Quenya

Quenya is the Nerian crown princess and Matriarch of the Ivory Blade. She is often found comforting her fellow Nerians in the Nerian Encampment outside of Menetar.

Quenya and her younger twin sister, Quendi, were born to King Belam Lax'Letha and Queen Indra, an Ivory Blade mage. Though she was a caring mother, Indra sought to convert both to the xenophobic teachings of the Ivory Blade. Quendi would eagerly follow Indra's teachings, but Quenya held a great love for the other races in spite of her mother's obvious favoritism towards her.

Even as a child, Quenya was obsessed with the other races of Mortium. She often pondered about how each race's strengths complemented each others' weaknesses. She believed elves should welcome all other races, and openly share knowledge and talents. Quenya and Quendi remained inseparable sisters despite their ideological differences. As a symbol of their bond, the two sisters commissioned for a pair of golden pendants shaped like a five-pointed flower. They would wear these pendants on a gold chain necklace at all times.

From an early age, Quenya and Quendi were both trained in the arts of infiltration by Ivory Blade members and their own mother. As members of the Lax'Letha family, they also trained with Nerian Royal Guard and learned the art of the Runeguard, a caste of arcane warrior utilizing both elven enchantments and dwarven runes. The two sisters quickly befriended their training partner and youngest member of the Royal Guard, Nanwa. Though Quenya was aware that Nanwa developed romantic feelings for her as they grew into young adults, she was also aware of Quendi's secret infatuation for the young guard. Quenya's love for her sister outweighed any mutual feelings she held for Nanwa, so Quenya rejected his advances.

During a routine spar between the sisters, Quendi suddenly brandished a sharpened blade and attempted to kill Quenya. Quenya eventually overpowered her sister and disarmed her. However, she accidentally reversed the blade in the process and grievously injured her sister. With her final words, Quendi cursed her twin for always possessing what she had wanted for herself: their mother's favor, and now Nanwa's love.

Feeling great guilt and grief for causing her sister's jealousy, Quenya threw herself into the Ivory' Blade's ideology. Though she and Nanwa remained only close friends, it became her life goal to pursue the life that Quendi and their mother wanted. Quenya performed several missions for the Ivory Blade as both a spy and an assassin, quickly becoming their most talented agent.

During this time, she eventually learned that her mother had manipulated Quendi into attempting to kill her through both psychological and magical means. With this knowledge, Quenya grew to believe that the Ivory Blade's methods were too extreme, and that they needed moral cleansing. She grew resentful of Indra and planned to eventually kill her as vengeance for her sister.

Quenya also discovered the Tome of the Dragon Queen during a mission to disrupt the Arcanist Guild's research. It was guarded by an expeditionary team from the Arcanist Guild as well as several members of legendary guild, the Blackbird Mercenary Company. After slaughtering the entire expedition by herself and reading the Tome, the Nerian princess learned of the Five-Pointed Prophecy. Believing herself to be the Destined in the prophecy and seeing elves as the chosen people to welcome dragonkind to Mortium, Quenya took it upon herself to save the world from the treachery of other races.

Upon Quenya's coming-of-age ceremony, she challenged the current Ivory Blade's Patriarch Edric in mortal combat and triumphed, becoming the new Matriarch. Her first act of Matriarch was enacting revenge on her own mother. She hired an army of mercenaries who she sent to storm the Lax'Letha Palace with a large task force of Ivory Blade assassins. The resulting battle between the mercenaries, Ivory Blade, and the Nerian Royal Guard became known as the Palace Massacre.