Tepest

A spectral woman in a tattered black veil and mourning dress, her pale skin translucent in the moonlight. She carries an old, rotting lantern that emits no light, and her voice is a whisper carried on the wind. She is never seen walking, only appearing where the mist thickens.

Haunted by grief and loss, she is both tragic and protective, whispering lullabies to the lost while seeking to reclaim her own. Her presence is a mix of sorrow and a desperate longing for connection, making her both a guardian and a potential threat to those who remind her of her child.

Once a noblewoman from a distant land, Lady Evana was married to a merchant lord in Viktal. When the village elders offered her newborn child to the fey during The Tithe, she fought desperately to save her child, but the fey took her firstborn on the night of the full moon. Found standing over an open grave the next day, she vanished, leaving behind only a blood-red rose. Now, she haunts Mourner’s Hollow, appearing to those who have lost something dear, forever searching for her stolen child.