Lady Azovka

A capricious patroness of miners, and a protector and owner of hidden underground riches, lady Azovka guards and governs her dark, subterranean places.

Vastly differing accounts of her actions can be gathered. Her mercurial nature makes her reactions difficult to predict, though she rarely demonstrates outright malice without sufficient provocation. She tends to change emotions on a whim and mirror what she finds in others. Just like most other Lampads, she is regarded as a friend and a foe, a monster and a muse.

Those who treat her caverns with respect, Lady Azovka protects and rewards, safeguarding these well-meaning innocents from the dangers that lurk below the surface. She shows kindness to good-natured people and skilled craftsmen, helping them find jewels and gold, and permitting the mining of stones and metals in her domain. 

Those who harm her lands meet her swift wrath. If her conditions aren't met, mining within her caverns is disallowed, prevented and sabotaged, while the offending person loses all their luck and skill, and may even die if she is especially angered.

Lady Azovka can employ wisps of magic light to guide the lost to safety while luring threats to their doom.

The Mistress holds particular animosity for the many predominantly evil underground ancestries, such as the Drow that ravaged her lands and pushed her out of them. Loud noises that disturb the peace and quiet of her caverns bother her greatly, which only intensifies her conflict with the industrious Bugbears and their pyrotechnics. 

(Lampad queens are  are particularly fond of bats. Many lampad queens have nykteras as favored attendants (? - overlap with Vesper?) There are generally many themes that are similar - I need to address this)  

A person who sees Mistress Azovka can quickly come under her spell, as she exudes a powerful enchanting aura, like many other Nymphs. She may also inflict her sorrow and grief upon others, forcing them to weep with her. 

While ever vigilant in her duties, she is oft lonely and forlorn, as the majority of underground denizens make poor company, especially ever since her sisters were banished or slain by the Drow. True companionship and conversation are among the few things that can keep the moody Mistress from sporadically weeping, though like most creatures she finds such tears cathartic, feeling better for a time after a good cry. This loneliness is the reason why she quickly accepted Lord Attys' friendship and alliance, which then blossomed into a secret romance. At one point, he was struck by strange madness, which she managed to comfort and then cure. 

The Malachite Maid is always surrounded by her servants, small lizards, which can be green, blue, golden or luminous. Other members of her entourage include serpents and lions. 

The Mistress has some relations to the realm of the dead; the Copper Mountain connects her to the world of the living. Within her lands, peaceful Undead and Phantoms slumber and rest. Azovka protects them, and they do not interfere in the mortal affairs, unless they are disturbed or angered. Melinoes (homebrewed type of undeath-related Nymphs) and Lampads also live here. 

Her domain is The Copper Mountain and the extensive caves beneath it, located within the mountainous region next to Eleutheria, the Purple Barony. It features deep, dark tunnels, mines and caverns, as well as a manor made of gemstones and metals, mainly malachite and copper. Throughout her lands, many treasuries and vaults are hidden away from greedy eyes and prying hands, where she keeps artifacts and precious materials of the earth.

Currently, Azovka's domain is being aggressively exploited by the Bugbears of the Republic of Jagriarius, and she is doing everything in her power to undermine their operations at the Three Jaws, to avoid the unfortunate fate of her original lands - including taking up the mantle of the Green Knight, of The Rainbow Knights. 

Her previous domain was located deep within the Space Mountain, where she worked in tandem with the Catfolk miners and craftsmen. However, Drow eventually forced them out and took over the mines, and the Mistress fought back with fury and vengeance, but had to flee as well when her sisters were slain and their lands were ravaged. She was invited by Lord Attys to settle in the caverns of the Copper Mountain, where she resides now; she was granted a noble title and slotted within the Fey hierarchy as a Baronetess under Lord Attys.