Erava

Erava, often called the Liminal Lady, was one of the four Umbral Lords who terrorized the mortal raced during the Endtimes. Unlike Imum and Ignan she was known to allow the mortal races to join her ranks and many of her Deamons were powerful mortals corrupted by the promise of knowledge and power.
== Description ==
Of all the Umbral Lords, Erava's shape was the most alien and the one that changed most frequently. She usually appeared vaguely humanoid usually a little less than twice the height of an average Human woman of the time. 
Erava's goals weren't truly understood. Some said that she simply wished to rule over the mortal races while others argued that her true goal was attaining true Magic Ascendancy. Though only she and maybe her closest Deamons really knew.
Erava rarely fought in hand to hand combat, instead relying on her talents of deception to break the will of those opposing her or allowing her minions to dispatch any advisory. The few time Erava used her arcane talents in battle, the destruction was so utterly total that no organised army dared face her, instead it was the heroes and adventureres who began to fight Erava and her minions.
== History ==
Erava was first spotted as she manifested herself within the throne hall of Kuh'Karakzath, the capital of the Dwarven empire of Aul-Duroth'Tahr. Here she was found sitting on the vacant carven throne. The honour guard of Kuh'Karakzath rushed to apprehend or kill her, being turned to dust with a smile gesture. 
What happened next is not well remembered but it is believed that most of the residents were killed or enslaved with the remainer joining Erava as Deamons or minions. As the city fell, Erava changed it. Its massive stone hewn walls twisted and corrupted. After its fall, Erava would fashion a new throne for herself and began to call the corrupted city The Throne of Liminality. 
During her rule, her reign expanded and minions spread across northern Excaria. She rarely left the Throne of Liminality, instead sending her many Deamons and minions to do her biddings. The few times she did face the mortal armies herself, her arcane gifts were so devastating as to make a large scale attack on her throne unthinkable. Instead, small groups of elite heroes, saints, and adventurers travelled to the Throne of Liminality to face her themselves. 
For many centuries, all of them were crushed. Most of them by the Deamons and minions standing in their way. Eventually, though, survivors hiding in the mountains and fresh veterans from the wars against the other Umbral Lords and their Deamons arrived and came together as a large raid on the corrupted city. These heroes, calling themselves the Champions of Excaria, slowly fought their way through the city, killing the servants and Deamons of Erava, eventually facing her in the corrupted throne room. 
During the battle every single champion but one was slain. The only survivor, a dwarf named Ular Hammerfall descended from the mountain and reached a large shared Human, High-Elven camp from which the two mortal races planned their next move. Here he brought the news of Erava's defeat, of the champion's demise. Yet he brought back a warning. The champions were unable to vanquish Erava, insted they used the World Spring to forge Erava's soul into a blade. He presented the rulers of the human realms and elven republic the blade they have forged: the Blade of Shifting Chance. As soon has he handed them the blade, Ular immediately perished and even resurrection magic failed to bring him back to life. 
== Deamons ==