Sedna II Arielid

Sedna II Arielid, called "the Witch", was the second-youngest child of Lorelei IV Arielid "the Fair". As a youth, she fell in love with Little-but-will-kill-you-with-her-mind, the High Priestess of Quasxthe, who taught her much of her magic. Little wanted to convert Sedna to the worship of Quasxthe, and Sedna wanted to turn Little away from the path of evil.
But when Sedna's younger sister was murdered by Little (making Sedna the heir to the crown of the merfolk), they had a falling-out (not to mention a resparking of major hostilities between the sahuagin and the merfolk).
Sedna began dating her friend Kyren Indigo Tethid (a granddaughter of Sedna I Tethid "the Martyr") while grieving and angry; they fell in love, and married.
Later, Lorelei "the Fair" died and Sedna became Sedna II Arielid "the Witch", a powerful witch-queen.
The sahuagin invaded the territory that now has become Here There Be Monsters, and Little, Sedna, and Ky came to battle in the magic kitchen of the palace of Uina~Jylad. Thanks to a baleful polymorph backfiring on her foe's defenses and the body mana node in the kitchen, there was a tremendous explosion, Sedna was transformed into a peregrine falcon, and Ky was knocked out.
Ky woke up to wrecked surroundings and no Sedna, so she (like everyone else) assumed that Sedna had been killed by Little. She fled with the retreating army to grieve in Mat~Sya, and Sedna's elder sister Miranda became queen (Miranda II Arielid later became known as "the Welcomer" for her grant of territory to the tritons fleeing the War for Hell).
Months later, Ky, swimming and doing research near Mat~Sya, recognized a ship that had previously traded at Uina~Jylad, and, as she was conversing with the captain, a peregrine falcon dive-bombed the ship and dropped a magical map. Ky attempted to decipher the map, and discovered a scroll of plane shift keyed to Sedna's private demiplane sanctuary written around the borders. Ky cast the spell, and ended up in the demiplane with the falcon. The falcon, partially restored to her intellect and powers while in the demiplane, explained that she was in fact Sedna.
On the demiplane, the two worked, unaging, for nobody-knows-how-long, on the problem of permanently restoring Sedna to merfolk form.
Eventually, the demiplane (being very nearly sentient) suspected betrayal and booted the two back out onto the Material Plane -- but by this time the Subsidence had occurred and they found themselves in the ruins of Mat~Sya beneath the ruins of the Disreputable City on the peak of Mount Dis which was emphatically no longer under water.
They fought their way to the nearest large settlement -- Endeesy -- did some geography, and figured out that their palace, containing the body mana node they needed to reverse the spell, was located somewhere in what is now Here There Be Monsters. Conveniently, Tess Corm put out a call for settlers of that very place.
After locating the palace and liberating it, Kyren and Sedna resumed work on restoring Sedna, this time with the help of the local body mana node. It is thought that, eventually, they succeeded.
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