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| The Vasavadan dynasty has ruled over Kalakeri since ancient times. Ramya Vasavadan was hand-picked by her father to succeed him, but on the bleak day of the maharana's death, Ramya's brother, Arijani, declared himself the new maharana. Allied with ranas hungry for unearned power, Arijani tried to force Ramya to relinquish the Sapphire Throne.
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| Ramya refused to yield. Moving swiftly, she organized her allies, met her brother in battle, and captured him. She intended to execute Arijani, but her sister Reeva counseled her to be merciful. Ultimately, Ramya forgave the rebel faction, Arijani was imprisoned, and Ramya ascended as Kalakeri's maharani, Queen of Kings.
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| A golden period in Kalakeri's history followed as Ramya promoted learning and upheld justice. Meanwhile, Reeva secretly coordinated with Ramya's foes. After years of resentment and plotting, the rebels freed Arijani and spurred nobles across the nation into open revolt.
| | Ramya Vasavadan was the chosen successor of the [[Vasavadan dynasty]] to the [[Sapphire Throne]] and control as [[monarch]] over [[Kalikeri]]. Yet through brutal war against her siblings, [[Reeva Vasavadan|Reeva]] and [[Arijani Vasavadan|Arijani]], for control over the throne, along with the [[curse]] she laid upon the land following her assassination, Ramya Vasavadan also became Kalakeri's [[darklord]]. Following her death, Ramya rose as a [[death knight]] in command of a legion of her followers, returning in [[undeath] through eternal loyalty. Ramya is locked in eternal struggle with her siblings, who have also transformed into horrible monsters. |
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| The resulting conflict swiftly turned vicious. Regretting her past mercy, Ramya captured enemy ranas and executed them using flame and ravenous tigers, while her loyalists put anyone suspected of treason to the sword. The maharani's brutality increased distrust in her rule, and the fighting spread.
| | Though Ramya hates her siblings, a part of her also holds a conflicting love for them at the same time. These feelings enable Reeva and Arijani to trick Ramya with various ploys despite their previous betrayals.<ref>[[Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft]] p. 124-127</ref> |
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| After numerous battles, Reeva begged her sister to meet her brother and negotiate an end to the war. Ramya, who remained ignorant of Reeva's part in freeing Arijani, trusted her sister—and walked straight into their trap.
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| Ambushers slaughtered Ramya's royal guards and captured the maharani. In the central courtyard of the Cerulean Citadel, Arijani sentenced his sister to death. As the court strangler's garrote crushed her windpipe, Ramya cursed her brother and sister, calling them bloodthirsty beasts. Arijani and Reeva denied their sister the honors befitting a maharani, dumping Ramya's corpse into the sea. As they did, a terrible monsoon struck the Harvest Peninsula, bringing with it walls of supernatural mist that closed around Kalakeri.
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| The storm lashed Kalakeri for weeks, and when it reached its height, Ramya emerged from her watery grave. Reborn with terrifying power, she called upon those who had been slaughtered in her service. Loyal in death, a corpse legion joined the revitalized maharani. They stalked the streets of Jadurai, tore down the gates of the Cerulean Citadel, and slaughtered those who had betrayed Ramya. They dragged Arijani and Reeva into the courtyard where their sister died, and there Ramya declared them traitors. The treacherous pair clawed and howled like beasts as undead elephants crushed them to death. Their wails of terror left Ramya unmoved.
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| Arijani and Reeva's plots didn't end with their lives, however. They too were reborn, transformed into fiends with animalistic features by their souls' ravenous desires. And so the conflict gripping Kalakeri continues, trapping the nation in an endless war and forcing its people to swear loyalty to monsters.
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| Reborn as a Death knight, Ramya desperately tries to hold on to or retake the Sapphire Throne in a cycle of victory and loss with her equally uncompromising siblings. Although an illusion disguises her deathless state, Ramya constantly feels the chill in her bones and her own crumbling flesh. Her existence has becomes one of constant struggle, doubt, and defeat as her obsessions shape all of Kalakeri.
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| Ramaya's torment is threefold. Ramya's treacherous siblings, Arijani and Reeva, endlessly contest her reign and sow discord across Kalakeri. Ramya both loathes and loves her siblings, so despite their perpetual deceptions, she remains vulnerable to their promises and lies. Ramya can manipulate her domain and control its borders only while she controls the Sapphire Throne. If she is ousted and one of her siblings controls the Cerulean Citadel, doubt and despair weaken her influence over her domain until she retakes her seat of power. An illusion masks Ramya's Undead state. Her true nature is revealed only by the chill of her skin and in her withered reflection. Ramya permits no mirrors in her presence, lest her curse be revealed.
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Ramya Vasavadan was the chosen successor of the Vasavadan dynasty to the Sapphire Throne and control as monarch over Kalikeri. Yet through brutal war against her siblings, Reeva and Arijani, for control over the throne, along with the curse she laid upon the land following her assassination, Ramya Vasavadan also became Kalakeri's darklord. Following her death, Ramya rose as a death knight in command of a legion of her followers, returning in [[undeath] through eternal loyalty. Ramya is locked in eternal struggle with her siblings, who have also transformed into horrible monsters.
Though Ramya hates her siblings, a part of her also holds a conflicting love for them at the same time. These feelings enable Reeva and Arijani to trick Ramya with various ploys despite their previous betrayals.[1]
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