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Vhaeshess of Do'Qixzan
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:51 pm
by C_aribou
Much had changed, and come to pass. Many cycles, had come and gone in Vhaeshess' life. The Drowess was over the age of 400, a little timer in her memory kept track... but it was a thing she did not dwell on often. She sighed, turning her eyes outside to the terrace of her tower chambers within the Temple of Lolth.
Sshamath...
She stood, her sheer, revealing, robes flowing with her as she moved out to the terrace. Her large crimson eyes scanning over the marvelous city of Sshamath. Truly it was the most spectacular city she had dwelt in, perhaps the most grand in all of the Underdark. As she gazed off into the darkness, and lights of the city, her thoughts wandered. Those four-hundred years, she thought of, and who she was now.
I am the leader of the temple... the Drow, and Lolth, expect much of my undertakings...
It was true, if she had ever felt more close, and more favored by the Spider Queen it was now. She had taken up a defeated cause, in a city atrocious for any true Lolthite to bare. Yet Sshamath was her home now, she sought no other. She twirled, and then moved back into her chambers, sitting down on a nearby desk. There was a huge, black tome, spelled with considerable protective magics. She opened it, to reveal a page. It was blank. Taking a quill, and constantly dipping into blood ink nearby, she began to write.
Re: Vhaeshess
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:52 pm
by C_aribou
My birth was typical, and fortunate. My mother, the Ilharess Do'Qixzan had an issue of many daughters, the eldest of them who would become notorious high priestesses in the city of V'elddrinnsshar. Our house enjoyed power, and station, and I was born into both of these.
My training began at an early age, as was expected of all Noble Drow children. I was reared to become a priestess of Lolth. I had displayed early on an aptitude for magic, especially of the Divine nature. Immediately I was immersed in prayer, demonic studies, and Abyssal knowledge.
For over a hundred years I dwelt in V'eldrinnshar and clawed my way to higher power, eventually attaining the rank Yathrin at the Arach-Tinilith... becoming a valued agent for the whims of my mother. I was her eighth daughter, although I felt destined for greater power - it seemed unlikely in the face of my elder, more powerful sisters, that I would ever become a Matron Mother.
Instead I focused on the divine arts, on becoming a favored servant of Lolth, I studied arudously to ascend and become a high priestess of my goddess. She was the source of all my power, my knowledge, my future... I had nau other purpose, and I still do naut to this cycle.
V'elddrinnsshar was the City of Shadows, and although the Temple of Lolth and the Noble Houses held the greatest power... there were other powers that lurked in the city. Soon, things would occur that would forever change my fate, and the fate of my whole family.
Re: Vhaeshess
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:38 pm
by C_aribou
The reign and power of House Do'Qixzan had been secure for centuries, never had the high priestesses of the house felt the faltering of Lolth's precious favor. The goddess though, had a precarious ways, and even I, nearing two-hundred years of age, and become wiser - I felt unrest in Her gaze upon House Do'Qixzan.
My mother too, could tell something was amiss. The omens from the Dark Mother were not as strong as they had been. How was this the case, my mother must have wondered, she had born eight daughters, a holy number, for the Spider-Queen - all becoming priestesses for Her temple.
When my mother, and I, found what was wrong it was already too late.
My aunt, Irdrua Do'Qixzan, was the only surviving sister of my mothers. It was known she reviled my mother for ascending the the throne, when she had not. Though, we all thought she was placated with her high power at the Temple of Lolth, it was expected within short years she would soon become the Mistress of the School of Priestesses. She was an old and powerful woman, one of the most prominent Yathtallaren in all of V'elddrrinnsshar.
She had been charged with raising my mothers first three daughters, all of which were the most powerful priestesses of the house. One cycle my aunt and eldest sisters unexpectedly attacked; seizing the complex, slaying my mother, and all my sisters. I somehow escaped with my life, thanks to the assistance of my old consort (who perished in the escape). None of us expected what she truly was.
I had found my aunt was in-fact no priestess of Lolth, but a secret priestess of the goddess Shar - she had raised my eldest sisters in the same fashion. Heretics had defeated the Lolthite foundations of our qu'ellar, nau wonder we had felt the disfavor of Lolth - who must have become fully aware of their heresy (and mere lip-service to the Spider-Queen).
I, and a few others of my house, were the only living Drow in the city - true to Lolth - that knew the truth. The surviving Lolthites of the house regarded me as their Ilharess now, a title I was naut sure if I truly wanted. Much laid on my shoulders, it was my duty now to defend the honor of my house - and destroy these vile heretics who insulted both me, and my goddess.
I set out my next cycles tirelessly working to plot their destruction and my ascension to the throne. Was it possible? I wasn't sure... although I was true to Lolth, my eldest sisters and aunts were fearsomely powerful females.
I would find in the coming cycles there would be nau need for my revenge.