Ravenna

> *"I was ruined by a king like you once. I replaced his queen. An old woman. And in time I too would have been replaced. Men use women. They ruin us and when they are finished with us they toss us to the dogs like scraps."*
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## Personal Status

### Relatives

* Unnamed sorceress (Mother)†
* Finn (Brother)†
* Freya (Sister) †
* Freya's daughter (Niece)†
* The First King (First husband)†

## Professional Status

### Occupation(s)

Sorceress
Queen

**Ravenna**, also known as **The Enchantress**, is the cruel and misunderstood ruler of the kingdom of Tabor.

## Personality

Ravenna is shown to be cruel, arrogant, power-hungry, and extremely vain. She is obsessed with maintaining her beauty and immortality, and would go to any lengths to achieve her goals.

Despite her great age, some of Ravenna's personality traits - such as her extreme emotional outbursts and overreactions to bad news - are rather childish in nature, implying a severely stunted emotional growth. She is also a consummate seductress, knowing well how to use her beauty, her body, and her innate cunning to intrigue and manipulate men - especially Kings - to her best advantage. Ravenna seems to genuinely believe that rebellion must be suppressed through violence and fear, and that she is actually a more benevolent ruler than other Kings (such as the one who ruined her own life).

One notable trait of Ravenna would be her anger issues: she does not forgive failure easily, even if the one who had committed the mistakes was her very own brother. Another eminent trait in Ravenna would be her extreme misandry: she has a pathological hatred for the opposite sex (men), believing that they are vermin, and that they only see women as either sexual conquests or toys to be manipulated at their will. The only man that appears to be exempt from her misandry is her brother, and even then, she was shown to treat him poorly on numerous occasions. She is also shown to despise weakness, clearly demonstrated by the lengths she goes to in attempt to make her sister Freya "strong" and views things such as mercy and compassion as symptoms of weakness and thus of little value to her.

Despite her cold and cruel nature, Ravenna does appear to be capable of love and affection to some extent. She demonstrated an unexpected vulnerable side to her when she recalled how she and her siblings had been forcefully separated from their mother by the King who later "ruined" her - a recollection that actually reduced her to tears. She has a genuine love for her siblings, particularly Freya, who served as her constant companion as she conquered kingdom after kingdom with her beauty and magic. In fact, Freya once commented that chess was a pointless game to them since Ravenna always let her win, and Ravenna actually conceded with a warm sincere smile that Freya was her one soft spot. She was also shown to assure Freya - who had given up all hopes of acquiring magical powers - that she would become a powerful sorceress like her one day. While this could be viewed as Ravenna playing favorites with her siblings, given how she was never shown to favor Finn as dearly as she did Freya, it also testifies that, for all her numerous flaws, Ravenna could be genuinely affectionate and warm to those of her immediate family circle.

However, this degree of love and affection does not extend to her forgoing what she viewed to be her own best interests. Though she did appear to be hesitant and almost truly reluctant to harm her infant niece (whom the Mirror foretold would grow to be more beautiful than her one day), and she knew beforehand how grief-stricken Freya would be should any harm befall the child, Ravenna ultimately had no qualms with killing the child, and even framed the Duke of Blackwood (Freya's lover and the father of the child) for the murder. The second instance would be when Finn died: though Ravenna was devastated by this, it must be noted that she chose to sacrifice him to save herself, emphasizing the fact that even when it came to the immediate family members whom she loved, she would always put herself first.

In spite of all this, Ravenna was also shown to be more than a mere villainess, and was actually an intensely complex character for an antagonist: Ravenna once confessed that Anastasia was the only one pure enough to "save her", which implies that, in her heart of hearts, Ravenna knew all along that what she was doing was wrong, but was also powerless to stop herself. Likewise, Ravenna declared that she actually envied Freya for the love she once had and the child she had borne - all these things Ravenna had secretly desired, and her certainty of the impossibility of her ever acquiring them for herself had thoroughly broken her.

Because of this, Ravenna can be viewed as a victim of tragic circumstances, who suffers from extreme psychological damage, due to the trauma of her early years. Many of her traits can be traced back to the trauma she suffered, a desire both for vengeance upon the world and to never be weak and defenseless again, whatever the cost. Ravenna's misandry could also be attributed to the King who had not only forcefully separated her and her siblings from their mother, but also proceeded to "ruin" her. It is a plausible theory that this "ruination" was what caused Ravenna to lose her faith at being able to find a man who would truly love her for what she was and give her a child of her own, and made her believe that men view women as only sexual conquests or objects they could toy at will.

It can therefore be said that, though Ravenna did terrible things, terrible things had been done to her as well, and those slight glints of positive human feelings like familial love and warmth demonstrated by her seem to testify to her still being a sympathetic character, though her own choices confirm her role as an antagonist.

## Powers and Abilities

**Magic:** Ravenna is an extremely powerful sorceress, though it was mentioned by Finn (and later proven) that excessive usage of her powers would cause her to age, which she combated by stealing youth from others. However, after her resurrection, Ravenna did not seem to suffer from this weakness anymore, and was shown to possess an unlimited arsenal of magical powers.

