The Dantress legacy...

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*** this is a character repository for major characters in a player ran plot event. None of the characters below are nor will be PC's. Expect a blizzard of snowflakes. Just because I can ***

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First Name: Muliera
Last Name: - lowborn - *no last name*
Nickname: Mantis

Appearance:
Race: Drow female (or rather shemale)
Age: 215
Height 180 cm
Weight: 85 kg's
Eyes: Light blue
Hair: ties in a ponytail, ivory white
Facial Hair Style:

Personality Profile:
General Health: Poor - see below
Deity: Lolth
Initial Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Profession: Dungeon Warden, promoted to Yath'tallar's personal guard
Base Class & Proposed Development: Barbarian, frenzied berserker
Habits/Hobbies: Tormenting prisoners, combat, decapitating males
Languages: Drow, Undercommon, Elven
Weapon of Choice: Greatsword

Background:
Muliera is a favoured bodyguard and torturer of the High Priestess in Sshamath. Nothing seemed to make Muliera what she is now, a rather obese shemale monster, resistant to pain and hungry for blood. In her 45th year of life, Muliera and other temple's young warriors found themselves ambushed by duergars somewhere during a patrol around Skullport. An unfortunate shot from one of the assailants crossbows hit her on the back of the head and despite it not diving deep into the skull, the alchemical silver bolt cut through her brain making her feel less pain with passing years. She can push herself harder, knowing no limits to her health and today she is not being affected by pain at all.

There apparently have been attempts to return her to a healthy state, but either due to the metal the bolt was made of and/or pure fancy of the Yath'tallar, more happy with her current state, she never returned to her previous state. Little does she know that the progressing resistance to pain pushes her brain towards her death more and more with every day and one day she will just collapse and die.

Muliera earned her nickname during another skirmish with some human slaves. In the heat of battle, she was stabbed with a longsword in the stomach, only to push the blade through herself, while screaming in fury and knocking the human's head off his neck with bare hands. Since then she made it a common practice to decapitate any males she fancies, after her needs are satisfied.

Muliera is a thick individual, liking simple pleasures or gore and slaughter, but she has mastered communication without words, when she is meant to deliver pain to others. Other sisters in the temple like her for her bluntness and being dependable when conflict is in the air, whilst the males avoid her, whenever it is possible. Her wounded mind has left her in a state of a confusion, making her adapt some features of orcs she was given to torture. However she is smart enough to express herself in full sentences and has no problem speaking whatsoever. She loves to eat (meat mostly) and while at it, she makes it as disgusting for other drow to sit at one table with her. This has led her to be made a torturer, where she can feast in the company of her captives, without the yath being exposed to the sickening show of devouring the table contents. She does not acknowledge napkins and allows the floor to collect the bones of whatever made her meal. Hygiene is for the weak... and the males.

Out of all the temple, she can be considered 'buddies' with Darin Dantress and Faerz'Un'Arr Ondulu. Conflicts will happen within this group as they were in every drow society, but she will first share any news with the two and will listen what should her opinion be on the matter.

Muliera's fighting style can best be described as a bull in a China shop. Strength delivers most pain, but more agile opponents have had some luck avoiding her charges... for a time.

Goals: Eat
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts: See Nawiel/Xercia plot

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First Name, Last Name: Faerz'Un'Arr Ondulu

Appearance:
Race: Drow female
Age: 237
Height 156 cm
Weight: 45 Kg
Eyes: Green
Hair: White

Personality Profile:
General Health: Good
Deity: Lolth
Profession: Seer of Lolth
Base Class & Proposed Development: Wizard/Cleric (ratio of 5:1)
Habits/Hobbies: Scrying for the Temple, avoiding suspicion...
Languages: Elven, Drow, Undercommon, perhaps more given she's scrying and trying to understand what the enemies of the temple are saying...
Weapon of Choice: Staff

Background: Not much is known of Ondulu's past before she was admitted to the temple, but as far as childhood's concerned, she was born and bred as a Lolthite. Her female curiosity made it clear a path for her to follow, but later accusations of treason brought, apart from maturity, limitations to her use of her powers.

Ondulu flourished as a Faerz'un'arr in Skullport's temple, but she had one rather intolerable flaw. Given that prophecies and visions are often cryptic, her lack of attention to details and common sense made it hard for her to decipher the messages and made her the last in the queue to be ever be promoted to Arch-Seeres. Despite many attempts of assassination, many of which were successful, having Darin Dantress' advice, neither of the Yath'tallaren, and there have been many in numbers, offered her the top position.

