Rowena

Rowena is a minor character in Frederick's Tales, played by Robert.

Rowena is the second eldest of the Four Sisters, sibling goddesses who worked together to create the world of Khothngard. As the Mother of Wisdom, she gave her Children the gifts of intelligence and forethought. Her influence allows her people to think, come to logical conclusions, and form strategies to act on them.

## Profile

### Appearance

Rowena usually appears as an energetic young woman with blue hair that fades into white. She has tan skin, long pointed ears, deep grey eyes, and a few deep cuts beneath her left eye.

She wears a set of short-legged overalls, a white button-down shirt, brown horsehide work gloves, a pale blue cloak and a pair of silver goggles. Affixed to her back are a pair of complex mechanical wings of her own design, which allow her greater flight control than her sisters.

### Personality

She lives for efficiency, and strives to find ways to improve just about everything she sees. Whether or not the target of her industrious spirit *needs* an upgrade is far beyond her concern, and her increasingly inhumane plans to "improve" the inhabitants of Khothngard puts her at constant odds with her sisters. Despite being the second oldest of the Sisters, she is quite petty and childish, and will fight you to the death to have her way. After all, her plans are logically sound and lead to the objectively best outcomes, so she can't understand why her sisters won't let her just eradicate their Children and replace them with immortal robot duplicates.

She loves watching her Children come up with their unique and bizarre inventions, and likes to tease religious types who think they "know her." She also enjoys combat training with her drones and her youngest sister Cerridwen's lemon bars.

### Relationships

* Ernaline

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* Deirdre

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* Cerridwen

Rowena's goal of roboticizing all life on Khothngard is contested most ardently by her sister Cerridwen. She imbued the Children of Khothngard with individual desires, so naturally Roe's plans go against everything she stands for. Though they don't see eye to eye, Cerridwen still treats Rowena with far more patience and care than their sisters.

* Axel Voss

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## Story

### Early life

Rowena, like her sisters, appeared suddenly on the dead, empty shell of a planet that would become Khothngard. Her older sister Ernaline created beings to inhabit the world, but Rowena saw that they were little more than empty shells, incapable of doing anything but standing complacently in place and staring into the distance. She quickly reasoned that the best way to protect these helpless creatures was to give them the ability to protect themselves, and so she gave them the gift of rational thought. With her blessing, the Children of Khothngard slowly taught themselves how to find shelter, how to gather and prepare food, and other necessary survival skills. This act, though it seemed small to Ernaline, was a seed that would slowly blossom over centuries. The people refined their minds, made discovery after innovation, and passed their knowledge on to their children through generations.

### The rest of time

From then on, Rowena lived in a plane just beyond the reaches of the world she helped create, and watched over it together with her sisters. She tinkered with many new and often dangerous ideas with the intent of introducing them to her Children, but her sisters were always there to keep her from giving the mere mortals more power than they could handle.

### Present

Rowena is still lost to the void, along with the rest of Khothngard. Whether or not she will appear again remains to be seen.

## Creation and development

Rowena and the Four Sisters were something of a last-minute addition to Fredland's second arc, which was centered around Axel. Robert and Steve decided together that the crystals the party was meant to hunt across dimensions would be tied to Khothngard, and that each crystal would represent one of four goddesses. Originally, Cerridwen was Khothngard's one and only goddess, but the idea of her having sisters was appealing to Robert, and so he set right to work designing the Goddesses of Body, Heart and Mind.

Rowena is at least partially inspired by Robert's fellow Fredlanders and their fascination with machines (and especially robots).

## Gallery

Steve's commissioned art for Axel, featuring Alpha and Omega.Recreated using Erie's Maker on PICREW.X\_'s redesign, created in CHARAT CHOCO.
## Trivia

* She was named after Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the Harry Potter series. Further references are seen in Rowena's love of eagles and blue-centric colour scheme, symbols of the Ravenclaw house. Fitting, considering her affinity for intellect and rational thinking.