Aurgloroasa

The Sibilant Shade meets with a dragon cultist.

Motivations

Aurgloroasa is obsessed with research into death, undeath, necromancy and shadow magic. She also considers herself to be Null, the draconic death god's most faithful servant and her most ardent wish is to become his consort and thus a demipower in her own right in the not too distant future. Towards this goal she aspires to bring a large portion of Faerun under her sway and create a draconic theocracy in Null's name.

History

Born in the Year of the Black Dawn (426 DR) to Shhuusshuru she prowled her mother's domain in the Far Hills for nearly two centuries until establishing her first lair in the southwestern Thunder Peaks in the Year of Ensorcelled Kings (616 DR). Both elven rangers from Cormanthyr and Dwarven scouts from Thunderholme noted her arrival but neither race chose to move against her. She stayed out of things for the following century and was eventually forgotten by all but the most devoted dragonhunters (none of whom ever actually got to engage with her).

In the Year of Dark Stalking (989 DR), dwarven miners from Thunderholme accidentally expanded their works into her lair, rousing her from her sleep. She dispatched the Dwarves and caved in their tunnel to make it appear as an accident. She became interested in Thunderholme's operations and observed the Dwarves via Divination magic and spies summoned from the Plane of Shadow.

In the Year of Awakening (1001 DR) she began whispering dark promises to the High priest of Dumathoin of the Dwarven city, Dagan. Over the next 33 years his ambition, madness and obsession with death increased and he named his voice the "Sibilant Shade", a name which pleased Aurgloroasa greatly. He rose to a preeminent position in city thanks to her whispers, second only to his king, Emerlin III. The old king died just after his only son and heir disappeared on a trade mission to Selgaunt in the Year of Bane's Brood (1034 DR) and Dagan became regent of Thunderholme in their stead (note: both the king and the prince's fates were caused by the dragon's agents). Dagan used his new power to build a huge temple to Dumathoin in the heart of the city which took 20 years to complete. The regent held a grand ceremony to open the temple and shocked the city's population by dedicating it to Null instead of Dumathoin, summoning Aurgloroasa, believing her to be Null's avatar. She proceeded to kill all but 30 of the Dwarves and then hunted down and killed those over the next few weeks. All those that died now serve the dragon in undeath as skeletons.

She was approached by the Sembian sect of the Cult of the Dragon in the Year of the Creeping Fang (1305 DR) after she had already decided to undergo the transformation to lichdom and left clues for the cult to follow (although that didn't stop her from extorting a massive sum from the cult before she actually said that she agreed to the process). She then bribed, blackmailed and fooled enough cultists to weaken the magical bonds they would place on her when she was finally made into a dracolich in the Year of Lurking Death (1332 DR) so that she would still be an active player in their plans.

Since her transformation the Sibilant Shade has kept quite active (which is unusual for her), instigating a three year civil war in Sembia, stealing the archmage Mhzentul's powerful works and his library of arcane lore, raiding shipping and stealing treasure from boats and other dragons. She could have seized all of Westgate but decided against it.

Most recently she enspelled a hapless adventurer called Orytar into persuading other adventurers to try and defeat her, providing him with a Dethek runestone to Thunderholme that he would give to others. The adventurers would come and she would take their equipment and sacrifice them to her god.