Crones of Thanatos

A Crone was a female drow priestess of Kiaransalee.

Description
Crones always dressed in loose black hooded robes, wore a skullcap and sported at least one silver ring in each hand. As many of them eventually embraced Undeath, they became either Revenants or keening spirits.

Abilities
Crones wielded clerical magic bestowed by their patron goddess Kiaransalee, but they were also accomplished necromancers on their own right.

Many of them transcended death, becoming revenants or keening spirits raised by the goddess herself. When Undead, they were powerful enough to be unaffected by the clerical rebuke of a priest and could paralyze at a distance. They could cast illusions related to the past of the victim and damage living beings with just a touch. They healed from physical wounds in mere seconds.

History
When Cavatina and Kâras were in the Hunt, they came across one of these beings, which previously had been Kâras' lover in Maerimydra in was raised as a Revenant.

In the Underdark, Q'arlynd Melarn and many other diviners of Sshamath realized that when casting divinations, they emitted a flicker of faerie fire, which was unprecedented. After contacting with the priestesses of Eilistraee and confirming that only drow were affected, Seldszar Elpragh, Urlryn Khalaaza and Qilué Veladorn organized a joint expedition to uncover the mystery. The situation got worse, since divinations were increasingly difficult to perform, but evidence pointed at the Acropolis of Thanatos, the largest temple of Kiaransalee, which was heavily guarded by Crones and other Undead. The expedition discovered that the Crones were amassing a massive amount of voidstone within the Acropolis, hoping to create a gate and summon an army of undead from the Negative Energy Plane. Incidentally, the voidstone reacted with the Faerzress, increasing its energy and disrupting drow magic in the region.

When Q'arlynd Melarn and his apprentices used Elven High Magic to erase Kiaransalee's name from the minds of her worshipers, all the undead Crones died on the spot, and the rest stumbled about, confused about the sudden lack of purpose and patron deity.

Appearances

 * Storm of the Dead

Notable Crones

 * Cabrath Nelinderra