Queensguard Xintori

Queensguard Xintori

**Queensguard Xintori** (born 198 P.A. in Quel Rachvi) was a drow warrior of the Lolthir, tasked with defending the Divine Scion, Elendar Xiloscient, from any threats to his person. She worked alongside the spymaster Adaira Voth as well as the assassin Shadowblade Hal'dauros in this task. After Elendar's disappearance, Xintori and the other Lolthir tasked with his security scrambled to find him, eventually discovering his likely departure to the Republic. While Hal'dauros and his team departed south, Xintori remained in Seran Seldaris to find potential participants in Elendar's disappearance, eventually discovering a group of refugees attempting to flee to the surface - one of them being a former scavenger associated with Elendar. Xintori attempted to capture the refugees in Shadow's Pass, happening upon both the traitor Galanodel Amokiir and the runaway Elendar. When she attempted to reclaim Elendar, the party resisted and fought back, ultimately ending Xintori's life.

## History

Born to the dark and venerable House Voth, Xintori was trained at a young age in the ways of battle and torture. House Voth had long served Queen Umbara Rachvald, matron mother of House Rachvald and leader of the Lolthir, as royal retainers and inquisitors, sussing out traitors and slaying the enemies of the Lolthir at their queen's command. Xintori, like the rest of her family, would be raised to continue this tradition.

Because of her sister Adaira's talent with assassination and magic, Xintori was subject to heavy scrutiny by her parents and tutors to meet her sister's success. To their disappointment, Xintori did not possess Adaira's talent for such skills, and was relegated to exhausting martial training. For each failed maneuver and slight insubordination, she was subjected to painful punishments that would have broken any other trainee, yet her spite and constitution kept her going.

Not to be outshone by her elder sibling, Xintori trained day-and-night, perfecting her swordplay and practicing methods of inhumane torture against the prisoners of House Voth, eventually becoming House Captain. Shortly after, Xintori thwarted an assassination plot against Queen Umbara from the hostile city of Quel Nyxia, earning her a position as a Queensguard, one of the Queen's personal bodyguards and elite warriors of the Lolthir.

While serving as Queensguard, Xintori was often tasked with investigating rumors of insurrection and treason in Quel Rachvi, and given free reign to interrogate suspects as she saw fit. Her sadistic tendencies would have to be halted, however, when she was assigned to protect Elendar Xiloscient, the Divine Scion of the Lolthir. Though she scoffed at the idea of a male drow receiving the blessing of the Spider Queen, she considered the task a great honor, if only because Queen Umbara trusted only her and her compatriots.

On the month of Freydine, Xintori, along with her sister, spymaster Adaira, and a sickly-looking assassin named Shadowblade Hal'dauros, escorted Elendar on a supposed "information gathering" mission to the surface, where the Scion would be researching healing methods used by surface dwellers. While escorting Elendar through Quel Lunadel, an eccentric shadar-kai in a colorful dress began accusing Xintori of stealing her coin purse, prompting the nearby guard to question her. As Xintori struggled to shake the guards off, a crowd began gathering around them as the shadar-kai called more attention to them. Just as Xintori convinced the guards of her innocence, Elendar and the shadar-kai had disappeared.

Over the following five months, Xintori and her conspirators rushed to find Elendar, knowing the punishment that awaited them should they fail to retrieve him. Eventually, after some spywork and information gathered through creative "interrogations," they learned that a drow matching Elendar's description had crossed the southern border into the Republic of Luxengrand. Shadowblade Hal'dauros was sent with his own team to find the Divine Scion, while Xintori was forced to remain in Seran Seldaris in the event Hal'dauros's information proved faulty, as well as to protect Adaira herself.

Initially upset at this prospect, she hoped to take out her frustration against a group of Lolthir refugees attempting to escape to the surface, one of which was a manna scavenger named Vyrthur, who once worked with Elendar. When she ambushed the refugees in Shadow's Pass, she was pleased to find the traitor Galanodel Amokiir leading them - and even more pleased to find Elendar in their company. Elendar bargained for the refugee's lives, with Xintori promising not to bring the others back to Quel Rachvi for punishment; instead, she planned to slaughter the rest in the tunnel once Elendar was secured.

Refusing to let Elendar give himself up to his old captors, the party fought back, slaying two of the Lolthir and routing two others. Xintori, thoroughly slashed by Nix, bludgeoned by Ginny, and burned by Elendar, surrendered herself to her captors, hoping to plot an escape while they had her imprisoned. Elendar, however, had no mercy for the wicked Xintori, and slew her using the magical gifts granted to him by the goddess Gloam. With Xintori slain, one of Elendar's would-be captors is now removed, and news of her demise will likely return to the others. For the moment, Elendar has been saved once more.

## Description

### Appearance

Xintori cut an imposing figure, with a lean-muscled physique, a perpetual expression of superiority, and long hair that whipped wildly in the frenzy of battle. She wore dark, chain mail armor with spiderweb motifs, and bore a dark, clawed gauntlet that seeped a paralytic venom.

### Equipment

Xintori wielded a scimitar and clawed gauntlet, both of which she used to slash at her foes. The scimitar had no magical properties, but Xintori often carried vials of potent poison with which she would coat the blade prior to engaging in battle. Her gauntlet, however, could seep a venom that dripped out of the claw, which was magically conjured through Lolthir enchantments. While the claw could only produce this venom for a short period of time, it would last long enough for Xintori to disable her victims, causing their body to seize up as she dealt a finishing blow to them.

### Abilities

Xintori was a nimble skirmisher, able to fight capably against an isolated target, yet struggling with foes that surrounded her. She could initiate a battle by rushing at a target with her claw, and quickly disengage while slashing at a foe with her scimitar. As the battle raged on, she could draw on her sadistic tendencies and attempt to finish off weakened foes before their allies could aid them. Xintori enjoyed watching the hope fade from the eyes of her enemies as she sank her blade and claw into them; it is only fitting that her lack of mercy should be returned in kind.