Evelin Maximoff

Evelin Maximoff, more commonly known as the Crimson Witch of Hexview, is a Shadowfell Dark Lord of the Demiplane of Dread, Hexview.

## Appearance

Evelin is a woman of average height with long red hair and red eyes.

## Personality

Evelin maintains the persona of a level-headed magic user and often welcomes newcomers to Hexview with a polite and charming air that can quickly turn on its head if she believes that they pose a threat. Powerful, passionate, and dangerous, Evelin sees herself as someone who just longs to be normal, but the world won't let her.

Evelin seems to be only partially aware of Shadowfell and the Dark Powers. While she acknowledges she had outside help, she views Hexview as her own private paradise.

## Biography

Evelin is a sorcerer from Arcadia whose immense chaos magic caused the death of her parents at a young age. She was discovered by the spellcasting researchers of Baron Institute, who took her in under the guise of giving her a home and teaching her magic, but they really aimed to mold her into a weapon of war and experiment with her powers for their own gain. After years at Baron Institute, being experimented on and doing their bidding, Evelin broke out and ran away to a small town in southwest Arcadia called Hexview.

While in Hexview, Evelin met a warforged named Smith, and the two entered a relationship. But agents from Baron Institute soon came to Hexview to get Evelin back. The agents were led by Baron Marwood, who was infamous even in Baron Institute for her love of torture. Marwood captured Evelin and Smith and tortured both of them until Evelin relented and agreed to come back to the Institute. Marwood still killed Smith, enraging Evelin so much that her power surged and Evelin killed Marwood and her agents, destroying an entire city block in the process. Smith's body was also lost.

Word spread about what Evelin had done, but the rumors painted her as the instigator, as there was no trace of Marwood ever being there. Evelin stayed shut in in her home, wracked with grief over Smith's death. She soon found a tome hidden under the floorboards of their house and learned that the tome and the house used to be owned by a powerful sorceress. Evelin learned even more powerful magic from reading the tome.

Eventually, Evelin's grief twisted into a maddening obsession with getting Smith back. She came to resent the residents of Hexview for turning her into a villain when she felt they should have revered her as a hero for killing Marwood.

One day, Evelin performed a dark spell that closed off the borders of Hexview, trapping the residents inside. She then cast a powerful spell of mind control on all the residents to put them in her thrall. Then, she began a ritual to reform Smith. However, once the body was formed, she could not find Smith's spirit to place in the body. Her grief at losing her chance to resurrect Smith caused another powerful surge of magic, paralyzing the residents of Hexview with the sheer pain that she forced onto them. With this act, the Dark Powers pulled all of Hexview into Ravenloft.

In Hexview, Evelin rules Hexview as the Crimson Witch, named for the red mists that surround her when she uses her magic. Red is the only bright color in Hexview, all other colors become muted. Residents live seemingly normal lives, but are all under the Crimson Witch's spell, forced to go about the lives she's assigned to them. The block that Evelin's magic decimated during her fight with Marwood remains forever destroyed, unable to be fixed. There are few children in Hexview; most of them are cursed to sleep for an extended period of time. One by one, they wake up, but not in Hexview. They awake at the former site of Hexview in Arcadia, forever changed by Evelin's magic.

The warforged created by Evelin's spell became the Eye of Maximoff, completely loyal to her. He acts as her enforcer and patrols the edges of Hexview. Evelin also resurrected Baron Marwood as a revenant loyal to her, with magic powers granted and controlled by her. She renamed her the Violet Witch, and she became the other enforcer of Evelin's. Evelin and the Violet Witch have staged battle in the town square.

The Hexview has pulled in a female spellcaster named Amaryllis Galazini, who was mentored by Evelin. This happened because the Hexview was breaking, as Evelin's grief was beginning to die out of its rage and the Dark Powers were losing their hold on Evelin. Amaryllis eventually left the demiplane and Hexview recently pulled in Abigail Pryster, another spellcaster Evelin is mentoring.

## Abilities

### General Abilities

* Spellcasting: Evelin is a powerful spellcaster whose magic comes from surges of wild chaos magic within her.

## Trivia

* Evelin is inspired by Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch.