Green Queen

The Green Queen and her animal companion, Moss (ages unknown).

The exact origins of the Green Queen are hotly contested, though most Stormman scholars agree that she had ruled over the Singers of the Rainwood since at least the reign of Storm King Durwald the Fat, when last the Children of the Forest broke away from the Kingdom of Storms. While stories and legends of her feats abound, it remains difficult to separate fact from foolish fictions. Nevertheless, there exist certain commonalities to these tales that have come to be accepted as truth.

It is said that the Green Queen is a Child of the Forest of incomparable beauty and even greater power. Revered by her people and feared by foes, she stands as the last great leader of a dying people. While the extent of her mystical prowess varies from tale to tale, she is known to be an incredibly powerful woods-witch and greenseer, able to tap into the ancient magicks of the weirwoods. It is told that she can inhabit the skin of beast and bird, scry into past, present, and future alike, and bend the very forest to her will. The most outlandish bards even claim her to be the very same Elenei that the Godsgrief took to wife, who helped raise the very walls of Storm’s End. This, at the very least, can be discarded as baseless drivel.

Though the Green Queen has ruled over her domain on Cape Wrath for the last several hundred years, her interactions with the realms of Man have remained few and far between. A reclusive people by nature, the Children of the Forest have oft kept to the depths of the Rainwood, extending their reach only when they have felt their continued existence truly threatened. While much about the matriarch remains unknown, the last century has seen the Green Queen begin to treat more and more with the Kings and Lords beyond her wood, as the roiling storm that is the Coming of the Andals threatens the existence of both Singer and First Man alike.

Appearance

Though few have laid eyes on the Green Queen themselves, she is said to be a woman of unmatched ethereal beauty. She stands no taller than three feet in height, though her face and body are those of a woman grown. Her skin is a moss-green, with pale speckled spots, and piercing, cat-slit eyes of deep crimson. She wears her emerald hair in intricate braids, interwoven with flowers, vines, and trinkets of twig and bone. Her clothes are simple garments of leaf and bark, and she is often seen donning a circlet of gnarled weirwood. A great, moss-laden owl is said to follow her wherever she goes.

Personality

Accounts of the Weirmother’s temperament vary greatly. Some tell of a vicious harpy, intent on exacting the forest’s vengeance, while others sing of a gentle and curious soul, as eager to learn as she is to teach. Whatever the tale, all agree that the Singer’s primary concern rests always with the well-being of her people.