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#1 Guest_IriaZenn_*

Posted 10 August 2007 - 12:40 AM

Chapter 40: Memories Of The Family

T'puuli Wylth as he was know, was the house assassin. She didn’t know his real name, only that he was a cousin that she had been raised with. Of course T'puuli Wylth was a hundred years older than her but it was almost the same as being raised together. She loved her home and her sisters, Nedylene and Zesstra, but it was P’puuli Wylth that was her favorite. She was the youngest noble in her house. Wylth spent most of his time with her when he wasn’t assassinating the bad drow that still plagued their house. He told her of how the city had come to be a free worship city for all drow.

“You see, my mother only had sons, my older brothers. When I was around, say a hundred, our grandmother, the Matron Mother wanted to sacrifice me to Lolth. Apparently in one of the bigger cities there had been a drow who destroyed an entire house. Something about the third born male being bad, good, whatever. Anyhow, Wodaonar came in during the sacrifice and had just returned from the surface. He saw what was happening and cast a spell called “Imprison” that he had learned on the surface. And like that, Veldrin, our grandfather, became Matron Father.”

Was his explanation that he gave her when she ask about the history of the city. Of course there was more than just that, she found out. Wodaonar had been on his first outing and had been captured by elves. Moon elves to be exact. One brave woman decided to show him the beauty of the surface world. Not to kill him as most would have done. (Of course she didn’t understand at the time why they would kill him for being a drow.) Wodaonar reveled the mindless bloodshed in the Spider-bitch’s name. (But apparently, most of the commoners didn’t care for it.) He had brought much glory to the old Matron Mother. Meanwhile, Veldrin had been planning a revolt for ages but lacked the way to do it.

He stayed with the elf and her companions for decades, learning that he could be accepted and was the first to start a trade agreement between the two cities. He wanted to free his people, he knew that if one like him could be saved from the spider pits, all could be. He came back with his moon elf lover and freed the city from the evil Matron Mother’s clutches and Veldrin ruled in her place.

Inspired by the tale of Wodaonar’s actions, she started to learn wizardry. It came easily. Diaytha and Mithykyl were her constant companions. Diaytha was her foster mother as her mother had died when she was young. Mithykyl was an illithid and was a servant to the family. She was told that Mithykyl used to be her twin brother and he did not need to eat brains. (That was odd.) He did help Wylth to destroy the bad ones. They were loyal to Sendai and so was Wylth, because they alone knew her secret.

When the Matron Mother had been banished, all forms of religion had started. Sendai had grown up worshiping Eilistraee with Wylth, who took her to the surface on night when they were children and danced under the stars together. They danced, oh how they had danced. Life was good. It was a happy time to be a Drow.

Then one night when they reached the surface they found that their kin that had been living at the temple had been slaughtered. Sendai saw that even the children had been killed. When they, (they being her cousins, Diaytha, Mithykyl and some half elves that lived in the city), came out of the cave with their family and found that they were greeted by another sight, elves in green armor stood there with bows trained on them and demanded the release of their brethren. Standing in their mists was a woman with a gold crown and a cruel smile. She was the one that had ordered the destruction of Sendai’s people.

It didn’t make sense to her at the time. There were moon and sylvan elves visiting the city, goldies never came down. They were too tight assed about themselves, Wylth had explained to her.

“Where is Queen Uruviel? She knows that the Drow from our city have had a peace agreement with her for the past two hundred years!” Wylth demanded of the golden elves.

“You dare to question Queen Ellesime, creature? Just who do you think you are?” The man standing to this “queen” asked. “She is the daughter of Rillifane. She has claimed the city from traitor Uruviel!”

“That’s enough, Joneleth. These things have no need to know of our noble ways.” The “Queen” spoke.

“Things!? We are elves too, lady! You killed peaceful followers of Eilistraee. Tell me, did you give them warning they were going to be slaughtered? What are you Shevarash worshipers, to attack innocent drow?” Diaytha screamed.

“You dare to dirty Shevarash’s name with your lips!?” A black haired goldie said in return. “There is no such thing as innocent drow. Only dead drow.” Sendai had seen this scary goldie before but not in armor, in tight leather with the ssins d'aerth at the inn.

“Enough Bodhi. Joneleth the spell!” The “Queen” commanded.

“Yes, Drow, this is a freedom spell. If you do not comply with our terms we will read it.” The mage said as he pulled out a scroll.

