Ink and watercolour plate of Abigail: a tall, proud elven sorceress with a crown of dark spikes and long dark robes with flared sleeves, shadowy wisps curling from her fingers and hem.

Character

Abigail

An elf of Sun's Cradle who opened herself to Umbra to end the war of the dead, and became the darkness that now threatens Meliora.

  • Between the Ages
  • Dark Times

Description

Abigail is an elf of Sun's Cradle, raised between the sheer walls of the Rend: a sorceress fiercely proud of her people and of the magic of her homeland. Aurelius admired the backbone it took her to stand against the necromancer, even as he mourned the price she paid. Since the Gloaming she has become one with Umbra, and her voice in the dark is hard to tell from the darkness's own.

"I will be the conduit, and I will bear the price, whatever it might be." — Abigail

Historical context

In the war of the dead Abigail argued that force alone could not win, and that only a power able to defy death could turn the tide. Accepting the risk, she made herself the conduit of Umbra, and her ritual helped end the war; but those she saved came to fear what she had invited into the world, and Meliora forsook her. Her Unlit overran the Primeweald, and when the stranger returned she met them at a portal before Twilight Peak, at once curious and contemptuous.