Triz'ztari

**Triz'ztari, *"the Magniloquent,"*** is a member and the commander of the Queensguard, an elite order of drow who are fanatically loyal to Queen Zyara, the Knight of Pain. The most elegant and cunning of the Queensguard, Triz'ztari serves as the group's leader, and one of Zyara's oldest and most loyal followers.

### Rise to Power & History with the Priestess

Born a noblewoman who became a talented musician and composer - in the aftermath of the Sol Rebellion Triz'ztari was a leading figure of the revolution helmed by Zyara to restructure the drow queendoms of the Underdark into the united collective of Zventhos. She helped to usurp Queen Yezura, and served as a populist recruiter for the movement - effectively fostering Zyara's cult of personality that allowed her to rise to the throne. She and the other members of what would come to be known as the Queensguard served as Zyara's inner circle, along with the elven woman who would become the Priestess - who had returned from the Sol Rebellion with Zyara as her lover. When they had consolidated their grip on Zventhos, Triz'ztari became a propogandist and emissary for the Crown - becoming well known for her grand speeches, displays of national spectacle, and continued bolstering of Zyara's popularity.

As Zyara's power and influence grew, so too did Triz'ztari's own affections for the Queen - falling madly in love with the woman - though for her part, Zyara was oblivious to Triz'ztari's feelings and was devoted to the Priestess. As the War of the Nine Knights began to loom over the Empire, Triz'ztari saw her opportunity, and began preying on the tensions of the war. With her influence, Zyara became crueler, more dependent on the Black Maiden to survive the war's battles, and slowly turned Zventhos from the progressive union it was intended to be into a traditionalist drow war machine - all out of some necessity to win the war.

All the while, Triz'ztari plotted against the Priestess - eventually forming a bargain with Lucian de Lamperouge, an ally of Zventhos at the time. The Priestess had sent word to Galahad, the Knight of Kings to arrange a meeting with Zyara at one of Zventhos's mountain outposts on the surface, to which Zyara agreed. Lucian and Triz'ztari intercepted and altered the communications however, planting false information to suggest to Galahad that the meeting was in fact a trap, with a Valtorian counterforce hiding nearby waiting to attack. Galahad preemtively launched a grand scale attack on the poorly defend outpost at the time of the supposed meeting, leading to a massacre and significant loss of ground and territory for the drow. The Priestess was framed by Triz'ztari for the massacre, Triz'ztari preying on the drows' general sense of distrust and bad blood between other elfkind. Not having the heart to execute her, but still thoroughly duped, Zyara had the Priestess exiled from Zventhos.

Triz'ztari's victory was short-lived, however, as Lucian betrayed the weakened state of Zventhos, sealing Zyara herself in the Black Maiden, and slaughtering the forward forces of the drow. Triz'ztari and the other members of the Queensguard fled to Rahzad-Nul, where they entered a cryogenic sleep engineered by Klavus's magiscientific expertise, in conjunction with Zyara's Apotheon Blood (acquired through repeated use of the Maiden) that each had been injected with - giving them extended life, youth, and strength. They and the remnants of their armies entered a deep sleep for centuries, to awaken and retake the Underdark and even the surface.

### Return & Conflict with the Party

In 237 A.C. after awakening along with the rest of the remnants, Triz'ztari masterminded the events that led to Zyara's reviving from her imprisonment in the Black Maiden at the hands of Lucian de Lamperouge toward the end of the War. Posing as a ragged refugee attempting to escape the underdark, Triz'ztari infiltrated the expedition team led by Captain Jurza Setrov of the Orrukov Regime, which also included the party. "Reluctantly," she led the team to the city of Byzaria, where the Black Maiden was kept in the Mausoleum of the Dark Seldarine. When Adrio Keist revealed himself to be a spy for the Illuvari there to take the artifact himself, Triz'ztari lulled him and the expedition into a false sense of trust, allowing Zyara to attack and kill Adrio while Triz'ztari triggered a protective wall of force to keep the team away. After revealing her ruse and true loyalties, Zyara and Triz'ztari teleported away with the Maiden, leaving the expedition to be dealt with by Xaegaroth's soldiers.

Triz'ztari would finally be confronted by the party and the Priestess herself once they had picked off the rest of the Queensguard and infiltrated Rahzad-Nul and Triz'ztari's own manor. In a violent confrontation atop the manor's tower, Triz'ztari was subdued by their collective forces - captured by the Priestess with the intent to have her confess her crimes before Zyara before killing her. However, Triz'ztari's capture came at a great cost - as she managed to kill Nymue with a deadly shadow evocation spell.