User blog comment:Toymakers Creation/The Shattered Crown/@comment-1920550-20150713220102/@comment-1920550-20150713234821

Given Eve's whole theme she doesn't quite sound "royalty material", nor does she make any allusion of such kind. Creatures of the Shadow Isles are more ethereal/undead, while Eve is more vampiric, almost succubus-like in nature. Plus her entire story with Twisted Fate, makes her more like a character from Bildgewater than the Isles. Also these tragedy themes tend to create more empathy with readers when its about a parent raising a child back from the dead, than a spouse trying to bring another spouse from the grave.

Also Karthus's story is random, like a common guy obssessed with death suddenly becomes an undead lich-mage commander. When they mentioned the Shaterred Crown i always figure the "Four Horsemen" theme between Heca, Karth and Morde as then being people in the king's inner circle who deceive him in some way to trigger the ritual. Your theme of Morde being an undead spirit, certainly feeds into it. I always pictured Karth as a mage on the King's command who through his studies develops that obsession with life and death, since you know it's kinda easier to develop such things when you actively mess with forces that alter reality on a daily basis.