Zaranda Star
Her Royal Highness Zaranda Star Rhindaun
Physical Description
Facial Features
Her face, more handsome than beautiful, is slightly marred by a long, thin nose that was once broken and reset slightly askew. Strong white teeth and thin lips.
Identifying Characteristics
She has small scars on her right cheek. One is from her saber when it was wielded by a foe. The others are burn scars from molten lava.
Apparel & Accessories
Zaranda's apparel depends on circumstances.
When dressed for battle, Zaranda looks like a formidable battle captain, decked out in her steel breastplate, small helmet, and saber. Her saber is on her back if mounted or on her hip, if dismounted.
In social settings, she dresses in a soft, dark velvet gown that has three golden chains and a jeweled dagger around the waist.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Little is known of Zaranda Stars past except that she was an orphan and started her adventuring life as a wizard. Eventually, she turned to fighting as her primary occupation.
Following the crusade against the Tuigan Horde, she purchased her estate in Tethyr and was known as the Countess Morninggold. She became a merchant and took trading caravans through many parts of the Realms. On her last expedition, she was hired to go to Thay and retrieve several magical items.
Just prior to her scheduled execution, Zazesspur erupted in revolt and it was discovered that much of the internal struggle within the city had been caused by the Zhentarim, who were smuggling children out in a slave trade. Some of the children never made it; they became food for a horrid fiend that had the head of an ox and the body of a scorpion. The fiend in turn served a deepspawn in a section of the Underdark beneath Zazesspur. Zaranda was freed so that she and her company could help the inhabitants of the city destroy these horrid creatures.
Against incredible odds, Zaranda and her companions defeated the fiend and the deepspawn although several of them fell in battle. During the battle, Zaranda discovered that her apprentice Chenowyn was a ruby dragon. After the forces of evil fell, the citizens of Zazesspur proclaimed Zaranda queen, and she reluctantly assumed the throne.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Prior to becoming Queen of Tethyr, Zarandas main goal was to finish paying for her fief and becoming totally self-sufficient. Now Zaranda wants to make all her people self-sufficient so that they are never again vulnerable to the forces of evil.
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