Geneviève Lorelei

Lady Geneviève Lorelei, also known as The Iron Woe, was a noblewoman and the former head of the Lorelei family. As an NPC, she was played by Dungeon Master Liam O'Brien in.

Appearance
In undeath, Lady Geneviève was a ghastly ten-foot-tall figure of dark brown, almost black bone. Tattered, decaying robes in a faded ghost of the traditional Lorelei green draped around her scraping, lumbering hips. Her eye sockets were seeping black, and a jawbone of ragged teeth widened beyond comprehension, black mist or smoke spilling out in place of a tongue long since rotted away.

Personality
Katerine told Geneviève's son, Haldur, that Geneviève was unbridled and wild, spurned the taming and embraced the animal within more than the family would have liked.

Background
The Lorelei bloodline stretches back about three centuries, but only rose to prominence during the Marrow War between the Dwendalian Empire and the Julous Dominion. The Lorelei's proved their worth in that conflict and were gifted with a stretch of land upon which Castle Lorelei was built.

During the war, the bloodline would also be changed forever. During a near-fatal encounter near the end days of the war, Alfarr Lorelei was bitten and cursed with lycanthropy. The curse burned into Alfarr's blood in a relentless fever that almost drove him mad, but he persisted as did his daughter, her sons and so on. Early on the family considered lycanthropy a curse, but gradually younger generations saw it as a gift to be wielded responsibly. They created a ritual known as "The Taming" to help control the inner beast and used it to help the family.

Whilst there have been dark periods in the family history and members who sought to use their power for evil, the Lorelei family has always returned to the good and righteous in the end.

Geneviève Lorelei was wild and unbridled, she spurned the Taming and instead embraced the animal inside which placed her at odds with her family. Her nature brought her into a whirlwind romance with a drow from Xhorhas, a man the family did not approve of. She had her son - Haldur Lorelei - with him out of wedlock.

She was murdered not far from Castle Lorelei's grounds, in a battle where her lover's twin brother died, while he was being taken away by Kryn soldiers. Geneviève's body was found in a wolven heap. She was buried in the family mausoleum, having a monument constructed by her sister and son.

Geneviève's lover eventually came back from Xhorhas, wanting revenge, attacking Castle Lorelei with a small army of undead and killing everyone in the keep, including Geneviève's sister, Katerine, before mutilating Haldur and taking him to the mausoleum, as captive. There, using necromancy, the drow reanimated his loved one's remains, turning Geneviève's corpse into a dark undead entity, the Iron Woe.

However, Haldur's children found them, and in the battle that followed, Benicio Lorelei destroyed the Iron Woe, putting his grandmother again to rest.

Appearances and mentions

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Trivia

 * Despite the Dwendalian Empire being largely inspired by 15th century Eastern Europe and Russia, Geneviève's name uses the French pronunciation ("jean-vee-ev"), rather than the more Germanic/Celtic pronunciation of "Genevieve" ("jehn-uh-veev").
 * She had the same birth name as Jester Lavorre.