Countess Sarya Dlardrageth is a half sun elf, half-fiend sorceress,[1] leader of the daemonfey and a princess of House Dlardrageth. She is over five thousand years old.[2]
Description
Sarya has deep red skin and bright orange and gold hair. She prefers to wear her magically protective black robes embroidered with gold. She has a seductive beauty and classic elven features.[2] She is short and girlish.[3] Her gold eyes burn like bright coals, and she has large, bat-like wings emerging from her back.[4]
Viewed through the shimmering effect of her heat aura, Sarya'ss long hair seems to flow as if it were a mane of flames. Her pointed ears look like regular elf ears, though close inspection reveals a slight scalloped edge to them.
Personality
The Cambion Countess is aloof, unforgiving, and totally without remorse. While her abilities make her a formidable foe, she prefers to have her son and nephew sully their hands in combat while she remains the planner behind the scenes. She has nothing but disdain for non elves and utter hatred for most elves. As it has been proven to her, only House Dlardrageth matters, and she is adamant that it will survive. The youngest child and sole daughter of Lady Xiiltharra Dlardrageth and her balor consort, Sarya spent her life in awe of her mother, the matriarch of the Dlardrageth clan. As she expected to become the new matriarch upon her mothers death, she always ordered her family and friends around, and her awesome temper would flare quickly to a burning heat if she were disobeyed or ignored. With the house reduced to its current trio, Sarya's driving motivation is to learn of the new Faerûn, rebuild her house by abducting proper gold elves for mates, and then begin her revenge on those who imprisoned her and dared to render short-sighted judgment upon her house. Though she is only 180 years old physically, millennia of waiting have kept her hatred bright, and she is intent upon seeing the up and start moon elves suffer for their actions and their presumption.[4]
Possessions
Sarya wears the Gilded Gown of Selussa, which is a black robe embroidered with gold that is enchanted to the strength of steel, and carries a zalanthar wood staff called Miillaethm's Staff. Also, she has Aduce's Whip, and wears the Emerald Earring of Vhoadan.[5]
She recovered a levitating Vyshaanti battle platform from the ruins of Nar Kerymhoarth. It is forty feet (12m) across and has armoured sides.[6]
Relationships
Sarya's father is a balor.[2] She is the youngest child and only daughter of Lady Xiiltharra Dlardrageth.[7] She has a son called Xhalph who was born after her coupling with a glabrezu.[8] She also has a nephew named Xhalth and a deceased son Ryvvik who was of vrock heritage and a psionic.[1] [9]
Imprisonment
Sarya was magically imprisoned thousands of years ago in a location on top of which Ascalhorn and later Hellgate Keep would be built. In 1369 DR she was set free when the prison was cracked after the Harpers used the Gatekeeper's Crystal to raze the city of Hellgate Keep.[10]
Recent History
In 1374 DR, burning with wrath for being imprisoned thousands of years, Sarya, attempted to take vengeance upon the descendants of her enemies. She freed the remainder of her Daemonfey kin from Hellgate Keep, then ammassed an army of orcs, bugbears, and goblins. Sarya first attacked small wood elf settlements in the High Forest, then launched an attack on Evereska.
After lackluster results on both attempts she decided to secretly move into the ruins of Myth Drannor and carve out a kingdom in the forest of Cormanthor. Here she could press into service both demons and devils. Not only was her residency of the formerly glorious Myth Drannor a dire insult to elven-kind, but Sarya fully intended to use it as a stronghold to slowly conquer the entire region of the Dalelands, the Moonsea, and Sembia. With the help of her mysterious fiendish patron, The Branded King, Sarya even got the lingering powers of Myth Drannor's mythal to work in her favor.
Sarya's plans were, however, eventually thwarted by the elven army of Seiveril Miritar, mercenary armies from Sembia, various small human armies of the Dales, and in no small part by the efforts of the sun-elf wizard, Araevin Teshurr.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jason Carl, Sean K. Reynolds (October 2001). Lords of Darkness. Edited by Michele Carter. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 126. ISBN 07-8691-989-2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Richard Baker (August 2004). Forsaken House. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 38. ISBN 0-7869-3260-0.
- ↑ Richard Baker (August 2004). Forsaken House. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 261. ISBN 0-7869-3260-0.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Steven E. Schend (March 1998). Hellgate Keep. (TSR, Inc), p. 10. ISBN 978-0786907861.
- ↑ Steven E. Schend (March 1998). Hellgate Keep. (TSR, Inc), p. 10. ISBN 978-0786907861.
- ↑ Richard Baker (August 2004). Forsaken House. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 207–208. ISBN 0-7869-3260-0.
- ↑ Steven E. Schend (March 1998). Hellgate Keep. (TSR, Inc), p. 10. ISBN 978-0786907861.
- ↑ Richard Baker (August 2004). Forsaken House. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 53–54. ISBN 0-7869-3260-0.
- ↑ Steven E. Schend, Sean K. Reynolds and Eric L. Boyd (June 2000). Cloak & Dagger. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 94. ISBN 0-7869-1627-3.
- ↑ Richard Baker (August 2004). Forsaken House. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 39–40. ISBN 0-7869-3260-0.