“Wodaonar, translation. Now.” Wylth ask his brother.

“Matron Mother Ard- Oh gods, this is not good Wylth! Lolth will return!” Sendai was worried as all the drow looked very pale in the moonlight. They must have been talking about the Matron Mother that had been imprisoned before she was born. She tried thinking of who Lolth was but no one had ever told her, only telling her that Wylth assassinated the ones that worshiped her. She knew that whoever this Lolth was, it was evil. She thought that maybe it was a god. “We will have every elf out of the city before sunrise...and the half elves too. We will do what ever you want. Just don’t read that scroll.”

“We just want the pure elves out of the city. I care nothing for those who are not The People... Tell me out of curiosity what will happen if I read this scroll?”

“Death in multitudes of our people.” Wodaonar answered.

“Idiot! Honest but still an idiot! Your people, the moon and sylvan visit us from the city, Suldanessellar, where they live, they are there. They would be killed too.” The “queen” looked bored and yawned.

“We have no need of them. After all it is the golden,” Bodhi snickered, “rule that shall come to pass.”

“Wait! There is a gold elf in the city, he wanted to see...our...private altar. Shit! We just let the real person in that’s going to cast the spell, didn’t we?” Wylth slapped his forehead. “I’m surround by idiots! You know I’m really surprised at this point that our surname isn’t ruzzo'iso t'zarrethen.” He mumbled. There were sounds coming out of the cave that they had come from. A tall black hair woman came out with several others. It was the moon elf and her companions. They would be able to save the city! They all had swords or other weapons and were ready to fight.

“The Drow have come far to improve themselves and you would risk their place in the afterlife, for what? I will not be part of this! In fact I think I will oppose you. Drow, go back inside and save yourselves. Keep the old bitch from coming back.” She smiled as her and her companions ran forward. “Woe, be careful.” She added sofly.

“You too, my moon goddess.”

“Wodaonar, head back in your pants. You go back and make sure the old hag doesn’t get out! Diaytha and I will get Sendai away from her. I will return when they are safe.”

“See to it brother.” He said as he and fellow drow ran back into the caverns to prevent the city from reverting to it’s old ways all too soon. Wylth, Diaytha, Mithykyl and herself ran away from the fighting and the caverns into the night. They ran until they saw the shore on the horizon. It was half way through the night already.

“We are far from Ust Natha, keep your hoods up, take this gold and head to Skullport. Speak only common. Don’t trust anyone, not even other Drow. Hid your holy symbols. Just get away. I must help my brothers. Don’t let anyone hurt Sendai.” He said as he removed his white gold necklaces and rings. “I will come for you if I can.” He said to them. Mithykyl waved his tentacles around and changed his appearance to a human male. “Good idea.”

“Wylth! Please be careful. Come back to me cousin.” Sendai called.

“I will try. Pray to your father little Sendai, he is after all the patron of assassins. Diaytha, it’s time she was told of her father. Her truth father.” And then he was gone.

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“Praise be to the Dark Maiden you are alive!”

“Diaytha, keep your voice down. I’m not really safe at this moment.” The whispered response came through the crystal orb. Sendai picked over her foster-mother shoulder and frowned at the site that greeted her. It was T'puuli Wylth, or at least his head and his shoulders, the rest of his body covered with a dirty sheet. He didn’t look well, he looked thinner, almost broken. That really couldn’t be Wylth!

“What happened to you?” Sendai whispered.

“She was set free... Wodaonar changed into a drider... Everyone else given to the handmaidens... I was the longest... They drove Veldrin mad...”

“Are you still in the city?”

“No... She forced me into my natural form... throwing me into the spider-pits... I escaped... Wodaonar saved me... Waited until I was bound almost completely in the cocoon... I changed back... they all think I’m still being held by the handmaidens... Only Sola and mother know my true form... The Matron forgot already...”

“Where are you now?” Diaytha asked gently.

“Ship... with humans... they think I’m a blessing...or something... I don’t know where I’m going...”

“Can you escape?”

“All I do is lie here... The pain is on the inside... The handmaidens... I will never touch another female...” He shuddered at his personal nightmares.

“We’ll find you!” Sendai cried out.

