If you believe that you are “getting better” at a slow pace because of your family, does that mean you believe you truly haven’t crossed the final line yet Lost Queen? that there is still hope for you to not be seen as a villain at some point?

Lost Queen : I can deal with my fears a lot better now that I have my family, but the effects of what happened to me will never go away. I still have episodes, but I’m not as prone to insanity as I was when Kaos first woke me. But I will always be a villain, I cannot change what I am. Thousands of lives were taken, and turning my back on them is the worst thing I, not just as a Kurosian, but as a once proud Queen of the Kurosians could do. Being a villain is more than just me, I have a duty to fulfill and I can’t let personal things change that. 

I… almost did, back when Kaos and I broke our alliance. There was… a certain someone that almost convinced me to give up my evil ways. But again, I could not be selfish and let my personal feelings change what I owed to my fallen people. I wished him luck, but I returned to Kurosia and eventually Kaos. I will stay true to my goal until Bhailiu comes for me.

Considering you recent villainous acts by both you and your family, why should people fell sympathy towards you lost queen? When you strut around insisting that you’re evil and want to destroy the skylanders. What makes you any better than Malefor?

Lost Queen : I don’t want your sympathy, or anyone’s. sympathy is offensive to me, and my culture. I tell others the full story of their precious heros, instead of the usual ‘bad guys are evil because evil’. My people and I had more depth than that, and I feel no shame reminding everyone. 

Malefor was selfish, and his paranoia and madness was what killed my people. Even before my city’s fall, I was better than him. My people helped shape the darkness into what it was, because there must be darkness to the light. The ying to the yang, it was our part, and we played it with pride. My mate, King Kurogh, was the foolish one. He wanted to turn our people into Malefor’s followers; randomly attacking the light to demolish it. That was not our goal. That was not our place. The Kurosian goal was to balance the order. I tried to stop it, I tried to build a resistance to return my people to their ways, but I was betrayed.

Why? Because the Skylanders refused to help. Yes, they had reason, as my people of late had been used by Malefor, but I had tried to reason with them. Eon was meant to be the opposite, again the ying to the yang, and understand. I had given them the chance to bring an end to the foolish reign of Malefor, and free my people to go back to keeping the balance. They refused, and because of them, my people, my children, everything that I knew was burned and destroyed. Since then, evil hasn’t been in balance, and the wars have been worse. 

My mind has been twisted since then with grief, with the blind urge for revenge. I have war flash backs, I have vivid nightmares and night terrors, I black out and vanish for days in my castle only to be found in abandoned rooms speaking my now dying language. I am not what I used to be.

I would have gone insane if it hadn’t been for Kaos and my family, it is because of them that I am slowly healing. I was and always will be a villain, and as the last survivor of the fall of Kurosia, it is my final duty to haunt the Skylanders for their mistake. I myself cannot keep the balance, I needed my people, and so I must be the Kuros’ final weapon. Until Bhailiu takes me under it’s wing, I will keep fighting. I will keep reminding the Skylanders of their wrongful deed.

Villains are villains for a reason. Sometimes, we are turned into them by those who are praised to be heros. Sometimes we’re shaped by fate to carry on that title. Learn to see that, and you’ll understand more clearly that there is no fine line between good and evil.  

Queenie, who are the Kurosians most ancient enemies? The ones they’ve fought against the most often and the most vicously over the centuries?

Lost Queen : Arkeyans, without a doubt. Even though most of them seem to be gone, they are the main reason why the Kuros is nearly extinct; they hunted us for our metal bones. Betrayed us, actually. We once worked with the evil ones, but they turned on us the moment they decided our bones were more valuable. The Kuros has had many countless enemies, but the Arkeyans were our greatest foe. Now it’s the Skylanders.

Havok : Honestly I wanted to be sarcastic with this, probably retort about my brother Viril or a few of my other friends. But I realized I rarely talked about my Stormee, and I really should talk about her more…

I’ve known Stormee since we were kids, and even in the beginning I felt no urge to be mean to her or bully her (which, when I was a kid, was like the only thing I did to others. I still kinda do that, but now I’m a threat). She was really fun to hang out with, and she came up with the best prank ideas. Hell, she made Eruptor vomit rainbows! 

Eventually her parents found we were hanging out, which obviously didn’t sit well with them. We still hung out from time to time behind their backs, as my parents didn’t care all that much. But As time wore on our interests ended up splitting us apart; I wanted to become a serious villain, and she a skylander. So for years we didn’t see each other, that was until we were both late teenagers. We ended up hitting it off like old times, but it took us till it was too late to realize that we were falling in love with each other. 

