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Schwalb  \nillustrations by Mark A. Nelson  \nAll things end. All things die. So the world turns as it always has and always will. Death is the single truth on which all mortals can agree, because none can escape this particular doom. Death is the great leveler. in the final moments, farmer and king are the same, subject to that final moment, including the rue and panic it creates. Both kobold and dragon must face the realization that all that has been will be no longer, and the great secret ofwhat is to come will be known soon in the great and final revelation.  \nDeath has no name, yet [it looms everywhere. one](it looms everywhere. one)[ ](it looms everywhere. one)can hear it in a mother’s wail and in the rattling breath slipping out between spittle-flecked lips. one can spy it in a predator’s eyes or in the glassy-eyed stare of the freshly slain. its heralds screech as they wheel overripe fields, grown fat from war’s excesses. All who have lost a son, daughter, spouse, or parent know death—and they know it best as the Raven Queen.  \nCompared to the other gods in the pantheon, the Raven Queen is young. Her relative youth in no way reduces her influence in the mortal world or diminishes her importance to the larger cosmology. As death’s queen, the Raven Queen is feared by mortals because through her domain, loosed souls travel to find the fate awaiting them. in her guise as the lady of fates, mortals offer her prayers and sacrifices to alter their fortunes, to make the impossible possible, and to escape a turn of bad luck. And as mistress of  \nOctober 2 0 0 9 | Dungeon 17 1 82  \ndeities & demigods: the raven Queen’s Misbegotten  \nwinter, she is the killing frost, the biting wind, and the feathery snowflake’s gentle touch. She is the lady of endings, and her presence blankets the world in white, preserving it until that time when all creatures are reborn.  \nThe Raven Queen looms large in folklore, and most mortals have heard tales concerning her rise to power, her victory over the god of the dead, and her subsequent flight to the underworld, that gloomy realm called the Shadowfell. The particulars in each tale vary, but the important elements never change. Their telling and retelling cement the deity’s place in the imaginations and fears of those who dwell beneath her cold scrutiny. The Raven Queen elicits loathing and love, occupying a contradictory place, but a coherent one all the same when viewed through a mythological lens.  \nLife from Death  \nTales about the Raven Queen’s origin are common knowledge for most, even if the common folk can’t name the Lord of the Dead who preceded her. Asthe stories go, the Raven Queen was a mortal queen, a warrior, or a figure of great power, but her great strength and achievements couldn’t shield her from the deadly plagues Nerull, then the god of death and the dead, unleashed to harvest more souls to feed his unnatural hunger. He, like others since, sought to become king over all gods. He believed the path to his conquest would be paved with the souls taken from the dead.  \nThe mortal woman, however, [gave him pause. in](gave him pause. in)[ ](gave him pause. in)her he saw fabulous strength, character, and ambition to match his own. He made her his queen, called her Nera, and placed her at his side. 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