Auril

Auril is the Heeding Goddess of Decay, also known as the Winter Witch. Auril started life as a powerful fae assocaited yet separated from the Unseelie Court. Despising her place in the faewild, she claimed the Domain of Decay and escaped the normal cycle with her daughters. Auril is often depicted as a green-eyed crone surrounded by dying plants and billowing frosty winds.

History
Inmeasurably before the mortal races were created, the fae courts were brought out of the aether by the God Zovlik. Once the gods had left the faewilds to fill the Prime-Material Plane, the fae were left to their own devices in the wild lands. One among their members seemed to be a foul crone surrounded by an air of death. She was despised by the other courtiers for her hideousness and her daughters suffered. Though a powerful servant of the Ashen Quene Mogruia, Auril was never properly respected or acknowledged for her deeds among the other fae.

After an undetermined period, Auril grew impatient with her status and left the courts behind, taking her daughters with her to the Prime-Material Plane. There, she and her daughters found the fledgling children of Arodus, Humans. Her daughters found the humans easily manipulated and so very delectable, finally finding an audience that would worship them as they deserved.

With time, Auril grew more and more powerful, worshipers empowering her near-divine state. Through unknown means, she took control of the Decay Domain and launched herself to the status of God. She was removed from her dominion upon the Prime-Material Plane and banished into the Astral Sea, never to return to her subjects. Her daughters formed covens of their own, worshiping their mother and continuing her ways.