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The Emissary

Vari is the 2nd born daughter of the very powerful House Viantyrr in Underdark. From a young age it was apparent that Vari was clearly more gifted than her older sister Ullande; she was more intelligent, more physically gifted, and more favored by the elders of the city. In Underdark there is already a malevolent competitiveness that exists amongst the drow, but the hatred Ullande had for her sister was epic. Ullande, as the rightful heir to the House Viantyrr, tolerated her sister's brilliance, however, when the rumors of Vari becoming the successor to House Viantyrr started, it sent Ullande into a rage. Ullande decided that she needed to murder her sister so that she could solidify her claim to the house. A simple death was not good enough for Ullande, she wanted Vari to suffer as much as she had suffered. With the help of some bribed house slaves, Ullande poisoned Vari's evening meal, and when she was unconscious, she had her dragged out to the Underdark. Ullande broke both of Vari's legs and threw her into a deep pit filled with tiny poisonous spiders. Ullande knew that Vari would never be able to escape the pit with two broken legs, and that the spiders would give Vari a very slow and painful death. When Vari finally awoke she found herself broken at the bottom of the pit covered in spiders. She tried to fight them away, but with the inability to escape, it was only a matter of time until she succumbed to the spiders and their poison. She lay broken and battered on the floor, poison from a hundred spider bites coursing through her veins. She writhed in pain and anger, but refused to give in to the embrace of death. After many days of this pain, still refusing to die, something strange happened. An ancient giant white spider descended into the pit and pushed aside the smaller spiders. She peered curiously at the pitiful creature before her, and seemed to wonder why the drow refused to die. She marveled and the dedication of this drow, and pondered something that she had been dwelling on for milleniums. It seemed fate had dropped this strong willed creature at her feet, would this be the creature that would help bring the ancient spider back to the glory and the power that it once knew so long ago? The Ancient White Spider Queen decided that this was indeed her champion. She spun a large sac around Vari to mend her broken body, and spoke to the young drow with her mind. She spoke to Vari about her desires, and told her to go forth to the surface to prepare the land for Her return. When Vari was healed, the Queen unraveled her from her web. Just as Vari was about to begin her lifelong quest, the Queen told Vari to take her new sisters with her. Vari nodded, and then smiled wickedly as scores of tiny white spiders emereged from beneath the Queen to accompany Vari.

Before you is an alluringly, sensual, and svelte drow. Her ebony skin is impossibly smooth and beautifully taut, and her well toned body moves with the grace of a dancer. Her eyes are a pale red, and have a distant faraway look them, almost as if she is thinking about something other than the present. The clothing she wears is well cared for, but every single article appears to be lightly covered in fine spider webs. Her brilliant white hair is pulled back from her elegant face in an intricate braid that falls to the small of her back. It is healthy and smooth, but it also appears to writhe in a perplexing manner. Upon further inspection you realize that her hair is filled with scores of tiny white spiders that dance and crawl within her deftly woven braid.

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The Emissary

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