Ybalashi

Ybalashi, the Artisan of Poisoned Dreams, is a True Fae that long delighted in causing mischief through the fulfilment of mortal wishes. In times long past, Ybalashi, unlike her kindred, wandered the mortal lands and wreaked great suffering and havoc wherever the winds took her.

That is, until a Persian mystic tricked her, sealing her into a bottle alongside a segment of her Arcadian domain. Yet, Ybalashi continued to torment mortals through her bottle, though she lacked the power and means to move or act under her own power.

For many centuries, the Bottle of Ybalashi changed hands countless times, bringing its current owner to ruin without fail. The bottle last resurfaced in Tangier, where Jack Taylor acquired it under orders of his master, Dr. Friedrich Magnussen. Magnussen wished to use the Bottle for his own sinister purposes, but Taylor's defection from his cause delayed it.

Taylor used Ybalashi to fulfil his every depraved wish, after taking over the Velvet Lady in 1873. Eventually, Taylor tortured and mutilated every other living soul on the ship, and so he ordered Ybalashi to take him to her realm inside the bottle, to wait out until the ship drifted into Portsmouth.

In Portsmouth, the local police authorities seized the bottle as evidence, and took it to their headquarters. There, Taylor emerged in the night and used the bottle to escape, killing several night guards in the process.

Eventually, Taylor took the bottle with him to the Windham Masquerade, where he unleashed Ybalashi and commanded her to make everyone there disappear. Ybalashi obliged by dragging everyone present into the bottle, except for Taylor, who chose to abandon the bottle and its sadistic resident after this last wish.

Her victims arriving into different parts of her realm, Ybalashi agreed to play a game with Olivia Smith and created a portal back to the mortal world, as per her wishes. She then told the scattered guests to find the portal before the time runs out, or remain forever in her realm.

Olivia decided to make a second deal with the fae. In exchange for wishing on Ybalashi's freedom once she escapes, Ybalashi would provide instructions to her for finding the portal and would not return to the mortal realm within her lifetime. Ultimately, the Krewe succeeded, managing to reach the portal and kill Magnussen in the process.

After the Krewe returned to the mortal realm, Olivia made good on her promise, releasing Ybalashi from her prison. Furthermore, she requested a favor from the True Fae, which Ybalashi granted: she brought back one of the squires of Pendleton that accompanied the party to the masquerade. Unbeknown to them, Magnussen has already revived himself in Ybalashi's realm and took to hunting the squires, killing and taking the skin of one of them, time flowing much slower in the realm. Thus, Ybalashi decided to twist this one last wish as well, bringing back the Klinkerash warlock in the squire's skin.