“NO!” He yelled, then weakly lifted his head and looked around. “You are special Sendai... Adalon... promised we would meet again... Promise me not to trust anyone... especially humans... they are evil more evil than I thought... Be good Sendai...Be... goo-“ The crystal went black and they couldn’t make contact no more.

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Sendai opened her eyes. She had been dreaming of her cousin, her family. She had learned that Wylth was living under a different name now. In his natural form, still an assassin. Her sisters had been punished and had accepted the Spider-queen and now worked slave routes, something that had been put a stop to before her time. She knew that her family had been different, her city had been different. The males had aspired to something more than flesh to trade, they had changed the city. It took one spell and a pissed off Lolth to change all that.

She lived in Skullport now, studying under other faithful of Eilistraee. She was happy with her life... but she yearned to be more. She knew now what she was and there were whispers in her dreams promising her more. She could be more than the next drow. She wanted all drow to know there was a choice out there, that Lolth wasn’t the answer. Of course, the elves of Suldanessellar would have to pay... No, that was the taint talking. War was not the answer. Hatred only bred more hatred.

But when she remembered seeing the state that Wylth had been in, all those years ago, she hated her own kind. After her foster mother told her of the old ways of the drow, she knew that what happened to Ust Natha was unquie, something that would probably never happen again. She wanted it to happen again though. Maybe if there was someone stronger than Eilistraee...

She pushed her head under the pillow, wanting to sleep some more, but didn’t dare. The dreams reminded her of what she lost and what she could gain. The door to her room was flung open and she found Diaytha standing there.

“Good morning my child. I brought you some texts for you to study and there’s a full moon tonight, you know what that means.”

“A hunt and a dance.” Sendai smiled. “Diaytha, do you miss the others?” The older woman looked shocked.

“Of course I do, they gave their lives for what they believed in.” She smiled gently and came over to her young foster daughter. “They all knew what you are and want only the best for you.” She said as she brushed the girl’s silver hair.

“I’m thinking of using a spell to find out what the others would have wanted.” She said.

“Then do it. Find what is in their hearts and in your own, make the world tremble if that’s what you want.” Diaytha said with force. Sendai nodded and hopped out of bed and walked over to her desk. In a jar were some spiders, just little things, that everyday drow saw. She opened it and poured them into her hand gently.

“Find my family, find their desires, my creatures!” The spiders acknowledged what she said and all of them went away. After a few minutes she remember something. “Crap, Wylth is afraid of spiders! Oops.”

#2 Guest_Silver_*

Posted 10 August 2007 - 01:05 AM

Chapter 40: Memories Of The Family


Yay! More Misery & Happiness! :lol:

Nice to see some familiar names in this part. I like the way you write, not a step-by-step walkthrough. Chapters like this are different, and I like that.

More soon? :roll:

#3 Guest_IriaZenn_*

Posted 10 August 2007 - 01:09 AM

Chapter 40: Memories Of The Family


Yay! More Misery & Happiness! :lol:


Nice to see some familiar names in this part. I like the way you write, not a step-by-step walkthrough. Chapters like this are different, and I like that.

Thank you

More soon? :roll:


Working on letters to Dekkie now!

#4 Laufey

Posted 12 August 2007 - 06:32 PM

I enjoyed this look into the background of some of the characters - my, your Ellesime certainly is rotten, isn't she? :) I hope she'll get her comeuppance eventually.
Rogues do it from behind.

#5 Guest_IriaZenn_*

Posted 12 August 2007 - 06:44 PM

I enjoyed this look into the background of some of the characters - my, your Ellesime certainly is rotten, isn't she? :D I hope she'll get her comeuppance eventually.


Maybe, maybe not. We'll see. :wink:

#6 Weyoun

Posted 12 August 2007 - 06:56 PM

Chapter 40: Memories Of The Family


Oooh! Drowies! ;)

“You see, my mother only had sons, my older brothers. When I was around, say a hundred, our grandmother, the Matron Mother wanted to sacrifice me to Lolth. Apparently in one of the bigger cities there had been a drow who destroyed an entire house. Something about the third born male being bad, good, whatever. Anyhow, Wodaonar came in during the sacrifice and had just returned from the surface. He saw what was happening and cast a spell called “Imprison” that he had learned on the surface. And like that, Veldrin, our grandfather, became Matron Father.”


