Naria Loghain

Naria Blackthorne was the second wife of Jason Blackthorne, and the mother of Jarvis Blackthorne. 
She was born as the only daughter of the wealthy Lord Caleb Logain of Calanta. When she was a young girl, she saw her elder brother Jarvis die in a duel with the future King Argiliac II. This caused her to develop an extreme resentment towards the High Elf people.
When Jason's first wife Antigone died, the Stormlord found himself beset by marriage offers on all sides. He was a friend to Lord Caleb, however, and eventually accepted the offer of his daughter's hand. Naria resented Jason's ties to the Elves, and she never truly loved him, but dutifully gave him two sons. The younger of these was named Jaster, and he died young. The elder would grow to be a very significant figure in Aradian histories.
Jarvis Blackthorne, named for the brother Naria had lost, was born without any kind of gift for magic. For the son of a Stormlord this was something of an aberration, but his mother doted upon him. From the time he was young until he became an adult, she filled his head with tales of resentment, telling him the Elves were taking over these lands, that they had no true right to it, that they would oust him from power if he was not careful. You did not need magic to be powerful, she told him; you only needed wealth.
Jarvis would grow to loathe elves and magic and would destroy them wherever he saw them. Naria lived to a ripe old age, long enough to see her great-grandchildren take control of a transformed House Blackthorne. It can be argued her influence on her son led to the decline of magic in the world, and may have eventually doomed the High Elven people for good; it is said that she knew this, and she died peacefully with a smile on her face.
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