to the City of Golden Horn. This led to the events of Dungeon Saga: Eye of the Abyss
The Green Lady would continue to summon her forces, including members of the Trident Realm of Neritica such as Eckter
3854
Eyes Unblinking
In 3854 inside the Forest of Galahir, The Green Lady met with Dillen Genemer, who would later become one of the first members of the Order of the Green Lady, for the first time. Dillen was answering the call for aid by Keris that the Green Lady instructed him to look for. Dillen was met with judgement from the creatures of the Forest of Galahir, unhelped by the fact he was wearing clothing mad from skin of once living creatures, until The Green Lady appears and adcised that Dillen was to be instructed in their ways.
Dillen asked for The Green Lady's help against the invading Forces of the Abyss, advising that they are a threat to both their peoples. The Green Lady agreed, however the price was for Dillen to pledge his sword in service to her and granted him a glimpse into her soul, giving him a transcendent experience. After providing assistance, Dillen would leave the Basileans forces and join the newly formed Order of the Green Lady for the rest of the war and beyond.
End of the Edge of the Abyss
A short while later, she would gather the forces of good to inform them of the plan to end the war with the abyss.
In the Forest of Galahir, The Green Lady touched the mind of a Thuul Mythican who was part of a group of Mythicans who were using their making to begin the flooding of of the abyss and to end the current conflict. As The Frozen Sea began to turn to water, The Green Lady noted the mythican's sadness at its knowledge that doing this would also end their life yet it was a sacrifice it was willing to make.
Suddenly there was silence and a moment of stillness then the ground gave way with the chanting Thuul Mythican swept into a swirling maelstrom of water and ice. The water rushed like a tidal wave down old riverways and passages, covering the Ogre homeland of Amogramok and into the openings of the Abyss. The Green Lady sensed the Forces of the Abyss attempting to defend themselves against the tide but it was too late. The Green Lady listened to the screams of Abyssals as they drowned.
3865
Halpi's Rift
In 3865, The Green Lady seeked out Kapoka who had retreated to the forest after defeating Thrundrak Skullsplitter, eventually she found him while in a form of a fox and spoke to him. The Green Lady mentioned how Kapoka had taken root and Kapoka mentioned the guilt he felt for the killing of Thrundrak.
The Green Lady asked for Kapoka help against a rising threat and encouraged him to help. The Green Lady, in fox form, turned and walked away. Eventually Kapoka unrooted himself and began to follow.
Post-3865
The Deepwater Crusade
During The Deepwater Crusade, The Green Lady and Brave Kyron were meeting in a distant sacred grove which was inaccessable to mortals when an image of the Trident King, Myrroq appeared before them. Myrroq appeared to be in great pain and stressed to them both that time was short as he battled the Forces of the Abyss. The image disappeared quickly after delivering his message, ending in a grimace of pain from Myrroq.
Brave Kyron knew that the Black Axe of Oskan Father of Lies had been reformed with its final piece being thrown into The Great Deep to protect it from Oskan. If Oskan got hold of this last piece, the Wicked Ones would escape from The Abyss. The Green Lady had been focused by a growing power in the East that she could not see and if Oskan got out, she feared the world would not be able to survive.
The Green Lady advised Brave Kyron to take messages far and wide, including to the other Shining Ones at the Mountain of Kolosu and her sister in the north, that Oskan Father of Lies needed to be stopped. Brave Kyron opened a portal and left to deliver the message.
Rumors
It is whispered by some that the reason the Elves refuseto be drawn upon the nature of the Green Lady is thatshe is in fact a being of deep contradiction, her darkside hidden from the world at large. Some claim thather powers come at a cost, that she must take a mortallover who after seven years must be slain as an offeringto the secret forces that underpin the world and drivethe workings of the earth.
Other dark lore claims thatthe Green Lady is but one facet of a twin being that mortals are only able to perceive in the most occult ofways. These forbidden texts suggest that another being,the opposite of the Green Lady, exists, somewhere in the Utterdark, the antithetical embodiment of all she standsfor. Perhaps one day the servants of the Fallen Ones –the Twilight Kin, the Abyssal Dwarfs or others – will learn how to call this dark twin forth from her hiding place, and then surely, the age of mortals shall come to an end.
References
- Kings of War – 1st Edition Rulebook
- Kings of War 1.1 – Kings and Legends
- Kings of War 2nd Edition Uncharted Empires
- Kings of War 3rd Edition Uncharted Empires
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