Queen Neri

Deceased queen of the Storm Giants and wife of King Hekaton.

She held a fondness for the small folk. She visited them often in the years before the Ordning was sundered, rising up out of the sea to meet them on the shores of the Sword Coast. Neri continually urged her husband to respect the civilizations of the small folk and leave them alone, if he could not countenance forming alliances with them. Hekaton, inherently distrustful of the small folk, wanted nothing to do with them, but he respected his wife's desire to treat them on occasion.

Neri continued to visit the small folk from time to time even after the upheaval--until the day when she failed to return from one of her trips to the Sword Coast. Hekaton's younger brother, Imperator Uthor, commander of the king's garrison, found Neri's corpse shortly thereafter on a small island where she had been known to meet with humans. It was clear that she had been killed by small folk, and Hekaton wept for days before threatening to unleash his vengeance on the unsuspecting coastal territories.

In truth, the elder sisters, acting in accordance with Iymrith's counsel, are responsible for both Neri's death and Hekaton's disappearance. Mirran and Nym blamed Neri for Hekaton's choice to appoint Serissa as the heir to his throne. With Iymrith's guidance, they plotted her death as their revenge for this decision.