Frost Sprite Queen
Our Rashemi Spirits have revealed fey intricacies that have finally shown us the way to restoring our Shattered Goddess. The Queen of Air and Darkness – the cursed sister to Summer Queen Titania – is also Aurilandur. She was known as the "Frost Sprite Queen" in the Seelie Court and oversaw winter's delicate frost as it thaws in the Spring to bring renewal. Being a beloved Archfey of the Summer fey in the Court of Stars, winters were much more playful then.
Deep in the lower regions of Pandemonium, the bitter and sadistic Queen of Air and Darkness that exists now sits among a gibbering, drooling parody of Titania’s realm, in her Unseelie Court where she seeks to enslave the Faerie peoples to her will. It is she who generated the magical forces which transformed the wretched Quicklings, twisted mirror-images of Titania’s most loved Brownies. It is she who changed the Spriggans and gave them their ability to change form. Where her darkness was once that of night, dreams, and mysteries, it has been corrupted to that of murder and magical deception.
The dreams she brought could be good or ill as the whim took her, but in the best case she created inspiration among sleepers that drove them to pursue their dreams upon waking. She was almost certainly a goddess of magic, and nearly equal to her sister Titania in power; she was a goddess of illusions even then, but she used her power to hide faerie realms and mislead foes. The Queen of Air and Darkness is herself incorporeal and her mythic history is a tale which makes any Faerie who hears the least part of it shiver and tremble. Yet it is a tragic tale, which explains Queen Titania’s staying her hand against the lost sister for whom she grieves, despite the urging of Oberon and her Inner Court to wage war against the dark presence afflicting their people.
The tale refers to Landinion, a deep Sylvan land of prehistory, where the Seelie Court presided on the shores of lake Cwm Glas. To the south, Dwarven miners discovered a great ten faceted Black Diamond below a mountain in the Underdark, the only beauty they knew that matched the diamond was that of the faerie queen Titania, and so they brought it to her court as an offering. At this time, Titania was absent from her court, frolicking with nixies and sea sprites in the waters of the Afon Bhlu, a river that fed the lake; so her sister accepted the gift in her absence with a solemn promise to deliver it to Titania upon her return. This was not to be, however, for soon after touching the Black Diamond it began seeding corruption. Stealing away the gem and a great collection of magical artifacts, the being who has come to be known as the Queen of Air and Darkness fled Titania’s castle in a horrendous chariot drawn by foul canines and billowing smoke and fire. The gem transformed and fractured her very nature.
(DR 376)