Horribella

**Horribella** was a powerful witch and enchantress in Fairyland. Along with her animal sidekick Remus, she was a master magician until her demise at the hands of Dark Cloudia. Horribella was responsible for the slaughter of Faun Valley and had contact with many other evils, such as Bill. She lived in the Bogs of Madness.

## Personality

Horribella was self-serving and selfish, but intelligent and a formidable foe. She helped others for a price but preferred to be left alone to her dark arts. She did not seem to care for anything besides her own goals, and even seemed to go mad towards the end of her life, willfully ushering in the destruction of Fairyland. She seems to especially hold a hatred towards Gertrude, willing her end many times. However, in an alternate timeline 100 years in the future, she joined Gertrude's Merry Band and sacrificed herself to stop a monstrous version of Duncan Dragon from destroying Fairyland.

## Physical Description

Horribella is a small woman with yellow-green skin and orange, spiky hair. She wears a purple dress with black-striped sleeves, a dark purple cloak with skull pauldrons, and a large witch's hat. She also has a set of satchels and pouches slung on. Her face is covered with warts and growths. Her rat, Remus, usually sits on her shoulder.

## History

Sometime before the events of the series, Horribella made herself a reputation as one of the evillest and most powerful sorcerers in Fairyland. At some point, she also made friends with Bill, the Devil incarnate. She also gained a large trove of deadly artifacts, such as the Eye of End-Alls.

### Hired by Cloudia

After Gertrude killed Bruud the Brutal, Queen Cloudia contacted Horribella through the Horb's Orb. She contracted Horribella to kill Gertrude for a large sum of money, and the witch agreed. She travelled to Faun Valley, where she infected the population with cursed brains that transformed them into zombie fauns. However, Gertrude was able to fend off and slaughter the zombies, failing the assassination attempt. Horribella related this to Cloudia, who relieved her of her duties. Horribella seemed impressed by Gertrude's abilities and gave Sir Nimbus her card to give to Gert.

### Gambling with the Dark Wizards

Later on, Horribella is seen gambling with several other dark wizards, including Bart of the Blackness, a ghost king, a voodoo man, and a reaper spirit. She was initially winning the game until the spirit beat her hand, who was in turn beaten by Gertrude's hand, who was then beaten by Bart. Gertrude, being in debt, entered Larry's Hat of Holding in order to find a catastrophon to pay off her debts. Meanwhile, Horribella and the others ordered pizzas and ate them, and then began a wild party that ended with them unconscious on the ground. When Gertrude returned, she used the catastrophon to slaughter everyone in the room except for Larry and Horribella (who escaped).

### Deal with the Devil

One day, Horribella was visiting Bakersville and noticed Gertrude acting as an innocent child, passing on getting drunk in order to find her way home. Horribella travels back to her house and informs Bill of Gertrude's progress. This upsets the Devil, who offers Cloudia's remains in exchange for Gertrude's death. Horribella accepts, and enlists the most notorious assassins in Fairyland to kill Gertrude, including Gwag the Barbarian, a lolly-man, a fairy, an octopoid, an ogre, and several humans. This band of mercenaries fail to kill Gertrude, but she dies anyway, sealing the deal between Horribella and the Devil.

### Resurrecting Cloudia

After gaining Cloudia's remains from Bill, Horribella uses them in a necromantic spell to resurrect the former queen and turn her evil, creating Dark Cloudia. However, this plan goes awry, as the first act of Dark Cloudia is to remove the life force from Horribella, killing the witch.

### Alternate Timeline

In an alternate future set one hundred years after the events of the series, in which Gertrude picked the wrong door and has been unable to return home, Horribella is seen as part of her Merry Band. Duncan Dragon, in monstrous form, is destroying Fairyland. Horribella uses her full power along with Larry (now a wizard) and the rest of the Immortal Magi to end Duncan, but their efforts prove futile. Duncan crushes them all, killing them instantly (with the exception of Larry).