Dragonwilds:Ravanna
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Ravanna is a necromancer who arrived on Dragonwilds:Ashenfall while fleeing from pirates. She formed a partnership with Dragonwilds:Ulv, a Wild Knight, and together they protected the forests around Dragonwilds:Bramblemead.
History
Arrival on Ashenfall
Ravanna arrived on Dragonwilds:Ashenfall by boat while fleeing from pirates seeking revenge for her misdeeds.Template:CiteJournal At this time, her necromantic abilities were limited and she could not raise the undead -yet - but she a knack for controlling simple fangs and bones.Template:CiteJournal When the pirates tracked her down, she fled into the forests and attempted to defend herself with fang arrows. Her efforts failed, and broken and she prepared herself for death.Template:CiteJournal
Partnership with Ulv
Ravanna was rescued by Dragonwilds:Ulv, a Wild Knight who wore a mask made from the skull of a wolf. He pushed back the pirates and brought her to safety.Template:CiteJournal Their fellowship after this became unbreakable, though their relationship was platonic. She made the arrows, he fired the bow, and together they feasted on their victories as they kept the woods safe from unwanted intrusion.Template:CiteJournal Despite their close friendship, Ravanna proved to be a poor hunter. While Ulv was quiet and could hold his position for hours, Ravanna was undisciplined and noisy, often causing their prey to flee.Template:CiteJournal Although this would occasionally test their friendship, Ulv never held it against her. He continued attempting to teach the necromancer the ways of the forest and the techniques the Dragonwilds:Wild Knights used to track down game, but it never took - try as she might, Ravanna was never going to be silent as a shadow.Template:CiteJournal In apology for her noisy nature, Ravanna sought to create a weapon that would reduce its impact. She traveled into Dragonwilds:Fellhollow in search of material strong enough to craft one, and returned with willow branches that she fashioned into a longbow as a gift for her friend.Template:CiteJournal
Ravanna and Ulv worked together to defeat Dragonwilds:Shatterfang, a notorious alpha wolf terrorizing Dragonwilds:Bramblemead. When the Wild Knights' hunters failed to stop the clever and cruel wolf, Ravanna used dark magic to lock the wolf's bones in place, while Ulv struck from the shadows with blades forged from the wolf's kin.Template:CiteJournal The grateful villagers offered them any reward they desired - money, weapons, or gems - but the pair asked only for Shatterfang's skull in return.Template:CiteJournal Evidence of their friendship can still be found throughout the forest in the form of miniature carvings of a wolf skull and a bat in places that meant something to them.Template:CiteJournal At some point after the longbow is gifted, Ulv is killed by Dragonwilds:Garou.
Life in Fellhollow
Ravanna eventually came to Dragonwilds:Fellhollow, impressed by what the people who had left Bramblemead had created. The community was peaceful, with amalgamated and non-amalgamated people working side by side.Template:CiteJournal The village was watched over by dragons who helped with construction and farming, and who gave the villagers something called a Blessing that bound them together in ways Ravanna found intriguing.Template:CiteJournal The people didn't worship the dragons, and different faiths coexisted peacefully - Saradominists greeting Zamorakians without conflict.Template:CiteJournal Ravanna set up a small shop in the village, selling potions, salves, and services for those who needed to speak with the dead.Template:CiteJournal
Imaru and Ravanna
Following Ulv's death at the hands of the Dragonwilds:garou, Ravanna sustained her existence through hatred and desire for vengeance. She learned that continued existence was surprisingly easy to maintain, all it took was hate.Template:CiteJournal She vowed never to forgive the garou for the death of her friend, maintaining that as long as she cursed them, her soul would not fade to the world below.Template:CiteJournal When she lost Ulv, Ravanna attempted to bring him back through necromancy. The result of this attempt was disastrous, "Something better buried and left unspoken."Template:CiteJournal Despite the failure, she continued to visit what remained of Ulv, not wanting him to be lonely even though nothing of her friend remained there.Template:CiteJournal Some time after this, Ravanna gained a new customer, the dragon Dragonwilds:Imaru.Template:CiteJournal She found herself empathizing with the dragon, as everyone in Fellhollow had witnessed what had happened to her.Template:CiteJournal Imaru came to Ravanna seeking a way to bring him back. Necromancy didn't work that way, at least not within Ravanna's skill set, but she thought she could offer something almost as good - she offered revenge.Template:CiteJournal Ravanna created a curse within Imaru, using the dragon's grief and rage as a focus to strengthen her against Dragonwilds:Kuldra. Imaru was to become a devouring force that would feast on the Godeater's very soul.Template:CiteJournal The curse did not work. Kuldra proved to be stronger than Ravanna had imagined, her essence more powerful than either of them could have guessed.Template:CiteJournal As Imaru raged at her, Kuldra simply laughed and rebuffed her, barely even registering the unholy force hurled against her.Template:CiteJournal Imaru fell to the ground in a crumbled heap, and Ravanna wished that were the end of it.Template:CiteJournal
Undeath
The situation became far worse than Ravanna had anticipated. The Template:RSL, the way to the Afterlife, was now blocked. Imaru had somehow wedged herself in the underworld using the curse Ravanna had given her, her own sheer rage and will.Template:CiteJournal She clawed at the edge of the Underworld, creating rifts that bled the Noumenon's waters into the mortal world.Template:CiteJournal Imaru used her Blessing as an anchor to her people, dragging their souls to her so that she could grow stronger.Template:CiteJournal Ravanna's own soul was protected, warded by the curse that raged inside her, but the other villagers of Fellhollow weren't so fortunate.Template:CiteJournal She could see tendrils of their spirits being dragged from their chests though the villagers couldn't see it themselves, they could only feel that something terrible was happening.Template:CiteJournal Ravanna recognized this was all her fault.Template:CiteJournal Fellhollow was doomed. Imaru's mouth consumed all the souls flowing down the River Noumenon, and with each soul she devoured, she grew stronger and her grip tightened.Template:CiteJournal The necromantic energies of the Underworld washed back through the Blessing and into Imaru's subjects, animating their bodies and filling them with an unquenchable thirst for more souls.Template:CiteJournal They became nothing but withered husks of themselves, all humanity drained away, leaving only a terrible, clawing need.Template:CiteJournal Ravanna had seen this before in the forbidden texts her master kept hidden from her. The source of this evil was Imaru, an evil of her own making.Template:CiteJournal She realized she could not break the curse or end Imaru's wrath, as she was no match for the dragon in battle.Template:CiteJournal All she could do was protect the rest of Ashenfall and Dragonwilds:Gielinor by keeping Imaru locked away.Template:CiteJournal She would seal Imaru in her tower, then complete the ritual to take essence of her curse and bound them to three plinths across Fellhollow, in hope that someone strong and skilled enough is able to take on Imaru, using the very curse that strengthen Imaru, to empower the future heroTemplate:CiteJournal.
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Ravanna casting the curse on Imaru to empower her
