Fantasy NPC: Queen Mother Unseen

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Queen Mother Unseen

An unseen presence, a sweet voice whispering in your thoughts that makes you think of a beautiful woman taking care of you like a mother.

CR 7; 3,200 XP

LN Medium Fey (incorporeal)

Init +8; Senses low-light vision; Perception +21

Defense
AC 19, touch 19, flat-footed 14 (+4 deflection, +4 Dex, +1 dodge)
hp 54 (12d6+12)
Fort +5, Ref +12, Will +10

Defensive Abilities incorporeal, invisibility, protect my son

Offense
Speed fly 30 ft. (perfect)

Melee unseen grasp +10 touch (staggered 1d4 rounds)

Special Attacks unseen grasp (stun for 1 round, DC 19 Will negates)

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 12th, concentration +16)

Constant—invisibility

At Will—dancing lights, detect poison, dispel magic, guidance, lullaby, mage hand, mending, prestidigitation, resistance, unseen servant

1/day—entice fey (any number of her fey subjects with total HD not exceeding 12, none of which might have more than 3 CR, instead of payment she accepts their services as the tribute they owe her)

Statistics
Str —, Dex 18, Con 12, Int 13, Wis 15, Cha 19

Base Atk +6; CMB +6; CMD 25
Feats Alertness, Bodyguard, Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Improved Initiative, Skill Focus (Knowledge [nobility])

Skills Fly +27, Knowledge (local) +16, Knowledge (nature) +16, Knowledge (nobility) +19, Perception +21, Sense Motive +21, Stealth +19

Language Common, Duc, Infernal, Sylvan; telepathy 100 ft.

Protect My Son (Ex) When Queen Mother Unseen uses her Bodyguard feat to protect her son, its effects are greatly enhanced—the boy uses her AC and saving throws in response to any attacks and effects that force saving throws instead of his own. If the effect normally deals half damage or produces a partial result on a successful saving throw, its effects are completely negated.

Unseen Grasp (Su) Queen Mother Unseen can reach with her spectral hands to strike against anyone who would hurt her son. On a successful melee touch attack, the target becomes staggered for 1d4 rounds. On a failed Will saving throw (DC 20), the target is stunned for 1 round. The saving throw DC is Charisma-based.

King Leifhen was getting desperate late into his reign—he needed a heir to succeed him, but but all the marriages suitable at the time that could give him a legitimate scion had strings attached that he'd rather avoid. Until one of his allies, a bard and a priest of the old ways lead him to meeting with a fey lady that offered him a deal—a secret marriage that would made her a queen and to him, it would give a child. He agreed and thus Leifheric was sired and born on the night of their wedding ceremony. The king brought and presented the boy to the court, and despite many objections, made his heir.

The newly empowered fey queen reigned in her small court, but after a time passed, she discovered to her surprise, that she longed to see the boy, to keep him safe, and watch him succeed. She came secretly to the castle of her one-time husband and lover only to discover that by then Leifhen was already dead, having failing to an unexpected disease, and the boy is under care of the royal court, supervised by oft quarreling regency council composed of aristocrats and highest magistrates of the court, torn by strife and conflicting interests, with only few really caring for the young king's well-being.

That made her decide to stay secretly at the court and protect Leifheric from threats, internal and external. Now, she is an unseen presence roaming the court, though preferring to stay close to her son—while the courtiers are unconvinced, the servants and guards started to tell the stories that the boy-king's mother ghost might be watching over him, as there was a number of unexplained incidents happening nearby. Other blame them on surprising number of petty fey hanging around recently.