Lady Valen'tiana was the daughter of the high Matriarch within the city. As the oldest, it was she they decided to sacrifice in a ceremony meant to summon and bind a demon. With her death, the demon's bloodlust would be sated enough to bend to the will of the Matriarch and serve her henceforth...

Unfortunately for the Matriarch, the demon proved to be much too powerful and overwhelmed the spell of containment. Instead it merely mated with Valen'tiana, killed the Matriarch, and departed back to the spirit realms.

Rising to take the now empty throne, Valen'tiana gave birth to the most powerful protector she could have ever desired- the half demon, half drow named Rava. Fiercely intelligent, loyal, and swift, Rava tends to lack focus or willpower in general...but once he tastes even a few drops of someone's blood, he will doggedly pursue them to the very ends of the earth until he either consumes them or his mother calls him off. His harpoon like tongue is covered in stinging barbs, which spark raw, terrible, unmatched agony if they even so much as brush against the bare flesh/fur/scales of his foes, usually managing to incapacitate his prey long enough to devour. This effect is lost on any species that lacks surface nerves or has an insensitivity to pain.

With Rava by her side and ready to lay waste to her enemies, Valen'tiana became the new undisputed Matriarch, and occasionally lends her son out to those who pay a high enough price for his hunting services.