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Lady Essenia (lore page)
Location	Greymoor Keep: West Wing
Race	Breton	Gender	Female
Health	127,470	Difficulty
Reaction	Hostile	Class	Dreadweaver
Other Information
Faction(s)	Gray Host
Condition	Vampire

Lady Essenia

Lady Essenia is a Breton elder vampire who is also known as the Blood Queen. She was the most recent master of Greymoor Keep, before she capitulated to serve under Rada al-Saran.

Afterwards, Lady Essenia rediscovered her passion for study, researching and experimenting on vampires of other bloodlines to unlock their secrets, which yielded the creation of bloodknights.

Lady Essenia can also be witnessed in visions in the Midnight Barrow involving Jarl Hagridden and his downfall.

Related Quests

• The Lady of Blood: Help stop an evil vampire and rescue an old friend.
• Prisoner of the Past: Uncover the truth about a woman's ancestor.

Quest-Related Events

The Lady of Blood

While searching for Adusa-daro with Gwendis, you will learn that Lady Essenia is using her to unlock a "new transformation". She is finally encountered in the Cathedral of Blood, when Essenia notices you, she will give orders to the nearby Bloodknight before she retreats into the chamber behind her.

Lady Essenia: "Intruders? No! The ritual is almost complete. Deal with them."

When you enter the Ritual Chamber, Adusa-daro can be found suspended in the air while light surrounds her. Far below, Essenia is channeling her power.

Adusa-daro: "Gwendis! Help me!"

<The ritual is completed and Adusa falls the ground with a thud.>

Lady Essenia: "You're too late! The experiment nears completion. The heir of Verandis is mine!"

Lady Essenia
Location	Greymoor Keep: West Wing
Species	Gloam Knight
Health	127,470	Difficulty
Reaction	Hostile
Other Information
Faction(s)	Gray Host

Lady Essenia, transformed

Once she is dead, Gwendis will run over to Adusa's body:

Gwendis: "Adusa! Get up! Please!"

However, the ritual will have proved successful as Lady Essenia will then reemerge out of the blood pool surrounding the platform, her form changed into something more than that of a normal vampire:

Lady Essenia: "Finally, Verandis's essence is mine! Behold, Bal's curse … perfected!"

You will also need to destroy this body of hers.

Prisoner of the Past

Vision of a past Essenia

While helping Alwyn collect her ancestor Jarl Hagridden's remains scattered around the barrow, you will both witness visions associated with him. Lady Essenia will appear in two of them.

Hagridden's Bones

Lady Essenia appears to be speaking with a thane:

Lady Essenia: "Jarl Hagridden has a matter of urgency for you to attend to."

Reach Warrior [sic]: "What does he know to send us this far into the Reach?"

Lady Essenia: "You have your orders, thane. I trust you know enough to carry them out."

<The vision disappears.>

Alwyn: Who was she to be bossing a thane around?"

Hagridden's Helm

Jarl Hagridden and Lady Essenia talk:

Lady Essenia: "Don't you love me, Hagridden? Do you want to see me grow old, wither, and die? It's a small sacrifice for eternity."

Jarl Hagridden: "Listen to yourself, Essenia. Even one life is too many! I can't make that kind of sacrifice. Not even for you."

<The vision disappears.>

Alwyn: "Sacrifice? Just what was that woman asking for?"

Skills and Abilities

First Phase

Ice Arrow

A basic ranged attack that does minor frost damage.

Aspect of Terror

The enemy casts a spell which lobs a dark orb of magic at you. It does moderate magic damage and fears the player for a short time, in which they cannot move or perform any actions. This effect passes through block, and players can break free from it. This spell can be interrupted to set the enemy off balance.

Shadow Cloak

If the target is in close proximity to the dreadweaver, they will turn themselves invisible and move to a better location and set the player off balance.

Summon Burdening Eye

Summons Burdening Eye that moves toward the player.

Stare

If the Burdening Eye touches the player, it explodes, temporarily rooting the player in place and doing moderate magic damage.

Summon Dark Shade

The enemy summons a Dark Shade of itself to attack a player. The shade's attacks inflict Minor Maim, reducing the player's damage done by 5% for 4 seconds. The summon will die if the dreadweaver is killed.

Second Phase

After her health is depleted for the first time, she falls to the floor, and blood essence emerges from her body and shoots off into the pool of blood in the arena, where she emerges back as a gloam knight, fully healed. She will then use the same abilities as Harrowing Reapers fought at harrowstorms, though not as damaging.

Reaping Claws

Lady Essenia slices you with her claws, dealing moderate physical damage.

Reaping Bolts

Lady Essenia's basic ranged magic basic attack that deals moderate magic damage.

Dark Matter

Lady Essenia fires a beam from her mouth, creating an area on the ground that moves in a straight line and deals damage.

Singularity

Lady Essenia creates orbs of purple energy which will drag people towards them if they are in range.

Reaper's Harvest

Caused by singularities and deals moderate Oblivion Damage.

Summon Coagulant

Lady Essenia summons Coagulants to fight for her.

Notes

• The following research journals are written by her; Chaotica Vampiris and The Heir of Verandis.