Yalah Gralhund

Yalah Gralhund was a noble of House Gralhund in Waterdeep in the early 1490s DR.

Activities
Yalah used her time to monitor events in the city, kept a tight rein on her children, and uses her power to collect secrets from the lips of nobles, guildmasters, and commoners alike.

History
When in 1491 DR many members of the Lords of Waterdeep were killed in a nefarious plot Yalah and Orond expected that she will fill one of the vacancies but never happened despite all brides and promises.

Orond was approached by some Zhentarim loyal to Manshoon and they formed an alliance. The Zhent gained the coin and the resources of the Gralhund for their operations in the city and in exchange granted to Orond all the informations about the Masked Lords they could find.

Yalah planned to use the intelligence resources of the Black Network in order to unveil some of the Masked Lord and blackmail or bribe her way into membership.

In 1492 DR, the Gralhund were involved in the search of the lost gold of Dagult Neverember under the promise of getting their fair share of the treasure. The Zhent led by Urstul Floxin used Gralhund Villa as headquarter in their search of the Stone of Golorr.

However no truly trusted Urstul she also send one of her personal servant, a nimblewright with a necklace of fireballs, to search the gnome Dalakhar. The successive blast and the death of Dalakhar ruined the alliance between the Zhent and the Gralhund.

When Urstul finally in possession of the Stone asked explanations to Yalah about the nirnblewright she profiting of his injures took the Stone.

When started the fight between her guards and the Zhentarim she gave the Stone of Golorr and a map of where to took it to her nimblewright and hid in her master bedroom with Hrabbaz.

Personality
Yalah believed that was only a matter of time before she could ascend among the Lords. From that position she believed that would ensure the prosperity of the Gralhund for the generation to come. Yalah had a keen mind and could easily identify friends and foe.

Relationship
Yalah knew her husband Orond adored her. She had the true loyalty of the bodyguard Hrabbaz. Yalah treaded the Zhent master assassin Urstul Floxin and all the Zhentarim as her underlings. She had befriended the rogue nimblewright.

Behind the Scenes
The choice of the villain determine Yalah Gralhund's motivation, if the villain was Jarlaxle she was lover with the drow, if the villains were the Cassalanter galah was a secret worshiper of Asmodeus, if the villain was the Xanathar she had forge an alliance with the beholder, if the villain was Manshoon she renegotiated her deal with the Zhentarim reporting directly to Manshoon.

Appearances

 * Waterdeep: Dragon Heist