User blog comment:Toymakers Creation/The Shattered Crown/@comment-1920550-20150713220102/@comment-24430045-20150714011448

Valid points regarding Eve, and I was looking to address many of those issues in future stories. I'll give the short explanation here: this story happened a looooong time ago, and over time Eve has abandoned her past self almost completely, basically only keeping her name as she gives in to her hunger for pain and suffering. She isn't royalty anymore, her home is in ruins and she isn't even fully human anymore. You mentioned she's vampiric, and that's the basically what I think she is. She's a pain eater, an Emotion Vampire so to speak. She isn't like other undead, or maybe she isn't undead at all, maybr the ritual did resurrect her into a fully living being, just not a full human. Either way could work, narratively, and I'm eager to see how Riot actually hashes her origins out. As for the Twisted Fate stuff, that was before the Great Retcon of '014, and parts of that story are definitely non-canon, but still, it would make sense for the Eve in this story to be in Bilgewater; there are plenty of scoundrels to siphon pain from and it is close to home, so to speak. So interacting with TF is still plausible for her.

The Four Horsemen theme is interesting, but Karthus's bio straight up says he journeys to the already ruined Shadow Isles, so he didn't have a hand in its creation. As cool as that would have been :P

Oh, and about tragedy themes. The King and Evelynn are tragic characters, and having Eve be his daughter would have made the King more sympathetic, but I felt like it undercut the King's theme of the King being a fool. Trying to resurrect his lost loved one was just foolish, but it wouldn't have seemed so bad if that loved one was a child. I've considered that angle, but decided against it because it made the King more sympathetic, and I didn't want that. I wanted Eve to be the sympathetic one, because she is the victim of the King's foolishness. His death and undeath is supposed to be deserved, I think, so I really wanted to get that across.