Arcania

Height; 6' 9"
Weight; 245 lbs
Age; Immortal (6673)
Relationships; Empress Thalia Immerstad (deceased); mother, Cystronella and Igor Von Gravaga; Sister and Brother-in-law, Countess Courtney Yellsdana; complicated, ZeeGee; semi-sentient pet/companion

Physical Description;
Pale is one of the first words that comes to mind when looking at Arcania.  Her hair has grown white over the ages; not from age but from excessive use of magic.  Not unheard of, but not common either.  Similarly, her eyes have been purged of all traces of color, invluding causing her pupils to turn inexplicably white.  But unlike most, not only did her hair and eye color change, but even her skin color has been bleached by her spell craft.  She has made no attempt to conceal it by spell or science. 
She chooses her wardrobe to fit the theme.  Pale blues and whites almost exclusively, as befits her status as the former gueen of the frostbourne.  She prefers robes, but has been known to go as casual as jeans and T-shirts or spandex. 

Click here for a depiction of Arcania; Courtesy of MotleyMince

Bio;
Arcania is the eldest daughter of the Late Thalia, ruler and creator of the Gravagans.  From an early age she made it clear that she had no interest in following either her mother's path of casual villainy or her father's heroic way of life.  It caused no small amount of friction with her mother; who made every effort to make her a proper villain.  Her father was more understanding, but less available to guide her.  While she never quite gave in, she learned ruthlessness and the value of power at an early age. 
Her true passion is, and always has been, the pursuit of knowledge.  She is fanatical in her pursuit of all things written, typed, or passed down orally.  Even before she was known as Arcania her fellow students at the Arcane Academy knew her as a repository of knowledge, and she was often referred to as a living library.  She ultimately chose the name Arcania for herself based on her love of the arcane things of the universe.  It would be in the pursuit of knowledge that ultimately lead her astray.  In the deepest parts of space, on a quest to find a legendary book supposedly cast into the void by a repentant warlock, she stumbled upon a circle of standing stones not unlike the ones found across the known universe.  Unlike the others, this one had been desecrated in a decidedly Shadithic fashion; it had been changed from a divine protection to a demonic gate.  Curiosity got the better of her, and in deep space, all alone, she used it and called the demon forth.  She fought the demon Ecthon there and lost.  But instead of death, she was dominated.  For a thousand years she gathered her strength, practiced magic, and did any number of uncertain and unrecorded things.  Somewhere in this time she acquired a companion she calls ZeeGee; a rather unique semi-sentient anomally.  For all intensive purposes, ZeeGee is the rather clever and strangely affectionate thermal equivalent to a black hole.  With it at her side she returned to the known universe and set out to take control of the universe, the unwilling pawn of Ecthon.  Her undead armies crushed the furthest reaches of space quickly, and only a sparse collection of immortals even took notice.  Then as her army grew in numbers she began to find willing recruits amongst the mages and warriors of the universe.  Through Ecthon they were granted great power and she named them the Lych, for amongst her army of the dead they were the greatest.  ZeeGee too was empowered; and through its abilities an unnatural weather pattern whipped across not only the surface of planets but across space itself.  Many immortals, villains and heroes alike, died in the initial efforts to stall her.  At last, the major governemnts of the universe were warned.  For the first time time history, the whole universe joined together and readied itself to face the threat.  Danielland, the Ga-Vok, the Harakai, Humanity, and many of the lesser races were forced to flee in the face of the frostbourne hordes.  The Secloran and Gravagans stood as the last holdouts, much of the universe behind their bulwark as refugees.  Two things changed at that point; the first was the death of Tala the Storm Mage at the hands of one of Arcania's supporters.  The Emperor-elect of Danielland, Jor, killed her in a duel for dominance of Stormguard.  He was quickly expelled and went to the side of his beloved, Arcania's sister, the Arch-Lych Lirelle.  This provoked the second change.  Thalia, Empress of Gravaga and mother of Arcania, though that was not known to most, heard of Tala's death and launched a campaign to destroy the frostbourne.  Billions of Gravagans were pitted against the uncountable dead.  But it was all a diversion.  Thalia herself slipped into Arcania's palace and attempted to find her daughter in order to talk her down.  Circumstances had not smiled on her, and she found that her daughter had gone to the frontlines to do battle with her army.  Instead she met the demon Ecthon; and without her necromantic legions, Thalia was slain.  Before her death she managed one last telepathic call, telling a lone vampire of the Yellsdana coven of the true nature of their foe. 
And so it was that Courtney Yellsdana came to Arcania's palace.  Using every power and spell in her arsenal she slipped past the armies of the frostbourne and Jor's traitorous Nielda.  After many years of careful manuevering, planning, and training the young daywalker managed to position herself to defeat the demon.  In single, unarmed combat she dealt Ecthon a humiliating defeat.  Though the war did not end there, Arcania was free.  Jor and his men, alongside the Lych and other free followers of Lirelle, fought to the death in a last battle against the combined fleets of the Universe, and the frostbourne were at last defeated. 
Arcania submitted herself to Courtney and the Pantheon, the inner court of the most powerful Immortals.  Courtney spoke in her defense, explaining the demon's dominance and playing up the newly established unity of the universe's great races.  Despite all their misgivings, they granted her life on the grounds that she be bound by a deep magic.  She was given life on the condition that should she ever kill or willfully cause harm to come to another being she would herself die.  She and ZeeGee departed that court and she returned to her original quest for knoweldge humbled and repentant.