Lore:
During the Epoch of Light, an elven woman on the precipice of ascending to godhood, had foreseen the coming Dawn War. She saw the destruction that would be wrought from the battles between gods and primoridals. If she could complete her ascension in time and perform a great ritual that she saw in her mind's eye, she could prevent it all. After succeeding in her ascension, the new goddess found fifty-two souls with enough will and power to channel her magic during the ritual. Only the thirteen with the greatest arcane sensitivity would actively participate and it was they who had actually selected the other thirty-nine who would remain unknowing conduits of the magic.
The ritual began, and at first the fledgling goddess felt it working, but just after the point of no return she sensed treachery among the thirteen. They sought to siphon the goddess's power for themselves and had sabotaged the ritual by choosing the thirty-nine most treacherous souls they could divine. She aborted the ritual, at great cost to herself, and her divine form was twisted in the arcane backfire. The young goddess' mind had been shattered and history would now know her only as the Raven Queen. She resides in the Fell, and collects memories and mementos from various beings and stores them away. Which leads some scholars in the ages since, to argue about there being a purpose to her collection, or if she is just insane.
As for the thirteen arcane savants who betrayed her, she transformed them into the Nagpa and cursed them to be eternal scavengers of what is left behind. Their only way to gain power of their own accord is to rummage in the ruins of fallen cultures. The treacherous souls they recruited were also cursed. Every three were fused into a single undead monster, a Skull Lord, and set loose in the Fell to eternally squabble with each other over territory while simultaneously betraying themselves at every turn.
The Crowwitch Maugosma is one of the cursed thirteen, whom some ancient texts refer to as the "Thirteen of the Rift". She is a Nagpa who resides in the city of The Derelict, at the center of the Decrepid Saltwastes, within the Shadowfell. She, like the other Nagpa, hides from the Raven Queen while eternally seeking artifacts of great power. The Derelict serves her purposes well as since the curse, the Skull Lords have grown in strength enough that their evil obscures her own, and The Derelict is currently ruled by the Skull Lord known as Chamberlin Skexin. She works out of sight of the Raven Queen, hoping to one day take over The Derelict and use it as a bastion of power from which she could challenge the Raven Queen.
