Snake Princess
Kristen's Homeland Homeland is a subdomain landmass of fae called Sererial, lore wise the Lands of Fae and Babylon, the heavens and hells are every growing, getting bigger, and bigger more "domains, Districts realms" forming with age (Mystic World, and Champions world wide book). Infact of the four realms Babylon is growing the fastest most crazy, but the others are Growing well and True. Sererial is one such subdomain, that in time has grown more realms to it's east and west. To get there as said, head to the lands of the Celtic Godlings the protofae Tuatha, or the Fae of modern era "Pantheon" Realms in Fae, and go south, till you hit the mountains and over the mountains, and one will arrive in the central land mass of Sererial to get to the rest.
Sererial and It's Lands are some of the first to congeal out of the aether. Unlike the Proper Fae mainland, run by those "Gentry like" Creatures falsely dubbed "Elves" that serve a story narrative whim, the natives of these land masses are an advanced form of tribal like ascetic fantasy creatures known as the Belkins. The Other Races, Elves, man, Dwarf and all come from migrants and the like from either Faelands proper or migrants fleeing what ever ills on earth.
Her Family comes from one of the nations on the "West" shore of the landmass, where they ruled the west coast of their landmass for near a thousand years, a recent change of politics, due to super heroes mucking in the affairs drove her nation and family, in a mass exodus to sail westward to settle and colonize a series of islands, her Emperor father now called the "Sea King"
Kristen's father was a male born in Denmark in the city of Aarus in Eight hundred and Fifty AD, the height of the Viking era. Though what set him apart is historical the problem of Danegeld, Paying the Danish vikings did not often end hostilities. Sigmund was a rampart imperialistic minded viking, but perhaps more civilized than his kin, he felt once a nation was paying a tributary there was no reason to further victimize or terrorize it as long as it paid it's taxes. This Set him apart from his peers, and over time the young viking took a dive into Alchemy. By the Time Sigmund was some Fifty years old, as a man of some power he was respected and in good condition, when he discovered the possibility of an elixir of immortality, his quest for it lead him into the mystic lands and eventually to Fae, and Southward to Sererial. At the age of some Fifty Six, Sigmund discovered an elixir that halted his aging, and gave him the fitness and vitality of his youth, despite his age. In his travels of Sererial he heard tale of a cursed land no man would dare settle as every few years the river turned black with cursed fluid. Sigmund being an Alchemist and studied man didn't believe it and went to investigate. What he found was a particular strain of Algae native to the river, that being an alchemist he could quite handily weaponize for all manners of affairs, From weapons to accents of metal work to medicine. Using his newfound invention Sigmund gathered up an army of sell swords and vagrants, and founded his kingdom. A Few Decades of expansion eventually lead to more established kingdoms responding to the upstart, and creating a form of battle line that separated Sigmund's land from the rest.
In time Sigmund's kingdom grew and flourished and brought into it many recruits and some of various skills, such as the Welsh Witch that would grow into being Sigmund's Bride and Kristen's mother, a witch by the name of Teagen. Sigmund recognized her talents and potential and in time elevated her to the Crown's right hand, and that position grew into romantic feelings. The two had a pair of twins, one known as Kris the Immortal, Kristen's Brother, and herself Kristen the Serpent.
Kristen's Personal History Started some One Hundred Twenty years ago loosely. Her mother and Father were romantically entwined for a while by this point,b ut for the most part doing what they could to keep it secret. But Try as they might the situation became far more obvious. Teagen, Kristen's mother Teagen was never one for idle flings or dalliances, so when she became pregnant with a child and it became public knowledge for the most part there was only one clear possible father in everyone's minds. All the more so given the mother's dark auburn locks with reder dark spots, and Sigmund's own bright blonde hair, when the children were born the father's shade of blonde, and their eyes. But Teagen not wanting to retire from hand of the crown to being the queen, feared if it was officially recognized it would interfere with her ability to do her work of the crown. Hindrances of men double talking the female hand of the crown with believing they were more qualified to lead than her as she was romantically tied to Sigmund they'd insist she got her station not of her skill.
Despite the attempts to keep it secret Sigmund was not about to mistreat his kids, he did his best to be the father and take care of them, while publicly keeping it unofficial. But despite the hardest attempts it was at best simply not legally recognized. As the kids grew and aged, Kris's divine for lack of better word gift and meta powers of durability and stamina was clear to see, an eager and energized boy, constantly getting into situations that should hurt him or worse and walking away unharmed every time. Kristen's powers manifested with far less of a dramatic affair when she was of the age of three in the palace garden her parents were called in by servants to find her carrying on a conversation with a small snake in the garden. It was clear with a bit of a mystic sensing the girl was not quite soft in the head, but if her brother had been gifted with super human durability and stamina, constitution.
Kristen's powers were affinity for magic, and snakes in particular out of reptiles. Kris went on to follow and study in his father's footsteps to be his prodigy, Kristen took more after her powerful sorcerers mother with her own snake flairs.
As Kristen's mother tended to affairs of magic, education, and supplying the armies with wizards and mystic equipment. Her Father dabbled in runes, but mostly his inventions, machines, creations, her Brother was one of the boys in the barracks, or the camp on the field. It often left Kristen alone at home, or one "Homeland maintenance duty" Tending to Affairs of state while the rest planed expansion. In time she grew into handling intelligence affairs, but given her father's complex but personal warrior code, there was not much use for her to do black operations, or assassinations or toppling other regimes. Her Father viewed having a rival leader felled by a poisoned dagger, while it may kill the man and cause turmoil it also means historical Sigmund has admired the man was too much for Sigmund to overcome so he had to resort to underhanded means to win. Besmirching his creed, and victory record. While this view can hinder Sigmund's efforts he holds to it true, so it left Kristen's duties in intelligence as mostly orchestrating spying, and routing out spies as she "Held the fort". Well she is very much her mother's daughter, and far from a sheltered flower, and frankly capable of quite deep manipulations and machinations as true to her serpentine powers. She personally is a more kind and soft person, with a streak for a bit of romanticism. A century of So of intelligence work, spying on Dad's enemies, rooting out spies. Well As she did such her interest in father's enemies grew, more importantly in the Nation of Ograit which was her Father's primary foe. She started studying the differences between the two, and grew a kind of fantasy ideal man of one of their ranks.
Kristen is a kind and friendly woman, a bit of a prankster and trickster by nature, a little off as due to her ability to talk to the snake kingdom she has a deep love for them. Though any would assume she is soft in the head, a naive romantic idealist to be used, will find quite frankly how painful and quick to kill you the serpents venom is.
Witchcraftery, High Dexterity, elasticity, magic, and body morphing in snake ways, or a lot of snake themed powers and magics.
