Story idea for her past life:<br/><br/>I was thinking that in her previous life she was a type of mermaid that got obsessed with her studies (arcane or even true names) and eventually ended up in the Far Realm. There she got transformed into the hagfish like entity, becoming the villainous entity Ixin'dri. Returning to the mortal realms, she quickly rose as a power in the deepest reaches of the ocean before expanding her reach to the surface waters.<br/><br/>Along her path she crossed paths with the elven pirate lord, potentially the reason why she got dragged into the war in the first place.<br/><br/>Her soul was so warped and tainted by the experience there, that even after death and reincarnation as a fiend, she still is closely tied to the alien realm, which gets expressed somewhat in her powers. Like how her summons have the creatures warped into mockeries covered in eyes, tentacles and teeth.