Above all else, the Raven Queen is mysterious. She is a dark secret, her name whispered in furtive tones throughout halls of forbidden learning.

As a dungeon master, the Raven Queen is exactly the sort of entity that always finds a home in my games – enigmatic, steeped in gothic horror aesthetic, and pee-your-pants-scary-powerful. The echoes of raw emotion within these fragments cause ghosts – pale echoes and memories – to appear from time to time, wandering the vast stone halls, playing out especially painful or otherwise powerfully emotional moments from their lives. Serving the Raven Queen: Using the Goddess of Death as a Deity or a Patron

The Raven Queen first appeared in D&D in 4th edition as a minor goddess of death, winter, and fate. Mid-ritual, at the very gates of Arvandor itself, the elven queen realized what was going on and – as all new gods should get used to doing – smote the everliving crap out of the wizards.

The Raven Queen is obsessed with memories, essences, and souls – whether they are from long-dead gods, mighty mortal adventurers, or great beasts like dragons. Much like the advice I give when I talk about other gods and powerful entities like Vecna, I would probably avoid making the Raven Queen a direct antagonist of the party. Over the subsequent centuries, these identities and memories have fused into the being known as the Raven Queen.She fell deeper and deeper into a divine madness as she contemplated the loss of her kingdom and the failure of her plan. All knowledge of her and whom she used to be was wiped from the memories of mortals by Correllon and Lolth – who collectively agreed that the one thing they hated more than each other was some uppity mortal making a play for the throne. Cryptic, indefinable, and unquestionably a being of great power, the Raven Queen has in recent years become one of the most iconic deities in all of D&D 5e. Her “body” is made up of a twisting jumble of stolen memories and darkness, and the elven deities Correllon and Lolth both wiped all memories of her from existence as punishment for getting in the way of their own little war for the souls of elvenkind.