She is the supreme, unchallenged ruler of one of the two greatest empires in the world and is often referred to as being:

Her most exalted majesty; Empress Sigrun Bergljot, daughter of the sacred flame, the bane of shadowkind, last of the dragonriders, keeper of the dead and mistress of the way.

She has long, thick flowing hair of golden blonde, eyes as blue as the sky on a clear summers day and skin as white as newly fallen snow, through which her incandescent spirit shines like a candle in the dark.  She is tall for a seemingly human female and her ephemeral beauty and youthful appearance belies her physical strength.  Rumors say that she is much, much older than she appears to be and if you believe the whispers of drunken men, she has ruled this empire of hers since the first days of its founding.  That would be impossible though, wouldn't it - because that would make her thousands of years old, and what being could possibly live that long?

Regardless of hearsay or rumour, for as long as she has officially held the position of empress; the Empire of Vasudha, has been one of law and order, peace and justice for all.  

All who look upon her, love her and all who plot against her, fear her wrath.  The common folk tell stories of their Empress.  They say she walks amongst them hooded and cloaked or disguised as an old washer woman.  Some tales have her lending aid in times of need, while others see her personally hunting down some wrong doer.

Throughout her reign, her empire has seen several attacks from the Aesir Dominion - the other great empire of the world, whose mad queen, believes this young, beautiful empress to be an easy target.  However, nothing could be further from the truth.  Time and time again, Empress Sigrun has proven that she is well versed in martial combat and the stratagems of war and to the great surprise of the enemy forces; whose commanders never ride into battle, Sigrun always rides out with her troops.  Not at the back, or the centre or keeping her distance, but at the very front, dressed in full plate armor, her long hair flowing behind her like tendrils of golden silk and with her gaze fixed on the enemy, she leads the charge with a battle cry of "victory or death."

If she is knocked from her horse and disarmed, she switches battle cries from "victory or death" to "for the dragon" - at this point her blue eyes glow with bright white light and she switches from martial to magical attacks.  Calling great monstrous beasts to fight by her side and summoning down burning rocks from the heavens and if she faces shadow creatures or undead, she blasts them with waves of purifying light and fire, until they flee in terror or crumble into dust.

Her martial prowess. her sharp eyes and strategic mind, combined with her graceful beauty and her ability to wield powerful magic, makes her a force to be reckoned with and enemy that should not be underestimated.

----

So; from what I have described, what kind of person do you think this NPC is?  What race, class(s), alignment, what level NPC would you say she was, what kind of personality do you think she has and how would you describe her as a person?

I am looking forward to all you replies, because your answers will tell whether or not I am getting this NPC right or not.

thanks everyone

Honestly...it's hard for me to get a picture of her, because she has no flaws. She's tall, she's strong, she's magical and mysterious yet also bold and very well known, everyone loves her or fears her (no one is 'meh' or respects her but doesn't like her, for example). She could be really anything.

Personally, I need flaws to be able to get a good picture of someone. Is she too quick to punish people, or to judge them? Does she sometimes neglect to pay attention to advisors and allies because she thinks she is infallible? What's the worst mistake she's made? When did she fail at something? What is she bad at?

Quote from Brotherbock >>

Honestly...it's hard for me to get a picture of her, because she has no flaws. She's tall, she's strong, she's magical and mysterious yet also bold and very well known, everyone loves her or fears her (no one is 'meh' or respects her but doesn't like her, for example). She could be really anything.

Personally, I need flaws to be able to get a good picture of someone. Is she too quick to punish people, or to judge them? Does she sometimes neglect to pay attention to advisors and allies because she thinks she is infallible? What's the worst mistake she's made? When did she fail at something? What is she bad at?

AHH but she does have flaws.  She is a child of two powerful Aasimar.  Her father was a Protector Aasimar, her mother was a Scourge Aasimar and she carries within herself, both of their spirits.  

As a young girl, she took the path of the warlock.  Forging a pact with the dragon Bahamut.  She asked for only one thing - long life, so that she could protect her people, always - and in return she swore to dedicate every day of that life to law and order and justice, to become a beacon of hope in a dark world and draw a line into the sand against the night.

As a result of the power she possesses from being the child two great Aasimar, and the power she was given due to her pact as a warlock, she is perhaps, the greatest of Aasimar ever to live in this world.

All of that Celestial influence however, has its downside.  She lives in the world, but can never truly be part of it.  Her spirit years for paradice and so she seeks to make paradice here, in this life.  She despises evil in all its forms and will mercilessly snuff it out where ever she finds it.

She also listens more to her directives as an Aasimar and the instructions giving to her by her patron.  These take precedence over any advice from her advisors.

Furthermore; to her, the law is hard but it is the law and the law must obeyed.  She follows the letter of the law with a feeverish passion, only out done by her hatred of evil and her courts deal out justice and her soldiers maintain order, based upon the letter or the law.

Her long life and the power she possesses, sets her apart from others in the world.  Other Princes, Kings, Queens and Princesses and all their courtiers, can not possibly know how she feels and the common people can not even begin to comprehend the burden that she carries - and so, she is alone.  

For all her power and all the people who love her or fear her - she is perhaps the loneliest person in the world for she has no lover, no children, noone to call her friend.

She sits on her throne and she rules, she rides out and she fights, the days turn into weeks, the weeks turn months and the years roll by, but the only time she really lives, is in the midst of battle, when she faces the dark forces of evil and chaos.

