Maralen de los Mornsong

Maralen was a Mornsong elf from the plane of Lorwyn. As opposed to the Gilt Leaf ram-like horns, her horns were sleeker and sharper, like an antelope's. She was a handmaiden to the Perfect Peradala, who was about to be married to Eidren of Lys Alana of the Gilt Leaf tribe. However, Peradala's wedding convoy was attacked by killer vines, and everybody but Maralen was killed. Maralen herself was caught alive and questioned. Her further fate was unclear and unknown.

However, a woman who claimed to be Maralen of the Mornsong tribe was present in the middle of woods some time later, when the Gilt Leaf hunter Rhys used his poison magic in the darkest hour of a battle gone terribly wrong, killing everything in proximity and defiling a large portion of the wood. Despite her elvish appearance, this "Maralen" has something alien in her, as Rhys and other characters noted. The same observation was later made by the Vendilion clique who tried to steal her dreamstuff or the flamekinAshling, when she tried to heal her. Maralen even survived a personal contact with Oona, queen of the fae, when the Vendilion clique, frustrated by their unsuccessful attempts to reach her, took her directly to her.

Moreover, the fae seemed far more cooperative with her from that point on.

Maralen also mentions, that she is "but a traveler", and when she was threatened by elvish hunters of the Gilt Leaf tribe, she displays an arcane magic skill when she teleports the elves away using a black-blue fog spell. This lead to several assumptions, such as this "Maralen" being an avatar of Oona herself, or a planeswalker, whose spark flared during the fae attack at the beginning, or Liliana Vess in disguise.

Within the Morningtide novel, it is developed that she is an avatar of Oona that somehow gained self awareness, and doesn't follow her orders nor desires to become part of Oona again. She manipulates the Vendilions into helping her interfere with Ashling's ritual to gain knowledge and power, which enables her to retain her memories, and appearance after the Great Aurora.

In Shadowmoor, she helps Mistmeadow, and Jack for her own purposes, and through the Vendilion clique help she obtains Rosheen's journal. Maralen was later indeed revealed to be a twin of Oona that Oona created to avoid being corrupted by the early Great Aurora. She defies Oona, and by using Rosheen's journal, she is able to disrupt Oona's attempt to take Ashling the Destroyer's elemental power, gaining the power for her instead. Later, she takes the Crescent of Morningtide from Brigid Baeli, and challenges Oona to face her in direct fight.

By the combined powers of two elementals (Ashling's and the Source of Wanderbrine (via the Crescent)), the help of Rhys and diminished Ashling, and a single flower of moonglovecoming from the very moment when the original Maralen died, Oona is destroyed and wiped out from the face of Lorwyn. "Maralen" becomes the new Queen of the Fae, determined to restore the normal daily day/night cycle, instead of the Oona-directed previous centennial periods of nightless Lorwyn and dayless Shadowmoor. She gives the moonglove to Rhys and instruct him to poison her upon the first notice of the daily cycle becoming like before.