> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Mirileth > [![[Codex/Assets/Characters/Mirileth_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Codex/Assets/Characters/Mirileth.webp) > ###### Basic Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Character | > ###### Character Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Creature Type | Fey | > Species | Archfae | > Gender | Female | > Pronouns | She/Her | > Place | [[Caer Nystral, The Dawnless City\|Caer Nystral]] | > Connections | [[Vale of Eternal Night\|The Vale]]<br>[[Ellesandra Silmara]] | > Profession | Ruler of the Vale | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Alive | **Mirileth**, styled the **Star-Veiled Queen**, is the archfae who rules the [[Vale of Eternal Night]] from the Dawnless City of [[Caer Nystral, The Dawnless City|Caer Nystral]]. She has held her court and the tenuous peace on Sumara's border for two thousand years — long enough that the details of how she came to power have faded from all but the most careful memory. ## Biography Mirileth took the throne of the Vale approximately two thousand years ago, in the closing days of the conflict known as the Long Hunt — a sustained campaign by the Vale's riding-bands against the elves of the Shimmering Peaks. The circumstances of her ascension are not openly spoken of within the Court, and what is known beyond it is less still. What survives in Sumaran memory is an agreement between Mirileth and the hero [[Ellesandra Silmara]] that brought the war to its end: the archfae took control of the Vale, the Hunt ceased, and a border peace settled that has not formally broken since. She is visually elven, but wrong in the way that archfae tend to be wrong — too tall, too still, and her eyes do not reflect light. Her long robes shimmer at the edge of perception, shifting between midnight black, silver, and pure white as though the fabric cannot decide what it is. Those who have seen her report that she does not move the way a living body moves; she is simply elsewhere, then here. [[Warden Sylvaris]] of Sumara holds a measured opinion of her: that the Star-Veiled Queen does not permit loose ends, and that anything that disappears into the Vale does so at Mirileth's sufferance. ### [[The Bloody Nails|Campaign: The Bloody Nails]] #### [[Session 50 - A New Morning in Sumara]] Named during Warden Sylvaris's account of the Long Hunt, as the archfae who rose to rule the Vale in the aftermath of Ellesandra's solitary intervention. Sylvaris noted that Mirileth's style would not likely have permitted the Sumaran soldier [[Asha Vayne]] to simply disappear sixty years ago without purpose — suggesting his fate may still lie somewhere within the Vale.