Gauwervyndhal

Gauwervyndhal, also known as Gauwer or The Empress Dragon, was the ruler of Skelkor in 1479 DR.

Personality
Gauwervyndhal was know for being a brutal mother. She spawned clutch after clutch of wyrmlings whose lives were short in most cases, as only the strongest of each clutch survived to adulthood. The survivors became known as her suzerains. She was very interested in the lore her suzerains obtained from their dreams granted by consuming arambar.

Equipment
Dragons of all kinds feared Gauwervyndhal, as she possessed a powerful item known as the Wyrmcrown, that allowed her to poison any dragon related to her, or any dragon whose blood she had tasted.

History
Before the Spellplague, in the world of Abeir, Gauwervyndhal founded the Empire of Skelkor. Nearly two centuries before the Spellplague a rebellious clan of dragonborn slaves managed to seize a province of the empire and free themselves from the rule of the Dragon Empress after the Battle of the Crippled Mountain, founding the nation of Tymanchebar. Gauwervyndhal was unable to subjugate the rebels.

In the wake of the Spellplague, however, Skelkor, along with a great Abeiran landmass later known as Returned Abeir, was transported to Toril. During the process, a portion of Tymanchebar, in whose lands was located Djerad Thymar, was separated from Skelkor and fell in the Faerûnian land of Unther. With their capital city lost, the remaining dragonborn in Skelkor lost their fighting spirit and Gauwervyndhal was able to defeat them and reconquer what was left of the province.

During the Wailing Years, many dragonborn clans rebelled after having found enough quantities of dragonbane amber to kill many dragons. Thanks to the warnings of her rathrea, Gauwervyndhal was aware of this rebellion beforehand, and fled to safer lands with a few of her dragon servants until the dragonborn rebels had expended all their dragonbane amber. After that, she returned to Skelkor, destroyed the rebellion and continued her reign of terror in the new world.