Zyraveth Shae'Quarn

Zyraveth Shae'Quarn

Appearance

Zyraveth is a regal Drow matron with deep twilight-blue skin and silver-white hair woven into a complex braided crown. Her scarlet eyes burn with divine authority, framed by elegant, angular features. She wears black and crimson robes adorned with gold web patterns, and her spider-shaped tiara gleams like a symbol of divine favor.

Personality

Devout, merciless, and manipulative, Zyraveth is the embodiment of Lolth's perfection and cruelty. Every gesture is calculated, every word layered with venomous grace. She views her children as extensions of her faith—useful tools or irredeemable failures. Beneath her pious control lies a wounded pride, festering since Lyzzoreth's defection to the Void.

History

High Priestess of Lolth

As Matron Mother of House Shae'Quarn, Zyraveth wielded spiritual and political authority throughout Xal'Vareth. Her sermons drew hundreds of devout Drow, and her rituals often decided the fate of rival houses.

The Web Fractures

When Lyzzoreth abandoned Lolth for the Void, Zyraveth's fury was said to shake the Underdark itself. Her once unbroken web of power began to fray, leaving her isolated and consumed by divine rage. She vowed vengeance upon both her wayward child and the heretics of the Void.

Synopsis

Now a shadow of her former glory, Zyraveth clings to faith as both shield and weapon. Her influence lingers through the Grand Order of Necron, where she serves as priestess and propagandist. Even from the depths of her despair, her web continues to ensnare the fearful and the faithful alike.

Trivia

Keeps the severed silk cords from Lyzzoreth's ceremonial robes locked in her altar chest.

Rumored to sleep with her eyes open to 'see through Lolth's gaze.'

Her favorite punishment is silence; she believes words lose their worth in disobedience.

Zyraveth's prayers are sung in the original Abyssal Drow dialect, a language forbidden to most priestesses.

Her tiara is said to have been crafted from the bones of a lesser demon that once defied her.

The blood she uses in her rituals is drawn from her own veins on nights of devotion, believing pain purifies intent.

She never eats in public; it is said she sustains herself solely on the favor of her goddess.

The inner sanctum of Vel'sharra Hollow is warded so that only those who speak the name of Lolth in reverence may breathe within.

She refers to Lyzzoreth only as 'the Defiled One'—her name is stricken from all family records.

Zyraveth's tears are black from years of ritual toxins used in sacramental trances.

During sermons, her voice carries an unnatural resonance, as if a thousand whispers echo behind her words.

Every year, she holds the Rite of Seven Threads—an offering of seven lives to symbolize the seven houses bound under Lolth.

It is said she once turned a rival matron's heart to crystal for daring to question her authority.

Her personal attendants are all mute; she believes sound unblessed by her will is sacrilege.

The spider tattoos across her back were carved during her ascension to High Priestess, and each leg marks a vow she swore in blood.

When angered, candles extinguish around her and webs across the ceiling ignite in violet flame.

Her divine sigil still hangs in the Hall of Matrons in Xal'Vareth—untouched, yet every year another crack appears across its surface.

She has never once smiled since Lyzzoreth's defection; those who claim to have seen it describe it as 'a prophecy of ruin.'

The blade she carries, Veinweaver, is said to drink only the blood of kin who betray her faith.

Whispers in the Underdark say Zyraveth no longer serves Lolth—but that Lolth now serves through her wrath.