Ilvara Mizzrym

**Ilvara Mizzrym** was a drow high priestess of Lolth as well as the Mistress of Velkynvelve, a drow slaver outpost near the edge of the Darklake. Once the third-born daughter of Matron Mother Miz'ri Mizzrym, the death of her older siblings led Ilvara to becoming the eldest of her mother's living children- though she was not favored for succession. During the Rage of Demons, a great number of prisoners escaped from slavery at Velkynvelve, forcing Ilvara into an obsessive hunt for those escapees throughout the Northdark until her death.

Ilvara was an NPC in the ongoing *Out of the Abyss* campaign, where she had a role as an antagonist.

## Description

Ilvara was a female drow elf with deep black skin, blood red eyes, and bone-white hair. Standing tall at about 5 feet and 6 inches (1.6 meters) and weighing around 146 pounds (66 kilograms), Ilvara was considered rather imposing by her much shorter and less politically important male soldiers. Ilvara had a tendency to wear revealing and beautiful dresses when she wasn't equipped in leather armor, and she was never seen without her signature tentacle rod or scourge of fangs.

## Personality

Ilvara was a cruel, ambitious, and deeply religious drow, much like a majority of drow priestesses. Born as a thirdborn daughter, she grew up more ambitious than her siblings, plotting for her eventual rise. Unlike most ambitious younger siblings, however, Ilvara never put those plots into action. As much as she fit the model of an ideal priestess, Ilvara had one trait that set her apart from others in her house- indecisiveness. While her twin older sisters Sabal and Greyanna plotted against one another for who would be the true first daughter of House Mizzrym, Ilvara limited her schemes to ensure she could never be found complicit, afraid of consequences. When the struggle between her two older siblings came to a boiling point, she even allowed herself to be pushed into supporting her sister Greyanna, under threats of the consequences that would occur otherwise. When Greyanna's schemes saw both herself and Sabal dead, the ambitious Ilvara had gotten everything she wanted, but in her own eyes, and the eyes of her matron, she had not earned it.

Ilvara knew she lacked her Matron Mother's favor from the moment she was appointed to the newly established outpost of Velkynveleve, and this knowledge only led Ilvara to becoming more cruel towards her lessers and more determined to prove herself a capable heir to the title of Matron Mother. Her need to prove herself would eventually outweigh her indecisiveness during the Rage of Demons, when demonic madness drove her to become singularly obsessed with reclaiming all those who had escaped from Velkynvelve and bringing them before her House's Chapel to become sacrifices. This obsession not only caused her to abandon her post at Velkynvelve, but it also drove her spend resources on hiring yugoloths and even bring the quaggoth-prince Derendil back to life, unwilling to accept that his death was not at her hands. Eventually it led to her death at the hands of one of the former slaves, Malady Fahrashiil, who had become a drider after being tortured by Ilvara for days.