Veran (Total War)

Veran is a powerful Great Fairy created by Tarm and a key figure in the formation of the Twili as an empire.

Physical Characteristics
When initially created, Veran displays many common traits of other Great Fairies. She is tall and slender with pink skin, orange hair, and four arms. After having two of her arms amputated and living in the Realm of Twilight for centuries, Veran's skin becomes extremely pale.

Personality
Veran is a very vain and egocentric individual, placing much emphasis and pride on her physical beauty. She cares very little for others and was willing to back stab her sister to obtain the Triforce. There are exceptions to this however, Veran has a deep fondness and love for Onox whose death brought her years of guilt and sadness.

Rise of Ganon
After the Fairies took up residence in the Wind Tribe's ruins, Veran and her sister Dezaia have studied texts that they had left behind pertaining to the Triforce. When word that the Kingdom of Hyrule fell and the Triforce is up for grabs, Veran sets out with an army against the will of Tarm in an attempt to secure the Triforce for herself. There she battles with the Gerudo, Dark Interlopers, and Zora armies in Hylia Marine. Though her forces are succeeding, Veran ends up in a fight with Demise, who rips off two of her arms and eventually incapacitates her. Severely weakening and bleeding to death, Veran is taken prisoner by Princess Zelda and is offered along with other prisoners of war to the Gerudo Warlords. There she is banished into Bellum's Mirror of Twilight in the Arbiter's Grounds along with other Gerudo and Sheikah.

Realm of Twilight
Weakened and dying in the cold and harsh landscape, Veran wanders off from the other prisoners into the wilderness to die. There she meets a Dark Dragon by the name of Onox, who senses her magical powers and took an interest. He shelters her from the elements and helps her heal and recover. With Onox at her side, Veran returns to the prisoners and organizes the first Twili Empire with the two other Great Fairies Una and Morsheen.

For centuries Veran remains in control of the Twili, pulling the strings of each King that she placed on the throne. Eventually her power over the Twili becomes threatened, as King Mizorant banishes Veran from the Palace of Twilight and from interacting with his son Zant. As a result Veran has King Mizorant assassinated and instates Midna on the throne in his place instead of Zant. Being denied the throne pushes Zant into rebellion, and soon enough he begins a war against Midna to take the throne. Interested in Zant's ambition, Veran begins to experiment to see if she could keep him on a leash rather than Midna, and tests him against her armies. After Zant proved himself a formidable warrior and leader figure, Veran works with him to overthrow Midna.

During this time Veran is approached by a group of Parella, who are revealed to have been responsible for the construction of Mirrors of Twilight. They claim that they were originally being summoned to Hyrule, but the arrival of the prisoners disrupted their travel and they became trapped within the Realm of Twilight as well. Veran forms an alliance with the Parella and works with them to construct a new portal to Hyrule from which Zant's armies could invade.

The Gerudo Wars
With the mirrors completed, Veran, Onox, and Zant march into Hyrule and attack the Zora Dominion. With the aid of Parella forces the capital is nearly destroyed, and General Onox nearly succeeds in poisoning Hyrule's water supply. He is stopped and killed by Princess Ruto however, and soon after the Zora begin to push Twili forces back. Zant orders a retreat, though Veran refuses to leave without Onox. She eventually finds his corpse at the source of the Zora's River, where she breaks down and begind to mourn. With King Zant's forces gone the mirrors are closed and destroyed, leaving Veran trapped in Hyrule.

Manifest Destiny
Veran wanders Hyrule alone and miserable for many years until she finds herself in Labrynna. There she finds the resources she needed to construct a new Mirror of Twilight, and approaches the then Princess Ambi with her proposal. Ambi accepts, and is soon after made Queen of Labrynna. Veran then works with her to construct the Black Tower: a giant monument created to power a Mirror of Twilight so that she could bring her own forces into Hyrule. The structure requires an enormous amount of resources to build, forcing Queen Ambi to invade the neighboring Tokay islands, Subrosia, and Holodrum. Though enough resources and labor are secured, the attacks eventually catch the attention of the Fairies of Tarm in the north, and the Kingdom of Hyrule in the west.

Eventually both empires lead an assault on Labrynna just as the Black Tower is ready to become operational. Veran is able to activate the portal and contact King Zant on the other side, who soon begins to assemble his armies within the Black Tower. With a fresh army at her command, Veran retakes Lynna City and forces both the Kingdom of Hyrule and the Fairies of Tarm into retreat. Veran pursues the Fairies back into Holodrum and frees her imprisoned sister Dezaia, as well as an army of Korrigans. With such power at her hands, Veran marches upon the Tarm Ruins and confronts the Essence of Tarm herself, sealing it within and crowning herself Queen of the Fairies.

Fairies loyal to Valanvi the Fairy Queen begin a counterattack against Veran. With the aid of Link they are able to overcome both Veran's Fairy and Twili armies, killing Dezaia in battle and most of the Korrigans. Link and Navi confront Veran in person, though neither could overcome the sorceress through physical force. During their battle Valanvi manages to free the Essence of Tarm, who swiftly destroys Veran and brings an end to her conquest.