Queen of Ravens
[Highlighted from the other chapters in this work by gorgeous little pictures and artistic renditions of the events described, you can read the following:] In that time of shattered allegiances between elven Gods, and with the adulation of the shadar-kai elves in her pocket, the woman bid her followers elevate her to godhood. 'Do it and I'll reforge our broken pantheon,' she said. 'Do it and I'll make things sweet and synchronous again.' And they did, all but the dissenters in her avid flock, who during the ritual of godly ascension tried to wrest power from the woman. At the crucial moment she tore the dissenters apart. With the ritual irrevocably disturbed, the queen and her shadar-kai found themselves flung across the Planes into the eerie and terrible realm called the Shadowfell. The journey killed her, yet from the corrupted ashes she rose, a queen with both her eyes and her serving birds as dark as her ambition. So was born the Raven Queen, Mistress of Life and Death.