Vierfrynn

## Common Knowledge

Historians of the Sym’fadè Confederacy or Galkador may have read about a drow named Ezyne Barath from Tunnel Town seeking council with the mighty alchemist, the Great Sheherazod roughly seven thousand years ago.

Denizens of Amerale may recall Iraezyne Arabeth, the Tunnel Town ambassador to the Council of Five, and her attempt to take over the city by flooding the Amrali River with a potion that transforms the drinker into a dark elf.

Nearly everybody has heard of the undead invasion of 10,014 A.B., or the Fel Invasion of 10,016 A.B..

What very few people, very nearly nobody in fact, know is that all these are instances of the same person.

## Further Description

Vierfrynn was a powerful and ancient drow who conspired for millennia to reclaim the surface for drow-kind and rule the world as its empress. She attained immortality ages ago, and her machinations were stopped in modern times by the Binturian Party. She was personally responsible for the events known as Darkfell and the Fel Invasion, and her immutable essence lives on through the persistence of Fel magic today.

## Early Life

### Birth and Travels (C. 3000's A.B.)

Born in Tunnel Town, Ezyne Barath was raised on the ideals of drow superiority and worship to Maelstrom. Eventually, Ezyne took up study of the arcane arts and mastered many of their secrets, and still somehow found time to rule her home town. Frequent incursions, both from their bitter dark elven rivals and the surface-dwelling human tribes, slowly incurred a fury within Ezyne over hundreds of years. Her hatred towards surface-dwellers in particular surged when petty surface-dwellers made an attempt on her life. Narrowly escaping her assassination, Ezyne travelled across Orelisle for many years, growing stronger in power and resentment.

### Immortality and Re-birth (C. 6000's A.B.)

After learning the secrets of near-immortality from the Great Sheherazod, Galkadorian King Dirennyas’s royal alchemist, Ezyne built power and secret influence in the Underdark, biding her time as her memory faded into the long-distant past. Ezyne Barath vanished from the face of the Material Plane, and in her place Vierfrynn quietly awaited her day of reckoning upon the surface.

### Council of Five (C. 9000’s A.B.)

To further her aims of peace for Drow everywhere, she assumed the identity of Iraezyne Arabeth and ascended to the Amrali Council of Five as the Ambassador of Tunnel Town. She ruled with a just and steady hand, biding her time as she slowly moved pawns into place.

## Time with the Binturian Party

### Poisoning the Water Supply (10,01X A.B.)

Using her considerable sway within Amerale and Tunnel Town, she imbued the Amerale River with a subtle but potent alchemic toxin. When ingested, any humanoid creature would be forcibly transformed into a dark elf. The discovery of her plot, which did not succeed, by the Binturian Party forced Vierfrynn into hiding once more.

### Darkfell (10,01X A.B. - 10,014 A.B.)

Devising a new plan that utilized the powers she acquired over millennia, Vierfrynn slayed Tesseroth the Lesser and stole its power over the Void, forged a pact with Metrion, raised a massive legion of undead, rekindled the war between Aiur and Talios, destroyed the Magic Broadcast Network, executed a continent-wide ritual to pull Void into the Material Plane, and killed countless thousands in the events of Darkfell.

When confronted by the Binturians at Amerale, Vierfrynn was defeated and sent into the Void.

### Fel Invasion (10,014 A.B. - 10,016 A.B.)

As a manipulator of the Void, however, Vierfrynn did not die immediately. Rather than allowing her soul to join the countless legions of Void Beasts, however, she performed her most cunning act yet. Harnessing all her magic, the stolen essence of Tesseroth, and every fibre of her being from millennia of study and magical experimentation, Vierfrynn combined the corruptive Void with the unstable chaos of elemental magic to not only create a new “school” of magic, but to become that very school itself. Thus is born the Fel, and by extension Fel magic.

In its earliest form, Fel magic was clustered into a single large entity, and this allowed Vierfrynn to retain some semblance of her consciousness. She directed herself to corrupt and invade the Abyss, itself a corrupting place already, to further increase her power and convert legions of new soldiers without drawing the attention of the gods of the other planes. Taking Velka and her demons by complete surprise, Vierfrynn transformed swathes of demons and the Abyss’ other denizens into their Fel counterparts, whom she could control directly and press even further on her advantage. Velka used her own power to sever one of the Abyss’ thirteen layers from the rest, and the Fel devoured the rest of the Abyss and became even stronger.

Reaching out through the gates to the Abyss, Vierfrynn sought people who could serve as anchors to the Material Plane and keep her there forever. Moreover, she could feel her mind beginning to decay and needed to choose worthy successors to her final and ultimate goal of global domination. Corrupting two former Binturians, and striking a pact with an angry peasant, Vierfrynn’s three Hierophants were selected: Mortalis, Nor, and Xaoc.

Installing herself in their minds as the “Abyssal Empress”, an idea and title that gave her a victory in some small form, she directed her Hierophants to open a gateway to the Material Plane and begin the invasion in earnest. Her final revenge set in motion, Vierfrynn’s consciousness drifted into peaceful slumber, content knowing that she would win at last. Though the Fel no longer bears Vierfrynn’s will (or appears not to, at the very least), it is still tied to her essence and soul in some way.

## Late Life

### Voidborn Voice (10,016 A.B.)

At the conclusion of the Fel Invasion, a rift in the Abyss opened to the Void, and from within it Vierfrynn could be heard laughing. It is not presently known whether this was some lingering consciousness left behind from Vierfrynn, or if it was simply an illusion planted ahead of time before Vierfrynn’s mind vanished. At any rate, a number of Binturians leapt into the Void after her voice, either to join her or destroy her (sources vary). Nothing further has come of this in the intervening time.

## Further Information

* Amrali Republic
* Dark Elf
* Darkfell
* Fel Invasion
* Fel Magic
* Galkador
* The Sisters
* Tunnel Town
* Void Corruption
* Xaoc