Aryte of the Swamp

Aryte was a traitorous lizardfolk queen who was hellbent on making herself as powerful as she could. No mortals would stand in her way, including her past friends in Team Greenfield.

## Aryte Blackscale

### Aliases

The Lich Queen, The Bitch of the Swamp, The Lizard Queen

### Relatives

More children than can be listed, and possibly dead parents.

## Appearances

### Debut

On the back of an elephant fighting Leninthan

**Early Appearances:** Aryte showed herself to at first be a really heavy sleeper, sleeping through the entire party fighting a blue dragon and waking up only to shoot it with a bow twice and letting the elephant she was sleeping on do most of the work. After that incident she became bitter towards the party, thinking their choices were incompetent at best. Her resentment only grew when she discovered they were getting powerful without her also gaining power. She then went behind the parties back befriending and convincing the four kobolds they had saved from the dragon cult, that she was the one they should follow. Not the other kobold PC Epitosi, who she repeatedly called Hepatitis.

Aryte's less than good intentions were put on display when she defended a kobold who was giving her a power boost, and killed Epitosi to prevent her power from wanning. Only Muk had a bit of a clue what happened to Epitosi, the rest of the party didn't seem to care very much about the death. Muk's suspicion towards Aryte only grew when it was discovered she was building an entire city of kobold's under Berdusk. Aryte sensing her need to get rid of the party before she can fully expand her small community, seeks help from a merchant ally who sold magic weapons and had helped her kill the black dragon who was stopping her from getting her kingdom back from the Swamp.

**Later Appearances:** After getting her merchant ally to agree to help her with her endeavor of getting rid of the party, starting with Muk. Aryte got a vision, that told her to turn her shayman lizardfolk into a minotaur by a special ritual, and with them, summon a demon from the abyss. The demon she summoned seemed to just be a house cat, despite it requiring the blood sacrifice of a party member who had fallen into an odd sort of coma. However after a while the cat began shooting lasers from its eyes, speaking, and shapeshifting from normal cat to a tabaxi like state, showing it was definitely not a cat. The demon revealed its name to be Goose. Goose the perfectly normal cat, they had such low intelligence that they thought they were just that, a cat. Aryte is assumed to still think from this interaction that all cats are abyssal demons.

After a close encounter with Jester, a resurrected friend of Muk's, almost killing the entire party. It is revealed Aryte had an entire castle and subsequent village built up around it, filled with kobold subjects. They treated her similar to that of a queen, and she used every bit of this to her advantage. Aryte, while there, received another vision from Tiamat herself, saying she had to help save Leninthan, who had apparently been alive and slowly dying in the Astral Plane. At this point Aryte knew she could get rid of the party best by taking them with her and allowing Leninthan to finish them off. However, the party intended to live, an inconvenience for her. They attempted to kill her on the very ship she and her Githyanki allies. They were immediately thrown overboard by Leninthan and Aryte declared that if they were ever seen again in her territories, she would have their heads.

Her next objectives included a trip to the Sunset Mountains to corrupt a white dragon with Goose. The ancient white dragon, named Ciraxis, helped them take over Greenest, which was renamed to Archest. In Archest, Aryte laid waste to every cleric and soldier there, leaving behind only peasants and merchants to work for her. She quickly made an underground tunnel system to her old abode, making it so that kobolds could travel back and forth, along with the demons she'd been summoning along the way. After this she ended up rounding up the party with the help of her general, Langdrosa, and the campaign ended there on a grim note. The party heading to Aryte's captured town to be executed.

**Current Status:** So far no mention of Aryte has happened, other than Azrel muttering that she had heard of her before from somewhere. It's implied that it wasn't anything good that she heard.