Q'arlynd Melarn

Q'arlynd Melarn is a drow wizard. Originally from Ched Nasad a capable battle mage and one of the only surviving members of House Melarn. Q'arlynd is introduced during the War of the Spider Queen series while helping his sister Halisstra Melarn and her companions, a group from Menzoberranzan, to escape the burning city of Ched Nasad as it collapsed from stonefire bombs used by the Duergar when they held the city under siege during the Silence of Lolth. He nearly died himself in the clutches of a iron golem that kept him from escaping through a portal to freedom with the others.

Appearance
Q'arlynd sports a slightly crooked nose do to a childhood lizard riding accident, which left it broken. In spite of this fact, he is still handsome enough to hold the attention of most females. His shoulder-length white hair is worn in a contingency clip which rests at the back of his neck. As a highly skilled battle mage and master of the College of Ancient Arcana Q'arlynd's style of dress is fitting for a Drow of his stature. This is made clear by several of his personal effects one for instance is his Piwafwi which is made from the blue-black fur of a Displacer beast. Another being the clear quartz crystal that hangs from his neck attached to a silver chain, which grants him the ability to see anything that has been disguised or rendered invisible by magical means. The only true affect from his past that he wears other than his crystal is a worn leather bracer on his wrist with an Adamantine disk in its center that has the insignia of House Melarn on it. Of all of his personal items Q'arlynd's most important is with him at all times. More often than not rendered magically invisible as a safety precaution Q'arlynd wears a Selu'Kiira on his forehead filled with the sentience of all of his ancestors that have worn the stone before him since before dark elves were branded Dhaerow and forced into the underdark. As a member of Eilistraee's faithful Q'arlynd bears a crescent shaped scar on his right palm from when he took his Sword Oath.

Magical Items
Q'arlynd possesses a unique form of spell book: his belt. The leather is inscribed with tiny runes, Q'arlynd's spells, which only become visible when viewed through his seeing crystal. Q'arlynd also possesses a set of master and slave rings. Anyone wearing the master ring will be able to both read the mind of and physically control anyone wearing the slave ring. Q'arlynd utilized his rings on his personal servant, Flinderspeld.

History
Q’arlynd is notable for discovering the true purpose of the magical radiation faerzress: that it is a form of High Magic created by the victorious elves of the Crown Wars to bind the drow to the Underdark.

Q’arlynd has also discovered a way for drow to cast High Magic themselves. One High Magic ritual he devised erased the name Kiaransalee from every being's memories, banishing the goddess from Realmspace.