Ondulu's flaw got her into major trouble. When the rumours of a traitor within the Temple's ranks started, she was suspected to be behind all this, having a dagger at her throat at times. There was never enough evidence to point at Ondulu directly, but given the number of assassinations on the top ranking seers in the past she became a prime suspect (and apart from Muliera who was thought to be too dumb to plot against the temple, everyone was a suspect). As perfection is the core of drow culture and her being a loyal Lolthite, she was believed to conceal details of her visions and having revealed them to the Temple's enemies. Also her murderous endavours, were not believed to be for assuming position, but to keep the temple blind.

Ondulu is a mother of two males, what also brought more disrespect to her from her temple sisters. Finally with all the offense put together, the Temple believed she betrayed them, because of all the grief she was given, rightly so or not...

Oh and those darthiiri green eyes...


Goals: Given she was given a lot of stick, she's trying to keep a low profile and out of sight, appearing only to deliver new visions. The irony lies in the fact that once the accusations appears, the number of messages from Lolth has nearly quadrupled. Their importance however dropped to a level of 'I demand that your next sacrifice eats Lichen before their heart is offered to me'.

Like Muliera, Ondulu keeps contact with Darin and the massive Sargtlin. Her relation with the Yath'Tallar can best be described as tense, but necessary. The Yath'tallar patiently listens to her every word, despite them being a lot of tosh most of the time, given the visions Ondulu has been exposed to.

Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts: See Nawiel/Xercia plot

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Character 3/4 in Story Arc 1

First Name: Darin
Last Name: Dantress

Appearance:
Race: Drow Female
Age: 324 years
Height 168 cm
Weight: 47
Eyes: Ruby Red
Hair: Platinum White

Personality Profile:
General Health: Fit and healthy
Profession: Assassin for the Temple of Lolth in Skullport
Base Class & Proposed Development: Bard/Assassin/Wizard (Illusionist)
Habits/Hobbies: Striving for perfection... As Lolth wills it!
Languages: Drow, Undercommon, Elven, (?)
Weapon of Choice: Daggers and deception

Background:
Darin Dantress is the mother of Xercia Dantress. Like any other drow, neither Darin nor Xercia are parent given names, and given her profession Darin was known under many other names in the Underdark as well as the surface.

Darin's reputation as a high ranking assassin and bard for the temple of Lolth made her quite wealthy and infamous, which for drow is actually a compliment. Her wealth allowed her to come close local aristocracy and she was able to afford an estate outside Skullport's city jurisdiction in a separate cavern.

Like a true assassin, much personal information is clouded from any third parties and what is known are mostly speculations. Apart from Xercia's father, she was rumoured to be fancied by another armoured male, although he hasn't been heard from in a long while. Perhaps he was killed in an act of envy by Xercia's father or left the city.

Another rumour goes within the temple itself. She is suspected to be the temple's turncoat, assassinating it's vital members to weaken it before oncoming attacks. This has however found no proof as some assassinations happened while she was in the company of other temple members and the finger got pointed towards Faerz'Un'Arr Ondulu instead, who found it difficult to provide a strong alibi.

As a very self-controlled female, she barely ever loses control of herself and last time she was seen to do so, was when she learnt that her daughter tied herself with a pact to one of Lolth's Demonweb servants. Her estate servants are said to hear she commented in a tense, perhaps a bit desperate voice that she has truly lost control.

Despite the comment, Darin used every opportunity to raise Xercia into a true Lolthite. Scheming, religion, tactics have all come from Darin herself. Xercia sensed however that her mother might mean more than she lets on. However upon direct questioning, Darin slapped Xercia with all her strength so that she fell to the floor. She was ordered never to ask her that of her again or else... And so she never did.

Darin has successfully completed many a tasks, but suffered some defeats as well. One of the major ones that brought suspicions over her was when she was in charge of a small unit of assassin's to infiltrate a wood elf settlement and cause havoc, perhaps burn it to the ground as well. Her unit was ambushed and all were killed, except Darin, who was taken hostage. It remains a mystery how, but battered and bruised she found her way back home and escaped her captives, only to find Xercia on her first cycles of being a warlock.

Darin is also using Muliera and Ondulu as sources of information beyond her reach. One such information was the latest prophecy, where she is understood to bring down the temple's traitor to justice and that can only be death. For that reason the three were ordered to remain in Skullport, while the Lolthite Elite Vanguard with all the high ranking Yath set out to deal with a gnoll encampment menace few cycles away from the city.

However this is only all that is widely known. There is much more facts than actual rumours about Darin... Some of which may never surface...