Name: Mrs. Ravena Mayhem
Former Name: Ravena Crowhurst
Title: The Velvet Widow (later known)
Sister: Lady Verena Crowhurst
Husband: Dr. Michael Mayhem, aka Mad Hermy
Affliction: Infected by the Chaos of the Underworld

Ravena Crowhurst was once the pride of the noble Crowhurst lineage—a family known for its occult scholarship and political sway in the Veil Kingdoms. While her sister, Lady Verena, pursued the aristocratic path with poise and perfection, Ravena was always the more curious, the more compassionate, the more human of the two.

It was at a masked symposium of forbidden sciences, hosted in the ruins of a cathedral sunken into the moors, where she first met Dr. Michael Mayhem—a brilliant and idealistic scientist researching the metaphysical boundaries between life and death. Drawn to his passion and haunted tenderness, Ravena defied her family’s warnings and eloped with Michael. They disappeared from high society, settling in a secluded manor to pursue “harmless” research together.

But everything changed when Michael vanished into the Underworld after being killed by a creature known as "The Hidden". Before his passing, he heard about a mystical portal called "The Grin Gate", a portal meant to bridge souls with the living realm. He returned one year later—broken, twisted, and smiling far too wide. No longer a man of science, but a laughing oracle of entropy. He now calls himself Mad Hermy, channeling the Chaos that had fused with his mind, spirit, and flesh.

Despite her horror, Ravena couldn’t bring herself to leave him. She sought to cure him, to find the man she married beneath the smeared face paint and maniacal riddles. But the Chaos—a sentient, infectious madness—had other plans. It seeped into her through whispered lullabies, inked kisses, and every accidental nick of the skin left by her husband’s jagged grin.

Becoming the Velvet Widow

Now Ravena is changing.

Her once serene beauty is warping into theatrical elegance: eyes rimmed with bleeding mascara, her voice tinged with haunting laughter, and her shadows moving even when she’s still. One side of her face subtly mirrors the painted grotesquerie of Mad Hermy’s—like a tragic mime cursed to reflect his descent.

Worse still, her mind flickers: snippets of rhyme where there should be prose, dancing urges where there should be dignity. She feels the pull of the Chaos—not as madness, but as liberation. As if every scream repressed in her gilded life is now invited to play.

Conflict and Ties

To Mad Hermy, she is both salvation and temptation. He calls her his porcelain paradox, amused by her resistance and craving her final collapse into shared madness. 

To Lady Verena Crowhurst, Ravena is a tragic scandal. Verena now seeks to exorcise or eliminate her sister to preserve the family legacy—and possibly save her soul.

To herself, Ravena is torn. Does she fight the infection, or embrace it and rewrite the rules of order and chaos herself?

Legacy in Motion

The world knows her now as The Velvet Widow—a masked and unpredictable figure walking the razor’s edge between heroine and villainess. Is she a healer with one hand in the abyss, or the herald of a second breach?

Only time—and the next laugh—will tell.

Nature of the Infection – The Blooming of Chaos

The Chaos that infected Ravena is not a disease, but a sentient force of anti-logic and aesthetic madness. It doesn't consume the body like a parasite; it reinterprets the host, rewriting emotion into ritual, trauma into performance, and turning sanity into a stage.

Whereas Mad Hermy surrendered willingly, Ravena resists — and so the Chaos spreads slower, manifesting in more poetic, symbolic, and elegantly horrific ways.