Day #6

Hermellie

<Queen of the Dead>

<Enchantress Queen>

<Empress of Lotte>

Hermellie was not always cruel. Long, long ago she fought for the benefit of the under-species. Only once she was banished to her kingdom of Lotte that she had saved several year prior did she slowly turn against  the world. To escape she began to experiment on her own servants, turning them into malformed monsters. She began to trick her citizens into working harder by setting them into social classes. She stole all happiness and color from Lotte, only rewarding them back to those who worked endless and without question.

Eventually Hermellie began to wonder how exactly her curse worked. She decided that she would have to experiment to an even greater degree. She began sending her own citizens on trips only to find out that once they too left Lotte, they too would perish. Now knowing that her citizens had the same fate as her, she decided it was time to make a new island, Apple Isle.

Channeling much of what was left of her magic, she opened a portal over the sea just south of Montrifia. She ordered that her servants start removing the land that made up Lotte and throwing it through the portal. After countless weeks of shoveling, the new island was created. Lotte had been cut in half and was now slowly decaying.

Hermellie hastily had her servants march through the portal to the new island. To her surprise, they lived. At one point, she attempted herself to go to Apple but  once she left Lotte, felt her power draining and immediately went back to Lotte.

To this day, Hermellie still plots and experiments  on her servants to find a cure to the Curse of Kal’ar. Everyday Lotte sinks more and more into the ocean as it slowly becomes a swamp. All of the once proud cities are now abandon as their paint fades away. All of the grand trees are now gnarled and the wildlife left long, long ago. Only Hermellie’s Palace remains standing, following the same fate as the rest of Lotte as Hermellie searches for a cure.