In response, the queen showed Ara'lon a vision of Ardenweald's future, in which the dream trees would topple and the whole forest would perish in the drought. When the queen herself appeared, Ara'lon told her that he had kept faith that she would save them from the anima drought, and he didn't understand why she would send scavengers to his grove. The grove's keeper, Ara'lon-who had previously sworn an oath to the queen to protect the wildseeds-initially lashed out against this effort by attacking the hunters. The Winter Queen personally accompanied the Wild Hunt when they sacrificed the wildseeds in the grove of Tirna Noch, among which was the soul of the Wild God Ursoc. Thus ignorant that her sister sought to help her, the Winter Queen became bitter towards her for the presumed silence.
However, unbeknownst to Elune, the breaking down of the machine of death meant every soul was being funneled directly into the Maw. Having heard her sister's cries and felt her pain Elune, in the wake of the War of the Thorns, thus sent the slain night elven souls to sustain her. Years later, following the machine of Death breaking down and the anima drought which hit Ardenweald, the Winter Queen turned to her sister Elune for aid. In order to keep him bound, she channeled the magics of the Heart of the Forest to ensure that the Maw would be inescapable, and that the Banish One would remain forever bound. The Winter Queen joined with her fellow Eternal Ones in imprisoning Zovaal within the inescapable Maw to be forevermore its Jailer in response to him attempting to steal their sigils to gain access to forbidden knowledge. As Ardenweald and its link to the plane of Life was observed by the nathrezim apparently before Sargeras was corrupted, the Queen has existed as long as the Pantheon was previously active in the cosmos. During this time she was awfully busy and was noted to be a real hard worker. Īccording to Marasmius, in the early days of Ardenweald, it was just him and the Winter Queen. The Prototype of Renewal is an incomplete prototype of her. Like her fellow Eternal Ones, the Winter Queen was forged by the First Ones in their realm of Zereth Mortis. For the first time in endless ages, she has been forced to choose which of the land's lush groves-and which souls-will be fed the last precious drops of anima and which will fade away forever, a task enacted by the Wild Hunt. Īrdenweald has suffered more keenly from the anima drought than any other realm in the Shadowlands, and this has taken a bitter toll on the queen. Together, they embody the balance of the great cycle of Death and Life. Her sister and counterpart is Elune, who resides in the realms of Life. She and the land are one when the land thrives, so does she. She is charged with the sacred task of maintaining the cycle of rebirth: restoring perished Wild Gods, Ancients, loa, and other nature spirits and returning them to the mortal plane. The Winter Queen is an Eternal One who rules the realm of Ardenweald and its inhabitants, the night fae, who defend the spirits of nature. She beheld the birth of the forest and shall witness the end of all who dare defile her home.” “We have but one ruler, and she is our Winter Queen.
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