Mistress of the Tower

The Mistress of the Tower is an anomaly in both the Multiverse and the Theocracy. She has inherited a terrible curse that works to her advantage given her personality and dysfunction.

### History

The Eternal Tower of Xerton is an ancient wizard's tower that has survived from the days of the Elder Gods due to the unique combination of spells that empowered it. Built 7,000 years ago in one of the Nightmare realms of the C-Sphere, the Tower was a simple home to the wizard Xerton who was favored by the ancient dark god Thule. In Xerton's lifetime he performed numerous rites and incantations to bind the tower to him. As his prowess in sorcery grew, Xerton increased the size and complexity of the tower to fit his increased power until it was very tall and contained many room, libraries and halls of relics.

When the Bronze age collapse in A-! Genesis radically effected the Aether in the Multiverse, Xerton's home Reality was endangered and so he embued the Tower with dimensional teleportation abilities at great cost, the Tower became linked to Xerton and his bloodline and cursed him with vampiric immortality. Xerton learned that a living being died in or near the Tower then their life force was given over to the tower which kept Xerton immortal. The curse of immortality at the cost of murder drove Xerton to madness and he lured travelers and adventurers to the Tower for centuries. Xerton learned that he could easily teleport the Tower to secluded roads and distant forest in multiple Realities, harvest the poor souls he need to power the Tower, then simply teleport away again. Xerton existed this way for centuries.

#### The Arcane Theocracy

The tales of a powerful wizard that lived in a disappearing tower predictably attracted the attention of the Arcane Theocracy which was still developing at the time. Envoys to Xerton intrigued him with promises of more magical might by cooperating with other powerful mages in a new code of conduct called "Villainy". With just a bit of negotiation the Theocracy not only admitted Xerton but gave him a seat on the Council of 21. The position is now bound to the tower and whoever owns the tower sits in The Tower seat on the Council of 21 to this day.

#### Heredity

Shortly after taking a position of power in the Theocracy Xerton took in several wives and concubines, one of which produced him a son. Little is known of this man save that he killed Xerton in the Eternal Tower around 876 B.V.E. proving that the immortality curse only granted protection from death by natural causes, the master of the Tower could be murdered. Xerton's heir also gained control of the tower and the curse that came with it. Within just a century he too would be gone, killed by his offspring. This cycle of patricide continued for centuries unrecorded until the year 1816 V.E.

#### The Ascension of the Mistress

In 1816 V.E. the current Master of the Tower was Sir Reginald Harcourt, Secret Arch Mage of the Rite of the Dark Flame and also member of Her Majesty's Privy Council. Although childless, Sir Reginald's brother had four children. Sir Harcourt had researched for years as to a way to separate the curse of the Tower from his bloodline but to no success. Giving into his villainous nature he concluded to kill his brother and his family rather than risk the loss of the Tower and it's life extending properties to another of Xerton's blood.

Sir Harcourt had little contact with his brother's family and so was not aware of the unique mental nature of his niece, Charlotte Harcourt. Charolette had always been different from the other children, often outspoken and irreverent of society's norms. Charolette had gone through several governesses as her morbid curiosity in the discomfort and death of animals and birds frightened anyone her mother hired. She was curious when her uncle invited her family to his Tower estate on the sea. Though her mother and siblings were intimidated by the cold stone building and shelves of relics, she wished to explore the dark hallways. When sneaking out of her room to do just that she came upon her uncle standing over the body of her father with knife in hand. When Sir Reginald attempt to seize her Charlotte bit him causing him to drop his weapon and allowing her to flee to the tower balcony where she pretended to be hurt begging for mercy only to trip Sir Reginald when he approached, causing him to fall to his doom. A life long villain, Sir Reginald had used the story of the Tower's power in the bloodline, her bloodline, to win Charlotte over. Now knowing the power of the Tower she made sure to posses it. Over the next few days her family members all suffered lethal accidents in and around the tower. Within hours of killing her younger brother, Charlotte was soul bound to the Tower and by the next evening had learn to control it, teleporting it away just as the authorities were in route to investigate. She had become the Mistress of the Tower.

#### Random Villainy

The Mistress of the Tower has no clear cut villainous agenda. She primarily focuses on plots that bring victims to the Tower for her to sacrifice to the curse therefore ensuring her continued survival. The Mistress has been known to venture away from the tower for either Theocracy matters or for shopping (the Mistress has a very distinct style of fashion and is very particular about it). Although underestimated when first introduced to the Council of 21 as a new seat holder, she has proven a true power factor as her vote in Council matters is driven by whimsy or vendetta depending on her mental state at the time. She is known to host other villains at the Tower from time to time and most of them come out alive but with stories of bizarre tea parties with over sized dolls and skeletons.

### Personality

Mistress Charlotte of the Eternal Tower is often described as mad and juvenile. While she does tend to portray the attitude of a young girl (some theorize the age she committed her first murder) and even appears to be no more than a a young teenager the truth is she is a ruthless killer who is decades old and has lured dozens of people to their death. She portrays and attitude that all of existence is merely a game everyone is playing and she just happens to be winning. She is known to have fits of temper or crying that are childlike but apparently this only leads to quietly planning to kill that person at a later date which allows the Mistress to revert to behave every part the tea party hostess. Her childlike manner and cutesy dress have gotten her out of more than one situation with the authorities that can't believe this sweet girl in curls is actually a seventy year old immortal mass murderer.

### Known Agenda

The Mistress is dedicated to her own survival, her fashion tastes, and the Tower itself. She has formed a symbiotic relationship with the structure feeding it more souls in more creative ways than the last three masters. She seems to keep her own mind on the Council of 21 but can be bought with favors or boons. In fact her primary motivation for any dealings with the Theocracy is self interest. The Mistress is a unique form of mad not often seen.