We both didn’t take it well at first; it’s obvious our relationship wouldn’t work. We tried our best to fight it and just be friends, but nothing we did could prevent it. I tried chasing more females, but I found that they were starting to bore me. I missed Stormee’s laugh, her humor, her spazzy personality, so I ended up going to her simply for her company. Hell it took till I was in my early twenties till I gave up the fight and admitted I had been smitten, and stopped chasing other women. I embraced it while she had a more obvious reason to be weary; she was moving up in the Skylander world. So we kept our love a secret, well as secretive as we could. 

So, yeah, eventually I do get a ‘special friend’. It takes me a while to stop making mistakes by her to learn what love really is, and be only with her. So my usual asks are probably more from my younger… more promiscuous self, back when I was still naive enough to think love was below me. But hey, who could resist that snake like speech impediment and haunting laugh? 

Stormee© – Ask-WhirlRoaster

Lost Queen : I have plenty of good memories, but they didn’t truly start until this moment. After I had seen the Queen, the very first Kuros I had ever met. That day was the greatest of my life, I was finally free from all the hatred I had grown up knowing, and I was finally accepted. I was taken to a place that cared about me, wanted me. But I still remember this memory with vivid detail, for the Queen had always such a huge impact on my life. She was my role model, the REASON I strove to become Queen, to be just like her. Meeting her for the first time lead to a life of happiness and acceptance…of course, until Malefor attacked, but still.

Lost Queen, do Ur people have any myths or legends that they believed in such as Werewolves and Vampires, or heck even Fig foot?

Lost Queen : Oh yes, we had plenty. Our mountains held many strange creatures that we’d see from time to time. I don’t think we had werewolves but there were stories of a half kuros half uka hybrid that would sneak into Kurosia to drink the blood of sleeping dragons. 

The Vultures

The Vultures are a strange species created by Hysteria when she was a child in attempt at making dependable minions. She gathered leftovers from her meals, pushing the pieces together and using her portal master abilities to bring them life. Although they are technically chimeras, she refers to them as ‘her vultures’, as every single chimera is made using a bearded vulture’s head and other species’ parts. In the beginning, she creates three main vultures; Vayn, Envii, and Skorn. However when she’s older, she begins to create more and more, eventually allowing them to breed until she has a full army. But the three main become her generals, with Vayn being her second in command.

The vultures praise Hysteria as their deity, for she brought them life and feeds them power. In turn, making them dangerously loyal to her. They each have a magical link to her, ensuring that not one would defy her, working almost like a brain-washing spell. If one shows even the slightest bit of resilience to Hysteria, they are either beaten by the other vultures, or killed. 

Vayn
Species : Bearded Vulture, Gryphon, Crocodile
Sex : Male
Description : Vayn was the first of Hysteria’s vultures to be born, and the most loyal to her. He follows her every step, and listens to her orders to a T. Everything he does is in Hysteria’s interest. Hiss does like this, however he easily gets on her nerves for being too clingy.
Inspired by this vulture

Envii
Species : Bearded Vulture, Striped Hyena
Sex : Female
Description: Over-zealous, but still loyal. Envii does what her goddess tells her to do, but will most likely end up killing her target instead of capturing them, or becomes too distracted with the kill to listen to orders. Envii is very aggressive and easy to tempt into fighting. While she’s the most lethal of the vultures, her enthusiasm is her fault.
Inspired by this vulture

Skorn
Species : Bearded Vulture, Panther, Mule Deer
Sex : Male
Description : Skorn is often found sleeping and sun bathing when he isn’t following Hysteria’s orders. He can be seen as lazy, but when he’s given a goal, he’s dangerously attentive. He’s the quietest out of the three main vultures, but will aid in Envii’s games to tease Vayn. 
Inspired by this vulture

Trivia

  • Hysteria’s vultures were, as is most things with me, inspired by a song. Delain’s newest album, The Human Contradiction, had been released, and upon listening to the first song I decided that not only would the lead singer Charlotte Wessels be adult Hysteria’s voice, but her minions would be gryphon vultures. The first song off of their CD is called “Here Come The Vultures”, which I can without a doubt visualize Hysteria singing.
  • Vayn was then inspired by the gryphon from the awful movie nobody should ever see called “Quest to Camelot”, as well as my love of gryphons.