I decided to try to make it anyway, but I only used Wikipedia for information, so there may be inaccuracies.

Etheryn var Ridell is the second-born daughter of the late Queen Alraince of Winter City (Njorhaalt), a hidden bastion of the Boreal Elves in the frozen north. Her mother perished from complications during her birth, and her father, the King Dowager, was killed in a hunting accident years later, leaving the throne to her elder sister, Alissa. While Alissa projected the image of a strong huntress-queen to the public, she was relentlessly cruel to Etheryn in private, subjecting her to psychological and from childhood onward.