Matron Father... interesting title. :D

He stayed with the elf and her companions for decades, learning that he could be accepted and was the first to start a trade agreement between the two cities. He wanted to free his people, he knew that if one like him could be saved from the spider pits, all could be. He came back with his moon elf lover and freed the city from the evil Matron Mother’s clutches and Veldrin ruled in her place.


Sounds like a pretty good deal.

“You dare to question Queen Ellesime, creature? Just who do you think you are?” The man standing to this “queen” asked. “She is the daughter of Rillifane. She has claimed the city from traitor Uruviel!”


*sigh* Ellesime... Why am I not surprised.

“We’ll find you!” Sendai cried out.


“NO!” He yelled, then weakly lifted his head and looked around. “You are special Sendai... Adalon... promised we would meet again... Promise me not to trust anyone... especially humans... they are evil more evil than I thought... Be good Sendai...Be... goo-“ The crystal went black and they couldn’t make contact no more.


Poor Sendai. :lol:

“A hunt and a dance.” Sendai smiled. “Diaytha, do you miss the others?” The older woman looked shocked.


“Of course I do, they gave their lives for what they believed in.” She smiled gently and came over to her young foster daughter. “They all knew what you are and want only the best for you.” She said as she brushed the girl’s silver hair.


“I’m thinking of using a spell to find out what the others would have wanted.” She said.


“Then do it. Find what is in their hearts and in your own, make the world tremble if that’s what you want.” Diaytha said with force. Sendai nodded and hopped out of bed and walked over to her desk. In a jar were some spiders, just little things, that everyday drow saw. She opened it and poured them into her hand gently.


“Find my family, find their desires, my creatures!” The spiders acknowledged what she said and all of them went away. After a few minutes she remember something. “Crap, Wylth is afraid of spiders! Oops.”


LOL! Nice ending. :wink:
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#7 Guest_IriaZenn_*

Posted 12 August 2007 - 07:07 PM

Chapter 40: Memories Of The Family


Oooh! Drowies! ;)

Just for you Wey!


“You see, my mother only had sons, my older brothers. When I was around, say a hundred, our grandmother, the Matron Mother wanted to sacrifice me to Lolth. Apparently in one of the bigger cities there had been a drow who destroyed an entire house. Something about the third born male being bad, good, whatever. Anyhow, Wodaonar came in during the sacrifice and had just returned from the surface. He saw what was happening and cast a spell called “Imprison” that he had learned on the surface. And like that, Veldrin, our grandfather, became Matron Father.”


Matron Father... interesting title. :D

Well it's better than the old title.


He stayed with the elf and her companions for decades, learning that he could be accepted and was the first to start a trade agreement between the two cities. He wanted to free his people, he knew that if one like him could be saved from the spider pits, all could be. He came back with his moon elf lover and freed the city from the evil Matron Mother’s clutches and Veldrin ruled in her place.


Sounds like a pretty good deal.

Oh it was.


“You dare to question Queen Ellesime, creature? Just who do you think you are?” The man standing to this “queen” asked. “She is the daughter of Rillifane. She has claimed the city from traitor Uruviel!”


*sigh* Ellesime... Why am I not surprised.

Because she's an evil bitch? :wink:


“We’ll find you!” Sendai cried out.



“NO!” He yelled, then weakly lifted his head and looked around. “You are special Sendai... Adalon... promised we would meet again... Promise me not to trust anyone... especially humans... they are evil more evil than I thought... Be good Sendai...Be... goo-“ The crystal went black and they couldn’t make contact no more.


Poor Sendai. ;)

It gets better for her someday.


“A hunt and a dance.” Sendai smiled. “Diaytha, do you miss the others?” The older woman looked shocked.



“Of course I do, they gave their lives for what they believed in.” She smiled gently and came over to her young foster daughter. “They all knew what you are and want only the best for you.” She said as she brushed the girl’s silver hair.



“I’m thinking of using a spell to find out what the others would have wanted.” She said.



“Then do it. Find what is in their hearts and in your own, make the world tremble if that’s what you want.” Diaytha said with force. Sendai nodded and hopped out of bed and walked over to her desk. In a jar were some spiders, just little things, that everyday drow saw. She opened it and poured them into her hand gently.



“Find my family, find their desires, my creatures!” The spiders acknowledged what she said and all of them went away. After a few minutes she remember something. “Crap, Wylth is afraid of spiders! Oops.”


LOL! Nice ending. :lol:


Thank you!




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