Regina Nightshade

Annex Regina Nightshade is a half elf wizard living in Arcadia.

## Appearance

Regina is of medium height with light brown skin, purple eyes, and long, wavy black hair. She's often dressed in nice blue or purple robes.

## Personality

Regina is regal and quiet, very intelligent and thoughtful. She is very bookish, always pouring herself into learning new spells so she can better combat magical threats. She is also a loving and caring person, serving as one of her group's moral compasses.

## Biography

### Early Life

Regina is the daughter of the elven Baron Geoffrey Nightshade and Baroness Lorelei, living in an estate south of both Arcadia and Lycia. Regina's parents were both abusive, her mother was domineering and controlling and often used magic on Regina to get her to behave, while her father ignored her and rarely stood up for her. Lorelei had Regina brought up as a proper lady in hopes of having her marry well. Lorelei also experimented with magic.

When Regina was 16, Lorelei opened up an unstable portal to another dimension which immediately swallowed her. Regina and Geoffrey battled against the portal. When Geoffrey reached out to Regina for help, she chose to ignore him and let the portal take him. Minutes later, the portal shut. With both parents dead and her freedom finally secured, Regina discarded her title and left.

### Life in Arcadia

Regina enrolled in Midmoor School of Magic, the best magic school in Arcadia, where she became skilled in enchantment and divination magics. Regina also befriended a magical cat called Plagg and passed him off as her familiar. Upon graduating, she pursued an additional apprenticeship with Archmage Jayda Haro, the Master of Research, so that she could become a professor at Midmoor. However, through her connections with the archmages, Regina became suspicious of a rising higher-up named Lirel Galazini.

Regina began working with Vira Glittergem, one of the palace artificers working in the palace basement. Vira was also suspicious of the new mage. The two often went to Timberholme to discuss the situation to avoid detection. There, they met Bronwyn Ironkeg and Garth Elderfellow, who soon joined them in their scheme to uncover the mage's plan. They learned of a second mystery mage, this one in Lycia, Arcadia's rival kingdom.

On their final scheme together, Regina sensed the mage's power and called Vira, Bronwyn, and Garth to a meadow, where Lycian princess Amelia Aranore and Arcadian prince Adrien Sylvaranth were playing together. One of the mages drags Amelia into the lake, and before the adults could intervene, Adrien dived in after her. When Regina wasn't able to aim a spell properly, Vira used her magic to get Adrien to kill the monster instead, annoying Regina. However, Lycia and Arcadia suddenly break out into war, forcing Regina and Vira to withdraw back to Arcadia to work to uncover the mages.

## Relationships

### Friends

* Jayda Haro: Archmage Jayda Haro is Regina's main teacher of magic after her graduation at Midmoor. Regina greatly respects her mentor and is implied to think of them as a parental figure.

## Abilities

* Magic: Regina is well-versed in magic, especially enchantment and divination spells. She is capable of hypnosis, charming, and catching glimpses of the future.