Shaaan

Shaan the Serpent Queen was a nefarious archmage.

History
Shaan was a mysterious wizard woman with scales who once ruled a snake cult in Tashalar. She had fought many times with Elminster Aumar.

Once, around 1340 DR, the Company of Crazed Venturers fought Shaan on a small isle of the Sword Coast, off the coast of Mintarn. They broke her concentration on spellcasting and bid her to stop what she was working on, otherwise they'd destroy it. Then one of their members threatened Shaan by using the disintegrate spell on a nearby stone. Shaking her head in derision, Shaan touched ground and disintegrated the entire island, dumping the Company into the ocean as she levitated and continued to work on her spellcasting.

In 1357 DR the Zhentarim considered Shaan together with Maraunth Torr, Szass Tam and Larloch one of the most powerful evil archmages.

At last, in an inter-dimensional place where Elminster sometimes met people from other planes, Shaan appeared, trying to seduce the archmage Dalamar the Black from Krynn, but Elminster, with the help of the archmage Mordenkainen from Oerth, who also had had an encounter with Shaan, used Ed Greenwood to imprison her in the Floating Helm of Tharados (a unique ancient Netherese magic item).

Shaan resurfaced around 1487 DR and competed with other archmages for the possession of the Lost Spell during a spellstorm. Shaan was ultimately killed by the combined effort of both Malchor Harpell and Manshoon.