Queen Vexivar

Shemak Vexivar was the Wife of King Orosovir Vexivar and ruled alongside him as queen of a vast interstellar empire. The pair ascended to incredible power together, becoming the most adept necromancers in existence. As time went on and the King's lust for domination grew ever greater the royal couple drifted apart. It became clear to Shemak that the King was planning to consume her so that he might become even stronger, so she eventually betrayed him in order to escape with her life and continue accumulating her own power so that she might defeat him in the future.

The Great Deception
After disbanding the King’s Bone Council, Queen Shemak and her closest followers fled into The Bog. News of his wife's deception spun the King into a rage during which he consumed all the life on his home planet and the lives of those who lived on nearby colonies, effectively extinguishing all traces of his empire. The only survivor of the "seven days of rage" was the King's most loyal subordinate: Drub.

The Tree on the Hill
In order to evade The King and consolidate her power, the queen and her followers abandoned their physical bodies and joined together into a communal intelligence or a "hivemind." in this form, the queen could become a powerful entity without dooming those she consumed to death and oblivion. The Queen formed her hivemind around her own identity, ensuring that she herself would not be lost among the throngs of voices competing for consensus. In this pursuit she has been successful, for outwardly the queen represents the hive, however with the addition of each new consciousness to the collective her ability to control them diminishes, and her individuality and identity changes imperceptibly.

References made to the Queen often describe her as a "great tree," an ancient being in the form of a tree with roots that reach deep into the earth. Indeed, this may be the true form of the Queen in her present state, as her desire to collect the wandering spirits of the dead has made her wise and entwined with the will of nature itself.