Salem

Salem is an immortal woman who has been alive for longer than Mankind has existed. Salem is physically 20 years old. Salem is 5’11’’ feet tall. Salem has deathly pale skin, white hair tied in a bun with six offshoots, and red eyes with black scleras. Salem has dark purple veins lining her face and arms. Salem wears a short sleeved, long black robe. Salem’s red eyes shine brightly when she gets emotionally agitated. Salem possesses magic, and is exceptionally powerful. Salem is the Queen of the Grimm, and can control them at will. Salem has acquired a lot of experience throughout the ages, and knows better than anyone what makes people tick.

Salem is insidious, cold, patient, highly intelligent, confident, self-assured, cruel, vengeful, fair, collegial, perceptive, strategic, cunning, imperious, and demanding. Salem is humble enough to understand her limits and that she can only do so much without subordinates. Salem has a healthy respect for her enemies, recognizing Humanity’s resourcefulness, ingenuity, and capacity to draw strength from hope. Salem gives credit where credit is due and shows genuine appreciation to those loyal to her. Salem thinks of Remnant as a ‘ruined world’ literally abandoned by the gods.

Salem used to be a princess locked up in a tower by her father, a king, until the day a hero named Ozma killed him and freed her from her prison. Salem and Ozma then fell in love, but he died of an illness soon after. Grieving, Salem pleaded the Two Brother gods to bring him back to life, to which after a disagreement, the Two Brothers cursed her with immortality for asking something out of the normal order of nature. Now immortal and angry at the Two Brothers, Salem tried to stage a rebellion against them, which failed miserably. The Two Brothers then destroyed all of Mankind and left Remnant, leaving Salem alone on the desolate world until a new Mankind resurfaced. She lived as a hermit in the woods until one day Ozma, reincarnated by the God of Creation, found her. They married, founded an Empire together, and had four daughters, until Ozma grew dissatisfied with the expansionist wars Salem waged to conquer the world and tried to flee with their young daughters behind her back. Salem caught him in the act and they fought, their magic destroying their castle and killing their daughters as collaterals, something she never forgave him for. This was thousands of years ago, and since then Salem has been trying to gather the four relics the Two Brothers gods left behind so that she can make them comeback to Remnant and end her immortality so that she can die, uncaring that they would kill everyone else on Remnant at the same time. Ozma is now known as Ozpin. Salem’s lair is now Evernight Castle, an ominous castle deep into the Grimmlands, where only her, her few followers, and Grimm live. Salem’s current followers are Cinder Fall, who is ambitious and the Fall Maiden; Tyrian Callows, a sociopathic assassin who reveres Salem as a goddess; Arthur Watts, a smug scientist whose genius with technologies is only matched by his arrogance: and Hazel Rainart, a stoic man who dislikes gratuitous violence but is on a quest for vengeance against Ozpin. Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black are two minions Cinder brought in.