Valrith Xorl'Tan

Valrith Xorl'Tan

Appearance

Valrith is a tall Drow male with azure-blue skin and white-silver hair bound in a layered mane clasped with a spider insignia. His sharp, tsurime red eyes shimmer with intellect and menace. His robes of obsidian and violet are laced with silver runes that glow when he speaks, revealing the precision of a true archmage.

Personality

Cunning, composed, and deeply analytical, Valrith is a creature of intellect over emotion. He prefers control through silence, letting others reveal their intentions while he gathers the truth beneath. Though outwardly loyal to Zyraveth, his curiosity borders on heretical—he seeks power beyond Lolth's reach, and knowledge forbidden even in Xal'Vareth. His love for his family is buried beneath cold pragmatism.

History

The House Sorcerer

Valrith served as House Shae'Quarn's master sorcerer, creating wards and illusions that kept their citadel untouchable. His runic magic was both elegant and deadly, ensuring his matron's dominion across Xal'Vareth.

The Vanishing

After Lyzzoreth's betrayal, Valrith disappeared. Some claim he was sacrificed to Lolth; others whisper that he sought forbidden knowledge to restore his family's name. His arcane traces still linger in the halls of Vel'sharra Hollow, suggesting his death was not final.

Synopsis

Valrith's fate remains shrouded in myth. To some, he is a ghost haunting his own wards; to others, a scholar lost to obsession. Whatever truth lies buried beneath Xal'Vareth, his intellect continues to shape House Shae'Quarn's cursed legacy.

Trivia

Created a containment spell so powerful that even he forgot the keyword to unlock it.

Kept an illusionary familiar named 'Seryth' that once tricked a rival matron into confessing her sins.

Believed dreams were messages from the Underdark itself and recorded them as prophecies.

Wrote over three hundred grimoires on planar geometry, most of which vanished the night he disappeared.

Rumor claims he discovered a rune older than Lolth's own sigil—one said to bend shadows into light.

His study was illuminated by a single floating crystal that dimmed whenever he spoke falsehoods.

The staff he carried, Arkenveil, still hums faintly in the ruins of Vel'sharra Hollow — attuned only to his lifeforce.

He never prayed aloud; instead, he murmured equations to the silence, calling it his 'divine tongue.'

Many of his apprentices were found petrified, their expressions serene—as if they had seen something beautiful before death.

Valrith's written words are said to rearrange themselves when read by unworthy eyes.

He designed the original runic lattice beneath House Shae'Quarn's citadel—a defense system that reacts to thought, not touch.

His laboratory walls were made of mirrors that reflected not faces, but potential futures.

Some scholars claim his essence was absorbed into his own runes—becoming the ward that protects what remains of his house.

It was Valrith who forged the first pact between the Shae'Quarn bloodline and the demon Araquess, the Spider-Seer of the Deepweb.

He refused to let Zyraveth see his personal sanctum, saying only: 'Faith bends the mind; knowledge unbinds it.'

A cracked obsidian ring found in his quarters bears runes in an unknown language. Lyzzoreth is said to have deciphered one word: 'Return.'

When angered, the air around him shimmered as if reality itself recoiled from his control.

His magic could silence even divine invocations—a feat considered heretical and impossible among Drow priests.

Legends whisper that his final act was to step into his own reflection, never to emerge again.

The echo of his voice can still be heard when Lolth's name is spoken within Vel'sharra Hollow — mocking or mourning, none can tell.