Kazandra
Kazandra
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Female Aerenal Elven Lich
Neutral Evil 16th level Druid
Appearance: Kazandra takes the appearance of an old, long grey haired woman, with wrinkles that many would never imagine to be an elf since so few of them ever reach such an impossible age. She is apparently blind but makes no attempt to give the impression she cannot see. This is an illusion and her true form is a not much different dessicated husk.
Personality: Kazandra speaks in riddles and enigmas while leaving those she converses with to puzzle them out. She cares nothing for the lives of any being in the world but those she believes are chosen by 'Destiny' and even those are pawns for the greater Balance that she thinks she serves. In truth, she's endlessly malicious and cruel.
Background: Kazandra is one of the few surviving members of the House of Vol except for Erandis D'Vol and is actually her maternal Aunt. She never manifested a Dragonmark and instead devoted herself to studying the ways of death and rebirth in the far off Eldeen Reaches before she was driven away for her abominable practices by Oalian. By that time, most of House Vol had already been destroyed and she survived only by the aid of a wizard lover transforming her into a Lich.
Kazandra is one of the Crimson Covenant of the Blood of Vol and arguably second in command of the Emerald Claw and the entire religion. It is Kazandra's fell druidic practices that created much of the dogma for the religion and her unnatural charisma that continues to make sensible the unnatural practices of the faith. Her incredible skill at persuasion has converted many righteous and good individuals to horrific evil.
Kazandra believes the Mourning is a sign that the transformation of the entire world into an undead Necropolis is at hand and this will result in the transformation of the plane of death into an immortal paradise. She believes this is the only way to save the populous of Eberron thanks to the horrific things she's heard in her explorations of the depths of Khyber using a druidic form of astral projection. Rather than attempt to prevent this disaster, Kazandra intends to hasten it about.
Kazandra has special plans for the Bone Knight Cassius D'Crion. Plans that extend from before his birth. Kazandra used potions designed by Erandis to briefly transform herself once more into a comely elven maiden. There, she seduced King Kaius and presented him his child nine months later. Cassius is unaware that he is the product of the House of Vol or tainted by the womb of a creature long dead but is aware of Kazandra as she's played the part of the mysterious advisor several times in his life.
