Scotia

Scotia is the primary antagonist of the 1993 computer game Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos. She is an immensely powerful evil witch who rules the Dark Army and strives to take down Gladstone Kingdom and take over the world. While she gets destroyed at the end of the game, her actions set into motion the plots of the next two games of the trilogy.

Background
Scotia's past is not disclosed much in the first game, aside from a mention that she once wished to join the ranks of the Talamari (a group of powerful mages and warriors said to have founded the kingdom of Gladstone), but failed the tests.

Lands of Lore II: Guardians of Destiny reveals that she used to be an enchantress named Margarithe Fiston, whose beauty concealed a strong desire for power and greatness. In her youth, she was infatuated with King Richard LeGrey, but he turned down her advances. She later married a rich land-owner and bore a son, Luther Fiston who would become the primary protagonist of the second game. She did was indeed refused among the Talamari, very likely because of the darkness in her soul.

Some years after this failure, Margarithe's husband was killed in a skirmish between the White Army of Gladstone and the demonic Dark Army, made of all the evil creatures of the Lands of Lore world. Margarithe blamed King Richard and the White Army for this, saying that this would not have happened in not for their lax in security. Having lost the only one who could soothe her worst impulses, she immersed herself in the Darkest Arts and rose in power until she became the dreaded witch Scotia.

Now the Supreme Ruler of the Dark Army, Scotia kept waging war against Gladstone. Gladstone Kingdom being the center of the civilized world and the safe haven that kept threats at bay for three generations, if it where to fall nothing could stop her from taking over the entire world. In the meantime, her son Luther, hated and rejected by everyone due to his mother's actions, took shelter in Scotia's castle of Cimmeria. Scotia raised him as his future heir, but he silently disapproved her thirst for conquest and eventually got away.

Scotia knew full well that she could not defeat the White Army head on, so she spent years gathering her forces. Having learnt about the legendary Nether Mask, a ring of Ancient Magic that grants unlimited shape-shifting abilities, she resolved to get her hands on it and use it to turn the tide. As such, she took control of the Urbish Mines where it was burried and had her monsters dig in search of it.

About Scotia
Like most of the stereotypical evil witches, Scotia is depicted as a hideous old crone, wrinkled, dishevelled and deformed, with pointed teeth, an enormous nose, and protruding eyes glowing an unnatural yellow, which is often seen with only one open. She wears luxurious black robes with golden trimming. She often uses her newfound shape-shifting powers to appear as a beautiful young woman, and she favours the aspect of a raven to travel long distance and act unnoticed.