Tochter Grunfeld, also known as the Jade Mother is the current Matriarch of the Jade College. Unlike most of the other Orders of Magic, it is just as likely for the prime position of the Order of Life to be a Matriarch as a Patriarch. Grunfeld was elected to the position of Matriarch of her Order after the death of the previous Matriarch, Magister Arburg, who was killed in the early days of the recent war against Archaon’s hordes.[1a] The blighted land known as Sylvania awaits her just beyond horizon with all the expectancy of a freshly dug grave.[1a]