Elspeth von Karlen

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Elspeth von Karlen was the last survivor of the once great von Karlen family, whose slow decline in recent centuries was cut short by the hand of the Inquisition. Acting on suspicions of an ancient evil lurking within the line, the Divine Inquisitorial Order took almost unprecedented action against the family, mustering their resources and obliterating the entire line in 1128 PL- through poison, magic, and the sword.

Or they thought they did. But Elspeth von Karlen, a 6-year-old girl at the time, survived through the very evil the Order sought to obliterate. Daudaer and Meria, the ancient children of Rhegasil of the Profane, did indeed live on in the line as the Inquisition feared- and their powers were enough to spare the child despite the blade through her chest.

Her survival turned the Inquisition's vicious but, perhaps, legitimate action into a true source of peril for them, as it set the young von Karlen to the task of destroying those who had once caused her pain. With talent, power, and her furious drive have turned her into a dangerous foe indeed- she came very close indeed to her final success.

But death came for her, finally. By the hand of Inquisitor Klemens Vollmacht, she was defeated and slain. The final words given to her were not of cruelty, or of punishment.

They were of kindness. A kindness she had truly missed in life.