Snow Queen

From her great castle in the frozen reaches of Faerie, the Snow Queen rules high lands of eternal night.

Description
"Everything has a name. The frost sketching its secrets on the windowpanes, the stars gleaming bitterly in the sky, a lover’s last breath. If you look long enough, and deep enough, you can find every name here, written in the Lady’s books. I’m looking for my own, but I can’t read. Can you?."

Rising from the highest peak of the coldest mountain in the lost lands of Arcadia is the Diamond Castle. A dead and desiccated vine twines to its gate, the failed escape route of some fool Jack. The walls shine under the sunless sky and freeze flesh on contact, the bones of princes come to rescue beautiful maidens litter the courtyard. Dark dungeons and twisting tunnels burrow into the roots of the mountain. The Keeper here weeps tears of ice and drinks sweet, warm blood. She knows the names of every Fae, it’s said, and the details of every Contract are hidden away in her huge library. She’s the Snow Queen, and no mistress of a Winter Court has even a fraction of her power. She treasures beauty in the form of young boys stolen from their beds and frozen statues still in her hallways and bedchamber. And she knows darkness.

Her Changelings
She keeps a stable of Antiquarians to maintain her library. Some find themselves physically bound to books — bonds they rarely find a way to escape — and others may be trusted with minor tasks of annotation. Sometimes, if an Archivist is willing to risk the Lady’s wrath, he can find his own mortal name written in her books and thus a key to freedom. Leechfingers are set to tend the Lady’s prisoners; often Leechfingers are former prisoners themselves, now become the torturers. Stealing life from helpless captives is the first step to transforming the prisoners into Leechfingers, and the craving for life can kill the last shreds of humanity in a Darkling’s soul.