Jezarayn

Jezarayn is a pseudohistorical wizard noted in the historical scholarship of the Eleven Cities. Her capacity as a focus of thaumatological research stems from her capacity as a daughter of the esteemed wizard Morogyad.    

History

  Jezarayn's existence is mentioned by the historian Hephryan of Tyros, who in his biography of Morogyad observes the wizard had a daughter with a courtesan. Hephryan does not name either woman, however. The only historian to do so is Orrdelph, who in his book Lives of the Wizards asserts that the courtesan's name was Yzarayas and the daughter's was Jezarayn. Orrdelph provides no specific details of Morogyad's liaison with Yzarayas and, as he was married at the time to another woman named Abeyan, it is unclear whether his reputed munificence to his legitimate children extended to Jezarayn.  

Thaumatological interest

  Orrdelph avers that Jezarayn launched a wizardly career when her half-brother Pholadros sought to perform a magical ritual that would grant him the ability to transform into a petrel. The ritual required three people, and though his sister Qesarayas was willing to be involved his brother Torolod is said to have rejected the idea entirely.   Orrdelph's description of the ritual is limited to his assertion that it required three participants and his clear implication that these participants had to be, if at all possible, relatives of Morogyad. This may make sense given the fact that Jezarayn, Pholadros and Qesarayas are, via their father, widely reputed to be the grandchildren of Zargyod, a god with strong and abiding connections to the sea.   The ritual worked and over time the three siblings gradually withdrew from human society, spending more and more of their time among the petrels and eventually disappearing away to sea altogether. Pholadros and Qesarayas were, according to Orrdelph, never seen again, but Jezarayn was caught in a fisherman's net in her petrel form several years later. As the fisherman untangled the by-catch from his net, Jezarayn transformed back into a woman. Orrdelph avers that she married the fisherman and went to live with him in Dyqamay, living to an advanced age, but he does not say if she had any children.   Orrdelph is the only pre-Wesmodian source who tells this story, but that does not mean it is untrue. If it is accurate, it would imply that Morogyad's bloodline spread to Dyqamay. Given Yran Qobryod's notions about the hereditary nature of wizardry, this is a potentially interesting point, though how to begin tracing the ancestry to Morogyad's descendants in modern-day Dyqamay is a problem no subsequent thaumatologist has ever convincingly addressed.