Bone Queen

**Hex Winters**, more commonly known as the **Bone Queen**, is the proprietor of the Bone Queen's Fight Pit.

## Description

### Personality

She waves a transgender flag on the pride picture. This could mean that she is biologically male, but it may also be that she was just given the flag to hold, similar to Cinna. Perhaps tiefling gender works differently, and being transgender is more complicated than with other races.

## Biography

At one point, Hex was given the title of Bone Queen. It is unknown if this is a title that she inherited or that she earned through becoming champion of the fights, or if its simply a catchy nickname. It is even possible that she is by law the monarch of Frostford. Although Frostford is nominally part of the kingdom of Magicnun, it could be that they retain some of their own autonomy or cultural practices. She was probably one of the tieflings who killed Fang.

At one point in her fight pit, she was responsible for killing her family, and this took an emotional toll on her. She struggled with the grief and the guilt, and turned to Cornifer to remove the memory of the deaths. What she failed to understand, however, was that even though the memories had disappeared, she still harboured the pain and self-resentment, but now with nothing to account for those feelings. This manifested in increased levels of violence and perhaps some prejudice against Wolffolk.

At some point, she acquired a Blight Seed.

She continued to run her fight pit. In 4569 PF, it was visited by the Red Rites. The Bone Queen became inflamed when Cinnabar Murrey killed Patchy, and entered the fight herself against Cinna. This caused the entirety of the Red Rites to get involved, including Kane Solace, who the Bone Queen proceeded to throw her Blight Seed at, causing the fight pit to collapse in on itself. The Bone Queen nabbed the unconscious Kane and brought him down to the catacombs. She killed Cornifer's Creature. Kane was brought to the Frostford Titan, perhaps to be used as sacrifice. The Red Rites followed, and attempted to use jars of memory to restore the Bone Queen's memories of her family. A battle broke out, and she used magic to manipulate Skoria and Nym Zylleth into fighting against their teammates. The Bone Queen killed Cinna, but this did not last. After being defeated, the Bone Queen offered her life to the Red Rites, but they chose to keep her alive. She was threatened by Nym, and was left at the exit of the catacombs.

## Quotes

"*Welcome to my* fucking *fight pit.*"
—The Bone Queen, announcing the beginning of a tournament at her fight pit.

## Meta

Hex is not a name, but a malevolent spell. It is also a cousin of German "Hexe", meaning "witch", and could refer to the Bone Queen's magical ability. It could be a reference to WandaVision, in which the HEX is a curse placed on a small town that creates a false reality so the protagonist does not have to deal with her own grief, which reflects the Bone Queen's story of avoiding grief. Winters is a surname that was first given as a byname to refer to someone with a frosty demeanour, which does reflect the Bone Queen's character, but it could also be a reference to her home being Frostford. If "Bone Queen" is an inherited title, then Winters may be the ruling dynasty of Frostford.