Tristessa

Tristessa rules Keening. She is a shadow fey, which is to say, of the Arak, the first of the widderìbhinn, and a banshee forever in search of her dead daughter. In life she was a Sith and a noble in the Unseelie Court of the kingdom of Niurin Scaa, hidden far beneath the surface of Arak. When three outlanders were brought to Arak by the Mists, they were initially welcomed by the shadow fey. Their worship of Lolth became a popular cult among the Arak. When the drow had all been killed through a series of assassinations, Tristessa became the head priestess of Lolth's cult. The followers of this cult began to change in appearance: instead of their normally bone-white skin, they became similar in appearance to the drow[?]. Tristessa then gave birth to a daughter born with spider's legs. This was the final straw for Prince Loht, ruler of the Unseelie shadow fey, and he outlawed the cult. Tristessa and her deformed baby were staked by Loht and ? in violation of the Law or Arak to ground on the surface of Mount Lament and left to die in the rays of the rising sun. Vistani [?] and others occasionally leave babies for Tristessa, but because she lacks the physical requirements to care for a baby (such as the ability to nurse a child), all of her surrogate babies die of starvation. Tristessa is served by undead fey from across the demiplane, alternately referred to as "widderìbhinn" or "umbra."

WIKISEED FROM CATALOGUE : Resides on Mount Lament(Please edit freely, then remove this note and WIKISEED label)

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Secrets of the Dread Realms Domains of Dread Darklords
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - p34 Domains of Dread - p38 Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - p90 Darklords - p13
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp33-35 Domains of Dread - p38 Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - p89 Darklords - pp20-21
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp7,33-35 Domains of Dread - p38 Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - pp21,89-91 Tales of Ravenloft:The Wailing - pp114-127 Darklords - pp12-14 Realm of Terror - pp74-75
		The Sad One