Kya Mordrayn

Kya Mordrayn is one of the primary villains in the book Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor by Carrie Bebris. She is the leader of the cult of dragons in Myth Drannor.

Description

Kya Mordrayn is a human necromancy wizard/warlock with a dragon talon for an arm. She wears a red leather body armor that leaves much exposed. The most protected part of her appearance being the wing-like collar around her neck. She gave up her humanity in a pact with an archdevil, most likely Orcus, to become powerful enough to create a dracolich out of Pelendralaar. It was her vision to use the pool of Radiance underneath Castle Cormanthor to corrupt the lands of Faerun, starting with Phlan. It was her plan, through the cult, to use a dracolich as her general when they had weakened Faerun enough that the dragon could just walk through.

Personality

Kya Mordrayn is haughty and commanding. She has dry whit when taunting her enemies. She is highly focused on her goal of domination. She can easily manipulate others with her charm and charisma, but she is vicious in her execution.

Abilities

She has a claw attack that causes paralysis, but she can also strike with such force with it that it breaks the bones she hits. If she knows she doesn't have to fight she will use charm person.

She casts a green ray out of her talon hand, that disintegrated a rock. Similarly she shot out a red ray from her fingertip. She creates a force field that doesn't let non-magical weapons through. She can counterspell spells that she knows, which are being thrown at her. She casts chain lightening. In retaliation to Faeril she used cloud poison. She can create magical arrows that volley at her target. She has the ability to cast a force wall around herself. With the spell suggestion, or possibly command, she can take control of a character. She and many of the cult sorcerers have the raise dead spell perfected to a degree that they can hold more than one zombie. Kya does this through her greater soul cage spell.

There are two spells she was going to use that got cut off by actions from Ghleanna and Kestrel.

History

At the beginning of the book she had already made a pact with some devil. She was already in the dragon cult at this point. She then bargained with Pelendralaar the dragon and convinced him to become a dracolich. With the cult she made Pelendralaar a dracolich with a ritual to change him. Together they invaded Myth Drannor, pushing out the lesser known demons. Once in Castle Cormanthor Kya approached the "Protector" and convinced him to hand over the sapphire gem connected to the weave using deceit and empty promises of reviving Myth Drannor to its former glory. Instead she used the gem and its connection to the mysterious power of the Mythal to amplify her powers, and also giving her telepathy. Using the stone she conquered several bands of drow in the underground and enslaved them, drawing the ire of Nathlilik. She would imprison the drow, steal their souls in the soul cage and then drain their blood to feed Pelendralaar. Once she was in control of the Mythal she revived the amber pools of Radiance (that turned men into skeleton warriors) and spread the pools into the lands above.

When the first pools started to appear, one in Phlan, Elminster sent two sets of adventurers into Myth Drannor. The first group went directly into the underground and was nearly whipped out by the cult's sorcerers. Athan was captured alive as was another fighter. The second group to investigate was brought in by a teleporting doorway. This group included Kestrel, Corran D'Arcey, Athan's wizard sister Ghleanna and the fighter Durwyn. The group eventually uncovered how to destroy the sapphire gem, cutting the connection Kya had to the Mythal. A fierce battle ensued. When Kya started losing she called for Pelendralaar but he arrives too late and Kestrel and Corran both land a finishing blow, stabbing her with the magical dagger Boreas' Blood.