Idas of Rhomduil

## Idas Gharna

### Aliases

Queen of Rhomduil and Empress of Celymnaia, High Priestess of Ghaunadar, Keeper of the Mydra Tura Shrine

## Physical description

### Eye color

Grey

*"Light leads to hatred, dark to delight. The best of all things, are done in the night. More danger, more glory... through destiny and might we shall rule supreme."*

-Idas of Rhomduil

## History

When Idas Gharna, an ambitious young priestess from Mydra Tura, sought power, she turned to Rhomduil’s powerful thief guild, and received their assistance for a price. They propelled her to the position of Keeper of the Mydra Tura Shrine, but in return, she was to appoint to the rank of Archon the war hero and Guildmaster of the Mydra Tyra Thieves' Guild, Welvog Tare. Gharna hoped to use her position to represent all Rhomduil. She is not particularly listened to on the Holy Council, as the other members know that she does not speak for all her people.

Over the years to come, Idas Gharna and Welvog Tare have had to work as partners in governance and intrigue, despite not really getting along. Out of sheer necessity, they have come to trust each other.

## Personality

Idas Gharna dreamed of the unification of Rhomduil for decades, and rightly saw the War of the Philosopher-Kings as a chance for upheaval and chaos, a chance for her to seize the power she craves.

Idas wanted power, and felt so much hatred for those who stood in her way that she had no room left for fear. She saw the great old ones and Ghaunadaur in particular as the most powerful entities in the cosmos, and believed that no other beings deserved her worship and obedience.

## War of the Philosopher-Kings

Though Idas Gharna would not accompany the dark elf force led by Welvog Tare, she would lead the defenders of Mydra Tura alongside him in their battle against the Wild Hunt.

## After the War

As the influence of the great old ones spread across the world, Idas Gharna and the city of Mydra Tura were the most receptive. Already worshipers of Ghaunadaur in his aspect as the Elder Elemental Eye, Tare and Idas Gharna accepted what the five other shrine cities could not - that the time of the gods was at an end. Rhomduil would soon fall into a religious war, with Idas Gharna leading the forces loyal to the great old ones. She would emerge victorious as the Queen of Rhomduil, and would go on to appoint Welvog Tare as the Mortal Sword of Ghaunadaur.

## The Great Awakening

*"You appear to hold to the childish notion that some truths are intransigent and undeniable. Alas, the adult world is never so simple. All truths are malleable. Subject, by necessity, to revision. Have you not yet observed, that in the minds of the people in this empire, truth is without relevance? It has lost its power. It no longer effects change and indeed, the very will of the people – born of fear and ignorance, granted – the very will, as I said, can in turn revise those truths, can transform, if you like, the lies of convenience into faith, and that faith in turn is not open to challenge."*

-Idas of Rhomduil

After the conquest of Celymnaia, Idas Gharna would crown herself Empress of Celymnaia in addition to Queen of Rhomduil. The occupation would not be a harmonious one, for it became apparent to the Druids of Celymnaia that their new Empress, the High Priestess of Ghaunadar, was determined to desecrate the natural world at the command of her god.

As the Long War progressed, Idas and her Ghaunadaur-worshipping drow began to be eclipsed by the druid Romilly Mag Raith and the followers of the Black Goat, who were more willing then she to give themselves to madness. Their delirium won them favor, and in in a reversal of fortune, Mag Raith and their follower Haelryl Hune captured the Queen of Rhomduil and fed her to the Black Goat.