YMMV / The Darkest Part of the Forest

• Complete Monster: The Alderking is the father of Severin, and an evil fae who murdered Severin's mother and horrifically abused Severin himself, alongside his "sister" Sorrel whom the Alderking kidnapped from the Court of the East upon his exile. The Alderking had Severin murder Sorrel's own human husband, which drove Sorrel into such a wrath she was twisted into a monster called Sorrow, which the Alderking then enslaved using a ring forged from the bones of his former "daughter's" murdered husband. Now aspiring to conquer the Court again, the Alderking appoints the human child Hazel Evans as his soldier for seven years of her life, using her to try and lock away Severin in a glass casket for eternity and attempting to massacre Hazel's home village of Fairfold in revenge for her defiance, reveling in the litany of cruelties he and his servants will visit on every human and fae in Fairfold alike.