EVE-31: Eclipsa

Before Queen Nara, there ruled another Queen: Eclipsa. Her coat was black as night and her reign brought a lot of calamities to the village. Her reign lasted for one thousand years, each darker than the previous. She never got outside of the castle, never joined the grifix at the fire at every sunset (the queens usually do that). She never joined the grifix at the holidays. She never accepted any tradition deviation, punishing with death any grifix that even think about that (including females that want to become warriors or males that want to do somethin else). She hated the summer so she forbidden the summer solstice holiday back then (which nobody can remember what exactly it was).

Most of the grifix considered that the fact that she got chosen as queen was a big mistake, and the healer that said at her birth that she's gonna be the next queen misunderstood the ancestors signs. They feared she was never going to step down from the queen position and the village was going to endure eternal misery. But once, she received a dream from the ancestors that were telling her that a new queen was going to born and she will have to give up her position. At the beginning, Eclipsa didn't want to accept this, but she looked down at the village and for the first time in 1000 years she saw all the misery that she brought. And she cried. She cried like she never did before when she remember how the village looked when she was young. And she hated herself for what she did to it. And she sweared that she was going to raise the best queen her kind ever saw. And then, Nara was born and Eclipsa did her best to respect her promise. And when Nara was ready, she gave her her immortality and left the village - for never to be seen again.