Beksesha Suulet'jabar, Matron of the Third House
Beksesha Suulet'jabar is a middle-aged female drow elf, the matron of the current third-house of Zar'Ahal, House Suulet'jabar, and the second-ranking high priestess of Maelfazan in the Undercity.
Appearance
A renowned beauty merely a century ago, Beksesha is finally starting to show signs of age, her white hair slightly yellowing, her eyes dulling in color, and her skin creasing ever so slightly at her joints and eyelids. She is slightly taller than average for a female drow, and still lithely, powerfully muscled. She wears her hair braided, gilt, and pinned within an elaborate headdress that would befit a queen as much as a matron. Except when privately enjoying the company of her latest young consort, her eyes judge, her mouth disapproves, and her brow condescends. She rarely wears armor anymore, preferring decadently low cut embroidered spidersilk robes that display and flatter what is left of her statuesque physique, an assortment of favorite, long-envied jewelry recently inherited from her mother, and spidersilk slippers with elaborate silver and gold embroidery.
Skills and Abilities
As a matron, a high priestess of the Goddess, and the longtime yathrin and headmistress of an elite training cadre serving the scions of the noble houses of Zar'Ahal and a fortunate few hand-selected commoners, Beksesha can detect lies, pry into the reveries of a meditating drow, and implant messages in a meditating drow's reveries. She can tap nearly all the divine powers her Goddess allows the most devout of her followers. She is particularly proficient with flails, rods, whips, and throwing daggers.
As a highborn drow, she cannot be magically made to sleep, is resistant to poisons and magical charms, and can sense the weave of magic at will. Once each day, she can levitate herself or another person or object weighing up to a quarter-ton, or temporarily suppress a magical effect. The duration of this is dependent on the load. For herself alone in her typical degree of equipment, she can maintain the spell for up to ten minutes. If lifting a full quarter ton, she can only maintain the spell for a minute at most. She has keen senses of hearing, smell, and eyesight, and can see in complete darkness out to 120 feet, but is seriously hampered in full daylight, and may be temporarily blinded by sudden bursts of bright light.
As a highborn drow, she cannot be magically made to sleep, is resistant to poisons and magical charms, and can sense the weave of magic at will. Once each day, she can levitate herself or another person or object weighing up to a quarter-ton, or temporarily suppress a magical effect. The duration of this is dependent on the load. For herself alone in her typical degree of equipment, she can maintain the spell for up to ten minutes. If lifting a full quarter ton, she can only maintain the spell for a minute at most. She has keen senses of hearing, smell, and eyesight, and can see in complete darkness out to 120 feet, but is seriously hampered in full daylight, and may be temporarily blinded by sudden bursts of bright light.
Personality
Beksesha is quick to take offense and quicker to administer punishment. She is firmly in the sink-or-swim camp of encouraging the development of the younger members of her household, just as she was as headmistress of the training cadre. Her favored punishments are tasks that she earnestly wishes completed but judges to be beyond the current capability of the recipient; it is up to them to figure out a way to succeed and earn her forgiveness, or fail and die unforgiven.
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Biography & Lore
Beksesha spent the past four centuries as the first-daughter and heir apparent to her house, the headmistress of a training cadre, and a priestess directly attending the reigning valsharess of Zar'Ahal. As the new matron of House Suulet'jabar in the wake of her venerable mother's long-awaited death, she supported the current queen Dalrithia's recent coup of the potent and ambitious previous queen Vyx'aria, chiefly because she shrewdly appraised Dalrithia to be a much easier target for her own planned coup and ascension to queen. She has come to completely despise the warmongering Dalrithia, especially since much of her hard power rests in the unparalleled competence of her adopted older brother and house wizard, the notorious transmuter archmage Nimruil, who has recently grown increasingly frustrated and openly angry about the scarcity, expense, and long delays obtaining materials and components for his magical research in the wake of Dalrithia's constant warfare against Zar'Ahal's longtime trading partners.
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