Then she has purpose, then she feels her heart beat in her chest and the blood flowing through her viens.  She feels the will of her mother and the hand of her father guiding her and shes hears the words of her patron steering her towards victory.

Then and only then, does truly feel alive.

Maybe if I explain some of the lore of my world, it will make more sense.

The Aesir Dominion, was also once a beacon of hope.  The Queen of the Aesir and the Empress and Emperor of Vasudha; once, long ago, were allies against the darkness.  Until an emissary of Tiamat infiltrated the ranks of the Aesir Dominion and wormed her way into being the Queens advisor - and there in a position of power, poisoned her mind, turning the Queen of the Aesir - the champion of light, into Tiamats puppet.

It was for this reason that Bahamut agreed to Sigrun's pact and became her warlock patron.  

To balance the evil created by his sister, Bahamut created one who was the equal, but opposite of that evil.

Tiamat was not done with her puppet yet though.  Through her emissary, she plundered the depths of the queens soul, breaking her will to resist and turning her into not just a puppet, but a slave.  Then she built her up again, pouring into her all her malice, all her darkness and her desire for destruction.

To counter this, Bahamut commanded a mighty gold dragon to aid Sigurn - now and forever.  That is how she earned the name, "last of the dragonriders" - though she has not been seen to ride her dragon, since the first and only battle she fought directly against the mad queen.  Though if the Queen of the Aesir was ever to directly threaten the borders of the Empire - it is likely Sigurn would call upon her ally once more.  To counter this, the mad queen, would most likely summon her shadows and the dragons she commands through Tiamats will.

An all out war between these two great empires, would devastate the world

I guess I'm still not seeing what I would call flaws. I mean, you say she has flaws, and then you explain them by saying she's a "beacon of hope" and "the greatest aasimar". 

There are 'downsides'--she's not part of the world. Okay, but that's like saying the 'downside' of being super rich and famous is that you can't go to dunkin donuts without being recognized. That's not a flaw in her. It's an unfortunate circumstance she has to live with. So far, she as a person is still pretty much perfect. 

You're getting closer when you talk about her 'feverish passion'--but even that is qualified by the fact that it's a passion for basically 'being good'. That's like telling the hiring committee that your biggest flaw is "your commitment to perfection". She's alone. That's still not a flaw. It's just a circumstance.

I don't want this to sound rude, but this whole thing reads like something released by her marketing team :) It doesn't give me any real sense of her as a person, as a character, at all. It's good to give to the players in a game when they are finding out about her to begin with. But for revealing her character, it's not doing a lot. 

When people don't like her, why don't they like her? I'm not talking about her enemies, and evil people. When normal, non-evil people dislike her, what do they dislike her for? When, and how, has she screwed up in the past? Did a bunch of innocent people get killed when she was battling the great giant evil bad thing? Did she purposefully sacrifice them to lure the bad guy into the open? 

At this point, she's roughly equivalent to Superman--the blandest of superheroes. Everyone, other than bad guys, loves Superman. He has no flaws, other than his 'unflinching commitment to justice' (which is a disguised merit). He's never done anything wrong, morally questionable, etc. Or, to be more expansive, only when they have him do something morally questionable in comics and movies is when he becomes interesting. 

IMO, if you want her to be believable and interesting as a character, you need to make her--not her circumstances, but her as a person--imperfect. She needs to have made mistakes--big ones--and done some things wrong in the past. Take Galadriel from LotR--what saves her from being boring in the books and history of Middle Earth is that she basically flipped the bird at the gods when they told her to come back home, and was banished from ever returning to the West (she later redeemed herself with Frodo). What makes her not boring in the movies (when you don't have that info from the books) is that she's spooky-as-F, and secretive. But that's nowhere near as interesting as defying the gods. 

Thanks for your reply.  This is the kind of reply that I need to help make my NPC interesting and not just bland.

In my world, there are 3 powerful mortals. 

THE MAD QUEEN

Queen of the Aesir and the puppet slave of Tiamat.  The mad queen rules over a dark empire of shadows.

EMPRESS SIGRÚN

The last dragonrider and champion of Bahamut.  Sigrún rules over a lawful good empire of light and order and justice

BAAL

The fisher king  Baal, is literally a rip off of the fisher king from Arthurian Legend - but instead of being tasked with keeping the holy grail, he is task with protecting a sword, capable of slaying demons.  The fisher kings Kingdom has long since fallen, destroyed by demons who sought to rid the mortal world of the demon slaying sword.

Now only the fisher king remains and as long as he lives, the sword will never fall into demon hands.

From time to time, one demon or another tried to kill the fisher king and take the sword, but so far all have fallen before the power of this once great king and the might of the sword he protects.

These three mortals are quite literally the most powerful mortals in the world.  They are so powerful that they could be described as demigods.

The only people in the world, who can maybe match the power of these three mighty rulers are the player characters - who themselves possess heroic spirits and power beyond most of mortal kind.

For now though, they are no where near the level power possessed by the Mad Queen, Empress Sigrún, or The Fisher King - but they are showing promise that one day they might be and this has drawn the attention of all three of these NPCs, each one wanting the players character to join them and fight on their side.

The problem is, with creating such powerful mortal.beings - they often end up as you said, being Superman and just becoming a stereotype.  Darkness, Light and Grey, personified.

I am struggling with creating these NPCs and your responses are prompting me to think more.deeply about why they are what they are and who they really are - so thank you for that and please do feel free to comment and offer any constructive criticism you might have.