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It is said that there once lived a special Wraith Queen among the stars, back in a time when the Wraith were very young. She was the first and most powerful of them all, the one leading them on the path to the skies and beyond.
But as beloved by her Hive as she was, she nevertheless failed to win the affections of the Commander in her court she held most dear. His heart already belonged to another while hers was slowly consumed with envy over the time they spent apart for exactly this reason.
And so the Queen ordered him to be brought before her and killed, for no one should hold his attentions when she wasn’t capable of doing the same. Though mad with rage, she was also still too fond of him, however, and in the end could not bear the thought of losing him completely, at least not yet.
Instead of going through with her plan immediately and ripping out his heart, she merely cut his chest wide open and placed a flower there, one of the many he had selected for wooing his love. Instead of taking the Commander’s life for his betrayal as she had intended, she gifted him with a part of her own to heal the wound inflicted upon him, so they would have some more time before his death.
And gradually the flower in his body grew due to the water in his blood and the air of every breath he took. It thrived and prospered and in the meantime destroyed the being that was the reason for its existence.
But just like the flower, flourishing as a consequence of his continued survival, finally led to his demise, the Commander, only alive because of the Queen’s love, eventually brought about her ruin, since even the blood-stained reddish-black flower he revealed with his last breath he gifted not to her but to his heart. So it is said that there once lived a particular Wraith Queen, one that forbade the Wraith their emotions.