Little is known about the Dark Queen's origin. There were whispers of a cleric from Plovdiv that obtained supposed wisdom by ingesting human blood. Blood that was made freely available by her early devotees.
There are two distinct descriptions of what the Dark Queen looks like. The first is a stunningly beautiful woman with fine skin, unusually long, straight jet-black hair, stunning gray eyes, and a voluptuous figure. The second is the complete opposite of an elderly decrepit woman with long silver dreads and always covered in a tattered cloak. Perhaps they are one and the same, but all reported sightings are unfounded.
The Dark Queen's special abilities that helped her rise to power are persuasion, hypnotism, and hyper-keen intellect.