Zikorin

**Zikorin** was a yuan-ti pureblood cleric of the goddess Chauntea. Born in the jungles of Chult and deemed 'imperfect' for her emotions, Zikorin found a home in Port Nyanzaru and a purpose as a pacifist member of the Harpers. During a mission for the harbormaster of Port Nyanzaru, Zindar, Zikorin was slain by the Zhentarim crew of the *Flying Adder*.

Zikorin was a player character for the short adventure *All Eyes on Chult*. They perished in the first session of said adventure.

## Description

Zikorin was a yuan-ti pureblood, though her serpentine heritage was not obvious to all who saw her. She stood tall at 5 feet and 11 inches (1.8 meters) and weighed about 170 pounds (77 kilograms). Visibily distinct from most Chultan Purebloods, Zikorin was pale-skinned with dirty blonde hair- hinting at her human roots being from outside the jungles of the Chultan peninsula. Hidden by common clothes and usually armor, her torso betrays her yuan-ti roots and was almost entirely covered in patches of green scales.

## Personality

In heavy contrast to the the grand majority of her kind, Zikorin was not born emotionless. Being the product of the union of a yuan-ti infiltrator and a normal human, she was born 'imperfect', allowing her to form attachments and grow weary of the cutthroat lives of the yuan-ti. Her ability to feel guilt for atrocities committed, as well as her wish to escape from her serpentine brethren, lead her to join the faith of Chauntea- where Zikorin could atone for the sins of her people through a self-imposed code of pacifism. Even when her life was threatened and she needed to defend herself, Zikorin stood by her goddess' desire for peace. Her unwillingness to shed blood like she'd been forced to in the past would go on to cost Zikorin her life.

## History

Not much is known about Zikorin, mostly due to her early life being a secret she kept from most everyone she knew. Born to a human and a yuan-ti pureblood, Zikorin was raised to be an infiltrator just like her mother. Unlike her mother, she proved to be inadequate in her early life, lacking the ambition or drive to advance- and having weaknesses that her people considered to be entirely gone from the yuan-ti race. These imperfections drove Zikorin away from her people, forcing her to live in Port Nyanzaru under the guise of being a human from the colony of Fort Balduran. In Port Nyanzaru she eventually found acceptance from a traveling missionary of Chauntea's faith, and once she had learned enough of the faith's teachings, she was also taught the code of the Harpers.

For many years afterward, Zikorin made a home out of Port Nyanzaru, though most who knew her saw her only as a foreigner from the Sword Coast rather than a former Yuan-ti infiltrator. As one of the few Harpers in Port Nyanzaru, she was eventually called upon to serve when Harpers in Waterdeep learned of two suspicious ships leaving Waterdeep for Port Nyanzaru's harbor. After meeting with her fellow harpers in Chult, the brothers Gro'ok and Mua'glib, the trio welomed the Waterdhavian Therpora to the city before going to meet with the harbormaster Zindar, an ally of their organization. When the four harpers went to meet the half-dragon sorcerer, they were debriefed on the situation and sent to investigate the *Wicked Gaze* and the *Flying Adder* on Zindar's behalf, as the harbormaster was having all his legal attempts to search the vehicle blocked.

During this mission the harpers were instructed to avoid deaths, due to the illegality of all killings unapproved by the Merchant Princes. Due to this, the Brothers Croak elected to sneak on to the *Flying Adder* alone while Therpora and Zikorin prepared to enter the *Wicked Gaze*. The siblings were successful, sneaking past all the Zhent agents on the ship and returning with the ledger requested by the harbormaster. When the same operation was attempted on the *Wicked Gaze*, Therpora and Zikorin were spotted, resulting in Therpora slaying several of the ship's crew members. Though this was a breach of the law and the mission's parameters, Zikorin made the best of the situation by doing a thorough search of the ship that resulted in the duo finding a hidden smuggling compartment and evidence of a plot utilizing Intellect Devourers.

Now believing that she needed to do the same thorough search of the *Flying Adder*, Zikorin abandoned the rest of the party while the brothers were being confronted by a guard patrol to try sneaking onto the still-guarded vessel. While the rest of the harpers would go on to learn that Intellect Devourers had infiltrated positions in the city guard after the attempted arrest, Zikorin snuck her way onto the Zhentarim vessel effortlessly, only find it far more defended than the last. Zikorin persisted, and while moving crates in search of a hidden compartment, she was confronted by the ship's small crew of four and their guardian death dog. Zikorin initially attempted to negotiate in the Abyssal tongue due to her difficulties with Common, which predictably led nowhere due to the crew and guard dog actively wishing the cleric dead.

Unwilling to fight back, Zikorin used a *sanctuary* spell to try to escape- though she only made it to the edge of the top deck before she was restrained. Unable to escape, the lone yuan-ti was slain by the crew members of the *Flying Adder* for both tresspassing on to the ship and showing that she possessed a corpse of an intellect devourer- proof that she was meddling in the business of their Xanathar Guild allies. Now warned that the Harpers were on to them, the crew of the *Flying Adder* left port, eventually dumping Zikorin's corpse off in the sea.