Veila

Mostly unknown, Veila has been ruling the continent of Alaktev for as long as most can remember.

Veila also forbids all demons from entering her continent. She was once a princess, with a close retainer named Douglan.

At some point she killed Leirleich, the Lust, for taking the bodies of innocents to improve her own. However, during the fight, the essence of all her victims was transferred to Veila, giving her the beauty and lust of over fifty women combined.

She is also responsible for extinguishing or nearly extinguishing several of the more magically-powerful species of magical beasts that inhabited the continent, most notoriously two of the "guardian beasts": pure-blooded schilvek, and behir. The dragons were spared primarily because they are so few in number, because most of them remain asleep and dormant. It is not known whether she did this for the safety of the people, merely for her own twisted amusement, or for some other inscrutable purpose.

She is compelled by some ancient charter to summon all the rulers of Alaktev to Vallont once a year. In theory, she is supposed to use this time to hear all their grievances and arbitrate between them to ensure peace. In practice, she has done little more than mock and prey upon them with deadly rules until the conference is over for most of living memory.

At some point she has become bored and commenced a challenge in which someone, willingly or otherwise, may defeat her in any way of the person’s choice to win a prize of their choosing, up to and including all her power and possessions. Thousands of heroes, scholars, and artists have tried to best her in as many ways over the centuries, but all failed. As she has not been defeated in three centuries, everyone in Alaktev started refusing her or not even try to win, so the Ebonheart started bringing people from other worlds to perform her wager.

And everything was going fine until one of her otherworldly defiers (Simon Langely) bet on the soul of his best friend (Jojo Jozwick) to save his own.