* **Immortality/Youth Absorption:** Through a spell that her mother had cast on her when she was young, Ravenna could retain her youth and extend her life indefinitely by draining the youth of other young women. However, as revealed by her Magic Mirror, this did not equate to true immortality, which she could only achieve by consuming the heart of "The Fairest Of Them All". It is only by doing so that her powers will never weaken, and she will never age or need to consume youth. While it was never specifically confirmed as to whether she still suffered from this weakness after her resurrection, the fact that Ravenna neither aged nor weakened despite using her powers as she desired with no hesitations seem to indicate that she had managed to overcome this particular barrier.
* **Life Force Manipulation/Life And Death Manipulation:** Ravenna could manipulate the life forces of others to bestow youth, heal injuries, and remove or sustain life. She demonstrated this power when she extended the life of her brother Finn along with her own and healed a wound he sustained with a touch. She also caused a young man to experience a fatal heart attack simply by touching his chest. She was shown to be able to channel this ability without directly touching her intended victim, as seen by how she killed her husband, the King, by just touching the chess piece that represented his royal status, causing him to bleed to death. She was also able to sense that Freya was pregnant and that it was a girl. However, it is beyond Ravenna to restore life to the dead.
* **Shapeshifting:** Ravenna can change her physical form to whatever shape she desires, such as a flock of ravens or other human beings.
* **Dark Fay:** Ravenna had the ability to conjure a black substance known as dark fay, which could take the form of either a solid or a liquid. In solid form, she was able to conjure soldiers of black glass, which could only be destroyed when she herself was dead. In liquid form, she was able to create tendrils that had razor-sharp talons and points. She was shown to be able to use such tendrils as deadly weapons, given that they could cut through skin, bone, and even barriers of ice with effortless ease. She could also shoot these tendrils as projectiles.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Ravenna cannot be killed by conventional weapons, and heals from injuries such as a dagger to the ribs or standing in an open flame within seconds. It is shown that the only way she could be killed is if she does not consume youth and loses her ability of regeneration, or if "The Fairest Of Them All" delivers a fatal wound to her.
* **Superhuman Stamina**: Ravenna has an advanced degree of stamina being that after her resurrection, her physical abilities are now inexhaustible.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Ravenna now possesses a higher level of durability.
* **Mental Manipulation**: Ravenna could use her magic to mesmerize the minds of men. She used this ability on the Duke of Blackwood to force him to kill the child he had with her sister Freya. The Duke appeared to be asleep when Ravenna entered his chamber and her voice echoed, repeating "Kill for me" handing him a torch to set his child's nursery ablaze.
* **Master Tactician/Manipulator/Leader**: Ravenna is an excellent tactician and leader, having planned out many ways to manipulate kings into marrying her so she may takeover their kingdom.
* **Occult Knowledge**: Ravenna has an unrivaled knowledge of magic, knowing some of the deepest, darkest secrets of magic known to the world.
* **Expert Hand to Hand Combatant**: Ravenna is a skilled combatant.
* **Intimidation**: Ravenna is known to be a very fearsome sorceress that is feared by many even her own sister Freya.
* **Indomitable Will**: Ravenna is an extremely determined individual, stating that she will never stop destroying kingdoms and will give the world "the queen it deserves".

## Trivia

* The name Ravenna is the same as the name of an ancient city in Northern Italy; however, it also seems to refer to the bird raven, which Queen Ravenna is heavily associated with.
* Both Ravenna and her sister Freya are associated with birds; Ravenna with ravens and Freya with owls.
* Interestingly, the ruler of the Norse gods, Odin, was accompanied by ravens and used them as messengers, whilst Ravenna's sister Freya shares her name with Freyja, the Norse goddess of love, magic and fertility.
* Ravenna could also be associated with the Morrigan, a Celtic goddess of death, fate, war and sovereignty. Ravenna herself is responsible for many deaths and wars, and is a queen and the bane of kings. The Morrigan was also known to transform herself into a crow or raven, which Ravenna can also do.
* Ravenna is based off of the Evil Queen from Snow White. However, there are lots of differences that can be spotted between them:
	+ The Evil Queen only fears not being the fairest "looking" in all the land, whilst Ravenna only fears "death".
	+ Ravenna can revive from the dead, unlike The Evil Queen who ends up becoming an old hag and falls of the cliff.
	+ Ravenna has two younger siblings, Freya and Finn.
	+ Ravenna's powers surpass the Evil Queen's. Ravenna can shape-shift into both people and animals, she can keep other people immortal such as her brother, steal life, conjure an army of quartz and monsters of quartz, cannot die by none that are fair hearts or "royal blood", withstand elements like fire and more.

## Quotes

* (To Anastasia Turgor) *"You see, child, love always betrays us. By fairest blood it was done and only by fairest blood can it be undone. You were the only one who could break the spell and destroy me. And the only one pure enough to save me. You don't even realize how lucky you are never to know what it is to grow old!"*
* *"How is it that an innocent, young girl makes a fool of my brother? Armed only with a nail. If she'd had a sword she would have taken my kingdom. Bring me the King's daughter and you let her slip right through your tiny little fingers. How? You swore that you would protect me! You swore! Now there's no one I can trust. No one! There's no loyalty, no loyalty. None! Not even from you!"*
* (To Freya) *"I thought I made you strong, but you’re as pathetic as you ever were, little sister."*
* (To Freya) *"Learn from a loss, Freya, and your day will come. Your possibilities will be endless once the magic awakens in your heart."*
* (To Freya) *"All the women of our blood are gifted, Freya, and in time, you will find the source of your power as I found mine."*