Elizabeth Kendra

Her Highness Elizabeth Kendra is the ceremonial Princess of Karlsflocke, famous for possessing such a maddening beauty that few still living other than the Carter family, descendants of her ancient lover and sworn guardians of the throne have ever laid eyes on her. Living for hundreds of years going back to the Dark Ages, Elizabeth was a famous war-heroine sung of by her people, and played a critical role in the defeat of the accursed Shadow Monarch. Agreeing to let her people's warriors join Hod's battle and defeating the Shadow Monarch's vassal alongside her lover, Joseph Carter, her victories while undeniable came at a great cost. During the battle, Elizabeth sustained a mortal injury to her heart, pierced through and infected by the Shadow Monarch's vices, pumping raw Chaos throughout her body with every spite-filled beat of her collapsing heart. Begging the elders to save her, Joseph Carter petitioned the elders to do what they must to save her life. In response, the elder birds transplanted the only heart that could withstand the weight of her corruption, none other than the heart of the slain Shadow Monarch. 
Despite acknowledging the cursed nature of the heart, Elizabeth personally requested that her heart be transplanted, believing it better the heart be sealed away within her where she could continue to protect her people even cursed as she would soon become. Losing the ability to feel, much less love entirely, Kendra became mesmerizing in turn, cursed to be the centre of a love and infatuation that she could never reciprocate as the guardian and Warden of Lust. Despite her pleas through the slightest embers of what remained of her decaying empathy to let her carry this burden alone, her lover refused, swearing a binding oath to the elders that he and his clan would protect and care for her. To her surprise, Joseph was unaffected by the curse, and was simply being as stubborn as she remembered him being. Feeling herself fading, Joseph's devotion "won" against her pleas for him to go on living, as the passion she held was quickly was silenced by an implacable apathy. Recently, under the watch of her current guardian in Drake Carter, Elizabeth was ambushed by Sanguinem, seeing the Heart stolen from her. 
==Personality==
=== Warden of Lust ===
Centuries of immortality have left Elizabeth detached and disconnected from the world around her. Where once she felt love and empathy, now there is only an apathy and a sense of resignation she clings to as armor against the isolation of her curse. She moves through the centuries like a ghost, cursed to never experience the full range of human emotions. Elizabeth would feel isolated even when surrounded by adoring crowds, admirers blinded by her mystical accursed beauty. She envies their humanity even as she pities their obsession, her heart draining their vitality and very sanity the longer they remain in her doomed presence. Having outlived generations of loyal guardians sworn to protect her, Elizabeth is wracked with guilt over her inability to properly love or appreciate their devotion, a guilt she can speak about, and feel but not quite "wear" as she puts it: a sensation she is almost incapable of outwardly manifesting. Joseph's faded memory haunts her, a bittersweet reminder of all she has lost. Yet duty and obligation still drive her forward. She clings to purpose, protecting their people the only act of devotion she has left to honor Joseph's sacrifice. Almost wistful and mournful over her faded humanity, Elizabeth persists out of sheer habit and determination, for no other reason than because she must. During her time as the Warden, Elizabeth took to reading to pass the time, slowly amassing a library that dripfed her information on the outside world. She read extensively to pass the endless days, educating herself on the world's events and history. Yet this academic knowledge lacked meaningful context, the rich emotional texture gained by living through those eras personally. She cares for young Drake in her own dispassionate way, an echo of feeling whispering beneath her hollow apathy. But she cannot show the devotion he deserves. She persists out of sheer resigned habit, more ghost than human, longing for an liberation she fears to hope for. Elizabeth also serves as the oldest bastion of all of Karlsflocke's traditions, cultures, and history, and as a result appears to show something resembling enjoyment or satisfaction when asked about such information, seemingly content to serve as a library for generations to come.
=== Post Ambush ===
For the first time in centuries, Elizabeth is overwhelmed by the sudden return of her emotions. Where before there was only detached apathy now she is flooded with grief, regret, and longing so powerful it threatens to drown her. She is haunted by memories of a devoted lover she can now recall in vivid detail, yet who she knows is forever lost to her. The pain of his absence cuts deeply, no longer muted by a cursed heart. Equally overwhelming is the guilt Elizabeth feels over generations of guardians who sacrificed themselves for an illusion of love she could not reciprocate. She is racked with the knowledge she failed them all. Elizabeth is also disoriented, struggling to process the unfamiliar concept of hope again after endless resigned acceptance of her fate. But within the chaos of Elizabeth’s regained humanity, a quiet determination still flickers - she clings to purpose and duty, the only anchors remaining as she navigates profoundly human vulnerability for the first time in centuries. There is a new vibrancy to her as well, a hesitant excitement tempered by fear her curse could return and steal these burgeoning sensations absent for the centuries of confinement within her blood-beating prison. She craves connection with others, yet hesitates to hurt others if her curse reignites. Similarly, an excitement tempered with fear of getting too attached to these growing sensations occasionally creeps up on her when given information she had at the time only read about. this reason, she keeps people at a distance as well as she can, though she is quickly relearning that the extent of a connection people forge with her is often simply not up to her. Perhaps in particular, Elizabeth feels a guilt towards Drake for the effects of her curse on his father Stephen Carter, and is honestly terrified that for the first time in centuries a member of the Carter Family was affected by her Curse, and what that might mean if she does regain the Heart. This guilt towards Drake mingles with fear that her powers could warp him too.
== Backstory ==
* See Drake's Familial History
* Fuck off long period of history passed
* See the other part of Drake's backstory
==Powers and Abilities==
Elizabeth, as one of the Wardens of the Shadow Monarch's evils has an association with Chaos and Desire that few could possibly hope to match, having borne and been the epicentre of the curse of Lust for centuries. As a result, Elizabeth's Awakening has been.... (Bleh blah bluh, got rough ideas just cant write em out)
===Magical Energy Manipulation===
===Heart of Baldr===
==Trivia==
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Category:Mage
Category:Pathfinder
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